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National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Igor’ Yakovlevich Amiro, renowned scientist in mechanics, recipient of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, and Doctor of Engineering Sciences, passed away on November 14, 1998 after a long and difficult illness. I. Ya. Amiro began his scientific work as a postgraduate student at the Institute of Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in 1947. He then served as junior and senior research officer at the Institute. In 1962, Amiro organized and headed the Department of Structural Mechanics of Thin-Walled Structures; he served for 15 years as the Institute’s Deputy Director for Scientific Research and in recent years was its leading research officer. The scientific-pedagogical activities of I. Ya. Amiro were linked with the Kiev Institute of Structural Engineering, where he previously studied. He taught classes there as a professor in the Department of Structural Mechanics and served on a special committee that reviewed doctoral dissertations. For many years, he was also a member of a special committee at the Institute of Mechanics which performed the same function. The name of I. Ya. Amiro is widely known among experts in structural mechanics. He published more than 100 scientific treatises, including six monographs examining different problems in the statics, dynamics, and stability of thin-walled structures. He was one of the first scientists to demonstrate the need to account for the discrete location of ribs in the solution of problems on the structural mechanics of shells, and he obtained several important results in investigations of their stability and vibration. In recent years, he was actively studying nonlinear vibrations of shells and made several important discoveries here as well. I. Ya. Amiro established a scientific school, and his adherents - which include one Doctor of Science and 14 Candidates of Science – are making further progress in this area of research. The studies of I. Ya. Amiro in the mechanics of ribbed shells are widely known in this country and abroad. His colleagues were impressed with the creative energy of I. Ya. Amiro, and his broad erudition and professionalism, which were manifested in his work on the dissertation committees and his scientific seminars at the Institute of Mechanics and Kiev Technical University of Construction and Architecture. I. Ya. Amiro was a member of the National Committee of Ukraine for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, a member of the scientific council on problems of the “Mechanics of Deformable Solids” of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and head of the structural mechanics subsection of that council. The editorial board of International Applied Mechanics, of which Igor’ Yakovlevich was an active member for many years, extends its deepest sympathy to his family and friends. (Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 35, No.. 3, p. 112, March 1999)
Selected Publications (for more see the link, Prof. Igor’ Yakovlevich Amiro:
I. Ya. Amiro, “Stability analysis of a ribbed cylindrical shell under longitudinal compression,”Prikl. Mekh.,6, No. 3, 272–281 (1960).
I. Ya. Amiro, “The stability of a ribbed cylindrical shell under longitudinal compression,”Dop. Akad. Nauk Ukrainy, No. 10, 1344–1348 (1960).
I. Ya. Amiro, “Analysis of the ultimate load for ribbed cylindrical shells under the concurrent action of axial forces and internal pressure,”Prikl. Mekh.,7, No. 5, 496–502 (1961).
I. Ya. Amiro, “Stability analysis of a ribbed cylindrical shell under eccentric compression,”Prikl. Mekh.,8, No. 4, 359–367 (1962).
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