Dr Martin Wall
Principal Consultant, Inspection Consultancy
BA (Hons), MA University of Cambridge, PhD Imperial College London
Dr Martin Wall is a materials engineer, NDT and failure expert, with over 40 years experience in a diversity of projects across industry sectors centred on asset integrity, reliability of NDT, corrosion, hydrogen, weld integrity, and materials failure, particularly particularly hydrogen cracking (HIC), SCC and embrittlement. Sectors include offshore, nuclear, energy, aerospace, rail, civil and renewables.
He holds a degree and MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from Imperial College London, initially in the Fracture Studies Group and UK National NDT Centre (NNDTC) at U.K.A.E.A Harwell, AEAT and successor companies, and the Past manager of the HOIS JIP (www.hois.co.uk ).
Martin has undertaken a number of expert witness cases in the Commercial Courts including issues with steam turbine blade failure, offshore rigs, offshore wind turbines, inspection reliability (POD) weld integrity, corrosion of HTLW systems in PFI Hospitals and commercial buildings, and subsea and onshore gas pipelines and terminals.
A specialist in condition of oil industry assets, Martin advises all oil majors on best practice maintenance and asset inspection regimes and has undertaken numerous technical due diligence (TEDD) projects for investment clients cross sector including issues with storage facilities, gas pipeline networks, Nuclear, and hydro-electric, asset integrity; and suitability for H2 transport.
A focus since the late 1980s has been reliability of inspection and NDT technique validation, including the early development of models on probability of detection (POD). Since 2000 he has developed an active interest in human factors in NDE (HF-NDE), and how this can be allowed for in reliability models, as well as model assisted qualification (MAQ) of NDE techniques, and digitalisation including NDE 4.0. Member of a number of ICNDT SIG and BINDT working groups covering NDE4.0, digitalisation, data formats NDT reliability and human reliability, including the BINDT Technique Validation Group.
Dr Martin Wall is a materials engineer, NDT and failure expert, with over 40 years experience in a diversity of projects across industry sectors centred on asset integrity, reliability of NDT, corrosion, hydrogen, weld integrity, and materials failure, particularly particularly hydrogen cracking (HIC), SCC and embrittlement. Sectors include offshore, nuclear, energy, aerospace, rail, civil and renewables.
He holds a degree and MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from Imperial College London, initially in the Fracture Studies Group and UK National NDT Centre (NNDTC) at U.K.A.E.A Harwell, AEAT and successor companies, and the Past manager of the HOIS JIP (www.hois.co.uk ).
Martin has undertaken a number of expert witness cases in the Commercial Courts including issues with steam turbine blade failure, offshore rigs, offshore wind turbines, inspection reliability (POD) weld integrity, corrosion of HTLW systems in PFI Hospitals and commercial buildings, and subsea and onshore gas pipelines and terminals.
A specialist in condition of oil industry assets, Martin advises all oil majors on best practice maintenance and asset inspection regimes and has undertaken numerous technical due diligence (TEDD) projects for investment clients cross sector including issues with storage facilities, gas pipeline networks, Nuclear, and hydro-electric, asset integrity; and suitability for H2 transport.
A focus since the late 1980s has been reliability of inspection and NDT technique validation, including the early development of models on probability of detection (POD). Since 2000 he has developed an active interest in human factors in NDE (HF-NDE), and how this can be allowed for in reliability models, as well as model assisted qualification (MAQ) of NDE techniques, and digitalisation including NDE 4.0. Member of a number of ICNDT SIG and BINDT working groups covering NDE4.0, digitalisation, data formats NDT reliability and human reliability, including the BINDT Technique Validation Group.
