International Congress for the Testing of Materials

Abstract

THE New International Association for Testing Materials held its first congress at Zurich on Sept. 6A11. Although this was the first congress of the New International Association, eleven international congresses on the testing of materials have been held in the past. Ten of these were held by the original International Association which was formed more than thirty years ago under the auspices of Tetmayer and Bauschinger. This Association was broken up during the War, but a new International Association was formed at a congress in Amsterdam which had been arranged in September 1927 by the Dutch Association for Testing Materials. The new Association, although it is continuing the most valuable work of its predecessor, differs from it in many important respects, particularly by being a much simpler organisation, which avoids so far as possible the formation of numerous permanent committees, and also by entirely eliminating all questions of international standard specifications.