Background

Educated at Perm Technical University (USSR). Research scientist, then senior research scientist, Institute of Mechanics of Continuous Media, USSR Academy of Sciences, Perm, 1985 - 1991. Senior research scientist, Institute of Geosciences, USSR (Russian) Academy of Sciences, Perm, 1991 - 1995. Senior research scientist, Department A for Mechanics, Technical University of Munich, Germany, 1996 - 2000. Joined Loughborough University as Professor of Mechanics of Materials in 2000.
Visiting researcher (Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation), Institute for Structure Mechanics DLR (German Aerospace Association), Braunschweig, Germany, 1993 - 1994

School Research Group

Materials and Structures
Mechanics of Advanced Materials

Research Interests and Activities

• Multi-scale models of damage and fracture evolution in microstructured materials (ceramics, composites, rocks)
• Impact fatigue
• Analysis of stochastic damage accumulation
• Finite-element analysis of complex deformational behaviour and fracture of heterogeneous materials under various loading conditions
• Effect of microstructure on crack propagation
• Analysis of ultrasonically assisted machining
• Analysis and modelling of matrix cracking and delamination in laminate composites
• Micromechanics and reliability of microelectronic packages
• Micromechanics of nonwoven materials
• Effect of microstructure on thermomechanical properties of ceramic coatings
• Modelling of sports materials
• Statistical thermodynamics and modelling of phase transformations in solids

External Activities

• Journal editorial board membership: International Journal Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing
Computers, Materials & Continua <http://www.techscience.com/cmc/>

• Guest journal editorships: ASME Transactions. Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology (2003); Journal of Sound and Vibration (2007)

• Professional affiliations: Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Fellow of the Institute of Physics; Member of EUROMECH; Member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics; Member of the European Structural Integrity Society; Member of the German Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM); Member of the German Materials Science Society (DGM)

• International conferences: co-chair of EUROMECH Colloquia “Computational and Experimental Mechanics of Advanced Materials” Vienna, Austria, 2001 and Loughborough, 2005; co-chair of the 1st International Conference on Vibro-Impact Systems, Loughborough, 2007; member of the organising committees of 5th International Congress on Thermal Stresses and Related Topics, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, 2003; 4th International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures, Loughborough, 2004; International Conferences on Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis, Bath, 2006 and Cambridge,2009; 8th International Conference on Damage Assessment in Structures, Beijing, China, 2009; member of the scientific committees of International Conferences on Damage Assessment in Structures, Gdansk, Poland, 2005 and Turin, Italy, 2007.

• Invited papers to international journals: ASME Transactions. Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology (2003); International Journal of Fracture (2006); Journal of Materials Science (2006, 2008); Composite Science and Technology (2008); Journal of Sound and Vibration (2007)

• Advisory Roles: Committee member of the Stress and Vibration Group, Institute of Physics; EPSRC College member; Panel Member of the EU TEMPUS Programme; Member of the Committee on Mechanics of Materials of German Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.

• Referee for Applied Composite Materials; Applied Mechanics and Materials; Archive of Applied Mechanics; Composite Science and Technology; Composites A; Computational Materials Science; Engineering Fracture Mechanics; International Journal of Earth Sciences; International Journal of Fracture; International Journal of Mechanical Sciences; International Journal of Solids and Structures; Journal of Materials Processing Technology; Journal of Materials Science; Journal of Sound and Vibration; Key Engineering Materials; Materials Science and Engineering A; Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures; Microelectronics Reliability; Microelectronic Engineering; Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences; Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics; Proceedings of Estonian Academy of Sciences; Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science; Proceedings of the Royal Society A; Pure and Applied Geophysics; Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering; Scripta Materialia; Surface and Coating Technology; Tectonophysics; The Journal of the Textile Institute.

• Collaborative Research: Current examples include mutual projects with The Nonwoven Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA and EU FP7 ITN “Macro, micro and nano aspects of machining”.

• Further evidence of esteem: Director, International Centre of Vibro-Impact Systems

Awards

• A. v. Humboldt Foundation (Germany) Fellowship (1992-1994).
• Best Paper Award, 8th CIRP International Workshop on Modeling of Machining Operations, Chemnitz, Germany, 2005
• Best Paper Award, 10th CIRP International Workshop on Modeling in Machining Operations, Reggio Calabria, Italy, 2007

Publications

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Links

International Centre of Vibro-Impact Systems
Wolfson School Seminar