IIW History 1990-2015

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

Gerd Dobmann

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

Warren Miglietti

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