Overview
- Contains a valuable source of information for everybody interested in the history of mechanics and especially of IUTAM
- Provides extensive data and statistics
- Contains photos from all epochs of IUTAM’s history and most of its key players
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book presents extensive information related to the history of IUTAM. The initial chapters focus on IUTAM’s history and selected organizational aspects. Subsequent chapters provide extensive data and statistics, while the closing section showcases photos from all periods of the Union’s history.
The history of IUTAM, the International Union on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, began at a conference in 1922 in Innsbruck, Austria, where von Kármán put forward the idea of an international congress including the whole domain of applied mechanics. In 1946 IUTAM was then formally launched in Paris/France. IUTAM has since time organized more than 24 world congresses and 380 symposia, representing all fields of mechanics and highlighting advances by prominent international researchers.
The efforts of IUTAM and its about 50 member countries serve to promote the mechanical sciences and the advancement of human society, addressing many key challenges. In this context, IUTAM preserves important traditions while at the same time recognizing new challenges and adapting its structures and processes accordingly.
The first edition of this book was published in 1988. This new book now offers an updated and completely revised edition reflecting the substantial developments in the interim.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: IUTAM
Book Subtitle: A Short History
Editors: Peter Eberhard, Stephen Juhasz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31063-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31061-9Published: 27 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80953-3Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31063-3Published: 20 July 2016
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 242
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences, Classical Mechanics, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials