Department of Materials Science

Anomalous diffusive structural-phase transformations in the course of cold megaplastic deformation; Improvement of mechanical properties of steels and alloys such as strength, wear resistance, heat resistance, radiation resistance; Nanostructuring of steels and alloys under the cyclic martensitic transformations and high-temperature deformation; Obtaining of high strength metallic materials having improved functional properties (steels with the controlled shape-memory effect, the controlled thermal expansion coefficient, and high corrosion and mechanical properties)

Influence of thermomechanical treatment, a magnetic field, severe deformation under friction on the structural-phase transformations in steels and alloys; Ways to improve the physical and mechanical properties of steels and alloys; High-energy pulsed exposure (dynamic channel-angular pressing, shock-wave loading) and their influence on the structural-phase transformations, changes in physical and mechanical properties of steels and alloys, including obtaining nanostructured and submicrocrystalline states

Influence of thermomechanical treatment, a magnetic field, severe deformation under friction on the structural-phase transformations in steels and alloys; Ways to improve the physical and mechanical properties of steels and alloys; High-energy pulsed exposure (dynamic channel-angular pressing, shock-wave loading) and their influence on the structural-phase transformations, changes in physical and mechanical properties of steels and alloys, including obtaining nanostructured and submicrocrystalline states

Development of science-oriented principles of creating a new generation of intelligent materials based on non-ferrous alloys with the shape-memory effect by multi-component doping, by megaplastic deformation, by super-rapid quenching, and high-energy particle radiation to use in engineering and medicine; Effect of the heterophase modification of melts, of complex doping and intensive thermomechanical impacts on the structural-phase transformations and properties of light, high-strength, and heat-resistant non-ferrous alloys