From August 26 to 28, 2015, the ISO/TC 206 Standards Committee held the 22nd Fine Ceramics Standardization Annual Meeting in South Korea. China Building Materials Test and Certification Group Co., Ltd. (CTC) dispatched international standard development experts—Professor Bao Yiwang, Chief Scientist of CTC, Wan Detian, Executive Deputy President of the Central Research Institute, and Pan Ruina—to attend the meeting. They exchanged and discussed with experts and scholars from member countries of the ISO/TC 206 Standardization Technical Committee on three international standards under their responsibility, one new project proposal, one possible future preliminary proposal, and issues of mutual interest.

Professor Bao Yiwang first chaired the meeting of the WG8 Ceramic Bonding Working Group. Professor Wan Detian reported on the progress of the international standard Test Method for Interfacial Fatigue Properties of Ceramic Bonding under Constant Amplitude Conditions (ISO/TC 206 PWI 20407). This standard proposal was submitted in December 2014, with the aim of providing a method for testing the fatigue of ceramic bonding interfaces under low-cycle stress fatigue conditions.

Pan Ruina reported in the WG10 Coatings Working Group on the progress of the international standards Test Method for Elastic Modulus and Strength of Thick Ceramic Coatings (ISO/TC 206 AWI 19603) and Test Method for Determining Elastic Modulus of Thick Ceramic Coatings at Elevated Temperature (ISO/TC 206 AWI 20343). These two standards were successfully approved as projects in October 2013 and March 2014, respectively. They use relative method evaluation technology to solve the technical difficulty that the elastic modulus and strength of ceramic coatings at room temperature and the elastic modulus of ceramic coatings at high temperature cannot be directly tested. Both standards are about to advance to the CD stage.

Professor Bao Yiwang, Chief Scientist of CTC, reported and discussed this year's new project proposal Test Method for Elastic Modulus of Ceramics in High-Temperature and Ultra-High-Temperature Environments — Notched-Ring Method in the WG6 Mechanical Properties Working Group. The preliminary proposal in the WG10 Coatings Working Group was recognized by the attending experts, and efforts are being made to have it approved as a project as soon as possible.

At present, the CTC international standard project team has successfully developed and published 3 international standards, has 3 under development, and 1 about to be approved as a project. It will, as always, continue to work hard, strive to develop more international standards led by China, enhance CTC's status among international peers, and promote the better and stronger future development of CTC.