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Prof. Vsevolod Ivanovich Feodos’ev
Vsevolod Ivanovich Feodos’ev (18.05.1916–24.09.1991), a prominent Soviet scientist in the field of mechanics of solids, was for over 40 years involved in the publication of the journal Prikladnaya Matematika i Mekhanika. He was a doctor of technical sciences, a professor, an associate member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1977), an Honoured Figure of Science and Technology of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1956), a winner of the Lenin Prize (1960) and the State Prize (1976), and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1986), and he was decorated with orders of Lenin, the October Revolution, and the Red Banner of Labour.
He was born in Kaluga into a family of schoolteachers. The family then moved to Moscow, where, in 1935, he finished his schooling and entered the N.E. Bauman Moscow Mechanical Engineering Institute (now the Moscow State Technical University). In 1941 he graduated from the institute with distinction and after a year became a Candidate of Technical Sciences and a postgraduate of the Resistance of Materials Faculty. In 1945, he brilliantly defended his doctoral dissertation ‘Flexible shells in engineering (theory and calculation)’, in which he examined problems of the stability of thin-walled shells of revolution, and in 1947 he became a professor.
By this time, the scientific interests of Feodos’ev, which had been in the development of methods for calculating elastic elements in fine instrument making, had switched to the area of strength and stability analyses of the shell elements of structures. In his book Elastic Elements in Fine Instrument Making (Oborongiz, Moscow, 1949), he formulated the principal non-linear problems of the static stability of elastic elements.
In 1948, Yu.A. Pobedonostsev, together with S.P. Korolev, founded the Long-Distance Ballistic Missile Faculty in the N.E. Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School (MHTS), for the training of specialists in the design of missiles with liquid-propellant rocket engines. On their recommendation, V.I. Feodos’ev was made Head of the faculty in 1950, and from 1951 to 1953 he was at the same time Dean of the Rocket Technology Department.
Feodos’ev, an excellent talent spotter, was able subsequently to attract outstanding scientists to work at the faculty. Lectures on the theory of vibrations and the dynamics of rockets were given by future academicians V.N. Chelomei and K.S. Kolesnikov, and lectures on launch equipment by V.P. Barmin. Leading specialists of Scientific Research Institute No. 88 (NII-88) were recruited with the help of S.P. Korolev to take other courses.
Knowing Feodos’ev as a specialist of the highest class in the area of the strength and dynamics of thin-walled structures, S.I. Korolev recruited him at the end of the 1940s as a Special Design Office (SDO) consultant on issues in strength and stability of structures and analysis of vibrational processes. As a result, Feodos’ev became an active member of the NII-88 Scientific Council. By the beginning of the 1950s, because of his excellent qualities, he had become well known and had acquired great authority among specialists of the SDO. At this time, he was developing methods for calculating the compartments of ballistic missiles and the docking units of satellites. In his monograph The Strength of Heat-Loaded Units of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines (Oborongiz, Moscow, 1957), he analysed central problems of the thermal strength of rocket engines, giving specific examples from practice and the results of calculations.
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