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| "On the occasion of Valerii Vitalievich Vasil’ev’s seventieth birthday," Mech. Solids. 43 (4), 525-527 (2008) |
| Year |
2008 |
Volume |
43 |
Number |
4 |
Pages |
525-527 |
| DOI |
10.3103/S0025654408040018 |
| Title |
On the occasion of Valerii Vitalievich Vasil’ev’s seventieth birthday |
| Author(s) |
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| Abstract |
June 14, 2008, is the seventieth birthday of Valerii Vitalievich Vasil'ev,
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 1962, V. V. Vasil'ev graduated from the Faculty of Aircrafts of
Moscow Aviation Institute and in 1966, from the Faculty of
Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. He defended
his Ph.D. thesis in 1964 and D.Sc. thesis in 1969 (they deal with
problems of computation and design of solid-propellant rocket
engine cases made of composite materials) and became a leading
specialist in the field of composite structure design in our
country. Since 1973, V. V. Vasil'ev is Professor of the Chair of
Aircraft; in 1984, he was elected Corresponding Member of the
Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the field of structural
mechanics. In more than 40 years of work in the industry and in
higher school, V. V. Vasil'ev obtained the following theoretical
and applied results.
V. V. Vasil'ev developed the structural mechanics of composite
structures, which is based on a unique scheme of computational
models, equations, and methods for solving linear and nonlinear
problems of statics, dynamics, and stability of composite rods,
plates, and shells, which is widely used in the domestic industry
and highly recognized abroad.
V. V. Vasil'ev developed methods for designing composite structures
which, in particular, underly the design of all domestic composite
solid-propellant engines, as well as of composite balloons and
containers of various destination. In 1984, V. V. Vasil'ev was
awarded the USSR State Prize for these works and in 2002, the title
of Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.
V. V. Vasil'ev proposed constructive technological concepts and
methods for analysis and design of wire structures obtained by
automatic continuous winding, which, in fact, are composite analogs
of V. G. Shukhov's wire structures and are widely used as transfer
modules in the complexes "Topol-M" and the rocket carrier
"Proton-M". In 2004, V. V. Vasil'ev was awarded the Prize of the
Government of the Russian Federation for this work. The wire
composite structures, which are at the peak of weight perfection
and are highly technological and highly economically efficient, are
nowadays considered by the leading domestic and foreign aircraft
building companies as prospective elements of airframes for
passenger aircrafts of the new generation.
Together with S. A. Lurie, V. V. Vasil'ev developed a method for
solving the biharmonic boundary value problem for bounded domains
referred to Cartesian, polar, and cylindrical coordinates and
obtained exact solutions of the classical biharmonic problems of
elasticity, which have more than a hundred-year history.
On the basis of the classical works in the field of the theory of
plates, V. V. Vasil'ev constructed the modern applied form of the
theory of elasticity of thin plates, which does not have the
well-known contradictions of the traditional classical theory and
is widely used in foreign educational literature.
The classical equations of general relativity are supplemented with
the conditions that the Einstein tensor is invariant under medium
strains and are generalized to the case of deformable solids.
V. V. Vasil'ev, together with L. V. Fedorov, used the linearized
three-dimensional equations to construct the geometric theory of
elasticity, which allows one to determine the metric of the
Riemannian space generated by the medium stressed state, to
synthesize the natural stressed space, and to interpret it as a
construction of optimal shape.
V. V. Vasil'ev is the author of 250 published papers, 15 patents of
the Russian Federation, and 5 patents of the USA in the field of
composite construction technologies. V. V. Vasil'ev is the founder
of engineering education in the field of composite structure
design, the organizer and Head of the first special chair in this
field at the Moscow Aviation Technological Institute and of the
corresponding engineering specialty.
10 D.Sc. theses and more than 30 Ph.D. theses were defended under
his scientific supervision. For many years, V. V. Vasil'ev
organized cycles of lectures in design and technology of composite
structures at factories of defence and aircraft industries, of
general and chemical engineering, and of ship-building industry.
For his contribution to development of higher education and
engineering education, V. V. Vasil'ev was awarded People Friendship
order and Honored Educationalist decoration. The courses in
mechanics of composite structures, which he read to students and
post-graduate students at universities in the USA and France, had
the highest rating.
V. V. Vasil'ev is Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Council of the
Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of mechanics of structures
made of composite materials, member of National Committee in
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, a member of the Editorial Board
of the journal "Problems of Defence Engineering", member of the
Editorial Council of Encyclopaedia in Mechanical Engineering, and
member of some other editorial boards. For more than 25 years he
has been working in the Editorial Board of the journal "`Izv.
Akad. Nauk. Mekhanika Tverdogo Tela." The editorial board and the
editorial staff of the journal "Mekhanika Tverdogo Tela" heartily
congratulate Valerii Vitalievich and wish him strong health and
many new creative achievements. |
| References |
| 1. | A. N. Elpat'evskii and V. V. Vasil'ev,
Strength of Cylindrical Shells Made of Reinforced Materials
(Mashinostroenie, Moscow, 1972)
[in Russian]. |
| 2. | I. F. Obraztsov, V. V. Vasil'ev, and V. A. Bunakov,
Optimal Reinforcement of Shells of Revolution Made of Composite Materials
(Mashinostroenie, Moscow, 1977)
[in Russian]. |
| 3. | I. F. Obraztsov, L. A. Bulychev, V. V. Vasil'ev, et al.,
Engineering Mechanics of Aircrafts
(Mashinostroenie, Moscow, 1986)
[in Russian]. |
| 4. | V. V. Vasil'ev,
Mechanics of Composite Constructions
(Mashinostroenie, Moscow, 1988)
[in Russian]. |
| 5. | V. V. Vasil'ev and Yu. M. Tarnopol'skii (Editors),
Composite Materials
(Mashinostroenie, Moscow, 1990)
[in Russian]. |
| 6. | V. V. Vasil'ev,
Mechanics of Composite Structures
(Taylor and Francis, 1993). |
| 7. | S. A. Lurie and V. V. Vasiliev,
The Biharmonic Problem in the Theory of Elasticity
(Gordon and Breach, Luxembourg, 1995). |
| 8. | V. V. Vasiliev and Z. Gurdal (Editors),
Optimal Design: Theory and Applications to Materials and Structures
(Technomic, Lancaster-Basel, 1999). |
| 9. | V. V. Vasiliev and E. V. Morozov,
Mechanics and Analysis of Composite Materials
(Elsevier, Amesterdam, 2001). |
| 10. | A. A. Kul'kov and V. V. Vasil'ev (Editors),
Nonmetallic Constructional Materials.
Encyclopaedia in Mechanical Engineering, Vols. 2-4
(Mashinostroenie, Moscow, 2005)
[in Russian]. |
| 11. | V. V. Vasiliev and E. V. Morozov,
Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials
(Elsevier, Amsterdam, London, 2007). |
| 12. | V. V. Vasil'ev, A. F. Razin, A. A. Medvedev, et al.,
A Rocket of Cosmic Destination,
RF Patent No. 2210726.2001. |
| 13. | V. V. Vasil'ev, V. A. Barynin, A. F. Razin, et al.,
A Method for Manufacturing Aircraft Frame Elements from Composite Materials,
RF Patent No. 2312790.2006. |
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