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PREFACEThe rapidly expanding role of Non-Destructive testing and evaluation (NDT & NDE) methods in manufacturing, power, construction, and maintenance industries, as well as in basic research and development, has generated a large demand for practitioners, engineers, and scientists with knowledge of the subject. The Non-Destructive testing of materials is becoming more and more important, during the production process prior to building the constituent parts in individual devices and machines. It is becoming even more important in service inspection where the state of the material is checked and further safe operation of the device or machine is confirmed. Demands that each part built in machine is manufactured in a qualitative manner require from each manufacturer removing bad or rejected parts prior to selling them to buyers or building them in a device or a machine. Therefore demands are set up that manufacturers develop proper Non-Destructive methods, in corresponding devices and also experts with adequately verified knowledge. Especially for the reasons, in automated production, there often come demands that workpieces, namely machine parts are tested in a very short time while the method must assure respective reliability and also repeatability. The proceedings comprise papers presented at the 12th Int. NDT Conference held in Portorož, Slovenia from 4 to 6 September 2013. The conference was organized by the Slovenian NDT Society and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. The excellent scientific standard of the presented works, the presence of experts from 23 countries all over the globe and the inspiring venue of the Slovenian Adriatic Coast contributed to the success of the conference. The proceedings contain nine keynote papers presented by distinguished experts from the field, who I am grateful to for sharing their experties with us. The Scientific Committee reviewed 82 papers out of which 74 were presented at oral sessions and 8 at poster sessions. The presented papers discussed ultrasonic testing, electromagnetic, acoustic emission, thermal and infrared techniques and radiographic techniques, NDT education and training and other methods. The three-day event provided a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners as well as endusers to review the latest developments, identify particular needs and opportunities for further advances, exchange knowledge and experience with other well-known experts as well as outlined the milestones for further progress in NDT & NDE fields. We are grateful to...