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THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS AND VIBRATION (IIAV)
Journal of Sound and Vibration (1996) 192(5), 1018–1019
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS AND VIBRATION (IIAV) M. J. C Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5341, U.S.A. (Received 12 December 1995)
E--C’ P This letter is a shorter version of an article which appeared in Sound and Vibration in December 1995. I have invited Professor Crocker to contribute it to make the creation and aims of IIAV known to a somewhat wider audience. I share Professor Crocker’s belief that a democratic, international IIAV, affiliated to IUTAM, can play a very important role in today’s and the future’s science of sound and vibration, in which the problems of analysis of the mechanics involved in its many engineering and other practical applications are increasingly becoming more difficult and in need of solutions than are the problems of the fundamental physics involved. P. E. D (member IIAV) The importance of national scientific societies in many countries cannot be overemphasized. Nevertheless, the changing world brings pressures on us to stress the international character of knowledge in sound and vibration more every day. Advances in acoustical science, vibration control and in engineering aspects of sound and vibration occur in a highly interactive way all over the globe and increasingly need to be addressed from a global perspective. Consequently, a useful role could be played by an international scientific society representing the interests of all those scientists and engineers throughout the world who are concerned with acoustics and vibration. Therefore, a new non-profit scientific society, the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV) was incorporated in June 1995. Membership is open to qualified individuals in all countries. Scientific societies can become cooperating member societies. Before describing IIAV further, let me first give some of the background to its formation. Within the framework of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), there are two Scientific Unions of the ‘‘ICSU family’’ which have a considerable interest in acoustics and vibration. These are the international Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM). Up to the present, IUPAP has in the main taken the international initiative in promoting acoustics, through its International Congresses of Acoustics held every three years. The Congresses are often accompanied by satellite Symposia. Both the Congresses and Symposia are organized by one of IUPAP’s commissions: the International Commission on Acoustics (ICA). IUTAM has nonetheless maintained an interest in acoustics and vibration during the past several decades and has tried to proceed in harmony with the ICA. A IUTAM nominee has been appointed as an associate member of the ICA for the last 30 years. The IUTAM nominee has tried to use the position to see that mechanics aspects of the field are propertly considered. The collaboration has borne some fruit in that two specialized meetings were arranged in addition to the triennial International 1018 0022–460X/96/201018 + 02 $18.00/0
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Congresses of Acoustics. These were the IUTAM/ICA Symposium on Mechanics of Sound Generation in Flows (Go¨ttingen, 1979) and the IUTAM/ICA Symposium on the Mechanics of Hearing (Delft, 1983). In recent years, however, no further joint Symposia have been organized, although IUTAM’s interest in the mechanics aspects of acoustics and vibration has continued unabated. The foregoing considerations led to the concept of the formation of IIAV, as a non-profit international scientific society which could be affiliated to IUTAM. With all other specialist areas related to Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, IUTAM interacts through specialized international organizations affiliated to IUTAM. These include the International Centre of Heat and Mass Transfer, the International Committee on Rheology, the International Association for Vehicle System Dynamics, the International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics, the International Congress on Fracture, the International Congress on Mechanical Behavior of Materials, the International Association for Computational Mechanics and the International Association for Boundary Element Methods. IIAV, therefore, from its inception was planned as a global organization which because of its emphasis on the mechanics aspects of acoustics and vibration, would be suitable for addition to this list of specialist international organizations affiliated to IUTAM. A specific suggestion for the affiliation of IIAV with IUTAM was discussed at the IUTAM General Assembly (Amsterdam, August 1994). The General Assembly voted unanimously in favour of receiving an appropriately detailed proposal for affiliation of IIAV to IUTAM at the 1995 meeting of the IUTAM Bureau (Vienna, September 1995). The Bureau received the formal application from the IIAV and has (according to the Bureau minutes) proposed affiliation of IIAV to the forthcoming General Assembly in Kyoto in August 1996. Thus IIAV may be expected to be firmly rooted in the general field of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. At the same time its global nature will be re-emphasized. There has already been significant interest in IIAV. Individual members from 15 countries have joined. In addition several scientific societies around the world are considering becoming cooperating member societies. The IIAV will be a democratic organization. Its officers and directors can be from any country and will be elected by its members periodically. The first officers and directors have considerable experience in international organizations. The first President of IIAV is the British scientist Sir James Lighthill who has served as President of IUTAM. The first two vice-Presidents are David Newland of Cambridge, England, and Hanno Heller of Braunschweig, Germany. There are presently 12 Directors from 11 countries. When IIAV has 100 members the bylaws require that the officers and directors stand for election. Members will receive an electronic new digest and a new refereed journal. The IIAV will continue the biennial Congresses on Sound and Vibration, so far held in the U.S.A. and Canada. The Fourth International Congress on Sound and Vibration will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 24–27 June 1996, at the North Crown Hotel. Already over 300 abstracts from 30 countries have been submitted. All papers will be in English, and there will be a varied and exciting cultural program. Further information on IIAV membership or on the Fourth Congress can be obtained from the IIAV Secretariat, 201 Ross Hall, Auburn University, AL 36849, U.S.A. (Fax: 1-334-844-3306 or e-mail to yanas.eng.auburn.edu).
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS AND VIBRATION (IIAV) M. J. C Department of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5341, U.S.A. (Received 12 December 1995)
E--C’ P This letter is a shorter version of an article which appeared in Sound and Vibration in December 1995. I have invited Professor Crocker to contribute it to make the creation and aims of IIAV known to a somewhat wider audience. I share Professor Crocker’s belief that a democratic, international IIAV, affiliated to IUTAM, can play a very important role in today’s and the future’s science of sound and vibration, in which the problems of analysis of the mechanics involved in its many engineering and other practical applications are increasingly becoming more difficult and in need of solutions than are the problems of the fundamental physics involved. P. E. D (member IIAV) The importance of national scientific societies in many countries cannot be overemphasized. Nevertheless, the changing world brings pressures on us to stress the international character of knowledge in sound and vibration more every day. Advances in acoustical science, vibration control and in engineering aspects of sound and vibration occur in a highly interactive way all over the globe and increasingly need to be addressed from a global perspective. Consequently, a useful role could be played by an international scientific society representing the interests of all those scientists and engineers throughout the world who are concerned with acoustics and vibration. Therefore, a new non-profit scientific society, the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV) was incorporated in June 1995. Membership is open to qualified individuals in all countries. Scientific societies can become cooperating member societies. Before describing IIAV further, let me first give some of the background to its formation. Within the framework of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), there are two Scientific Unions of the ‘‘ICSU family’’ which have a considerable interest in acoustics and vibration. These are the international Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM). Up to the present, IUPAP has in the main taken the international initiative in promoting acoustics, through its International Congresses of Acoustics held every three years. The Congresses are often accompanied by satellite Symposia. Both the Congresses and Symposia are organized by one of IUPAP’s commissions: the International Commission on Acoustics (ICA). IUTAM has nonetheless maintained an interest in acoustics and vibration during the past several decades and has tried to proceed in harmony with the ICA. A IUTAM nominee has been appointed as an associate member of the ICA for the last 30 years. The IUTAM nominee has tried to use the position to see that mechanics aspects of the field are propertly considered. The collaboration has borne some fruit in that two specialized meetings were arranged in addition to the triennial International 1018 0022–460X/96/201018 + 02 $18.00/0
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Congresses of Acoustics. These were the IUTAM/ICA Symposium on Mechanics of Sound Generation in Flows (Go¨ttingen, 1979) and the IUTAM/ICA Symposium on the Mechanics of Hearing (Delft, 1983). In recent years, however, no further joint Symposia have been organized, although IUTAM’s interest in the mechanics aspects of acoustics and vibration has continued unabated. The foregoing considerations led to the concept of the formation of IIAV, as a non-profit international scientific society which could be affiliated to IUTAM. With all other specialist areas related to Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, IUTAM interacts through specialized international organizations affiliated to IUTAM. These include the International Centre of Heat and Mass Transfer, the International Committee on Rheology, the International Association for Vehicle System Dynamics, the International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics, the International Congress on Fracture, the International Congress on Mechanical Behavior of Materials, the International Association for Computational Mechanics and the International Association for Boundary Element Methods. IIAV, therefore, from its inception was planned as a global organization which because of its emphasis on the mechanics aspects of acoustics and vibration, would be suitable for addition to this list of specialist international organizations affiliated to IUTAM. A specific suggestion for the affiliation of IIAV with IUTAM was discussed at the IUTAM General Assembly (Amsterdam, August 1994). The General Assembly voted unanimously in favour of receiving an appropriately detailed proposal for affiliation of IIAV to IUTAM at the 1995 meeting of the IUTAM Bureau (Vienna, September 1995). The Bureau received the formal application from the IIAV and has (according to the Bureau minutes) proposed affiliation of IIAV to the forthcoming General Assembly in Kyoto in August 1996. Thus IIAV may be expected to be firmly rooted in the general field of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. At the same time its global nature will be re-emphasized. There has already been significant interest in IIAV. Individual members from 15 countries have joined. In addition several scientific societies around the world are considering becoming cooperating member societies. The IIAV will be a democratic organization. Its officers and directors can be from any country and will be elected by its members periodically. The first officers and directors have considerable experience in international organizations. The first President of IIAV is the British scientist Sir James Lighthill who has served as President of IUTAM. The first two vice-Presidents are David Newland of Cambridge, England, and Hanno Heller of Braunschweig, Germany. There are presently 12 Directors from 11 countries. When IIAV has 100 members the bylaws require that the officers and directors stand for election. Members will receive an electronic new digest and a new refereed journal. The IIAV will continue the biennial Congresses on Sound and Vibration, so far held in the U.S.A. and Canada. The Fourth International Congress on Sound and Vibration will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 24–27 June 1996, at the North Crown Hotel. Already over 300 abstracts from 30 countries have been submitted. All papers will be in English, and there will be a varied and exciting cultural program. Further information on IIAV membership or on the Fourth Congress can be obtained from the IIAV Secretariat, 201 Ross Hall, Auburn University, AL 36849, U.S.A. (Fax: 1-334-844-3306 or e-mail to yanas.eng.auburn.edu).