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| "On the occasion of N. F. Morozov’s seventy-fifth birthday," Mech. Solids. 42 (5), 661-662 (2007) |
| Year |
2007 |
Volume |
42 |
Number |
5 |
Pages |
661-662 |
| Title |
On the occasion of N. F. Morozov’s seventy-fifth birthday |
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| Abstract |
Nikita Fedorovich Morozov, a prominent Russian scientist, whose
numerous achievements in the field of mechanics of deformable
solids form a great contribution into science, and a remarkable
teacher, who created an authoritative school of mechanics in our
country, has celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday.
Morozov was born on July 28, 1932, in Leningrad. His childhood
coincided with a severe time for the country. Staying in the
blockade Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War, he was an active
member of voluntary fire brigades and was awarded the medal "For
the Defence of Leningrad" in 1943 for this activity.
In 1949, Morozov entered the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics
at Leningrad State University. At the time, scientists who were the
pride of Soviet science (Yu. V. Linnik, S. G. Mikhlin,
V. V. Novozhilov, and others) were teaching there. After defending
the diploma, Morozov entered post-graduate studies at Leningrad
State University. After successfully finishing these studies, he
worked for ten years at the Faculty of Mathematics at Leningrad
Technological Institute for Pulp and Paper Industry, where he made
his way from Associate Professor to Professor and Chair. In 1971,
Morozov switched jobs and began to work at the Faculty of
Mathematics and Mechanics at Leningrad (nowadays, St. Petersburg)
State University, where he has been Chair of the Department of
Elasticity Theory since 1976.
Owing to his fruitful work in several directions of mathematical
theory of elasticity, Morozov became a well-known specialist in the
country. Morozov was one of the first to apply strict mathematical
methods in elasticity.
In 1967, N. F. Morozov defended his D.Sc. thesis "Nonlinear
problems of the theory of thin plates and shells," dealing with
the qualitative study of these problems, at Leningrad State
University. His results about the existence, uniqueness, and
solvability of boundary value and initial-boundary value problems
in the plate and shell theory became classical. He solved the
problem, posed by D. Yu. Panov and V. I. Feodos'ev, about the
existence of nonsymmetric solutions for a symmetrically loaded
circular plate and stated sufficient conditions for instability of
symmetric solutions.
Following the advice of academician V. V. Novozhilov, Morozov
turned his attention to fracture problems for deformable solids,
where he and his students made essential progress in the
mathematical theory of brittle fracture. Morozov made a significant
contribution into studying the problem of equilibrium and
propagating cracks and the theory of damage accumulation.
In the field of dynamic fracture and crack propagation problems, he
suggested a new brittle fracture criterion important in problems of
fast and superfast loading. On the basis of this criterion, he
proposed new material testing methods meeting the demands of modern
industry. Morozov initiated the foundation, on the basis of
St.Petersburg State University, of the Collective-Use Center
"Dynamics," supplied with modern equipment, which permits
performing unique experimental studies in the field of fracture
mechanics and determining theoretical and experimental laws of
dynamical fracture of solids.
In the recent years, N. F. Morozov focused his effort on
applications of methods of mechanics of deformable solids to
problems of nanomechanics. The main attention is paid to developing
fundamental ideas about the nature of mechanical properties of
nanostructure materials and finding relations between parameters of
nanomaterial manufacturing technologies as well as between
structural and mechanical characteristics of nanomaterials at the
nano-, micro-, meso-, and macroscopic levels and also to modeling
phase and structural transitions in materials on the basis of
methods of mechanics of deformable solids. Under his supevision, a
creative team comprising many talented young researchers was set up
and fruitfully works in this direction at the Institute for
Problems in Mechanical Engineering.
Continuing the best traditions of the school created by the
mechanicists A. I. Lurie and V. V. Novozhilov, Academician Morozov
organized a permanent city seminar at the Institute for Problems
in Mechanical Engineering, where actual problems of mechanics and
physics are discussed.
For more than 30 years, the outstanding scientist and talented
teacher Morozov has been teaching at St. Petersburg State
university. His scientific school of mechanical engineers
specializing in material strength enjoys great authority in Russia
and abroad. There are seven Doctors and more than fifty Candidates
of Science among Morozov's students. Morozov scientific school was
repeatedly awarded Presidential grants for supporting leading
scientific schools in Russia.
Morozov published more than 150 scientific papers, including 7
monographs. In 2000, N. F. Morozov as member of the author team was
awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and
Technology for a cycle of papers about nonlinear problems in
mechanics of solids.
Morozov's social-scientific activities are very broad and
many-sided. He is Vice-President of the Russian National Committee
in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Chairman of the Scientific
Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Mechanics of
Deformable Solids, Co-President of the Head Council in Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics of the Ministry of Education of the Russian
Federation, and member of several editorial boards of leading
national and foreign journals in mechanics.
In 1999, Morozov's scientific-pedagogical activity was marked by
the "Order of Honor," and in 1995 he was awarded the title of
"Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation." In 2004, Morozov
was awarded the Order for "Services to the Country" of the fourth
degree.
Morozov is characterized by call of duty and social responsibility,
vast energy, ability to work hard and encourage others,
sociability, and permanent willingness to help.
The editorial board and editorial staff of the journal "Mechanics
of Solids," friends, colleagues, and students heartily
congratulate Nikita Fedorovich Morozov and wish him strong health
and many new creative achievements in his activities. |
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