Micromechanics and Composite Materials Technology Expert and Consultant

Expertise

Senior Scientist and Supervisor with over twenty years of successful experience leading cross functional teams in Micromechanics of microinhomogeneous media and composite materials. Specific experience in:

• Nanocomposites.
• Particular and fiber reinforced composites with metal-matrix, plastic-matrix and ceramic-matrix.
• Functionally graded composites.
• Suspensions and emulsions.
• Geomaterials.
• Constitutive modeling of composites.
• Multiscale analysis of composite materials.
• Thermo-elasto-plasticity and visco-plasticity of composites.
• Strength, fracture, fatigue, aging, and durability of composites.
• Damage mechanics.
• Conductivity in composites.
• Wave propagation in composites.
• Termo-electro-elasticity and other coupled effect in composites.
• Overall properties and the fluctuations of random fields.
• Differential and integral equations, asymptotic methods, optimization methods, numerical methods.
• Computational solid mechanics, nonlinear analysis.
• Probabilistic and reliability methods.
• Stochastic differential and integral equations.

Technical competency may be applied in the following branches of industry:

• Aircraft and space industry.
• Machine building when new composite materials are explored in intensive coupled physic-mechanical fields.
• Nondestructive testing.
• Chemical technology of suspension and emulsion.
• Coal-and oil industries.
• Powder metallurgy.

Experience

University of Dayton, Present

• Resident Instructor and Sr. Research Scientist

Wright-Patterson Air force Base, 1998 - 2000

• Sr. Resident Associate

TU Vienna, Austria, Lab-Micromechanics of Materials, 1994 -1998

• Visiting Research Professor

Max-Plank-Gesellschaft, TU Dresden, Germany, 1993 - 1994

• Max Planck Society Fellow

Moscow Institute Of Chemical Engineering, Russia, Department of Mathematics, 1984 - 1993

• Group Leader and Senior Research Scientist, Associate Professor, and Professor.

Research Institute of Chemical Engineering, Moscow USSR, 1976 - 1984

• Research Scientist, Group Leader and Senior Research Scientist.

Honors & Publications

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• Max-Planck-Society Fellowship (Germany)
• Austrian Society for the Promotion of Scientific Research Fellowship (FWF)
• National Research Council/United State Air Force Office of Scientific Research Associateship, Senior Research Associate.
• Member of Advisory Board of Editors, International Journal of Multiscale Computational Engineering
• Guest-Editor of the special issue entitled Recent Advances in Micromechanics of Composite Materials.

Publications

• 130 Publication, (97 in English) invited national and international lectures.

Education

• D.Sc. Science: Mechanics of Solid, Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, Ukraine, Kiev
• Ph.D. Engineering Science, Research Institute of Chemical Engineering, Moscow
• M.Sc. Mathematics, Moscow State University, Russia