Elena N. Vilchevskaya

Office address

Institute of Problems in Mechanical Engineering
V.O., Bol'shoy pr., 61, St.Petersburg 199178, Russia
Tel.: 7 (812) 3214780; Fax: 7 (812) 3214771
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Work experience

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 - present	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 qualification

• Ph.D., Physics and Mathematics, 1996 Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering.
  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 Fields

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

• 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 - 2007 (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. 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.
2. 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)
3. 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
4. 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).
5. 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
6. 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)
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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).
10. 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.
11. 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.