Advances in Solid and Fracture Mechanics: A Liber Amicorum to Celebrate the Birthday of Nikita Morozov [Hardcover]

This book presents a collection of articles reporting the current challenges in solid and fracture mechanics. The book is devoted to the 90th birthday of academician Nikita F. Morozova well-known specialist in the field of solid and fracture mechanics.

1. Introduction.- 2. Solid Mechanics.- 3. Fracture Mechanics. 4. The contributions of academician Morozov.- 5. Free Vibrations of a Cylindrical Shell Closed with the Cap.- 6. Indentation of an Absolutely Rigid Thin Inclusion into One of the Crack Faces in an Elastic Plane Under Slippage at the Ends.

Prof. Dr.-Ing.habil. Dr.h.c.mult. Holm Altenbach is Member of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics and the International Research Center on Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (M&MoCS), Italy. He has held positions at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universit?t, Magdeburg, and Martin-Luther-Universit?t Halle-Wittenberg, both in Germany. He graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1980 (diploma in Dynamics and Strength of Machines) and was awarded his Ph.D. degree in 1983 and his Doctor of Technical Sciences degree in 1987 at the same Institute.

He is currently Full Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universit?t Magdeburg, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Mechanics (since 2011), where he has been Acting Director from 2015 till 2022. His areas of scientific interest include General theory of elastic and inelastic plates and shells; Creep anddamage mechanics; Strength theories; and Nano- and micromechanics. In 2019, he was elected as Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 2021 of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. 

Prof. Svetlana M. Bauer is professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Faculty oló-