Vladislav A. Kucher

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.: +7-812-4925583; Fax: +7-812-3214771
E-mail: kucher-va at yandex dot ru



Education

2001 - 2003	University of California, San Diego Department of Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics
1992 - 1998	St. Petersburg State Technical University, Russia Department of Physics and Mechanics M.S. in Mechanics

Research Interests

Calculus of Variations, Nonlinear and Linear Elasticity, Discrete Models in Solid Mechanics
Research Experience
10/2004- present	Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering Russian Academy of Sciences Laboratory of Mathematical Methods in Mechanics of Materials Researcher
02/2008- 09/2008, 10/2009- 01/2010	École Polytechnique, Palaiseau Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides Postdoc
11/2008-07/2009	Temple University, Philadelphia Department of Mathematics Visiting Assistant Professor
09/2001-09/2002 04/2000 -06/2000	University of California, San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Research Assistant Visitor
Teaching Experience
09/2004- present	Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering Department of Mechanics Senior Lecturer
11/2008-07/2009	Temple University, Philadelphia Department of Mathematics Visiting Assistant Professor
09/2004-01/2008	St. Petersburg State Technical University Department of Mathematics Senior Lecturer
09/2002-06/2003	University of California, San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Teaching Assistant
Publications
1. A.B. Freidin, V.A. Kucher. Solvability of the equivalent inclusion problem for an ellipsoidal inhomogeneity. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 2016, 21(2): 255-262.
   DOI
2. Y. Grabovsky , V.A. Kucher, L. Truskinovsky. Weak variations of Lipschitz graphs and stability of phase boundaries. Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 23(2011), 87-123
   DOI: 10.1007/s00161-010-0171-8
3. Kucher V.A., Markenscoff X., Paukshto M. Some properties of the boundary value problem of linear elasticity in terms of stresses. Journal of Elasticity, 74 (2004), 135-145
   DOI: 10.1023/B:ELAS.0000033858.20307.d8
4. Kucher V.A., Markenscoff X., Paukshto M. The (-1) Cosserat eigenfunctions for spherical geometry with application to poroelasticity. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 9 (2004), 399-410
   DOI: 10.1177/1081286504033006
5. Kucher V.A., Markenscoff X. The Cosserat eigenfunctions for the elliptic exterior problem with applications to thermoelasticity and Stokes flow. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (ZAMP), 55 (2004), 1065-1073
   DOI: 10.1007/s00033-004-3022-2
6. Kucher V.A., Osmolovskii V.G. Computation of the second variation of the energy functional of a two-phase medium. Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 106 (2001) no3, 2929-2951
   DOI: 10.1023/A:1011363304028
7. Kucher V.A., Pupyrev V.A. Integral equations for the Saint-Venant problem and the antiplane strain problem. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PMM), 66 (2002), 465-469
   DOI: 10.1016/S0021-8928(02)00055-2