ANNIVERSARIES AND DATES

VLADIMIF~ VASIL'EVICH BOLOTIN (ON HIS 50th BIRTHDAY)

March 29, 1976, marked the 50th bir thday of Vladimir Vas i l ' ev ich Bolotin, Associa te Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, who has spent 25 y e a r s in sc ient i f ic , pedagogic, and social activity.

V. V. Bolotin has made a substant ia l contribution to many branches of mechanics : shell theory, osc i l l a - tion theory , ae roe las t i c i ty theory , re l iabi l i ty theory, the mechanics of p o l y m e r s , and the theory of composi te m a t e r i a l s . He is one of the leading sc ien t i s t s of the Soviet Union. His works have received internat ional a c - c la im and have been t rans la ted into many languages. Bolotin par t ic ipated in many internat ional c o n g r e s s e s , conferences , and symposia . He was awarded an honorary doctora te f rom Budapest Technica l Universi ty.

In 1948 t3olotin graduated f rom the Moscow Insti tute of T r a n s p o r t Engineers ; in 1950 he became a can - 5idate and received his doc tora te in 1952.

Bolotin has been a p r o f e s s o r since 1953, and since 1958 he has held the cha i r in dynamics and the strength of machines in the Lenin Energy Institute in Moscow.

In 1974 Bolotin was elected a~ associate member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the specialty of mechanics.

Bolotin is the author of over 250 scientific works on oscillation theory, elasticity theory of plates and shells, structc~ral mechanics, and reliability theory, among them a number of monographs [1-6].

An impo~Xant part of ]3olotin's work was devoted to the theory of the reliability of mechanical systems, Lhe statistical theory of rupture, the mechanics of composite materials, the theory of viscoelastic media of variable structure, the parametric oscillations of elastic systems, aeroelasticity theory, asymptotic methods [n the theory of the oscillations of elastic bodies, the problem of "acoustic fatigue," and also the theory of diagnostics and forecasting of the reliability of systems.

Bolotin also helped create a scientific collective at the Lenin Energy Institute which carried out research for the Scientific-Research Institute in a number of branches of industry and technology. Among his students are six doctor,~ and 50 candidates of science.

V. V. Bolotin is also an efficient administrator and organizer. He has served as a member of the Nation- al Committee of the USSR in theoretical and applied mechanics, the Scientific Council on Problems of Strength and Plasticity, the All-Union Council of Scientific Societies, the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Scientific and Technical Society of the construction industry. He is also a director of the section on structural

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mechan ics in this commi t t ee , and a cha i rman of the sect ion of the Scientific and Technologica l Council of the State Cons t ruc t ion Indust ry of the USSR. He is a m e m b e r of the ed i tor ia l board of "Mechanics of Solids," "S t ruc tu ra l Mechanics and the Design of S t ruc tu re s , " and the "Internat ional Journa l of the Mechanics of Solids and S t r u c t u r e s . "

Bolotin devotes much attention to improving the cu r r i cu lum for eng ineers in the nation. He is the c h a i r - man of the commi t t ee for the p repa ra t ion of spec ia l i s t s and the improving of s tandards in the All-Union Council of Scientific Engineer ing and Techn ica l Societ ies . Bolotin a lso r e p r e s e n t s the USSR in the commi t t ee on en- g ineer ing education of the In ternat ional Fede ra t ion of Engineer ing Societies and pa r t i c ipa tes in a UNESCO group working on cu r r i cu lum for engineer ing training. Bolotin has done much in this a r e a to modernize c u r - r icu la and to incorpora te p r o g r e s s i v e methods into the p r o c e s s of t ra ining scientif ic spec ia l i s t s .

Bolotin was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Red Banner of Labor.

Bolotin c e l e b r a t e s his b i r thday in the bloom of his c r ea t i ve e f for t s and full of new plans.

The ed i to r ia l board wishes to hear t i ly congra tu la te V. V. Bolotin on his bir thday and a lso wishes him future success in his wide- rang ing act ivi t ies .

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W O R K S OF V. V. B O L O T I N

Dynamic Stability of Elas t ic Sys tems [in Russian] , Gostekhizdat , Moscow (1956). Nonconserva t ive P r o b l e m s of the Theory of Elas t ic i ty and Elas t ic Stability [in Russian] . F izmatg iz , Moscow (1961). Sta t is t ical Methods in S t ruc tura l Mechanics , Holden-Day, San F r a n c i s c o (1969). Con tempora ry P r o b l e m s in St ruc tura l Mechanics [in Russian] , Stroi izdat , Moscow (1964). Coauthors: I. I. Gol 'denbla t and A. F. Smirnov. Applicat ion of the Methods of Rel iabi l i ty Theory and Probabi l i ty Theory in the Design of St ruc tures [in Russ ian] , St roi izdat , Moscow (1971). S t ruc tura l Mechanics. Con tempora ry State and P r o s p e c t s of Development [in Russian] , Stroi izdat , Mos- cow (1972). Coauthors : I. I. Gol 'denblat and A. F, Smirnov.

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