IIW 2016 Annual Report

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES TMB REPORT

GOAL: To identify, create, develop and transfer best practices for sustainable development in a suitable environment

TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT BOARD 2016-2017 Dr Luca Costa (Italy), Chair Eur.-Ing. Christoph Gerritsen (Belgium)

Mr Stephan Egerland (Austria) Prof. Patricio Mendez (Canada) Prof. Dr Xiaoyan Li (P. R. China) Asst Prof. Dr Tuba Karahan (Turkey)

Prof. John C. Lippold (USA) Mr Mathias Lundin (Sweden) ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE WORKING UNITS

Dr Luca Costa (Italy) Chair: TMB

Prof. Manabu Tanaka (Japan) Dr Gerhard Posch (Austria) Prof. Fumiyoshi Minami (Japan) Prof. Américo Scotti (Brazil) Prof. Kenneth A. Macdonald (Norway)

As IIW scientific and technical activities are based on the work of more than 20 Working Units (Commissions, Select Committees and Study Groups), the members of the Technical Mana- gement Board (TMB) oversight the activities of each unit to create a working atmosphere sup- porting international cooperation and exchange of knowledge. This enables fruitful production in terms of papers, best practice documents, books and contributions to standards development, while also encouraging an environment where innovation and new ideas can flourish. More than 100 IIW Working Unit meetings took place in 2016, both in association with the IIW An- nual Assembly and the remainder in intermediate sessions. Many meetings linked in with IIW Inter- national Conferences, Congresses and Symposia held around the world and supported IIW’s goals for regional activities and technology transfer. The aims of the discussions, the scopes and the terms of reference of units are constantly under review to be kept aligned with the scientific and industrial development as shown in the diagram. In the last year, this process involved the inclusion of Additive Manufacturing into the scope of Com- mission I and the expansion of the Select Com- mittee on Micro- and Nano-joining to become a new Commission to commence operation in 2017. IIW launched in 2013 a programme to involve younger generations in its activities; this lead to the participation of more than 100 amongst Young Professionals and students in the IIW 2016 Annual Assembly in Melbourne, Australia. Each WU encourages input from early-career resear- chers and scientists in their field, and peer review and feedback encourages continual professional development as well as providing the opportunity for publication, benchmarking and innovation.

IIW has been very active in the publication of books in a wide variety of welding and related to- pics, including design of welded components, re- commendations on fatigue, metallurgy of welded joints and NDT assessment of welds. Commission members were working hard during 2016 and new titles will be available in forthcoming year.

HUMAN FACTORS Terminology / Health, Safety and Environment / Education and Training / Research, Strategy and Collaboration / Quality Management

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS Pressure Vessels, Boilers and Pipelines / Automotive and Road Transport / Shipbuilding / Aircraft Engineering / Microjoining / Additive Manufacturing / Civil Engineering / Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals

JOINING PROCESSES Thermal Cutting and Surfacing /

STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY Quality Control and Quality Assurance / Behaviour of Materials Subjected to Welding / Fracture Avoidance / Fatigue of Components and Structures / Design, Analysis and Fabrication

Filler Materials / Resistance and Solid State Welding / Power Beam Processes / Arc Welding Processes / Polymer Joining and Adhesives / Brazing, Soldering and Diffusion / Bonding / Physics of Welding / Micro-and Nano-joining

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