This volume “Stability Problems in Mechanics of Continua” is dedicated to the 60th birthday of Prof. DSc. Dmitri Vladimirovich Georgievskii, who has devoted much of his academic career to continuum mechanics, its applications and related fields. The honoree has numerous friends and colleagues in the Russian Federation and abroad, resulting in 37 contributions. Modern problems of continuum mechanics (in general, including thermodynamics), mechanics of deformable solids, aero- and hydroelasticity, wave dynamics, composite mechanics, and computational aspects are presented in different manner and notations. The main focus in many of the articles will be on the stability of deformation and flow processes. However, the concept of "stability" is quite general, and it requires clarification in each application. This includes formulating a definition of the main (unperturbed) process, introducing mathematical models of disturbances, and measures by which both initial and ongoing disturbances are assessed.
Holm Altenbach (born May 8, 1956) is a member of the International Research Center on Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (M&MoCS), Italy, and International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM). In 1996, he was appointed as a full professor (Engineering Mechanics) at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and since 2011, he has been a full professor at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. He graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1980 (diploma with a distinction), defended his Ph.D. and obtained his postgraduate degree (habilitation) from the same university in 1983 and 1987, respectively. His areas of scientific interest are theory of plates and shells with applications, continuum mechanics and material modeling, generalized media, sandwiches and laminates. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics/Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (the oldest journal in mechanics in Germany) and of Springer’s Advanced Structured Materials series. He was awarded the Polish Humboldt Prize in 2018. In November 2019, he was elected as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in May 2021 as a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since October 1st, 2022, he is retired. In 2024 he was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the RAS.
Dmitriy S. Lisovenko (born 1981) is a professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He studied from 1998 until 2003 at the Russian State University of Aviation Technology. He passed a postgraduate program at Institute for Problems in Mechanics RAS (2003-2007). In 2010, he obtained his Ph.D. at Institute for Problems in Mechanics RAS and in 2019 he was awarded “Dr. of Sciences) at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics RAS with a thesis "Auxetic Mechanics of Isotropic Materials, Crystals, and Anisotropic Composites". In 2025, he was elected as Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2019). He is a Head of Laboratory "Mechanics of New Materials and Technologies" at Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics (RAS.
Sergey Albertovich Lurie (born June 9, 1948) is a Soviet and Russian mechanical engineer and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2025). In 1972, he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI); in 1975, he completed his postgraduate studies at Moscow State University (MSU). In 1975, he defended his candidate’s dissertation (Ph.D.), and in 1986, his doctoral dissertation, on the topic “Two-dimensional problems of the theory of elasticity of orthotropic bodies”. He works at the Institute of Applied Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) as a senior research fellow and head of the Laboratory of Nonclassical Models of Composite Materials and Structures. He is also a professor at Department 602 of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), and since 2017, a professor at Moscow State University (MSU). In 2025, he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) from the Division of Energy, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics, and Control Processes. He is a member of the National Committee on Mechanics of the Russian Federation.
Alexander Ovanesovich Vatulyan (born October 8, 1953) is a Soviet and Russian scientist in the fields of mechanics of deformable solids, elasticity theory, and theoretical and applied mechanics. He was awarded Ph.D. (1978) and Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1993) and appointed professor (1995). He is the head of the Department of Elasticity Theory at Southern Federal University in Rostov-on-Don, as well as the head of the Department of Differential Equations at the Southern Mathematical Institute in Vladikavkaz. He was appointed as Soros Professor of Mathematics (1997, 1998, 2000).
