Set up in 1991 on the base of Electro-Hydraulic Design Office under AS of UkrSSR, which, in turn, was founded in 1962.
Its basic research lines are:
- studies of pulse action of high-intensity power fluxes on multiphase environments, various materials and structures; development of new technologies on their basis;
- elaborating the theory of pulse processes in energy transformations; designing high-density pulse power sources and systems to control them.
Major achievements and developments:
- Scientific fundamentals of the theory of electroblasting electric-energy transformation and the theory to control energy and power parameters of electrical engineering systems have been developed to achieve pulse pressure with the necessary space and time distribution in the treatment area.
- It has been found that periodic elastic waves of mechanical strains, induced during electro-hydro-pulse treatment of crystalline materials, abruptly accelerate the action of internal stress relief, with dislocations leaving their clusters. The effect of fracture nuclei deceleration by periodic elastic waves of mechanical strain has been proved, which improves the deformability of low-ductility materials and their maximum degree of deformation before fracture.
- A procedure has been worked out to determine thermodynamic parameters and thermophysical characteristics of materials during electric blast of conductors; physical factors of producing functional nanostructure materials have been determined as well.
Over 1000 science-intensive electric-discharge technological units for foundry and metallurgy, mining, materials plastic working, seismic acoustics etc. have been developed and, due to their mass production, introduced at Ukrainian plants and abroad.