International Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM)
legal form	International non-governmental organization
founding	September 26, 1946 in Bruges Belgium
founder	Johannes Martinus Burgers Netherlands
Seat	Warsaw Poland
purpose	Promotion of international research on theoretical and applied mechanics
Chair	Nadine Aubry (2016–2020) United States
Managing directors	Henryk Petryk (2016–2020) Poland
Website	https://iutam.org/

The International Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics ( IUTAM ) is a global non-profit organization that promotes international cooperation between institutes whose research focuses on the fields of theoretical and applied mechanics , including analytical, computational and experimental investigations. In addition, it organizes national and multinational workshops and conferences and the general assemblies that take place every four years.

history

Even though IUTAM was founded in 1946, it can look back on a longer history. At the instigation of Theodore von Kármán , then a professor at RWTH Aachen University , 30 European physicists met in Innsbruck in September 1922 to discuss questions about hydrodynamics and aerodynamics . In this context, the wish was expressed that these subjects should be dealt with on a larger scale at periodically recurring symposia. It was agreed that Delft in the Netherlands would be a suitable location and asked the Dutch professor Wilhelm Gerard Burgers to organize a corresponding congress there.

As a result, the first official congress with 207 participants took place in Delft in 1924 under the chairmanship of the Dutch scientist Cornelis B. Biezeno , which is still only considered the unofficial founding place and year.

IUTAM congresses

International Congresses for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM)

No.	year	city	country	Congress President
1	1924	Delft	Netherlands	CB Biezeno
2	1926	Zurich	Switzerland	E. Meissner
3	1930	Stockholm	Sweden	AF Enström
4th	1934	Cambridge	England	CE Inglis
5	1938	Cambridge	United States	KT Compton
6th	1946	Paris	France a)	H. Villat
7th	1948	London	England	RV Southwell
8th	1952	Istanbul	Turkey	K. Erim
9	1956	Brussels	Belgium	FH van den Dungen
10	1960	Stresa	Italy	G. Colonnetti
11	1964	Munich	Germany	H. Görtler
12	1968	Stanford	United States	NJ Hoff
13	1972	Moscow	Soviet Union	NI Muskhelishvili
14th	1976	Delft	Netherlands	WT Koiter
15th	1980	Toronto	Canada	FPJ Rimrott
16	1984	Lyngby	Denmark	FI Niordson
17th	1988	Grenoble	France	P. Germain, M. Piau
18th	1992	Haifa	Israel	J. Singer
19th	1996	Kyoto	Japan	T. Tatsumi
20th	2000	Chicago	United States	H. Aref
21st	2004	Warsaw	Poland	W. Gutkowski
22nd	2008	Adelaide	Australia	EO Tuck
23	2012	Beijing	People's Republic of China	Y. Bai
24	2016	Montreal	Canada	JM Floryan
25th	2020	Milan	Italy b)

• a) The 6th Congress in Paris is the official founding year of IUTAM. All the Congresses up to the sixth in Paris were organized by the national organizations.
• b) Due to the corona pandemic , which will rampant in 2020 , the congress has been postponed to the following year (2021).

Web link

• Official Website: http://iutam.org/
• IUTAM History: http://iutam.org/history-2/

proof

1. ↑ IUTAM's Bureau. IUTAM, accessed on April 25, 2020 . 
2. ↑ IUTAM's Statutes. IUTAM, accessed on April 25, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Congresses. IUTAM, accessed on April 25, 2020 . 
4. ^ Daniel Weihs: Josef Singer - 1923-2009. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, accessed April 25, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Prof. Tomomasa Tatsumi. IUTAM, accessed on April 25, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Prof. Witold Gutkowski. IUTAM, accessed on April 25, 2020 . 
7. ^ Yvonne Stokes: Ernie Tuck's Home Page. University of Adelaide , accessed April 25, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Prof. Yilong Bai. IUTAM, accessed on April 25, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Prof. Maciej Floryan. IUTAM, accessed on April 25, 2020 . 
10. ↑ ICTAM 2020. IUTAM, accessed on April 25, 2020 (English).