IIW 2015 Annual Report

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IIW member countries

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 .

Iiw member countries Prospective member countries

Election/Appointment of Chairs of IIW Working Units Arc Welding and Filler Metals Dr Gerhard Posch (Austria) was elected for a second term as Chair Non-destructive Testing and Quality Assurance of Welded Products Dr Eric Sjerve (Canada) was elected for a second term as Chair Health, Safety and Environment Dr Med. Wolfgang Zschiesche (Germany) was elected as Chair Behaviour of Materials Subjected to Welding Dr Hee Jin Kim (R.O. Korea) was elected as Vice-Chair Structural Performances of Welded Joints – Fracture Avoidance Prof. Dr-Eng. Fumiyoshi Minami (Japan) was elected for a second term as Chair Fatigue of Welded Components and Structures Prof. Kenneth A. MacDonald (Norway) was elected as Chair Design, Analysis and Fabrication of Welded Structures Dr Stefano Botta (Italy) was elected as Chair 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 The Physics of Welding Prof. Manabu Tanaka (Japan) was elected for a second term as Chair Welding Research Strategy and Collaboration Prof. Américo Scotti (Brazil) was elected for a second term as Chair

Commission II

Commission V

Commission VIII

Commission IX

Commission X

Commission XIII

Commission XV

Commission XVI

Study Group 212

SG-RES Study Group

Algeria-Angola -AUSTRALIA - AUSTRIA - BELGIUM - BRAZIL - BULGARIA-Cameroon-CANADA - CROATIA - CZECH REPUBLIC -

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

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