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This volume contains edited papers from IABEM-90, the 1990 Symposium of the International Association for Boundary Element Methods (IABEM). As stated inthe By-Laws of the Association, the purposes of IABEM are: 1. to promotethe international exchange of technical information related to the development and application of boundary-integral equation (BIE) formulationsand their numerical implementation to problems in engineering and science, commonly referred to as the boundary element method (BEM). 2. to promote research and development activities for the advancement of boundary-integral equations methods and boundary element solution algorithms; 3. to foster closer personal relationships within the BEM communitiy of researchers.