Fracture of Materials Under Compression Along Cracks

Preliminary Consideration: Background, Approaches and their Analysis.- Main Principles of Fracture Mechanics of Materials loaded along Cracks.- Two-Dimensional Problems on Fracture of Bodies under Compression along Cracks.- Three-Dimensional Problems on Loading Bodies along Cracks.- Evaluating the Applicability Limits of the Beam Approximation in Analysis of the Problems on Compression of Bodies along Cracks.

A lexander N. Guz was born on January 29, 1939, in Ichnia of Chernigov region of Ukraine and graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Kyiv State University in 1961. He is working at the S.P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics of the NASU (the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) since 1960, receiving an appointment as Head of the Department of Dynamics and Stability of Continuum Media (1967) and serving as Director of the S.P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics of the NASU (from 1976 until present).

He received the Candidate of Sciences degree (Ph.D.) (1962) and the Doctor of Sciences degree (1965). He was named Professor (1969).

He is Academician of the NASU (1978), Member of the Academia Europaea (1992), Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences (1997), Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (2001), Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2002).

His principal scientific results have been obtained in mechanics of deformable solids and related problems of continuum mechanics: the three-dimensional theory of stability of deformable bodies, the theory of propagation and diffraction of elastic waves in multi-connected bodies and bodies with initial stresses, stress concentration around holes in shells, mechanics of composites materials and structural members utilizing them, aerohydroelasticity, non-classical problems of fracture mechanics, rock mechanics, dynamics of viscous compressible liquid, contact problems, mechanics of nanocomposites and non-destructive methods of stress determination.

He is the author or co-author of 71 books (including 20 solos) and about 1000 scientific papers (including more than 400 solo). He has trained 36 Doctors and about 100 Candidates of Sciences.