Elena N. Vilchevskaya

Office Address

Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering
Russian Academy of Sciences (IPME RAS)

V.O., Bol'shoy Pr., 61, St.Petersburg 199178, Russia
Tel.: +7-812-3214780; Fax: +7-812-3214771
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Work Experience

2011 - Present	Scientific Secretary, IPME RAS
1997 - Present	Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Mathematical Methods in Mechanics of Materials , IPME RAS
2003 - Present	Associate Professor of the Department of Physics and Mechanics St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University
2003 - 2010	Associate Professor of the Department of Mathematics St. Petersburg State Academy of Service and Economics
1990 -1997	Researcher, Laboratory of Mathematical Models of Mechanics (chaired by Prof. V.G.Mazja), IPME RAS

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., Physics and Mathematics, 1996
  Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences. St. Petersburg, Russia
  Thesis: Calculation of the elastic stress fields in the neighborhood of thin inclusions and cracks
• M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Diploma with honors, 1990
  Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (now St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University)
  Department of Physics and Mechanics

Research Interests

Mechanics of materials with variable microstructures, stress-induced phase transformations, non-linear elasticity, mechanisms of plasticity and fracture

Applications: Martensite plasticity, localization of strains in polymers, shape memory effects, crazes and shear bands in polymer and composites.

Grants and Projects

• Statement and solution of coupled mechanochemistry problems, 2013 - 2015 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 16-01-00815)
• Fracture of the contact surfaces of ceramic tribosystems 2003-2015 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 13-08-00553)
• Kinetics of phase and chemical transformations in deformable materials , 2010-2012 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 10-01-00670)
• Modelling the influence of mechanical factors on growth and fracture of bones, 2009-2011 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 09-01-00849)
• New phase areas nucleation and development under thermal and load action on deformable solids 2007-2009 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 07-01-00525)
• Modeling the effects of mechanics and chemistry on materialdamage and failure, 2006-2008 (Sandia National Laboratories, Contract 499338)
• Influence of phase transformations on deformation, stability and fracture of elastic solids, 2004-2006 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 05-01-08006)
• Research of the interrelation between accumulation kinetics of hydrogen and strength-deformation properties of materials at static and dynamic loadings. The theory and experiment 2005 - 2007 ((Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 05-08-65427)
• Theoretical and experimental studies of damage in relation with defects and phase transformations, 2003-2011 (Fundamental Research Program of RAS)
• Mechanics of phase and structure transformations in multi-phase deformable medium, 2003-2007 (Fundamental Research Program of RAS)
• Mechanics of phase and structural transitions in multi-component deformable medium, 2002-2004 (Russian Ministry of Industry and Sciences, № 40.010.1 1.1195)
• Phase transitions under static and dynamic loading of solids, 2002-2004 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 01-01-00324)
• Phase transition zones and phase boundaries evolution under the process of deformation and fracture of solids, 1998-2000 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 98-01-01054)
• Integration Grants 2003, 2004
• Deformations and stresses in hollow polymer particles on the stage of swelling, 2001

Selected Publications

1. Alexander B. Freidin, Igor K. Korolev, Sergey P. Aleshchenko, Elena N. Vilchevskaya. Chemical affinity tensor and chemical reaction front propagation: theory and FE-simulations. Int J Fract, 2016, 202(2):245-259. doi
2. Ivanova, E.A. & Vilchevskaya, E.N. Micropolar continuum in spatial description Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. (2016) 28: 1759. doi
3. OV Brazgina, EA Ivanova, EN Vilchevskaya Saturated porous continua in the frame of hybrid description. Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 28 (5), 1553-1581 doi
4. E Vilchevskaya, I Sevostianov. Overall thermal conductivity of a fiber reinforced composite with partially debonded inhomogeneities. International Journal of Engineering Science 98, 99-109 doi
5. EA Ivanova, EN Vilchevskaya, WH Muller Time Derivatives in Material and Spatial Description-What Are the Differences and Why Do They Concern Us? Advanced Methods of Continuum Mechanics for Materials and Structures, 3-28 doi
6. WH Muller, EN Vilchevskaya A Closed-Form Solution for a Linear Viscoelastic Self-gravitating Sphere Advanced Methods of Continuum Mechanics for Materials and Structures, 79-101 doi
7. Alexander B. Freidin, Elena N. Vilchevskaya, Leah L. Sharipova, Igor K. Korolev, Sergey P. Aleschenko, and Svetlana E. Petrenko. Chemical affinity tensor and kinetics of stress-assisted chemical reaction front. 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Book of papers. p. 2396-2397. www.ictam2016.org (The content of this book is available electronically only and will be archived on the IUTAM permanent site as follows: ISBN: NR16-127/2016E-EPUB. Catalogue Number: 978-0-660-05459-9)
8. E Vilchevskaya, I Sevostianov. Effective elastic properties of a particulate composite with transversely-isotropic matrix. International Journal of Engineering Science 94, 139-149 doi
9. A. Freidin, N. Morozov, S. Petrenko, E. Vilchevskaya. Chemical reactions in spherically symmetric problems of mechanochemistry. Acta Mech., 2016, 227(1):43-56 doi
10. W.H. Muller, E.N. Vilchevskaya, A.B. Freidin. Structural Changes in Micro-Materials: Phenomenology, Theory, Applications, And Simulations. Tbilisi International Centre of Mathematics and Informatics. Lecture Notes of TICMI. Tbilisi. Volume 16, 2015, 74 pp. http://www.viam.science.tsu.ge/others/ticmi/lnt/lecturen.htm
11. E. Vilchevskaya, A. Freidin, N. Morozov. Kinetics of the chemical reaction front in spherically symmetric problems of mechanochevestry. Doklady Physics, 2015 60(4):175-179 (translated from Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2015, 461(5):525-529) doi , In Russian
12. Vilchevskaya, E.N., Filippov, R.A., Freidin, A.B. On transient layers as new phase domains in composite materials. // Mechanics of Solids, 2013, 48 (1) , pp. 92-118 doi
13. Elena N. Vilchevskaya, Elena A. Ivanova, Holm Altenbach. Description of liquid-gas phase transition in the frame of continuum mechanics. // Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. April, 2013 doi
14. E.N. Vilchevskaya, AB Freidin, On kinetics of chemical reaction fronts in elastic solids. // Surface Effects in Solid Mechanics, H. Altenbach and N. F. Morozov (eds.), Advanced Structured Materials. 2013. V.30. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. P. 105-117. doi
15. Ivanova, E., Vilchevskaya, E. Description of thermal and micro- structural processes in generalized continua: Zhilin's method and its modifications. In: Altenbach, H., Forest, S., Krivtsov, A.M. (eds.) Generalized Continua as Models for Materials, pp.179-197. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013).
16. Фрейдин А. Б., Морозов Н. Ф., Вильчевская Е. Н. Моделирование фронтов химических реакций в деформируемых телах. Вiсник Киiвського нацiонального унiвекрситету iменi Тараса Шевченка. 2013. 3:38-41.
17. Freidin, A.B., Filippov, R.A., Hussainova, I., Vilchevskaya, E.N. Critical radius in the effect of strains formation toughening of zirconia doped ceramics and cermets. // Key Engineering Materials, 2012 527 , pp. 68-73 doi
18. R.A. Filippov, A.B. Freidin, E.N. Vilchevskaya. On new phase intermediate layers in nanocomposites as a source of increasing the elastic moduli// Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics. (2011) 2(2), p. 107-118. pdf
19. E.N. Vilchevskaya, A.B. Freidin, I.K. Korolev. On Phase Transitions in a Domain of Material Inhomogeneity. II. Interaction of a Crack with an Inclusion Experiencing a Phase Transition// Mechanics of Solids. (2011) No. 5, p. 683-691. doi
20. A.B. Freidin, E.N. Vilchevskaya. Multiple development of new phase inclusions in elastic solids// International Journal of Engineering Science (2009) 47 p. 240 - 260. doi
21. E.N.Vilchevskaya, A.B.Freidin. On phase transformations in a material inhomogeneity. P.1. A phase-transforming inclusion in a uniform external field// Izvestia RAN, Mekhanika Tverdogo Tela (2007) 5, p.208 - 228. (Mechanics of Solids 42, № 5, p.823-840) doi
22. A.B.Freidin, Y.B.Fu, L.L.Sharipova, E.N.Vilchevskaya. Shperically symmetric two-phase deformations and phase transition zones// International Journal of Solids and Structures, (2006) 43, p.4484 - 4508. pdf, doi
23. A.B. Freidin, E.N. Vilchevskaya Multiple appearances of new phase ellipsoidal nuclei // Doklady Akademii Nauk, (2006) 411, № 6, p.770 - 774, (Doklady Physics v.51, 12, p.692-696). doi
24. Alexander B. Freidin, Elena N. Vilchevskaya. On initial state of stress induced phase transformation due to multiple appearance of new phase ellipsoidal nuclei// Proceedings of the XXXIII Summer School Advanced Problems in Mechanics. (2006) p.311 - 317
25. A.B.Freidin, E.N.Vilchevskaya, L.L. Sharipova. Two-phase deformations of solids. Vol.22. Models in Continuum Mechanics. The lections of XVII session of the International school of models in continuum mechanics (Russia, Kazan), (2004), 162 - 200. (In Russian) pdf
26. A.B.Freidin, L.L Sharipova, E.N. Vilchevskaya. Phase transition zones in relation with constitutive equations of elastic solids // Proc. XXXII Summer School APM-2004, IPME RAS, St. Petersburg, (2004) 140 - 150. pdf
27. E.Vilchevskaya, A.Freidin. On phase transformations of an inclusion in an external strain field // Proc. XXXII Summer School APM-2004, IPME RAS, St. Petersburg, (2004) p.447 - 454. pdf
28. E.Vilchevskaya, A.Freidin, L. Sharipova. Influence of deformation path on the strain localization due to phase transition // Structure and properties of the perspective materials and alloys: Proceedings of XL International seminar “Actual problem of strength of materials” (30.09-4.10.2002. Vel. Novgorod), Vel. Novgorod, (2003), p.42 - 48 (In Russian).
29. A.B.Freidin, E.N.Vilchevskaya, L.L Sharipova. Two-phase deformations within the framework of phase transition zones // Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Belgrade),(2002), 28 - 29, p.145 - 167. pdf, doi
30. A.B.Freidin, E.N.Vilchevskaya. Phase transition zones for one class of nonlinear elastic materials // Proc. of XXIX Summer School “Advanced Problems in Mechanics”, St. Petersburg, IPME RAS, (2002), p.216 - 221. pdf



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