Advances in Hydrogen Embrittlement Study

Prof. Dr. Vladimir A. Polyanskiy is the Head of the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Professor of the Higher School of Cyberphysical Systems and Control at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.He is one of the developers of an industrial mass spectrometric hydrogen analyzer and of government reference specimen for calibrating hydrogen analyzers. He is a member of the North-West Branch of the Scientific Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Combustion and Explosion and an expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences.His scientific interests include hydrogen embrittlement, structural strength, metallurgy, physics of the atomic collisions and computational mechanics. Prof. Dr.Sc. Dr.habil. Dr.h.c. Alexander K. Belyaev is the Head of the Mechatronics Laboratory and Chief Researcher of the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at St. Petersburg State University and Professor of the Higher School of Mechanics and Control at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. He has a Honorary Doctorate (d.h.c.) of Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria in 2012, and is a Foreign Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2016. He is a Member of the Council of the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH) and member of IUTAM, as well as Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of Presidium of Russian National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. His scientific interests include high-frequency dynamics of solids and structures, stability of machines and mechanisms, mechatronics.