Progress Report of the Special Committee on Steel Column Research

This Committee was authorized in August, 1923, and held its fir st meeting in October of that year. At this meeting, it was unanimously agreed that the first work of the Committee should be to make a thorough study of all existing data before undertaking any further tests. It was thought that it would doubtless be desirable to do further experimental work, but plans for any such work should be based on a careful study of all existing data. In order to carry out this prog ram, it was obviously n ecessary to employ considerable assistance, and it was therefore arranged that M. 0. Withey, Professor of Mechanics at the University of Wisconsin, should devote a large part of his time, during the year 1924-25, in assisting the Committee in this work.