Vitali Volovoi
Assistant Professor
Office: SST/Weber 204
Phone: 404.894.9811
Fax: 404.894.9313
vitali.volovoi@aerospace.gatech.edu
Education
- University Diploma, Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, 1988.
- Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997.
Research
System risk, safety and reliability of complex engineering systems
Assessment of condition-based and other maintenance policies combined with logistics
Structural design and optimization in the presence of uncertainties
Air transportation safety
Honors and Distinctions
NASA Group Achievement Award, 2005
ASME/SERAD Certificate of Merit Advisor of the Second Place Winners of Student Safety Design Award, 2007
Member of NASA Engineering and Safety Statistics and Trending team
Selected Publications
V.V. Volovoi, “Modeling of System Reliability Using Petri Nets with Aging Tokens,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 84, no. 2, (2004): 149–161.
Y. Zhao, V. Volovoi, M.H. Waters, and D.N. Mavris, “A Profit Based Approach for Gas Turbine Power Plant Outage Planning,” Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbine and Power, 128, n.4 (2006): 806–814.
J. Lee, D.-H. Choi, V. Volovoi, and D. Mavris, "An Enhancement of Constraint Feasibility in BPN Based Approximate Optimization", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 196, n. 17–20 (2007): 2147–2160.
L. Li, V. Volovoi, and D. H. Hodges, "Cross-sectional Design of Composite Rotor Blades," Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 53, n.3 (2008): 240–251.
G. Callani, M. Ruzzene, V. Volovoi, P. Cento, and C. Vining, "Assessment of Uncertainty in Response Estimation for Turbine Engine Blade Disks" Journal of Sound and Vibration, 317, n.3–5 (2008): 625–645.
G. Callani, V. Volovoi, and M. Ruzzene, "Bayesian Estimation of a Dynamic Structure’s Response" Journal of Sound and Vibration, 329, (2010): 21–42.