IIW History 1990-2015

LINKING PEOPLE, JOINING NATIONS

from the Nickel Development Association, Canada. The

project to produce secondary standard specimens went

ahead. The eventual sale of these specimens more than

recouped the costs of manufacturing and the promise to

pay the loans was honoured. Kotecki was the first to give

credit where it was due. ‘The whole world of welding

owes a debt of gratitude to those who put their funds at

risk in this effort.’

In 1996 IIW published another treatise on

The

Fatigue Design

f Welded Joints

nd Components

by Prof.

Dr-Ing. Adolf Hobbacher (Germany), which was a joint

exercise between Commission XIII

Fatigue of Welded

Components and Structures

(C-XIII) and Commission XV

Design, Analysis and Fabrication of Welded Structures

(C-XV). This book was immediately successful and was

republished as a slightly larger second edition in 2015.

It was a forerunner to several other books on fatigue of welded

structures, including in 2013

IIW Recommendations on Methods for

Improving the Fatigue Strength of Welded Joints

by Prof. P.J. Haagensen

(Norway) and Dr Stephen Maddox (UK). In 2010 Commission X

Structural

Performances of Welded Joints – Fracture Avoidance

(C-X) chaired by Dr

Mustafa Koçak (Germany) also produced an impressive document,

IIW

Guidance on Fitness-for-Service Assessment of Weld Flaws

, which became

a draft of a Best Practice Document in 2008, later to be forwarded for

standardisation.

In keeping with the increased focus of fatigue of welded

structures during this period C-XIII was also to produce a

Best Practice

Guide on Statistical Analysis of Fatigue Data

All of these documents were

judged to be of exceptional importance to industry.

The means of communicating ideas on research, and collaboration between Working

Units, was well developed and became more commonplace through the overarching

influence of the TMB. A typical example of this was the initiative of C-XII to hold a joint

workshop with C-IV and SG-212 at the 2008 Annual Assembly in Graz, Austria, which

resulted in an overall attendance of 96 people at the workshop entitled

Effect of Flux and

Shielding Gas in Arc, Laser and Hybrid Welding Processes.

Continuation of good relationships between Working Units was an important part of

the development of IIWGuidelines andBest Practice documents. In this respect, Commission

VIII

Health, Safety and Environment

(C-VIII), collaborated with Select Committee