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Sweden (Category 1: Design and behaviour of structures), Mr Wangen Lin, USA (Category
2: Behaviour of materials during welding), and Dr Xian, China (Category 3: Welding
Technology and related areas). Research became of such importance
that several other IIW awards were introduced for outstanding
achievements in fundamental research in welding science and its
allied processes. These included the Yoshiaki Arata Award and
Evgeny Paton Prize for distinguished contribution to the field of
welding science and technology.
The Yoshiaki Arata Award was interesting since
it was in commemoration of Prof. Yoshiaki Arata
of Japan who was instrumental in setting up and
chairing the StudyGroup
WeldingResearch Strategy
and Collaboration
in 1984 in order to promote
international collaboration and interaction.
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The
first Arata award in 1993 was to academician Prof.
Dr-Ing. Ivan Hrivnak (Slovakia), Chair of C-IX 1987-93, who pioneered
transmission electron microscopy in Slovakia for welded joints.
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The Evgeny Paton Prize was another that honoured one of the great patriarchs of
welding and was sponsored by the National Welding Committee of the Ukraine for an
individual who had made a significant contribution to science and technology through a
lifetime of dedication to applied research and development. The first
award went to Dr Stephen Maddox of the UK in 2000.
The E.O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kiev, Ukraine,
was one of the foremost welding research organisations in the
world and deserves special mention at this point for the outstanding
development of Magnetically Impelled Arc Butt (MIAB) welding
in the 1990s, a solid phase process for joining hollow sections and
circular and non-circular metallic components. Another who
epitomised excellence in a lifetime of research was Dr Allan
Sanderson of TWI, who stood on the rostrum to receive the
Evgeny Paton prize in 2006. Sanderson first started research
into electron beam welding when he was a young graduate in
1966. He continued to work on electron beam technology for
welding for 40 years including developments in the welding
of off-shore wind turbines and was a deserved recipient of the Evgeny Paton prize.
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The awards for achievement in science featured prominently at IIW Annual
Assemblies, as did the presentation of papers at IIW International Conferences and
Congresses on research and innovation in welding technology by leaders in their respective
Yoshiaki Arata
Evgeny Paton