The author:Leonid Borisovich Getsov - Chief Researcher at the Central Boiler and Turbine Institute. In 1953 he graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and at the same time Faculty of Physics, Leningrad University, defended his Ph.D. thesis. in 1962. Then he was approved in the rank of senior researcher in the specialty "metallurgy and heat treatment of metals" in 1966. In 1979 he defended his doctoral dissertation Dr of science. Has 65 years of experience in production engineering, research and teaching, including 20 years in higher educational institutions.The Editors and Translators:Holm Altenbach is Full Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Mechanics (since 2011), and has been acting as Director of the Institute of Mechanics since 2015.
Konstantin Naumenko is Professor at the Institute of Mechanics, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. Konstantin does research in Structural Mechanics, Materials Modeling and Mechanical Engineering.