Dr. Ivan Shabalov is the Chairman of the Coordination Council of the Association of Pipe Manufacturers, Moscow, Russia. Dr. Yury Matrosov is a Full Professor and Principal Researcher at the Center for Pipe & Weld Structure Steels, I.P. Bardin Central Research Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy, Moscow, Russia. Dr. Alexey Kholodnyi is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Pipe & Weld Structure Steels, I.P. Bardin Central Research Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy, Moscow, Russia. Dr. Maxim Matrosov is the Director of the Center for Pipe & Weld Structure Steels, I.P. Bardin Central Research Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy, Moscow, Russia. Dr. Valery Velikodnev is the Technical Director of the Center for Examination of Pipeline Systems and Engineering in Moscow, Russia.