Geogria Institute of Technology

Faculty Profile

Vitali Volovoi

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.
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