RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Founded in 1971.

200/1 Stachky Ave., Rostov-on-Don, Russia 344090

Director VOROVICH, Iosif Israilevich, D.S. in Phys & Math, Prof., Full Member of Russian Academy of Sciences and International Engineering Academy, National Prize-Winner.

Tel. 28-57-11. Fax: 28 -57 -55

Vice-Directors for Research:

SAFRONENKO, Vladimir Georgievich, Cand.S. in Phys. & Math.

Tel. 28 -59- 85

SURKOV, Feodor Alekseevich, Cand.S. in Phys. & Math.

Tel. 28 -01 -94

Staff: 310 members, including 1 Full Member of Russian Academy of Sciencies, 5 researchers with D.S and 85 with Cand.S. degrees.

The Institute is one of the leading research centres of Russia in solid state mechanics, strength and fracture, systems analysis and mathematical simulation.

Together with the Department of Elasticity Theory at Rostov State University, the Institute provides training of highly qualified specialists. 25 researchers with Doctoral and 100 with Cand.S. degrees have been trained here. Advanced results in research have been acknowleged as a scientific discovery (Prof. Vorovich), others have been certified by 16 international patents, 25 patents of the Russian Federation, and 225 authorship certificates of the USSR.

Staff members have been awarded 21 grants of the Foundation for Fundamental Research of Russia, 16 grants of the State Committee of the Russian Federation, and 3 INTAS grants. Several Professors have been awarded Honorary titles of the Soros Foundation.

The Institute has been accredited as the Leading Council of the Russian Ministry of Higher Education in the field of mechanics.

Institute’s main areas of research:

— solid state mechanics, strength and fracture, mathematical problems of solid mechanics;

— mathematical simulation of ecological and economic systems.

Proposed areas of research for sponsors’ financial support and joint projects:

— mathematical models of thin-shelled constructions made of materials with complex physical properties, composites included. Innovation of numerical methods and software for the problems of statistics, dynamics and stability of shells with complex structures;

— acoustic and emission methods for strength and reliability diagnostics of materials and constructions;

— wave diffusion in media with complex structures, interaction of wave fields and constructions;

— mathematical simulation of wave excitation and propagation in media with complex geometry and structure;

— Development of new construction materials, utilizing industrial wastes and resource saving technologies for base shell constructions (mining galleries, tunnels etc.);

— Experimental mechanics: systems for research automation, active identification of mathematical models of thermomechanical behaviour of reonomous materials;

— Development of flexible elements for emergency protection of industrial equipment under high pressure;

— Contact interaction of elastic bodies of complex geometry;

— Computation, technology and application of new piezoactive composite materials in ultrasonic devices;

— New technological solutions for construction of various types of foundations under complicated soil conditions;

— New types of energy-saturated gears and reductors; original methods for calculation and optimization of transmission and systems for computer design;

— inverse problems of diffraction theory and their application in ultrasonic flaw detection;

— Complex investigation of materials under thermomechanical loading by the methods of X-ray computational tomography;

— Solid strength diagnostics based on non-destructive heat tests

— Systems analisis and mathematical simulation of complex environmental and socio-economic systems;

— Geoinformational (GIS) technology implementation in scientific and applied research.

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Research in the field of contact problems of thermoelasticity and nondestructive testing is being performed with scholars of the University of Dortmund (Germany). For the joint study and production of smart devices, based on piezo effects, scholars of the Research Institutes for Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, the Physics faculty of Rostov State University, as well as of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey) were awarded a grant of the Tubitak Foundation (Turkey). With the support (grant) from Eurasia Foundation (USA) the Centre for Geoinformational Technologies was established in the Institute.

The institute’s Center for Computer Science and Ecological Simulation coordinates partnership programs between Rostov Region and the Tennessee Valley ( USA). Cooperation with the universities of Alabama, Tennessee, Western Kentucky and Murray State University is based on exchange programs of gifted and talented children, projects on the advancement of telecommunication system, organization of centers for ecological education in Russia .