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RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Quality Management in Welding and Allied Processes
(SC-QUAL)
to develop guidelines for risk assessment in fabrication activities.
This, subsequently, would be of great benefit to industries such as
shipbuilding, air, rail transportation, bridges, off-shore construction,
automotive and process equipment. Complementary to this initiative
was the work also being carried out by C-XV, chaired by Mr Robert E.
Shaw (USA), in the design, analysis and fabrication of welded
structures. C-XV also had a long history of active cooperation
with ISO and other groups working on standardisation
and the issues related to weld quality, repair and design.
One must not overlook the importance of the other
Working Units which contributed greatly to the stature of welding and joining technology.
Commission V
Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Welded Products
(C-V), was
fortunate to be headed by Prof. Dr-Ing. Gerd Dobmann of the Fraunhofer Institute, Germany,
one of Europe’s largest application-oriented research institutes.
Dobmann was one of the foremost experts in fatigue and fracture
analysis with an extensive background in all technical aspects of non-
destructive testing (NDT), so important in the detection and analysis of
flaws in welded structures. C-V also had the challenging task of monitoring,
reviewing and contributing to all international standardisation activities
relating to NDT and evaluation of welded structures, with more recent work
including the completion of the
IIW Handbook For Phased Array Testing
.
Without the application of research, provided through C-V, some of the
deliberations of many of the other Commissions would more than likely
have met extreme difficulties in their final analysis. The development of
exact sizing techniques for the positioning and identification
of weld flaws in welded structures by C-V was central to
much of this work. As another example of the importance
of meeting the needs of industry, such as the aircraft
and power generation sectors, the IIW TMB formed
Commission C-XVII
Soldering, Brazing and Diffusion
Bonding
(C-XVII) in 2008 under the able chairmanship
of Dr Warren Miglietti (USA).
Commission VI
Terminology
(C-VI) played another
important part in IIW’s Working Units, largely because it
provided the basis of understanding for all the terms and
descriptions used in welding and joining processes and the
Gerd Dobmann
Warren Miglietti