INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONTACTS

 

The Institute conducts the international scientific and technological cooperation with the leading international scientific organizations and research institutes in the framework of the development of scientific activities.  For this purpose, modern forms and methods of such cooperation are used: participation in the work of international scientific organizations;  agreements and protocols of cooperation with foreign partners;  grants for joint research activities;  publication of manuscripts in the international journals;  participation in the work of international scientific forums and seminars, working groups;  exchange of scientific and technical information.

 

1.     Participation in the work of international scientific organizations.

 

The Institute is a member of the following scientific organizations:

 - International Society for Condition Monitoring (ISCM) (United Kingdom), in the status of the member of cooperation No. LM0021 (Liaison Member No. LM0021), which is confirmed by the Certificate;

 - International Institute of Vibration and Acoustics (USA);

 - Guangdong Union for International Scientific and Technical Cooperation with CIS countries (PRC).

 

The leading scientists of the Institute are the members of international scientific organizations:

 - European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) - V.T.Troshchenko, Acad. of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, V.V.Matveev, Acad. of the NAS of Ukraine, V.V.Kharchenko, Acad. of the NAS of Ukraine, V.O. Stryzhalo, Corr. Mem. of the NAS of Ukraine;

 - the National Council of Ukraine for Machine Science, which is part of the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms - V.V. Matveev, Acad. of the NAS of Ukraine, V.O. Stryzhalo,  Corr. Mem. of the NAS of Ukraine, A.P. Zinkovskii, Professor.

 - Technical Committee "Reliability of Machines and Mechanisms", which is part of the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms -  G.V. Tsyban'ov, Dr. Tech. Sci.;

 - American Chemical Society (ACS) - G.A. Gogotsi (Dr. Tech.Sci.);

 - Honorary Professor of the Northwestern Polytechnic University (Xian, China) - B.A. Lyashenko, (Dr. Tech.Sci.).

 

Scientists of the Institute are the members of the editorial boards of foreign scientific and technical journals:

 - Structural Integrity (Emerald Publishing, UK) - V.T Troshchenko, Acad.  of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;

 - Mechanics (Lithuania) - V.T Troshchenko, Acad.  of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;

 - Material Science and Technology (Bulgaria) - V.T Troshchenko, Acad.  of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;

 - Mechanics of machines, mechanisms and materials (Republic of Belarus) - V.T Troshchenko, Acad.  of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;

 - News of universities.  Nuclear Power Engineering (RF) - V.V. Kharchenko,  Acad.  of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

 

2.           Agreements and protocols on cooperation with foreign institutions:

·        UK - The University of Manchester and Wessex Institute of Technology;

·        Germany - Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation;

·        Poland Air Force Institute of Technology), Szewalski Institute of  Fluid-Flow Machinery of the PAS and Bialystok University of Technology;

·        Czech Republic –ÚJV Řež, a. s. and Іnstitute of Thermomechanics of Sciences of the Czech Republic;

·        Hungary - Bаy Zoltan Institute for Logistics and Production Engineering;

·        Croatia - Croatian Metallurgical Society; 

·        Bulgaria - Institute of Metal Science of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;

·        Japan - National Institute of Materials Science;

·        PRC Institute for Materials and Metals Research  Academy of Sciences of the People's Republic of China), Northwestern Polytechnic University and Northwest Research Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals;

·        India - “Bangalore Integrated System Solution (P) Ltd.” (BISS);

·        Lithuania - Kaunas University of  Technology;

·        Belorussia - Institute of Machine Reliability of the NAS of Belorussia. 

 

3. Participation in the implementation of international projects.

 

 By the decision of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Institute has been designated as the executor of a number of pilot projects under the working package No. 3 "EU-UA aviation research knowledge transfer pilot projects" AERO-UA EU program Horizons  2020 (Horizon 2020) aimed at the strategic target support for Ukraine-EU cooperation in the field of aviation, in which the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is a member of the consortium.

At present, foreign participants - partners of the AERO-UA project have identified the Institute as the executor of the following pilot projects under Work Package No. 3:

  - 3.2a "Engine health management system", the leader is TECPAR member ITWL (Poland);

  - 3.3a "Manufacturing joints", the leader is the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (Germany);

 - 3.3b "Manufacturing Aerospace Composite Structures", the leader is the University of Manchester (United Kingdom).

 

3.     Publishing activities, exchange of scientific and technical information and participation in the work of international scientific forums.

The Institute publishes (since 1969) the International Scientific and Technical Journal "Problems of Strength" having six issues per year with a circulation of 320 copies.  The journal is translated into English under the title "Strength of materials" and is published in the US by the Springer publishing house. It is in the international science and technology databases Web of Science and Scopus and has an impact factor of 0.522 for 2017 and takes the 8th place among scientific and technical journals of Ukraine.
The Institute exchanges scientific and technical publications (monographs, journals, preprints, copies of articles, leaflets) constantly with cooperation organizations and individual scholars from different countries, in particular, Bulgaria, UK, PRC, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, USA, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, India, and Japan.
 The exchange of scientific and technical information is facilitated by visits of foreign scientists to the Institute:
 

 

Year Number of scientists
Country
1
2
3
2010
18
USA, UK, Hungary, India, Netherlands, Poland, France, Czech Republic, Latvia, Germany
2011
6
PRC, New Zeeland, Germany, Czech Republic
2012
20
Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain, USA, PRC, Japan
2013
11
Austria, Czech Republic, India, PRC, USA
2014
1
Czech Republic
2015
9
USA, Czech Republic, Turkey, India
2016
7
Germany, UK, Czech Republic, Bulgaria
2017
3
Poland, UK, PRC
2018
8
Poland, India, PRC
 

The publishing activities of the Institute scientists in the foreign journals and participation in the international scientific forums:

 

 

Year 
Number of manuscripts Participation in the international forums
    Number of scientists
Country
1
2
3
4
2010
21
4
Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Canada, Croatia
2011
20
4
Austria, Czech Republic, Brazil, Russia
2012
18
4
Russia, Poland, Croatia, Turkey
2013
22
4
Lithuania, Czech Republic, Netherlands
2014
17
8
Norway, Croatia, Korea, USA, PRC, Germany
2015
17
2
PRC, France
2016
15
7
Greece, Canada, PRC
2017
11
3
Canada, Poland, Germany, PRC
2018
 
5
Japan, PRC, UK