Prof. Dr. Vladimir A. Polyanskiy is a head of the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he previously worked as a head of the Laboratory of Applied Research (2011-2019). He is a professor of the Higher School of Cyberphysical Systems and Control at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, where he has had an employment history since 1987. He is a member of the North-West Branch of the Scientific Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Combustion and Explosion and an expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His scientific interests include hydrogen embrittlement, structural strength, metallurgy, physics of the atomic collisions and computational mechanics.
Prof. [...]. [...]. Dr.h.c. Alexander K. Belyaev is a head of the Mechatronics Laboratory and a chief researcher of the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a professor of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at St. Petersburg State University and a Head of the Higher School of Mechanics and Control at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, where he has had an employment history since 1976. In particular, he was the director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. He is a member of the Council of the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH), member of IUTAM, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, member of Presidium of Russian National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. His scientific interests include high-frequency dynamics of solids and structures, stability of machines and mechanisms, mechatronics.

Special collection on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of IPME RAS

Presents problems of strength of materials, as well as service life and control of structures

Chapters written by research teams from the 18 IPME RAS laboratories

Chapter 1. Solution of dynamic boundary problems for plane deformation in nonlinear model of crystal media with complex lattice.- Chapter 2. Equilibrium structures and flows of polar and nonpolar fluids in nanoscopic channels.- Chapter 3. Boundary-value problems for defects in nanoscale and nanocomposite solids.- Chapter 4. Micromechanics of strength and plasticity in nanostructured materials.- Chapter 5. Nanoscale SiC on silicon - a new platform for growth of wide-bandgap semiconductors.