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| R.V. Goldstein, "On the Occasion of A. A. Il'yushin's 100th Birthday Anniversary," Mech. Solids. 46 (1), 1-2 (2011) |
| Year |
2011 |
Volume |
46 |
Number |
1 |
Pages |
1-2 |
| DOI |
10.3103/S0025654411010018 |
| Title |
On the Occasion of A. A. Il'yushin's 100th Birthday Anniversary |
| Author(s) |
R.V. Goldstein |
| Abstract |
January 20, 2011, is the hundredth birthday anniversary of the prominent mechanical scientist and engineer Anton Antonovich Il'yushin, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (currently, RAS) and Full Member of the Academy of Artillery Sciences of the USSR (currently, RARAS).
Il'yushin graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In the years of his study, would-be specialists in the field of mechanics not only attended courses in mathematics, physics, and mechanics but also studied several engineering disciplines and were practically trained at factories, plants, and research institutes. Such a many-sided education favored the development of Anton Antonovich's talent and allowed him naturally to combine mechanical, mathematical, and engineering methods in his numerical and experimental studies of material and structure behavior.
Il'yushin made a large contribution to the creation of nonlinear mechanics of deformable rigid bodies and development of models and methods of continuum thermomechanics. [A paper devoted to Il'yushin's scientific heritage is published in this issue of the journal "Mechanics of Solids."]
Il'yushin's papers and monographs determined many aspects of the development of the mechanics of deformation and strength of elastoviscoplastic bodies under mechanical loads and the action of physical fields.
Anton Antonovich's contribution to the development of experimental mechanics deserves special attention. He and his colleagues and students developed new types of systems for testing materials subjected to multiaxis static loading and dynamic actions. They proposed new methods for constructing constitutive relations of nonlinear media on the basis of interactive combination of experiments and computer implementation of numerical methods.
Il'yushin could state fundamental and applied problems for studying and solving various problems on the basis of practical requirements, in the first place, of the industry branches closely related to the development of military industry and the aerospace complex, where he had been fruitfully collaborating for many years.
In his student years, Anton Antonovich began to work at the Central Institute of Hydroaerodynamics (TsAGI; currently, FGUP TsAGI bearing the name of Professor N. E. Zhukovskii). Later he worked as a consultant in several organizations of the People's Commissariat for Ammunition, and actively participated in the creation of one of the leading institutes in the field of rocket production (NII88; currently FGUP TsNIIMASh) at the end of the 1940s. Since 1964, he had been directing the work in the field of strength of highly filled polymer structures in TsNIIMASh. In 1952-53, Il'yushin was Vice Scientific Head and Vice Head Design Manager at VNIIEF (Arzamas 16).
Il'yushin's academic career was closely related to the Institute for Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, whose director he was in 1953-60. His educational activities were mainly related to Moscow and Leningrad State Universities. At Moscow State University, Anton Antonovich chaired the Department of the Theory of Elasticity at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics for more than half a century. He was Rector of Leningrad State University in 1950-52, at a very complicated time. Il'yushin created a school in mechanics of deformable rigid body and structural strength mechanics, which is one of the leading schools in our country and over the world.
A person of clear social and scientific positions, Il'yushin
fruitfully participated in several scientific discussions concerned with the development of directions in mechanics of materials and technology in our country in 1950-60, which greatly contributed to the choice of promising directions in this field of science.
Anton Antonovich was member of the Editorial Board of our journal for many years.
Il'yushin's scientific and managerial work was highly estimated. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, three Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Order of the Red Star, two "Honor Sign" Orders, Order of the October Revolution, and several medals. Il'yushin was Honorary Professor of Moscow State University and winner of Lomonosov's prize of the first degree; his name (among selected few) is recorded in the Golden Hall of Fame at Moscow State University.
Il'yushin's life is a bright example of service rendered to science and to the defensive power of his native country. |
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