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IIW member countries
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CYPRUS - DENMARK - EGYPT - FINLAND - FRANCE - GERMANY - GREECE - HUNGARY - INDIA - INDONESIA - IRAN - ISRAEL - ITALY
- JAPAN - LIBYA - LITHUANIA - MALAYSIA - MEXICO - MOROCCO - NEWZEALAND - NIGERIA - NORWAY - PAKISTAN - P.R. of CHINA -
PERÚ - POLAND - PORTUGAL - REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN - REPUBLIC OF KOREA - REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA - ROMANIA
- RUSSIAN FEDERATION - SERBIA - SINGAPORE - SLOVAKIA - SLOVENIA - SOUTH AFRICA - SPAIN - SWEDEN - SWITZERLAND
- THAILAND - THE NETHERLANDS - TUNISIA - TURKEY - UKRAINE - UNITED KINGDOM - UNITED STATES of america - VIETNAM
IIW Working Units
In keeping with tradition, the Annual Assembly provided the
opportunity for the Commissions, Select Committees, Study
Groups and other units to meet separately or jointly over the
5-day period.
In 2015 a total of 144 decisions were adopted by the various IIW
Working Units, with 110 documents recommended for publica-
tion in the IIW’s peer-reviewed journal,
Welding in the World
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Election/Appointment of Chairs of IIW Working Units
Commission II
Arc Welding and Filler Metals
Dr Gerhard Posch (Austria)
was elected for a second term as Chair
Commission V
Non-destructive Testing and Quality Assurance of Welded Products
Dr Eric Sjerve (Canada)
was elected for a second term as Chair
Commission VIII
Health, Safety and Environment
Dr Med. Wolfgang Zschiesche
(Germany) was elected as Chair
Commission IX
Behaviour of Materials Subjected to Welding
Dr Hee Jin Kim
(R.O. Korea) was elected as Vice-Chair
Commission X
Structural Performances of Welded Joints – Fracture Avoidance
Prof. Dr-Eng. Fumiyoshi Minami
(Japan) was elected for a
second term as Chair
Commission XIII
Fatigue of Welded Components and Structures
Prof. Kenneth A. MacDonald
(Norway) was elected as Chair
Commission XV
Design, Analysis and Fabrication of Welded Structures
Dr Stefano Botta (Italy)
was elected as Chair
Commission XVI
Polymer Joining and Adhesive Technology
Prof. Dr-Ing. Volker Schöppner (Germany)
was re-elected as Chair
Assoc. Prof. David Grewell (USA)
was re-elected as Vice-Chair
Study Group 212
The Physics of Welding
Prof. Manabu Tanaka (Japan)
was elected for a second term as Chair
SG-RES Study Group
Welding Research Strategy and Collaboration
Prof. Américo Scotti (Brazil)
was elected for a second term as Chair
Annual repoRt
2015
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The intermediate meeting of Commission X Structural performance of welded joints – Fracture avoidance was held at the
Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials (IWM) in February 2015 and chaired by Prof. Dr-Eng. Fumiyoshi Minami