Dr Olga Ganilova
Lecturer
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
UK
Telephone: +44(0)114 2227717
Fax: +44(0)114 2227840
email : o.ganilova@sheffield.ac.uk
Profile
Dr Olga Ganilova graduated from Zaporizhzhya National University (Ukraine) in 2005 where she was awarded a Masters degree with Honours in Applied Mathematics. She was awarded her Ph.D. in ‘Deformable Solid Mechanics’ at Zaporizhzhya National University on completion of the programme in 2008 and as a result of a public defence.
Olga Ganilova held the post of Postdoctoral Research Assistant from 2008 till 2012 at the University of Glasgow, School of Engineering, and she joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Dynamics in 2012.
Areas of Research
- Dynamic behaviour of smart materials and structures
- Application of smart materials in biomedical engineering
- Automotive dynamics and safety systems
Teaching
MEC6442 - Automotive Dynamics
Journal articles
- Ganilova OA, Lucas M, Pan Z, Muir AY & Simpson H (2012) Inspiration from Victorian times in ultrasonic surgical tool design. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 382(1).
- Bhuyan A & Ganilova O (2012) Crush can behaviour as an energy absorber in a frontal impact. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 382(1).
- Ganilova OA, Lucas M & Cardoni A (2011) An analytical model of cymbal transducer dynamics. Radial vibration of a piezoelectric disc. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 225(5), 1077-1086.
- Ganilova OA & Cartmell MP (2010) An analytical model for the vibration of a composite plate containing an embedded periodic shape memory alloy structure. Composite Structures, 92(1), 39-47.
- Gristchak VZ & Ganilova OA (2008) A hybrid WKB-Galerkin method applied to a piezoelectric sandwich plate vibration problem considering shear force effects. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 317(1-2), 366-377.