Autor: Nikolai I. Vatin

Nikolai Ivanovich Vatin received his Ph.D. in Technical Sciences in 1986, and was awarded Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, and in 2001 was awarded an academic degree, Doctor of Science (Engineering). He is currently a professor at Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University. He has held positions such as Deputy Head of Department, Assistant Professor, Head of Department of Economy, Professor, Head of Department (since 2000), Dean, Director of the Institute of Civil Engineering (since 2013 up to 2018), and Professor (since 2018). His research interests include durability and safety of concrete and mortars, reliability of building structures, fiber-reinforced concrete. He is the editor-in-chief of three journals, and his papers have been published in proceedings of national and international prominence.       Ashot Georgievich Tamrazyan qualified as a civil engineer in 1974 from the Yerevan Polytechnic University, Armenia. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences in 1983 from the National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (NRU MGSU), Russia, and in 1998 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the same university. He has been a professor since 1999. Head of the Department of Reinforced Concrete and Stone Structures, NRU MGSU. He also has been an academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering since 2005, and an advisor to the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences since 2004. He was awarded as a laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation Prize in Science and Technology in  2017. His research interests include building structures, buildings and structures, ensuring the reliability and safety of reinforced concrete structures under extreme natural and man-made impacts, etc.     Alexey Nikolaevich Plotnikov graduated from the Chuvash State University with a degree in Industrial and Civil Engineering in 1983. He receivedhis Ph D in 2013 from the National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering. From 2014 to 2018, he headed the department of building structures at the Chuvash State University. Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Chuvash State University. Research interests: research in the field of automatic monitoring of buildings (SHM), non-linear work of reinforced concrete, resistance of masonry. Member of the board of the Ministry of Construction, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services of the Chuvash Republic. Head of the conference „New in architecture, design of building structures and reconstruction“; „Construction and development: life cycle (CDLC)“. Awarded with the Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Construction of the Chuvash Republic, the Ministry of Transport of the Chuvash Republic.   Sergei Nikolaevich Leonovich received his Ph.D. degree in 1989 from the Belarusian Polytechnic University. He received his Doctor of Science degree in 2000. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Belarusian National Technical University, Professor of the Department of Building Materials and Construction Technology. He also is involved as a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, co-chairman of the working group of the RILEM Technical Committee, and member of the Belarusian Academy of Architecture and Engineering Academy. His research interests include strength and crack resistance of structural building materials under a complex stress state, strength, crack resistance and durability of structural concrete under temperature and humidity influences, predicting the durability of structural concrete under aggressive influences. He has been awarded with state awards of Belarus, Man of the Year, American Bibliographical Institute – 2010.    Leonids Pakrastins received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Riga Technical University, Latvia in  2005. He is currently the director of the Structural Engineering and Reconstruction Institute, Faculty of Civil Engineering, and Head of the Department of Structural Engineering of Riga Technical University, Latvia. His research interests include long-term thermal deformation of cement compositions, high performance fiber-reinforced concrete, numerical modeling of building structures, including those reinforced during reconstruction. He is a member of the RTU Promotion Council “RTU P – 06” Civil Engineering; Transport and Traffic Science and other scientific committees. He also heads the Latvian standardization technical committee LVS / STK30 “Construction” and is the co-founder of the Latvian Association of Structural Designers. In 2013, he was awarded the title “Excellence in Teaching and Research” at Riga Technical University.   Ahmadjon Jamolidin Rakhmonzoda graduated the Tajik Technical University with a degree in Industrial and Civil Engineering in 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Architecture and Civil Engineering from Kazan State University in 2015. His research interests include monitoring of buildings and structures, non-linear work of reinforced concrete, use of composite reinforcement, research on the loss of pre-stressed elements among others. Since 2016, he is responsible for the scientific research and science of TTU, aimed to solving the complex of tasks for creating and supporting the activities of the system of effective use of the scientific potential of the University. He is the corresponding member of the Engineering Academy of the Republic of Tajikistan, 2017. He was also awarded the Ismoil Somoni State Prize in the field of technical sciences, 2018.