Boris Nikolaevich Poliakov (Russian: Борис Николаевич Поляков; born May 17, 1938, in Nizhny Tagil, Russia) is a Russian scientist, professor of Mechanical Engineering, and member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of the Russian Federation.
Poliakov pioneered several advances in the metallurgy of the USSR, including the development and application of the first software suites for optimization of rolling technologies, equipment and electric drives of rolling mills. He was a key member of the engineering team in charge of the design of the first radial and curved continuous casting machines in the Soviet Union.
His research on the basis of the finite element method led to a significant improvement in the strength, thermal resistance, operational reliability and durability of rolling mill components of complex design, and the reduction of metal consumption in their manufacturing. The software suites developed under his leadership formed the foundation of a system of automated design for rolling mills at the capital equipment production facility Uralmash, and led to the development of a number of fundamentally new engineering solutions.[1]
Boris N. Poliakov was one of the lead engineers behind the development of the first computer system of data acquisition and diagnostics used in Soviet metallurgy for the automation of rolling technologies and operating regimes of rolling equipment.[2] In the 1960s, he and his research team developed some of the first prototypes of mechatronics by integrating microprocessors into the system of drive control in complex, dynamically loaded[3]mechanisms of rolling mills.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, he was a lead implementation manager responsible for the design and enhancement of process automation systems of the most productive blooming mill in the world - Blooming Mill 1300[4][5][6] with an annual production capacity of 6 million tons of ingots[7][8][9] at Kryvorizhstal steel company (now ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih).
During 1961-1989, Poliakov held positions with increasing responsibilities as a design engineer, senior research fellow and from 1974 until 1986, as the head of Hot Rolling Mills Applied Research Laboratory at the Uralmash Research Institute. From 1989 until 2002, he was the Chair of the Department of Design Automation and Engineering Graphics[12] at the Russian State Vocational University (now Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University) in Yekaterinburg.
Achievements
Boris N. Poliakov is a recipient of 30 inventor's certificates and patents registered in the USA, England, France, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Canada, Japan. He is the author of nearly 400 scientific publications in Russia and other countries,[13][14][15] including six monographs in the collection of the Library of Congress.
Although formally retired, Poliakov continues to publish[16] and participates in international conferences, such as Modernization of Russian Metallurgy (March 2006, Moscow), Material Deformation and Failure (November 2006, October 2007, Moscow), Reliability and Safety of Capital Equipment[17] (October 26–29, 2015, Dnipropetrovsk).
The achievements of Boris N. Poliakov are featured in the Famous Scientists of Russia[18] and in the Free Encyclopedia[19] of the Ural region of Russia.
Awards and honors
Diploma Honorary Scientist of Europe with a commemorative medal (a/k/a the Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz medal)[20] awarded by the Presidium of the European Academy of Natural Sciences in Hanover (Europäische Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Hannover) – December 2009.
Member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of the Russian Federation (Diploma № 600) – November 2000.
Medal Inventor of the USSR – 1984.
Notable publications
Kotsar S.L.; Poliakov B.N.; Makarov Yu.D.; Chichigin V.A. (1974). Statistical Analysis and Mathematical Modeling of a Blooming Mill. Metallurgy Publishing Company, Moscow.
Poliakov B.N.; Nyashin Yu.I.; Volegov I.F.; Trusov A.F. (1990). Loading, Load-Carrying Capacity, and Durability of Rolling Mills. Metallurgy Publishing Company, Moscow. ISBN5-229-00302-2 (TS340.N281990).
Poliakov, Boris (1993). Improving the Technologies and Durability of Rolling Mills: Part I. Yekaterinburg. ISBN5-230-06636-9 (TS340.P5951994).
Poliakov, Boris (1994). Improving the Technologies and Durability of Rolling Mills: Part II. Yekaterinburg. ISBN5-230-06636-9 (TS340.P5951994).
Poliakov, Boris (2006). Improving the Technologies, Load Carrying Capacity, Durability of Equipment, and Effectiveness of Automatic Systems in Rolling Mills: Part I. Renome Publishing Company, St. Petersburg. ISBN5-98947-021-5 (TS340.P5962006).
Poliakov, Boris (2007). Statistical Methods in Algorithms and Case Studies (Based on Rolling Mills Operation). Renome Publishing Company, St. Petersburg. ISBN978-5-98947-081-5 (QA276.P5782007).
References
^Bolshakov V.I.; Belodedenko S.V.; Mamchits E.K. (2011) "New Methodological Achievements in the Design of Rolling Mills" (review of the book by Boris N. Poliakov Improving the Technologies, Load Carrying Capacity, Durability of Equipment, and Effectiveness of Automatic Systems in Rolling Mills). "National Priorities of Russia"(PDF). Nat︠s︡ionalʹnye Prioritety Rossii. 1 (4): 143–144. 2011. ISSN2221-7711. Retrieved October 6, 2017. Also in journal "Metallurg". Metallurg (12): 68–69. December 15, 2010. ISSN0026-0827.
^Interview with Boris N. Poliakov. "Самый производительный в мире советский блюминг" [The World's Most Productive Soviet Blooming Mill]. Technoalex.livejournal.com. December 16, 2013. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
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Poliakov, Boris (October 8–20, 2014). "An Epochal Project. A Part of History". Newspaper of the Uralmash Capital Equipment Production Facility - Tiajmash.ru. 33 (13461): 7.
^Poliakov, Boris (2014). "50th Anniversary of the First Most Productive Automated Blooming Mill 1300". Steel (9): 35–37. ISSN0038-920X.
^Although the Uralmash Research Institute developed its first statistical analysis software suite in 1968, it reached publication only in 1970 in a book Algorithms of Computer-Aided Statistical Data Analysis by Karlinskaya F.M.; Makarov Yu.D.; Poliakov B.N. ("Поиск - Search RSL 1". Retrieved October 5, 2017.) The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in Moscow introduced its statistical analysis suite in 1969 in a book Algorithms and Programs for Computer-Aided Statistical Data Analysis by Borisenkov E.P. and Romanov M.A. ("Поиск - Search RSL 2". Retrieved October 5, 2017.)
^Khimich G.L.; Sokolovsky O.P.; Poliakov B.N. (1968). Automated System for Technological Data Collection and Processing in Blooming Mill 1300 and Application of Mathematical Statistics Methods in Hot Rolling. The Ural Scientific and Technical Conference at the Ural Polytechnic Institute. Sverdlovsk.
^Poliakov, Boris (August 2008). "Multiple-Pass Rolling of Section Billets from Continuously Cast Slabs as a New Technology for Modernization of Billet Mills". IIM Metal News, Indian Institute of Metals. 11 (4): 21–23. ISSN0972-0480.
^Poliakov, Boris (November–December 2012). "A New Rolling Technology for High-Strength Rebar Production". Steel Times International - Steeltimesint.com. 36 (8): 32–33. ISSN0143-7798.
^Poliakov, Boris (January 2014). "New Technologies and Equipment for Production of High-Quality Billets and Heavy I-Beams". La Metallurgia Italiana (1): 51–57. ISSN0026-0843.