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AT the Sixth International Congress for Applied Mechanics, held at the Sorbonne in Paris, during September 22-28, 1946, the International Congress Committee, under the sponsorship of which these congresses are organised, decided to create a more permanent organisation, in order to provide the possibility of carrying out activities in the interval between the congresses and of entering into cooperation with other international scientific bodies. This permanent organisation adopted the name of “The International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics”. In agreement with the policy followed with respect to the international congresses for applied mechanics, the structure of the new Union thus far has been kept as simple as possible ; a council has been elected, consisting at present of thirty members, and a secretary has been nominated for carrying out correspondence. The Council is the executive body of the Union ; its members are persons actually engaged in scientific work (theoretical or experimental) in mechanics or in related sciences. The number of members of the same nationality must not in general exceed four ; in certain cases a few extra members can form part of the Council, without being representatives of a particular country.
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INTERNATIONAL UNION OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS. Nature 159, 787 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159787a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159787a0