DEDICATION

摘要

This issue of the Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures is dedicated to Professor Charles R. Steele, the journal's Founding Editor, and his late wife, Marie-Louise Steele, Associate Editor of JoMMS until her untimely death in 2009. It includes papers written by colleagues and friends who thereby wanted to honor the two. We, who have succeeded Charles and Marie-Louise at the helm of the journal, consider it a privilege to have acted as editors of this issue. The issue has a twofold purpose: to celebrate the Steeles' accomplishments and to commemorate the passing of Marie-Louise, who was an indispensable partner in running the journal and is to be credited to no small degree with supporting Charles in his professional endeavors. They both made an important contribution to the engineering community by founding the nonprofit Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, and prior to that by their editorship of the International Journal of Solid and Structures. Charles's own research work has had a lasting impact on theoretical and applied mechanics and biomechanics, addressing problems in shell theory, elasticity theory, cochlear mechanics, and bone mechanics, among others. He has been recognized for these contributions by being elected to National Academy of Engineering in 1995 and by the ASME Koiter medal in 1999.