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patent rights in the development of ISO standards. Ziegenfuss prepared an IIW declaration
document on patent rights entitled
IIW Patent Statement and Licencing Declaration for the
Text of an ISO International Standard
, which was submitted to ISO for consideration in
2006.
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The issue of patent rights was taken up as a matter of course by ISO, IEC and ITU,
the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies,
resulting in the publishing of a formal common patent policy by these three organisations
in 2007. It was to be a further three years before these patent problems were resolved and
the five friction stir welding standards were to move to the FDIS stage for final voting and
were finally published in 2011 as ISO 25239 1-5
Friction stir welding – Aluminium
at an
approximate total cost of between USD 1 and 2 million, presumably including also the
indirect costs of Boeing’s original input.
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AWS did publish its first standard on friction stir
welding in 2009, AWS D17.3
Specifications for Friction Stir Welding of Aluminum Alloys
for Aerospace Applications
.
Participation in standards activity was not strictly the province of C-II
andC-III.By2007,CommissionVIII
Health, SafetyandEnvironment
(C-VIII)
had standardisation documents in the course of preparation including fume
constituents in arc welding. Commission XI
Pressure Vessels, Boilers and
Pipelines
(C-XI) was also actively occupied in preparing a document entitled
Creep Crack Growth
and Commission XIII
Fatigue Behaviour of Welded
Components and Structures
(C-XIII) also had several technical documents
in the course of preparation, including
Retrofitting Engineering for Steel
Bridges
. Due to consequential delays in ISO approval for C-VIII proposals,
C-VIII eventually had two of these approved as ISO Technical Report
documents including ISO TR 13392
Health and safety aspects in welding
– Arc welding
and ISO TR 18786
Health and safety in welding: Guidelines
to risk assessment of welding fabrication
, which were published in 2014.
Due to difficulties in gaining ISO approval for other TRs, such as
Welding
with Thoriated Tungsten Electrodes
and
Fume Constituents in Arc Welding
,
C-VIII therefore decided to publish these as best practice documents.
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Much earlier than this, C-XV had one document,
Recommendations for Welded
Tubular Joints
well underway for eventual publication as an ISO Technical Report. This
was to then become the second such report to be issued when it was published as ISO
TR 14347 on 17 November 2008. The Select Committee
Quality Management in Welding
and Allied Processes
(SC-QUAL) was also to make a significant contribution to ISO 3834
Quality requirements for fusion welding of metallic materials
, a standard that was of great
importance to IIW’s continuing presence in ETQ&C, particularly for those countries taking
advantage of IIW’s international system. Commission V
NDT and Quality Assurance of