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Structural optimization, a broad interdisciplinary field, requires
skillful combining of mathematical and mechanical knowledge with
engineering. It is both intellectually attractive and
technologically rewarding. The Symposium on Optimization in
Structural Design was the second IUTAM Symposium in Poland. Fifteen
years have elapsed since the Symposium on Nonhomogeneity in
Elasticity and Plasticity, presided by Professor Olszak, was held
in Warsaw. These fifteen years mean a lot for mechanics in Poland.
Continuing the tradition of Professor Maksymilian Tytus Huber's
research, considerable development of the mechanical sciences has
been achieved in this country mostly due to the knowledge, vision
and persistence of Professors Wit old Nowacki and Waclaw Olszak,
eminent Members of our Academy. The Institute of Fundamental
Technological Research was established, competent research groups
grew, matured and contri buted to thermo-elasticity, plasticity,
general theory of constitutive equations, and to structural
mechanics-just to mention a few do mains. Mechanics is now
penetrating into the technology of this country at an accelerating
pace. The optimization in mechanics has a tradition in Poland. In
1936 Professor Zbigniew Wasiutynski formulated the optimality
criterion for mean stiffness design using an elastic energy
concept. Further work in this field has been done since, mostly in
the last ten years. On behalf of the Committee for Mechanics of the
Polish Academy of Sciences I wish to thank the IUTA1V Bureau for
the decision to hold in Warsaw the Symposium the present volume
contains the contribu tions to."
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