IIW Annual Report 2022

C-V / NDT AND QUALITY ASSURANCE OF WELDED PRODUCTS Prof. Dr Marc Kreutzbruck

All five Sub-Commissions were active in the improvement and development of new nondestructive testing methods and their transfer into real test scenarios of welded components. In C-V-C we have almost finalised new TFM/FMC ISO Standards 23864 and 23865 detailing how to use new ultrasonic imaging methods, and passed a resolution on the new FDIS stage. The newly-founded Working Group on a Handbook on testing anisotropic materials, under the leadership of Channa Nageswaran.

C-VI / TERMINOLOGY Mr Jérôme Dietsch

Commission VI develops and maintains all terms and definitions specifically applicable to welding and allied processes which fall into the scope of the International Institute of Welding.Its areas of interest consequently covers a wide range of disciplines and technologies, including, but not limited to, welding and joining processes, joints design, performance and testing, metallic and non-metallic materials, and also many further aspects regarding for example personneland quality management, equipment and consumables.In order to ensure technical reliability and accuracyon specific topics, Commission VIis committed to enlist,whenever possible, competent experts from other IIW Working Units or organisations.Further, Commission VI closely focuses on the multiple interdependencies between all the terms and definitions it manages, to ensure comprehensive, coherent,and organised vocabularies. To do so, it notably relieson its Subcommission VI-A, which maintains and develops the IIW Thesaurus, which is also used by information specialists constituting bibliographic databases to index scientific and technical literature in the fieldof welding and allied processes.The main goal of Commission VIis to offer toall kindsofindividuals (students, professionals, researchers) involved in all kinds of organisations (academic, research or industrial) with comprehensive vocabularies relevant to the field of welding and allied processes. These mostly come in the form of International Standards produced in collaboration with ISO. The Commission also looks forward means to make the content it develops publicly available through electronic or other possible forms.

C-VII / MICROJOINING AND NANOJOINING Prof. Guisheng Zou

A workshop on MICROJOINING AND NANOJOINING has been organized Hybrid: ON-SITE and ON-LINE), including 25 presentations from more than 7 countries in three half-day sessions (one as a joint meeting with C-XVII) and more than 50 attendees. The “Nano- & Micro-Joining (NMJ) Virtual Meeting”, 13:00-15:00(CEST), 7 July 2022, including more than 100 attendees and 3 invited talks.

C-VIII / HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT Mr David Werba

IIW C-VIII is an interdisciplinary network that regularly reviews, exchanges and shares knowledge and general trends in international and national regulations, laws, and rules, and develops best practices that can affect Health, Safety, and the Environment regarding exposure to physical and chemical agents in welding. As has recently been the most explored topics, welding fume and the exposure limits continue to be the topics of most interest. Some specific recent presentations included comparing the effects of acute MMA fume inhalation, quantifying the efficiency of technical measures for welding fume protection, fume emission during laser welding, modeling the fume emission rate of GMA welding and reducing fume exposure of welders. Over the next year, focus will be on updating the IIW Best Practices documents, additional presentations by members and guests, review of health and safety training materials, and further focus on welding fume related discovery. I encourage all who have any interest in Welding Health, Safety, and the Environment to attend IIW C-VIII meetings and sessions.

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