History of the School

The school emerged when a branch laboratory of non-conventional structure electric machines was set up at the Novosibirsk Electrical Engineering Institute (NETI, now NSTU) in 1967. Prof. V. M. Kazansky, the first Vice-Rector for science and research in NETI, headed the laboratory and he is considered the founder of the school. In the early 1970s, research work on low-speed linear electric motors and general-purpose electric drives with linear electric motors began under the guidance of Prof. V. M. Kazansky. Research into high-torque electric motors and electric drives based on them was initiated by Prof. V. V. Zhulovyan while Prof. A. I. Inkin started investigations into electromagnetic fields and electric machine parameters.

Currently 42 staff members, 2 postdoctoral and 9 doctoral students are involved in doing research within the school.

Main Areas of Research

• Design of low-inertia electric motors with non-magnetic armatures, control systems included

• Development of transformer-type electric heaters

• Elaboration of theoretical principles and designs of low-speed linear induction motors

• Elaboration of theoretical principles and constructions of electric machines used in super high-vacuum systems and aggressive media

• Elaboration of theoretical principles and designs of multi-pole low-speed rotary high-torque motors with compound coil-distributed windings

• Elaboration of theoretical principles, calculation methods and designs of electromechanical energy converters based on magnetic field modulation.

• Development of high-torque electric motors and electric drives based on them

• Elaboration of calculation methods and procedures of electromagnetic parameters of electric machines and mechanisms of various designs and principles of operation

Main Lines of Training

Staff members of the school teach general and specific engineering disciplines, theoretical electrical engineering, general electrical engineering and electromechanics to undergraduate and graduate students specialising in electromechanics as well as postgraduate (doctoral) students majoring in “Eelectromechanics”

Major Results of Research

• Theoretical principles of operation of dc and ac electric machines have been elaborated, new designs and technologies for their quantity production have been proposed.

• Synthesis principles of cascade E-H equivalence circuits for electric machines have been developed.

• Pointing’s theorem corollary related to the circuit approximation of an electromagnetic field has been proved.

• Calculation principles of electric machine slot parameters have been developed.

• Procedures for field calculation in discrete-homogeneous structures based on piecewise continuous eigenfunctions have been proposed.

• The developed electric machines have been used in industrial robot and manipulator systems, among them the marine remote controlled apparatus “MTA-PAPAN”.

• Transformer-type electric heaters having efficiency and cos  close to 1 and power up to 126 kW have been designed and put into production.

• Theoretical principles of layered induction machines based on four-terminal cascade equivalent circuits have been developed.

• Theoretical grounds of low-speed induction motors and non-conventional designs have been proposed.

• Several series of high-torque electric motors that are used in satellite antenna control systems and machinery regulated by cutting off have been developed.

• A set of theoretical and engineering problems related to transmitting mechanical energy into closed technological systems has been solved.

Statistical and Dynamic Strength, Stability and Destruction

of Aircraft and Mechanical Structures

Department of Aircraft Strength and Engineering Mathematics

Leader of the school

Prof. N. V. Pustovoi, D. Sc. (Eng.), First Vice-Rector; head of the department of aircraft strength; Corresponding Member of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science of Higher School; author of over 100 papers including 2 monographs and 5 handbooks. Prof. Pustovoi has supervised research of 2 postdoctoral and 5 doctoral students who successfully defended their theses.

History of the School

The history of the school is closely and inseparably linked with the development of the Siberian Research Institute of Aviation (SibNIIA) named after S. A. Chaplygin and Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now SB RAS). The founder of the school Prof. L. M. Kurshin, D. Sc. (Eng.), Member of the USSR National Committee on theoretical and applied mechanics, was one of the leading experts in the field of strength and stability of aircraft structures. Due to the fast development of aviation in the 1960s and 1970s there was a need for qualified specialists in strength of aircraft structures. To meet this need the department of aircraft strength was set up at the Novosibirsk Electrical Engineering Institute (now NSTU) on the initiative of L. M. Kurshin, with SibNIIA rendering support and assistance in every way. The department began to train engineers in “Dynamics and Strength of Aircraft” and in 1973 the first graduates received their certificates.

Leading scientists and researchers from SibNIIA and SB RAS were involved in research and training students at the department, among them professors D. E. Bryukker, I. G. Kolker, R. E. Lamper, V. N. Maximenko, V. L. Prisekin, V. G. Suvernev, A. N. Seryoznov, B. P. Filimonov and others. In succeeding years the most talented students formed the core of the school.. At the moment the school is successfully developing. The scientists and researchers conduct investigations in such new fields of engineering as procedures of strength calculation of new composite materials, mathematical simulation of test stand systems for automatic stress control, etc. The school maintains close contacts with other research centres of Russian universities and cooperates with academic institutions concerned with the same problems.

Currently, 34 staff members including 4 postdoctoral and 6 doctoral students are conducting research within the school.