IIW 2017 Annual Report

SHARING WITH PEERS Scientific and Technical Activities

GOAL: To identify, create, develop and transfer best practices for sustainable development in a suitable environment

A word from

TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT BOARD 2017-2018 Mr Stephan Egerland (Austria), Chair Eur.-Ing. Christoph Gerritsen (Belgium) Prof. Dr Hee Seok Chang (Republic of Korea)

Prof. Patricio Mendez (Canada) Prof. Zuheir Barsoun (Sweden) Prof. Dr Xiaoyan Li (P.R. China) Prof. Dr John C. Lippold (USA) Mr Mathias Lundin (Sweden) ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE WORKING UNITS Prof. Manabu Tanaka (Japan) Ms Teresa Melfi (USA) Prof. Kenneth A. Macdonald (Norway) Mr Carl Peters (USA)

In 2017 the Chairs and members of the IIW Technical Working Units (WUs) made unsurpassed contributions to the IIW global welding community. Mr Stephan Egerland (Austria) Technical Management Board Chair

For both the Technical Management Board (TMB) and the WUs, 2017 was characterised by fruitful discussions held at both the IIW Annual Assembly in Shanghai, P.R. China and the large number of intermediate and joint meetings. Subjects of importance to the welding industry, for example Additive Manufacturing, Nano-Joining, Standardisation, and Terminology have been considered and intensively dealt with by experts active in the WUs.

Given these dynamic processes, the TMB has taken particular care to review and revise theWUs’ Terms of Reference, to assure that they always appropriately reflect the IIW strategic goals and has participated in Task Groups considering their future growth and strength. Task Group IIW Technical Working Units 2020 Perspectives, established by the Board of Direc- tors in 2016, is developing approaches on both how to achieve a greater number of industrial members and how to best work with the WUs to shape their structure in order to effectively meet future requirements. Amongst the Task Group’s first results; Select Committee SC-QUAL was approved by the IIW Board of Directors to be converted into Commission XVIII Quality Manage- ment in Welding and Allied Processes. The TMB supported some important adminis- trative and governance tasks which arose for IIW in 2017. For example, the IIW policy documents on Antitrust and Code of Conduct underwent in- depth investigation and revision, ensuring the future of the unique value offered by IIW to its members. Throughout the year, a good number of technical publications and recommendations were pro- duced by the WUs, providing industrial users and researchers with state-of-the-art information on welding, joining and related topics. The success- ful renewal of the contract between the IIW and Springer gives assurance of the continued pro- fessional approach to publishing, both for Welding in the World and other IIW books and documents, and global sharing of cutting-edge information from the IIW Technical WUs with the global wel- ding community.

HUMAN FACTORS Terminology / Health, Safety and Environment / Education and Training / Research, Strategy and Collaboration / Quality Management

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS Pressure Vessels, Boilers and Pipelines / Automotive and Road Transport / Shipbuilding / Aircraft Engineering / Microjoining / Additive Manufacturing / Civil Engineering / Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals

JOINING PROCESSES Thermal Cutting and Surfacing /

STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY Quality Control and Quality Assurance / Behaviour of Materials Subjected to Welding / Fracture Avoidance / Fatigue of Components and Structures / Design, Analysis and Fabrication

Filler Materials / Resistance and Solid State Welding / Power Beam Processes / Arc Welding Processes / Polymer Joining and Adhesives / Brazing, Soldering and Diffusion / Bonding / Physics of Welding / Micro-and Nano-joining

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