Dr Olga Ganilova

Lecturer

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
UK

Telephone: +44(0)114 2227717
Fax: +44(0)114 2227840

email : o.ganilova@sheffield.ac.uk

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Profile

Dr Olga Ganilova graduated from Zaporizhzhya National University (Ukraine) in 2005 where she was awarded a Masters degree with Honours in Applied Mathematics. She was awarded her Ph.D. in ‘Deformable Solid Mechanics’ at Zaporizhzhya National University on completion of the programme in 2008 and as a result of a public defence.

Olga Ganilova held the post of Postdoctoral Research Assistant from 2008 till 2012 at the University of Glasgow, School of Engineering, and she joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Dynamics in 2012.

Areas of Research

• Dynamic behaviour of smart materials and structures
• Application of smart materials in biomedical engineering
• Automotive dynamics and safety systems

Teaching

MEC6442 - Automotive Dynamics

Publications

Book Chapter:

• Applications for shape memory alloys in structural and machine dynamics,
  Cartmell, M. P., Zak, A. J. & Ganilova, O. A. (2011),
  In Nonlinear Dynamic Phenomena in Mechanics, ed. Warminski, J., Lenci, S., Cartmell, M. P., Rega, G. & Wiercigroch, M., in series Solid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 181,
  Springer, pp. 115-158.

Journal Papers:

• Inspiration from Victorian times in ultrasonic surgical tool design,
  Ganilova, O. A., Lucas, M., Pan, Z., Muir, A. Y. & Simpson, H. (2012),
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 382.


• Crush can behaviour as an energy absorber in a frontal impact,
  Bhuyan, A. & Ganilova, O. (2012),
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 382.


• Analytical model of the cymbal transducer dynamics; radial vibration of the piezoeletric disc,
  Ganilova, O. A., Lucas, M. & Cardoni, A. (2011),
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineering, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 225(5), pp. 1077-1086.


• An analytical model for the vibration of a composite plate containing an embedded periodic shape memory alloy structure,
  Ganilova, O. A. & Cartmell, M. P. (2009),
  Journal of Composite Structures, 92(1), pp. 29-47.


• Smart material applications to structural dynamics and rotating machines,
  Cartmell, M. P., Inman, D. J., Lees, A. W. & Ganilova, O. A. (2008),
  Proceedings of Euromech Colloquium, 498, pp. 19-28.


• Controlling plate vibrations by means of embedded active shape memory alloy elements,
  Cartmell, M. P., Ganilova, O. A. & Gristchak, V. Z. (2008),
  Proceedings of Euromech Colloquium, 498, pp. 112-118.


• Investigation of a sandwich plate subjected to dynamic loading taking into account a time variant dynamic coefficient,
  Ganilova, O. (2008),
  Theoretical Foundations of Civil Engineering (in Russian), 16, pp. 139-146.


• A hybrid WKB-Galerkin method applied to a piezoeletric sandwich plate vibration problem considering shear force effects,
  Gristchak, V. Z. & Ganilova, O. A. (2008),
  Journal of Sound and Vibration, 317(1-2), pp. 366-377.


• On the problem solution of piezolaminated plate dynamic deformation based on a hybrid WKB-Galerkin method,
  Gristchak, V. Z. & Ganilova, O. A. (2008),
  Reports of Ukranian Academy of Science, 5, pp. 12-20.


• The control of dynamic stability of piezolaminated column,
  Gristchak, V. Z. & Ganilova, O. A. (2006),
  XI Stability of Structures, 11, pp. 111-118.


• Application of a hybrid WKB-Galerkin method in control of the dynamic instability of a piezolaminated imperfect column,
  Gristchak, V. Z. & Ganilova, O. A. (2006),
  Technische Mechanik, 26(2), pp. 106-116.

Conference Papers:

• Application of a hybrid WKB-Galerkin method to a nonlinear plate dynamic problem with time dependent damping coefficient,
  Gristchak, V. Z., & Ganilova, O. A., 
  6th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference - St Petersburg, Russia, 30 Jun-4 Jul 2008.