Research Interests

	Theory of plasticity
	Nonlinear fracture mechanics
	Nonlocal continuum damage mechanics
	Modeling of zigzag-like fatigue crack propagation
	Interface crack
	Piezo- and Ferro-electricity
	Computational mechanics

Teaching

	Theory of plasticity
	Mathematical foundations of strength and plasticity

Scientific Papers (full list)

selected recent publications:

	Semenov A.S. Analysis of zizgzags formation under fatigue crack propagation on the base of continuum damage mechanics / Nonlinear problems of solid body mechanics and physics. Ed. K.F. Chernykh. N2. 2000. P. 186-212. (In Russian).
	Semenov A.S., Nosikov A.I., Melnikov B.E. Description of fatigue macrocrack growth on the basis of nonlocal continuum damage concept // Scientific and technical sheets of St.-Petersburg State Polytechnic University. 2002. N3 (29). P. 179-189. (In Russian).
	Bahr H.-A., Balke H., Hofinger I., Häusler C., Kirchhoff G., Munz D., Neubrand A., Semenov A.S., Weiss H.-J., Yang Y.Y. Cracks in graded materials // Material Science and Engineering. 2003. Vol. A362. P. 2-16.
	Semenov A.S. Analysis of thermodynamic consistency of multisurface plastic theory with one active surface // Scientific and technical sheets of St.-Petersburg State Polytechnic University. 2003. N3 (33). P. 103-114. (In Russian).
	Semenov A.S., Melnikov B.E., Gorokhov M.Yu. Cyclical instability at calculations of large elasto-plastic strains // Scientific and technical sheets of St.-Petersburg State Polytechnic University. 2003. N3 (33). P. 129-138. (In Russian)/
	Semenov A.S. PANTOCRATOR - finite element program specialized on the nonlinear problem solution / Proc. V Int. Conf. "Scientific and engineering problems of predicting the reliability and service life of structures and methods of their solution", St-Petersburg, 2003. P. 466-480. (In Russian).
	Semenov A.S., Bahr H.-A., Balke H., Weiss H.-J. Contact driven delamination and spalling of coatings due to cyclic shock heating // Thin Solid Films. 2004.

Participation in Conferences

	VII All-union Congress on theoretical and applied mechanics (Moscow, 1991)
	Int. Conf. "Macro- and micro- mechanical aspects of fracture (EUROMECH-291)" (St.-Petersburg, 1992)
	III Int. Congress "Industrial and Applied Mathematics" (Hamburg, 1995)
	Int. Conf. "Optimization of Finite Element Approximation" (St.-Petersburg, 1995)
	Annual Scientific Conference GAMM (Prague, 1996)
	8th Int. Fatigue Congress (Stockholm, 2002)
	V Int. Conf. "Scientific and engineering problems of predicting the reliability and service life of structures and methods of their solution" (St.-Petersburg, 2003)
	75th GAMM Annual Meeting (Dresden, 2004)

Honour and Awards

	State scientific grant of the Russian Academy of Science for young scientists in area "Mechanical engineering " (1997-2000)
	Leonhard Euler's grant (1998-1999)
	DAAD one-year scholarship (TU Dresden) (1997)
	Personal grant of the competitive center of scientific researches in the field of fundamental natural sciences (1995)
	Award of competition "Young talents" of International humanitarian foundation "Znanie" (in field of "Mechanics") /together with A.V.Divnich and L.V.Nikulina/ (1994)
	Grant of International Soros Scientific Foundation(in field of "Mechanics")/together with A.I.Borovkov et al./ (1993)

Special Skills

	Computer languages: C/C++, SDK, Borland C++, MS Visual C/C++ (+MFC), FORTRAN, BASIC, HTML, LaTeX
	Finite element software: MSC.MARC, ANSYS, ABAQUS, PANTOCRATOR
	Packages: Maple, MATLAB, Mathematica, Origin, CorelDraw, Adobe Photoshop, Unigraphics, AutoCad, MS Office
	Operating Systems: MS-DOS, MS-Windows (9x,NT,XP), Unix, Linux

Supervising of Student Research

	Supervising BSc, MSc, PhD students
	Competitive works

Favorites and Hobbies

Track & Fields (triple jump), windsurfing, tennis, classical music

Creation of finite-element program system PANTOCRATOR