Head of Department: Professor, D.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics – Gennadi I. Mikhasev

Department staff: 2 Professors, 2 Associate Professors, 1 Senior lecturer

Specialization: biomechanics.

The main disciplines of specialization:

• Theory of elasticity;
• Physics;
• Basics of information technologies;
• Introduction to biomechanics;
• Basics of nanomechanics;
• Biomechanical models of human sensory systems;
• Biomechanics of locomotor system;
• Methods of mechanics in micro- and nanotechnologies;
• Contact mechanics;
• Digital processing of bio- and nanoscale signal and image;
• Computer mechanics;
• Physics and mathematics basics of finite element method;
• Theory of vibration and stability of thin shells;
• Asymptotic techniques in mechanics;
• Hierarchical fracture mechanics;
• Statistical mechanics and chaos;
• Human as a system.

Scientific directions of the department:

• Numerical methods in mechanics,  Finite element method;
• Computer mechanics;
• Biomechanics;
• Nanomechanics;
• Solid mechanics;
• Information-measuring systems.