Komsomolsk-on-Amur State Technical University Komsomolsk-on-Amur State Technical University

 Our main areas of scientific activity in the KnASTU are: organization and coordination of research in high priority areas of science and engineering; creation of an efficient and dynamically developing educational&research&innovation park compliant with the highest of today's standards and capable of constructively solving scientific and engineering problems on state, regional and city level, and also to adequately respond to the challenges of ever changing economic realities of these days; provision of an appropriate environment/conditions for a more active interaction between scientific and research&educational institutions, industrial enterprises and innovation companies, with the aim of implementing new, highly competitive and science-intensive technologies;

We do research in more than 30 subject areas; most important of them are:

• geometry and topology
• mechanics of deformed solid body
• materials technology
• machining and physical technical processing technology/equipment
• design engineering and manufacture of airborne devices
• shipbuilding
• electrotechnical engineering and electric machines
• mathematical support and software for computers and computer systems
• mathematical modelling, numerical methods and software packages
• foundry
• engineering structures and buildings
• polymers and composites' technology and processing of polymers and composites
• health and safety
• Russian history
• economics and management of national economy
• ontology and gnoseology
• general pedagogic, history of education studies and education
• theory and history of culture

The research subjects listed above overlap with the disciplines and professions taught at KnASTU.  All research work in the University stems from requests/commissions made by local industrial enterprises like JSC Yury Gagarin Aviation Plant, JCS RosNeft – Komsomolsk-on-Amur Oil Refinery, etc., which makes this process very fast and.

At the University we pay a very serious attention to the issue of initiating and developing high priority research areas that eventually give rise to individual research schools.  To date most efforts are being made in the following areas:

• machining process control by non-linear dynamic algorithms and by neural network modelling
• development/improvement of special molding methods
• airborne device engineering technologies
• the problem of the defining relations and the computational mechanics of deforming materials
• research and development of energy-efficient technologies for electrotechnical systems and systems based upon relaxed calculations
• development of methods for modelling, design and strength assessment of complex ocean-engineering structures
• mechanics of deformed solid body, plates, ice technology
• development and testing of gas-film lubrication bearings for high-speed machining equipment

In the first three areas the research is being carried out in collaboration with the R&D division of the Yury Gagaring Aviation Plant: it concerns pre-production engineering problems pertaining to manufacture of some elements of the "SuperJet-100" aircraft. Research teams working in these areas also take part in fundamental research (in accordance with the Research Schedule), in RF President's grant competitions, and in innovation-related projects of the Administration and Government of Khabarovsk Region. Total funding figures for the accounting period are in excess of 10 mln roubles.  6 monographs have been published, more that 30 PhD and Doctoral dissertations defended, more than 300 papers and paper abstracts submitted for publication.

The problem of defining relations and the computational mechanics of deforming materials is being investigated in collaboration with the Yuri Gagarin Aviation Plant: the object of this series of studies is the process technology used for manufacture of passenger RRJ plane's components.  Total funding figures for the accounting period are in excess of 10 mln roubles, 1 monograph published, 2 PhD dissertations defended. 3 study guides have been developed, 7 papers published in journals etc. recommended by the State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles, 4 patents registered. To sum it up, the above listed 8 fields are the ones where most of research is done and whose results are taken into account in the University's plans for fundamental and applied research and for contract-based research.