Books and literature

This omnibus celebrates the 65th birthday of Professor Dr. Ir Aric van der Neut (and incidentally the premature birth of the Delft University Press from whom a significant aviation book list can be expected in the future). The plan has been for friends and former pupils of the professor from all over the world to contribute papers closely allied to his particular field of engineering science. The objective has certainly been achieved with 26 papers ranging from the theory of multilayer shells by E. I. Grigoliouk and P. P. Chulkov of the Moscow Academy of Sciences to closed form solution to the semi‐infinite cylindrical shell problem by J. L. Sanders of Harvard University and from the subject of buckling of integrally stiffened cylindrical shells by J. Singer of the Israel Institute of Technology to the influence of production imperfections on design of optimum structures by H. L. Cox of the National Physical Laboratory and M. E. Grayley of Engineering Sciences Data Unit. Hardly surprisingly, however, the majority of the papers come from the Netherlands and, perhaps significantly, all except one from universities and institutes rather than people working actually as aircraft constructors.