Panovko Yakov Gilelevich (1913)

Panovko Yakov Gilelevich (b. 1913, Kobrin, Grodno Governorate) - specialist in mechanics. Doctor of Technical Sciences (1940), Professor (1944), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR (1958).

In 1935, Yakov Panovko graduated from the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute. He taught at the Leningrad Military Air Engineering Academy (1943–1950), at the University of Latvia and the Riga Polytechnic Institute (1950–1963), where he chaired the Department of Theoretical Mechanics and Strength of Materials. From 1964 to 1993, he worked at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute, where he headed a department until 1988. Member of the USSR National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1965). Since 1993, he has lived in Germany.

His main scientific work lies in the fields of structural mechanics, applied mathematics, elasticity theory, vibration theory, and impact mechanics, applied to the analysis of aircraft structures and other elastic systems. Author of around 20 monographs and textbooks.

Publications include:

Elastic Vibrations of Aircraft Parts (Упругие колебания частей самолета), Leningrad, 1947 (co-authored with E. P. Grossman);

Structural Mechanics of the Aircraft (Строит. механика самолета)., Moscow, 1951–1953 (co-authored with G. G. Rostovtsev);

Stability and Vibrations of Elastic Systems (Устойчивость и колебания упругих систем), Moscow, 1987 (co-authored with I. I. Gubanova);

Introduction to the Theory of Mechanical Vibrations (Введение в теорию ме-ханич. Колебаний), 3rd edition, Moscow, 1991.