Serge N. Gavriov

• Date of birth: May 27, 1973.

• Address: Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoy pr. V.O., 61, 199178, St.Petersburg, Russia

• E-mail: serge AT pdmi.ras.ru

• Keywords to the fields of interest: rational mechanics, non-stationary wave propagation, asymptotics, configurational forces, phase transitions, constitutive theory, granular materials.

• Affiliation:
  1990 - 1996: student of St. Petersburg State Technical University (SPbSTU, former Polytechnic Institute), Faculty of Physics and Mechanics, Department of Mechanics and Control Processes (Dean and Head of Department Prof. V.A. Palmov). Graduated in 1996, diploma cum laude, Msc.

Master thesis: "Mathematical model of Kelvin's medium" (science adviser Prof. P.A. Zhilin, Head of Department of Theoretical Mechanics, Faculty of Physics and Mechanics, SPbSTU).

1996 - 1999: PhD student of Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences. Graduated in April 1999.

PhD thesis: "Non-stationary processes in elastic waveguides subjected to a moving load overcoming the critical velocity", science advisers Prof. D.A. Indeitsev and Prof. P.A. Zhilin.

1999 - 2001: researcher at the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Hydroelasticity, St. Petersburg.

2001 - time being: senior researcher, Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Hydroelasticity, St. Petersburg, Russia

• Scientific visits and participation in conferences: More than 30 conference presentations (including 2 invited lectures), 1 scientific visits of long duration: February - May 2001: scientific visit to the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands

• Projects:

  1 project supported by Shell E.&P. (Director from Russian side)
  2007-2010: "Advanced modelling of mechanical behaviour of rocks and soils"

  1 project supported by Shell E.&P. (participant)
  2004-2006: "Waves in complex media"

  1 project supported by National Russian Science Foundation (competition "Young PhDs of the Russian Academy of Sciences"), 2004-2005

  1 project supported by NATO (Collaborative Linkage Grant) (participant)
  2000-2002: "Granular materials: from the discrete to the continuum approach"

  2001: A personal project supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research in frames of "Young researchers" program

  4 projects supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (participant)
  1999-2001: "Dynamics of localized zones of stress in inhomogeneous media with inclusions"
  2003-2005: "Strength and fracture of long objects under non-stationary loading"
  2005-2007: "Internal dynamics of materials under non-stationary loading"
  2008-2010: "Dynamic phenomena in materials undergoing structural-phase transformations"
  
  
  

• 5 personal projects supported by St. Petersburg City Government
  1995: "Nonlinear problems in mechanics of thin elastic rods"
  1997: "Non-stationary problems in dynamics of systems subjected to moving loads"
  1998: "Non-stationary problems in dynamics of systems subjected to moving loads"
  2000: "Dynamics of elastic systems subjected to moving sources"
  2004: "Dynamic contact problem on a punch moving on the free surface of an elastic half space"

• Participant of two Programs for basic research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2004-2011)
  
  
  

• Awards: The first prize and medal at "The Russian contest for studies of young scientists in the field of mechanics and control devoted to the 100^th anniversary of Prof. A.I. Lurie" (Saint-Petersburg, December 13-14, 2001)

• Activity:
  Member of the Scientific Committees of Summer Schools - Conferences "Advanced Problems in Mechanics", St. Petersburg, Russia, 2005-2011
  Member of the Scientific and Organising Committees of Summer Schools - Conferences "Advanced Problems in Mechanics", St. Petersburg, Russia, 2001-2004
  Member of the Organizing Committee of XXVIII Summer School - Conference "Actual Problems in Mechanics", St. Petersburg, Russia, 2000
  Member of the Organizing Committee of XXVII Summer School - Conference "Nonlinear Oscillations in Mechanical Systems", St. Petersburg, Russia, 1999
  
  
  

  List of principal publications

1. S.N. Gavrilov, E.V. Shishkina. On stretching of a bar capable of undergoing phase transitions // Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (2010), V. 22, N. 4, 299-316.

2. E.V. Shishkina, I.I. Blekhman, M.P. Cartmell, S.N. Gavrilov. Application of the method of direct separation of motions to the parametric stabilization of an elastic wire. Nonlinear Dynamics (2008) 54: 313-331.

3. S. N. Gavrilov. Dynamics of a free phase boundary in an infinite bar with variable cross-sectional area. ZAMM (2007) 87(2):117-127.

4. S. N. Gavrilov. Proper dynamics of phase interface in an infinite elastic bar with variable cross section. Doklady Physics (2007) 52(3):161-164.

5. S.N. Gavrilov. The effective mass of a point mass moving along a string on a Winkler foundation. PMM J. Appl. Math. Mechs (2006) 70: 582-589.

6. S.N. Gavrilov, G.C. Herman. Oscillation of a Punch Moving on the Free Surface of an Elastic Half Space. Journal of Elasticity (2004) 75: 247-265.

7. S.N. Gavrilov, D.A. Indeitsev. On the evolution of localized mode of oscillation in system "string on an elastic foundation - moving inertial inclusion". PMM J. Appl. Math. Mechs (2002) 66(5):825-833.

8. S. Gavrilov. Nonlinear investigation of the possibility to exceed the critical speed by a load on a string. Acta Mechanica (2002) 154:47-60.

9. S. Gavrilov. Transition through the critical velocity for a moving load in an elastic waveguide. Technical Physics (2000) 45(4):515-518.

10. S. Gavrilov. Non-stationary problems in dynamics of a string on an elastic foundation subjected to a moving load. Journal of Sound and Vibration (1999) 222(3):345-361.