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| EXTENDE News - September 2025 |
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| CIVA 2025 launching this week! | ||
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Many new features are included in this expected release, among which a major evolution for CIVA UT is the new FEM perspective: CIVA UT is now (also) a Finite Element software! Read our blog article and our Release Note for a more detailed description of this new version. A webinar will be organized soon to showcase the new capabilities of CIVA 2025. The delivery of this version will start in the coming days! |
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| UT simulation applied to NDE qualification for ISCC detection | ||
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EXTENDE recently attended the NDE in Nuclear 2025 conference hosted by EPRI (June 24-26, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.). This event was an opportunity for EXTENDE and EDF to present on NDE technique sensitivity analysis using CIVA UT simulation software. Here is a brief overview of the study context and presentation topic: As part of qualification strategy instruction, EDF contacted EXTENDE to determine the worst inspection configurations (in terms of specimen / flaw influential parameters) for the detection sensitivity performances of a new advanced UT technique dedicated to Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking (ISCC) detection in safety injection system (SIS) pipes of nuclear power plant. The purpose of this paper is to describe the simulation methodology developed by EXTENDE during this project, which involves advanced features and tools such as automatic extraction of user-defined performance criteria, parametric studies with statistically defined designs of experiments, and databases simulation for metamodel generation. This presentation, along with many others, is now available online on our dedicated webpage! EXTENDE thanks EDF for the opportunity and collaboration during this simulation project. |
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| Discover the new EXTENDE.com | ||
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The EXTENDE website has had a complete makeover! Better look and feel, easier navigation - it's all the content you know and value, more accessible than ever! Check out our newly improved Publications library, browse the now searchable CIVA Tips, and enjoy a fully responsive experience on all devices! |
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| Interview of Edouard Demaldent | ||
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Today's interview brings us right at the core of the future of CIVA software, with Edouard Demaldent, Head of the Simulation, Modeling and Analysis Laboratory within the Digital Instrumentation Department at CEA LIST. Could you say a few words about the activities of the department, but especially about those of the laboratory you manage? Our department draws on dual expertise in instrumentation and modeling, which it uses to analyze and innovate inspection processes. Designed to bridge the gap between these different areas of expertise, the CIVA software platform we are developing was born from a desire to capitalize on and, above all, share this expertise. Accelerated by the creation of EXTENDE about fifteen years ago, which coincided with my arrival at the CEA, this commitment has remained intact and even seems to me to be reinforced today. [...] Read more |
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