The 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science was held as a joint conference with the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley from June 20-22, 1988. With the encouragement and support of the SES, we decided to organize a symposium in honor of A. C. Eringen: the founding president of the Society of Engineering Science who provided pioneering leadership during the critical first decade of the Society's existence. We felt that there was no better way to do this than with a Symposium on Engineering Science -- the field that A. C. Eringen has devoted his life to. Professor Eringen had the foresight, even in his own early work, to see the need for an intimate amalgamation of engineering and science (transcending the bounds of the traditional engineering disciplines) to address unsolved problems of technological importance. Sustained by the belief that there was the need to provide a forum for researchers who had embraced this broader interdisciplinary approach, Professor Eringen founded the Society of Engineering Science and the International Journal of Engineering Science in 1963. Since that time, he has made countless contributions to the advancement of engineering science through his research, educational and organizational activities. The participants in the Symposium were former students and colleagues of Professor Eringen who have been strongly influenced by his professional activities and research in engineering science.

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This volume contains the proceedings of a Symposium dedicated to A.C. Eringen, Founding President of the Society of Engineering Science (SES), on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Society. The full text of 25 papers that were presented at the Symposium are contained in this volume. These papers cover a wide range of topics in engineering science including computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, mixture theory, compressible flow, linear and nonlinear elasticity, plasticity, micropolar media, electromagnetic solids and fluids, relativity theory, and random vibrations. The list of Symposium participants includes such distinguished authors as T.S. Chang, Kazuo Kondo, G.A. Maugin, J.T. Oden, and J.H. Weiner. An interesting view of contemporary research in engineering science is provided for the reader.

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Advances in Adaptive Methods in Computational Fluid Mechanics.- Electromagnetic Tornadoes in Earth's Ionosphere and Magnetosphere.- Toward a Continuum Theory of Liquid-Gas Mixtures.- A Mixture of Two Micromorphic Materials.- On Helicity Fluctuations and the Energy Cascade in Turbulence.- Computer Tests of Rubber Elasticity.- On the Saint-Venant Flexure of Diatomic Bars Subjected to Terminal Loads.- Effect of Nonuniformity on Earthquake Response of a Shear Beam Structure.- Shear Bands in Isotropic Micropolar Elastic Materials.- Finite Element Analysis of Elastic-Plastic Solids at Large Strain.- On the Mechanics of Interfacial Zones in Bonded Materials.- Nonlinear Surface Wave and Resonator Effects in Magnetostrictive Crystals.- The Electromagnetic Field as Oscillations of a Deformable Relativistic Aether.- Dislocation Dynamics in Anisotropic Piezoelectric Crystals: Influence of the Disturbance in the Electrical Field.- Material Multipole Modelling of Defects in Electromagnetically Coupled Elastic Solids.- Simulation of Electrically Enhanced Fibrous Filtration.- A Consideration of the Plasticity Theory of Granular Materials.- The Propagation of a Normal Shock in a Varying Area Duct.- A New Set of Orthogonal Polynomials for the Solution of Anharmonic Oscillator Problems.- Certain Basis Functions for Biharmonic and Laplace's Equations and Applications.- Dynamics of Viscoelastic Media with Internal Oscillators.- Analytical Mechanics of Fracture and Fatigue.- On the Postcritical Behaviour of a Cantilever Bar.- Relaxed Configurations and Elastic Range in Elasto-Plastic Models.- Three-Dimensional and Four-Dimensional Aspects of Human Penetration and Summary of Nature.- On the Boundary Value Problems in Nonlocal Elasticity.- Stability of Flexible Structures with RandomParameters.