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Preface: Trends in structural mechanics
NUCLEAR ENGINEERINGAND DESIGN 28 (1974) 304. © NORTH-HOLLANDPUBLISHINGCOMPANY
PREFACE: TRENDS IN STRUCTURAL MECHANICS H.H. GOTT Associated Nuclear Services, Regent Street, London, UK
Received 2 August 1974
The party from the United Kingdom which visited Berlin for the Second SMiRT Conference held a short discussion at that time on the best way to handle the considerable amount of new information which became available in the papers and discussions, both formal and informal. We decided in the British Nuclear Energy Society (BNES) that the comparatively small British party owed a duty to their fellow members who had not been able to make the journey, and we therefore arranged a symposium giving an account of the highlights of the Conference. This was exceedingly successful, both as to the numbers attending and also as to the level of discussion. The field of nuclear reactor design and operation is in continuous development and events since the Berlin Conference have emphasized the immediacy of its relevance to the energy requirements of many countries. As a consequence the need for continuity of contact and thought between research workers and theoreticians and practical engineers itself receives emphasis. It is in the essence of things that only a proportion of those workers with real interest in the topics will be able to travel to international conferences and we have conjectured that this 'reporting back of a delegation' to a larger group could well be followed in other such conferences. We in the BNES hope in turn that our discussion report may have more than local interest.
PREFACE: TRENDS IN STRUCTURAL MECHANICS H.H. GOTT Associated Nuclear Services, Regent Street, London, UK
Received 2 August 1974
The party from the United Kingdom which visited Berlin for the Second SMiRT Conference held a short discussion at that time on the best way to handle the considerable amount of new information which became available in the papers and discussions, both formal and informal. We decided in the British Nuclear Energy Society (BNES) that the comparatively small British party owed a duty to their fellow members who had not been able to make the journey, and we therefore arranged a symposium giving an account of the highlights of the Conference. This was exceedingly successful, both as to the numbers attending and also as to the level of discussion. The field of nuclear reactor design and operation is in continuous development and events since the Berlin Conference have emphasized the immediacy of its relevance to the energy requirements of many countries. As a consequence the need for continuity of contact and thought between research workers and theoreticians and practical engineers itself receives emphasis. It is in the essence of things that only a proportion of those workers with real interest in the topics will be able to travel to international conferences and we have conjectured that this 'reporting back of a delegation' to a larger group could well be followed in other such conferences. We in the BNES hope in turn that our discussion report may have more than local interest.