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At the first meeting of the Council in 1945, Shortridge Hardesty had presented his concept of the organization's objectives in the following general statement of purpose:
- The purpose of the Council is to review our existing knowledge of column materials and theory; plan and carry out a program of research and tests; to supplement and develop our knowledge where required; to study the application of results of this program in the practical design of compression members of various types in various kinds of structures; develop a comprehensive series of formulas or rules covering the entire range of compression members; and secure the widest possible adoption of such formulas by specification-writing bodies and by designers.
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