Established in 1980.
Its main research areas are:
- dynamics of mechanical and hydro-mechanical systems, space launch vehicles, railway and motor transport systems;
- aerothermogasdynamics of power plants, aircraft and space vehicles and their subsystems;
- strength, reliability and optimization of mechanical systems, launch vehicles and spacecraft;
- mechanics of the interaction of a solid body with an ionized medium and electromagnetic radiation;
- systemic analysis of trends and prospects in rocket and space technology.
Principal achievements and developments:
The linear theory of longitudinal stability has been advanced and the nonlinear theory of longitudinal liquid-propellant rocket vibrations developed;
Techniques for longitudinal vibrations analysis which have no analogs in Ukraine and abroad have been developed, novel high-efficiency dampers to provide longitudinal stability of liquid-propellant launch vehicles have been produced. The results obtained have been used in the scientific backup to the development of certain liquid-propellant launch vehicles, including those of Zenit, Tsyclon, Dnipro types.
Methodological fundamentals for designing vibration-isolation systems with quasi-zero stiffness have been developed for automotive and military facilities. Test results of numerous transport vehicles (PMZ, Bilorus, Yarilo tractors; PMZ-2, PMZ-3 trolley-buses; Bogdan, Etalon, I-VAN buses; front-wheel drive cars of ZAZ and VAZ families; Dozor-B reconnaissance car etc.) have shown that novel vibration-isolation modules for drivers seats of transport vehicles and pneumatic suspension for cars are equal to or in some parameters even significantly better than their best foreign counterparts.
Methods have been developed to study dynamic behaviour of mobile mechanical systems and their contact interaction with deformable rail foundation; they allowed the problem of reducing freight-car wheel wear to be solved on railways of CIS and Baltic countries. On this basis, a comprehensive modernization of freight car bogies has been proposed, which permits a 3040 km/h increase in freight car operational speed range; a 510-fold extension of the life of frictional damping system elements in bogies; a more than 2-fold extension of wheelsets life in terms of wheel flange wear, etc.