International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV)

The origins of IIAV can be traced back to two congresses held at Auburn University, in the USA in 1990 and 1992, and perhaps even earlier to a conference, Sonically Induced Vibration of Structures, held at Liverpool University in the United Kingdom in January 1969. This earlier conference, organised by Malcolm Crocker and the late Kenneth Mulholland with the cooperation of the (then) British Acoustical Society, was attended by almost 200 people from 18 countries. Although there were no formal conference proceedings, the organisers produced a book of abstracts, and several of the conference papers were published in full in the Journal of Sound and Vibration.