INRTU Associate Professor Denis Elovenko has Completed the Third Internship in Germany
Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering Design and Standardization Denis Elovenko became a prize winner of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) contest "Scientific Internships for Scientists and University Teachers". The lecturer took a month-long research internship at Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg (Germany).
Denis Elovenko was invited to the internship by the famous German professor, foreign corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and UAS Holm Altenbach. In 1980 he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Physics and Mechanics of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (LPI), in 1987 he defended the thesis for a doctor's degree. Currently, Holm Altenbach is a recognized expert in the field of mechanics of materials and structures.
As Denis Elovenko notes, the contest was announced in December 2022 - at that point it was the only active DAAD program aimed at Russian citizens with a PhD or doctoral degree.
"This competition was announced for university professors and employees of research institutes and centers (including the Russian Academy of Sciences) with a PhD or doctoral degree and involved internship in Germany of one to three months.
I submitted a package of documents with a detailed description of the plan of research work, it consists of three independent stages with a three-month implementation period. Upon considering the documents, the committee decided positively on my application, but reduced the internship period from the three months that Professor Altenbach and I had applied for to one month," explained the lecturer.
According to Denis Elovenko, the study and optimization of parameters of the technological process of forming multilayer cylindrical structures - components of many industrial equipment housings - is an urgent problem for machine builders across the globe:
"Computer and mathematical modeling of this process opens up possibilities to control its conditions and technological parameters.
I do believe that our hypothesis about the possibility of studying this process on computer models as one of the ways of predicting residual stresses and deformations in formed structures up to the stage of their subsequent assembly is very promising".
Previously in 2015-2016 and 2019-2020 Denis Elovenko completed two six-month research internships at Chemnitz University of Technology under the DAAD "Mikhail Lomonosov" program, which was reconsidered after the pandemic to be suspended indefinitely in 2022.
The Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering Design and Standardization is involved in international educational programs. Thus, in November, Denis Elovenko is scheduled to hold his course on Tolerances and Change Techniques at Shenyang University of Chemical Technology (Liaoning Province, China).
