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Professor Holm Altenbach

Mechanical Engineering
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

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Prof. Holm Altenbach

Academic History/Honors:
1974 - 1980 Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Physics and Mechanics
1980 Diploma (approx MSc.) In "Dynamics and Strength of Machines¿ (Diploma Thesis: Stability of a Three-layered Strip, Final Grade: With distinction)
1980 - 1995 Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg: Assistant, Senior Assistant
1983 Leningrad Polytechnic Institute: Candidate of Engineering Sciences (Dr.-Ing, PhD approx..) - A Timoshenko-type theory for inhomogeneous in the Thickness Direction Elastic Shells (supervisor Prof. Dr. VA Pal'mov)
1984 Facultas docendi in "Engineering Mechanics¿ at the Magdeburg University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
1987 Leningrad Polytechnic Institute Doctor of Engineering Sciences (Dr.sc.techn, habilitation.) - The Direct Approach in the Theory of Viscoelastic Shells
1992 Krupp Award (Visiting Scientist at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Faculty of Civil Engineering)
1993 Private docent (approx. Lecturer) at the University of Magdeburg in Mechanics of Materials
1995 Appointment at the Lausanne Polytechnic (Switzerland) - Professorship in Structural Mechanics
1995 Extraordinary Professor at the University of Magdeburg
1995 Appointment at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg - Professorship in Engineering Mechanics
1991 - 1996 Visiting Professor at the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine, 1991, 1996), at the University of Technology in Bratislava (1993, Slovakia) and at the University of Technology Riga (1995, Latvia)
1996 - 2011 Full Professor (C4) at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
1997 - 1998 Acting Director of the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
1998 - 2000 Vice-dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
2000 - 2006 Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences
2006 - 2011 Acting Director of the Centre of Engineering Sciences (Which has a Faculty status)
2003 Gold Medal of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (University of Technology Lublin)
2004 - 2015 Managing Editor of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (ZAMM)
2004 Semko Medal (Kharkov State University of Technology)
2005 - to date Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
2008 Doctor honoris causa (Dr.hc) at the National Technical University "Kharkov Polytechnic Institute¿
2011- to date Advisory Editor of the journal Mechanics of Composite Materials
2011 - to date Full Professor (C4) at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
2011 Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences (visiting scientist at Nagoya university)
2014 Doctor honoris causa (Dr.hc) at the Ovidius University Constanta (Romania)
2015 - to date Acting Director of the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
2015 - to date Associate Editor of the journal Mechanics of Composite Materials
2016 Doctor honoris causa (Dr.hc) at the Vekua Institute, University Tbilisi (Georgia)

Selected Publications:
Books:
Theories of plates and shells: critical review and new applications, edited by Reinhold Kienzler, Holm Altenbach and Ingrid Ott, 2004, Springer, ISBN 3-540-20997-2
K. Naumenko and H. Altenbach, Modeling of Creep for Structural Analysis (Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2007).
Holm Altenbach and Victor A. Eremeyev (editors), Shell-like structures: Non-classical theories and applications (Google eBook), Springer, 2011, 750 pages
Holm Altenbach and Gennadi Mikhasev (Editors), Shell and Membrane Theories in Mechanics and Biology: from Macro- to Nanoscale Structures, Springer, 2014, 321 pages

Journal Articles:

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