International Congresses on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) Number     Year     Place     Congress President 1   1924   Delft, The Netherlands   C. B. Biezeno 2   1926   Zürich, Switzerland   E. Meissner 3   1930   Stockholm, Sweden   A. F. Enström 4   1934   Cambridge, UK   C. E. Inglis 5   1938   Cambridge, USA   K. T. Compton 6   1946*   Paris, France   H. Villat 7   1948   London, UK   R. V. Southwell 8   1952   Istanbul, Turkey   K. Erim 9   1956   Brussels, Belgium   F. H. van den Dungen 10   1960   Stresa, Italy   G. Colonnetti 11   1964   Munich, Germany   H. Görtler 12   1968   Stanford, USA   N. J. Hoff 13   1972   Moscow, USSR   N. I. Muskhelishvili 14   1976   Delft, The Netherlands   W. T. Koiter 15   1980   Toronto, Canada   F. P. J. Rimrott 16   1984   Lyngby, Denmark   F. I. Niordson 17   1988   Grenoble, France   P. Germain and M. Piau 18   1992   Haifa, Israel   J. Singer 19   1996   Kyoto, Japan   T. Tatsumi 20   2000   Chicago, USA   H. Aref 21   2004   Warsaw, Poland   W. Gutkowski 22   2008   Adelaide, Australia   E. O. Tuck 23   2012   Beijing, China   Y. Bai *The International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics was founded in 1946, during the Sixth Congress in Paris. Each of the first six congresses had been organized by a national committee of scientists from the country where the congress was to be held.