As part of this year’s Annual Assembly of the International Institute of Welding (IIW) in Salzburg, Daniel Schrittwieser from the Chair of Physical Metallurgy was awarded with the Best Paper Award 2025 in the category “Materials and Metallurgy” of the renowned journal Welding in the World.

The award-winning publication entitled “Microstructural insights into the coarse-grained heat-affected zone of a high-strength all-weld metal: Development of a continuous cooling transformation diagram” focuses on the detailed investigation of the microstructure of an all-weld metal with the highest commercially available yield strength. The results provide an improved understanding as well as a targeted determination and evaluation of microstructural constituents within the heat-affected zone.
 

Due to its high practical relevance, the same publication was also awarded with the Richard-Marek Prize for Innovative Solutions in Welding Technology by the Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Schweißtechnik (ÖGS).