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| "The 60th birthday of Professor A. G. Gorshkov," Mech. Solids. 36 (3), 1-1 (2001) |
| Year |
2001 |
Volume |
36 |
Number |
3 |
Pages |
1-1 |
| Title |
The 60th birthday of Professor A. G. Gorshkov |
| Author(s) |
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| Abstract |
On March 5, 2001, Professor Anatolii Gerasimovich Gorshkov,
a well-known scientist in the field of mechanics, Honored Scientist
of the Russian Federation, the executive secretary of the Editorial Board
of Mechanics of Solids, celebrated his 60th birthday.
He graduated with distinction from the Flying Vehicle Department
of the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1964; in 1967 he defended his Ph.D.
dissertation and in 1972 a dissertation for the Doctor-of-Sciences
degree in the field of physics and mathematics.
He has obtained fundamental results in aerohydroelasticity as applied
to the action of shock waves on structures and the penetration of fluids
by shells of revolution. He has found the exact solution for
the problem of diffraction of plane (spherical) elastic waves by
a thick-walled spherical shell filled with an elastic medium. This solution
is constructed in the form of series in terms of the Legendre polynomials
with the expansion coefficients defined as a superposition of the generalized
spherical waves. This concept covers ordinary spherical waves as a particular
case. The method suggested for solving non-stationary problems of dynamics
for an elastic or acoustic medium with spherical interfaces leads
to a computationally convenient form of the solution and can be extended
to problems related to the dynamics of nonhomogeneous media.
He obtained novel results in solving dynamic contact problems with movable
boundaries. His investigations allowed one to determine all
response characteristics and boundary singularities for the case
of an impact of a body of revolution bounded
by a smooth curved surface against an elastic half-space.
He has made a great contribution to the development of numerical methods
for investigating the behavior of single-layer and multi-layered structures
interacting with various kinds of deferrable obstacles such as liquid, soils,
and two-component media.
Gorshkov's scientific activity is closely related
to engineering and industry. He supervised the creation of an efficient
methodology for the strength design of a 1400 m3 cryogenic
spherical vessel and the design and implementation of a unique installation
for investigating impact of thin-walled structures against water and soil.
He took an active part in solving strength problems associated with
water landing of the first Russian reusable module of the orbiting space
station "Almaz" and cruise missile underwater launching.
In recent years, he has given much attention to the statics and dynamics
of 3D bodies having contact with elastic and multi-phase media, as well as
to the action of various physical-mechanical fields on structures. He has
constructed boundary influence functions for the 3D elasticity problem
in a parallelepiped; found the exact solutions for problems of diffraction
and radiation of elastic waves for doubly connected domains and
curved surfaces; developed a method for investigating the behavior and
strength of layered obstacles exposed to powerful light radiation
and particle flow; and developed a numerical-experimental method for
sound insulation design of composite shells of revolution in a broad
wavenumber range. These results have been internationally recognized.
Professor Gorshkov has created a scientific school
in the field of non-stationary
dynamics of continuous media and structures.
He is an author of more than 220
scientific and methodological publications,
among which are 17 monographs and
textbooks. Twenty three Candidate-of-Sciences
(Ph.D.) and 7 Doctor-of-Sciences (D.Sc.)
dissertations have been prepared under his advice.
His results have found wide application in various fields of modern
technology. He is a winner of the Prize of the USSR Council of Ministers
(1990) and the Prize of the 25th Anniversary
of Moscow Aviation Institute (1991).
He has been awarded the Chelomei Medal of
the USSR Astronautics Federation and the Nadiradze Medal of the
Russian Astronautics Federation.
He manages much work for the scientific society. He is the Chairman of
the Scientific-methodological Council
"Strength of Materials, Structural Mechanics,
Elasticity, and Plasticity;" a member of the Russian National Committee
on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; a member of the editorial boards
of the journals {\it Izvestiya Vuzov. Aviatsionnaya Tekhnika
(Higher Educational Institutions News. Aviation Engineering)},
{\it Vestnik MAI (Herald of Moscow Aviation Institute)}, and
{\it Mekhanika Kompozitsionnykh Materialov (Mechanics of Composite Materials)};
an editor of the {\it Review Journal "Mekhanika" (Mechanics)};
a member of the Experts Council in Mathematics and Mechanics
of the Higher Certification Committee
of the Russian Federation.
The Editorial Board and the editors of the journal congratulate Anatolii
Gerasimovich Gorshkov on his birthday and wish him strong health and further
achievements in his creative life. |
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