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NDI (Nondestructive inspection) is one of the most important tasks to secure the safety of welded structures. Since there are many kinds of inspection procedures and methods, and structures are becoming more large-scale, complicated and diverse, as well as the fact that inspectors are required to make the procedure specification in a short time, use of NDI has been increasing rapidly. Therefore, with the aim of reducing their workload, an expert system has been developed using Prolog to support inspectors in making decisions and in writing the NDI procedure specification for an oil storage tank. The characteristics of our system include: (1) the user can make an NDI procedure specification esily ; (2) the computer enables ease in obtaining information of NDI and its related laws and codes for the structure; and (3) it is possible to produce an NDI procedure specification quickly.
