2 Timiryazevska St., 01014, Kyiv, Ukraine

Phone: (044) 286 1687; fax: (044) 286 1684;
e-mail: ips@ipp.kiev.ua;
http://www.ipp.kiev.ua

The main lines of research:

– ultimate state and strength criteria of materials and structures;

– calculation and experimental methods to investigate the stress-strain state;

– fracture mechanics and life of structures with cracks;

– vibrations of nonconservative mechanical systems.

The Institute has the following science schools:

– constitutive equations and strength criteria of materials;

– fatigue and fracture of materials;

– vibrations of nonconservative mechanical systems and wave processes.

The list of R&D projects proposed for cooperative commercialization:

– scientific approaches to the evaluation of the ultimate state and service life of structural elements of various applications, including the equipment and facilities for nuclear and thermal power plants, oil refining and petrochemical industries, main pipelines and transport, taking into account manufacturing and in-service defects as well as justification of methods for extending their service life;

– ultimate state criteria for materials under extreme service conditions with consideration for the effect of high and low temperatures, complex stress state, variable loading regimes, cyclic and impulse loading, neutron radiation, the presence of manufacturing and in-service defects and other factors, which are the basis of the methods for strength and life evaluation for highly-stressed structural elements of advanced engineering equipment;

– a method for increasing allowable stresses in order to reduce material consumption of metallic structures, based on consideration of the low-temperature and strain hardening of metals;

– a thermal pre-stressing technology for pressure vessels of nuclear power reactors of VVER type;

– software-expert system of strength analysis for geometrically and physically nonlinear framed structures, computer programs for determining the stress-strain and ultimate states of main pipelines, including those in the regions of potential landslide hazard, undermined mine-workings, swampy and slightly freezing soil and rock;

– a method to systematize available experimental data, permitting the development of principles of long-term strength prediction for metallic materials and a dramatic improvement in the efficiency of the use of available experimental data for predicting residual life of the components of thermal power plants being in operation for over 300 thousand hours;

– a method to predict dynamic stability of compressor blades against subsonic cascade flutter in a wide range of blade and flow parameters at an early stage of designing and operational development of gas turbine engines, which offers the possibility to design structures with optimum mass and geometrical characteristics in terms of preventing subsonic cascade flutter.