The Index of Computer Programmes now maintained in the Institution’s Library contained, at the end of 1962, about 150 items, under the following headings: aircraft and ships (3), arches (3), bridges (13), chimneys (2), composite action (7), continuous beams (7), general mathematical (lo), jetties (3), piles (3), piping (4),
plane frame structures (47), plates and slabs (4), properties of sections (9), shells (6), soil mechanics (7), stairs (2), tanks (2), vibration (3) and miscellaneous (10).
The compilation of the Index was recommended by the committee responsible for the Institution Report on ‘The Use of Digital Computers in Structural Engineering’, published in May 1962. (Copies of this report are still available price 10s. 6d. post free.)