IIW History 1990-2015

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. 46 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. 47 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. 48 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

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