Advances in Solid and Fracture Mechanics

Prof. Svetlana M. Bauer is professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia. She was graduated from Leningrad State University in 1975 and obtained the PhD (Physics & Mathematics, Mechanics of Solids) from Leningrad State University in 1980. In 2003, she got the D.Sc. degree (Physics & Mathematics, Mechanics of Solids) from Leningrad State University in 2003. She supervised of eight PhD theses and acted as author/co-author of 15 books and 200 journal and conference papers. Her research interests are asymptotic methods, theory of thin-walled structures, biomechanics, mechanics of solids, nano-mechanics, and models of plates and shells in ophthalmology. 



Prof. Dr.Sc. Dr.habil. Dr.h.c. Alexander K. Belyaev is Director of the School of Mechanics and Control at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Head of the Mechatronics Laboratory and a Chief Researcher of the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1976 (diploma in Dynamics and Strength of Machines) and defended his Ph.D. in 1979, awarded Habilitation (venia docendi) at Technical University of Vienna, Austria in 1997, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics at St. Petersburg Technical University in 2001. Honorary Doctorate (d.h.c.) of Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria in 2012, Foreign Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2016, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2019, member of Presidium of the Russian National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. His scientific interests include high-frequency dynamics of solids and structures, stability of machines and mechanisms, mechatronics.
Prof. Dmitri A. Indeitsev is is the Head of Department "Mechanics and Control Processes" of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, he is also Professor of the Department "Theory of Elasticity" of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at the St. Petersburg State University and a Chief Researcher of the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (diploma in Dynamics and Strength of Machines). In 1994, he defended his Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics. In May 2006, he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His scientific interests include wave dynamics, dynamic problems of coupled processes in continuum mechanics, wave and diffusion processes in multi-component media, contact interaction of bodies with va