Sergei Vladimirovich Serensen

Sergei Vladimirovich Sorensen ( Russian Сергей Владимирович Серенсен , Ukrainian Сергій Володимирович Серенсен Serhiy Wolodymyrowytsch Sorensen * 29. August 1905 in Khabarovsk , † 2. May 1977 in Moscow ) was a Ukrainian - Soviet engineer and materials scientist.

Serensen studied at the Industrial Institute in Kiev (later Polytechnic ) with his degree in 1926 and then wanted to become a professor of agricultural mechanical engineering, for which he wrote a dissertation on anisotropic beam grids in 1929. From 1928 to 1934 he was an assistant at the Institute for Structural Mechanics (ISMAN) of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences , became deputy director in 1934 and director of the institute in 1936. From 1940 he headed the material fatigue department and the material laboratories of a machine factory in Ufa. He then worked until 1967 at the Baranov Institute for Aircraft Engines in the fields of fatigue and thermodynamics of machines. Most recently he was in a laboratory for fatigue of materials and thermomechanics of machines of the Institute for Machine Control of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

He also taught at the Chair of Strength of Materials at the Kiev Polytechnic and from 1943 at the Moscow Aircraft Technology Institute.

Serensen dealt with strength theory, especially the fatigue strength and fatigue of materials

In 1949 he received the State Prize of the USSR and in 1965 he received an honorary doctorate from the TH Prague.

In 1936 he became a corresponding and in 1939 full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, pp. 1061f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .

Fonts

• Selected works (Russian), 3 volumes, Kiev: Dumka 1985