Scientific divisions of the University
  Branch scientific-research laboratories (BSRL)
  Scientific-research groups of the departments
     Additional information about scientific work

Scientific divisions of the University
Branch scientific-research laboratories (BSRL)
Name of BSRL and the basic
directions of research		 Supervisor Phone

"Automation and control of power supply systems in railway transport"

  • development of new generation of telemechanics;
  • creation of workbench for a power dispatcher
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Valery Timofeyevich Domansky		 776-12-25

"Automation of transport technologies" Developments in industrial operation:

  • "Informating-controlling complex of a sorting system"
  • "Workbench of the assistant station-master"
  • "Automated control system (ACS) for sliding empty cars down after unloading on car dumpers"
  • "Workbench of the shunting dispatcher"

Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Eugeny Mironovich Shafit

 776-11-54
"Cars"
  • trials of new car designs, running parts of draw-and-buffer devices;
  • improvement of service technology for cars during operation and repairing;
  • efficiency of freezers refrigerating equipment;
  • development of complex problems for ACS by the linear enterprises of carload facilities;
  • development of specifications for loading and fastening piece freight;
Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Orest Makarovich Savchuk		 776-84-98
"Hump testing"
  • research and optimization in an arrangement, specialization of sorting devices in railway system taking into account existing and perspective volumes of car traffic;
  • development and application of facilities for mechanization and automation of sorting devices;
  • development of modern norms and rules for sorting devices designing;
  • development of workbench for the designer of sorting devices;
 Cand.Tech.Sc., Assoc.Prof. Vladimir Ilyich Bobrovsky

 776-12-20
"Dynamics and durability of rolling stock"
  • research into the dynamic processes of usual and long passenger trains, heavy and empty freight trains;
  • experimental researches in car loading, equipment, amortization systems of freights and cars at non-stationary and stationary modes of movement;
  • experimental researches into transportation conditions and rates of movement setting for travelling machines, transporters, other rail carriages;
  • static and dynamic tests of cars, locomotives and the specialized rolling stock;
  • perspective developments of rolling stock for high-speed passenger trunk-railways;
  • estimation of traffic safety, safety of freights, consumption of fuel and energy resources, intensity of runout of wheels flanges and rails by design-experiment methods;
  • research into interaction of rolling stock and track, and on this basis recommendations development for admitted rates of movement depending on conditions of traffic safety;
  • designing of running parts, draw-and-buffer devices, control systems of locomotive etc.;
  • development and application of training means for workers of railway transport;
  • development and application of training complexes to teach machinists of locomotives safety power- and resource-saving technologies of train handling;
  • resource tests of rolling stock and its elements;
  • estimation of the residual resource of rolling stock and development of recommendations for prolongation of its operational term;
  • development and technological examination of specifications and technical documentation;
  • development of programs and techniques for trials of rolling stock and its elements;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Eugeny Petrovich Blokhin		 776-11-71

33-19-08
"Artificial constructions of transport"
  • inspection and test of exploitable railway and road bridges;
  • evaluation of carrying capacity of metal and ferro-concrete bridge spans;
  • recommendations development for the further operation of concrete and stone bridges;
  • evaluation of bridges dynamic characteristics;
  • development and creation of database for artificial constructions with estimation of influence of their defects on the carrying and transport capacity of bridges;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Mikhail Isaakovich Kazakevich		 776-19-50
"Materials and structures for railway transport"
  • development of effective technologies for forming wall stone;
  • improvement of function-technological, technical and architectural perfomance of station complexes;
  • test for durability and frost resistance of samples of various building materials;
  • recommendations development for modes of concrete and ferro-concrete products vibroforming;
  • development of production schedules for composite building materials manufacturing;
  • selection of concrete compositions using chemical additives for underwater concreting;
  • test of various products of concrete;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Alexander Nikolayevich Pshinko		 776-17-46
"Soil mechanics"
  • development of methods for increase of stability of road bed and bases;
  • equipment creation for diagnostics of road bed condition;
  • estimation of the stability of road constructions, dykes, dams, road bed using the method of centrifugal modelling with application of geotextile materials;
  • quality control of the soil compression at level-by-level acoustic compression method;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Vladimir Dmitriyevich Petrenko		 776-12-53
"Reliability and unification of the electric equipment of rolling stock"
  • reliability research in modern control systems for locomotives and cars;
  • research into efficiency and application of modern switching elements in control circuits;
  • recommendations development for replacement of electrodevices, repairing of which would demand currency means;
  • development of theoretical bases for unification of the electroequipment and their practical application;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Leonid Viktorovich Dubinets		 776-18-97
"Preservation of the environment in railway transportation"
  • development of transportation technologies for ecologically dangerous freights, ways of prevention and liquidation of emergencies in railways;
  • development of complex arrangements for preservation of the environment from harmful railway influence on high-speed lines;
  • creation of databases with the purpose of information processing about ecological situation at the railway enterprises;
  • technological developments for purification and afterpurification of industrial drains;
  • development of the protecting methods for atmosphere (from emissions of polluting substances);
 Dr.Chem.Sc.
Vladimir Nikolayevich Plakhotnik		 776-18-44
"Track testing"
  • research into interaction of track and rolling stock and on this basis recommendations development for speed setting of trains, norms of track keeping;
  • conditions adjustment for new rolling stock in railway system;
  • setting of admitted rates of movement on new and explotable (in case of operation conditions changing) designs of track and turnouts;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Viktor Danilovich Danovich		 776-17-33
"Development and introduction of new information technologies in railway transportation"
  • recommendations development for the heads of railway enterprises, divisions and railway administrations for solving of the business problems arising in transport;
  • creation of the high level automated control systems for the governing body of the Ministry, administrations and divisions of raiways;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Arkady Arkadiyevich Bosov		 776-19-42
"Maintenance and diagnostics of locomotives"
  • development and introduction of locomotive diagnostic systems;
  • development of automated systems for the commercial account of fuel consumption at the equipping points on basis of modern flowmeters;
  • introduction of automated diagnosing systems for diesels on quality of working process with application of the modern equipment and methods of signal processing;
  • development and introduction of program complex "Increase of the system effectiveness of locomotives technical operation" at locomotive depot;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Boris Evgenyevich Bodnar		 776-11-79
"Economics and management of railway transport"
  • scientific providing with forming of new economic mechanism in railway transport;
  • participation in the improvement of organizational structures and redistribution of functions in railway management;
  • methodical providing of planning, accounting and analysis of efficiency of enterprises activity in new conditions;
  • pricing in railway transport;
 Cand.Econ.Sc.,Prof
Vasily Ostapovich Bondarenko		 776-17-78
"Electrodeposition of metals and alloys"
  • development of new resource-saving technologies for restoration of rolling stock details with galvanic coverings;
  • development of new technologies for drifting protect-decorative galvanic coverings on the elements of railway devices;
  • solving of some problems in improvement of the ecological condition of tank rooms at factories of branch;
  • development of new pulsed sources for the supply of galvanic baths;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Nikolay Alexandrovich Kostin		 776-17-46
"Electrorolling stock of railways"
  • traction-operational trials of electrorolling stock (ERS);
  • automation of control systems for ERS;
  • increase of durability and operational reliability of the basic units of ERS mechanical part;
  • development, creation and introduction of the test bench for traction electric machines with the lowered consumption of the electric power;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof
Mikhail Leonidovich Korotenko		 776-12-31
Scientific-research groups of the departments
Name of the department and primary directions of research Head of the department
Automatics, telemechanics and communication in railway transport
  • development of count-in-device of rolling stock axes;
  • development of automated microprocessor test bench for control and measurement of relay parameters and characteristics of railway automatic machinery;
 Dr.Ph-Mat.Sc.,Prof
Vladimir Ilyich Gavriliuk
Technology of Materials
  • application of two-layer molds in foundry production for railway transport
 Cand.Tech.Sc
Vladimir Vladovich Kozak
Heating engineering
  • creation of air conditioning devices;
  • development of enterprises power passports with working up thermal balances;
  • norm-setting for fuel consumption;
  • system of evaporative cooling for diesel engines;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Prof.
Vladimir Vladovich Kravets
Designing and Construction of Railways, and Geodesy
  • modern methods of shooting and estimation of curves for evaluation of allowable rate of trains running;
 Cand.Tech.Sc
Ivan Petrovich Korzhenevich
Hydraulics and water supply
  • computer forecasting model of ground damage depth in case of harmful substances emergency flood;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.
Nikolay Nikolayevich Beliayev
Safety of life activity
  • development of updating and strengthening technologies for railway transport details working in conditions of intensive deterioration;
  • development of technology and equipment, organization of industrial manufacture of machinery for slag processing with heavy metals and mineral oils content on the basis of progressive methods;
  • development of wasteless resource-saving technologies and ecological engineering for purification of industrial ventilating emissions with toxic pollution (organic solvents, aerosols of anticorrosive coverings) obtaining commodity products from pollutants;
  • integrated assessment of ecological situation in the locations of railway enterprises, the forecast of its change, development and stage-by-stage realization of environment monitoring and enhancement;
  • modernization of local purifying constructions developed on the basis of the newest progressive ways with the use of new principle of cyclic partial exclusion;
  • technology development and equipment manufacture for high-performance non-polluting methods for purification of slag, metal parts and ground polluted with oil products, for reconstruction and purification of a track in the mode of real terms;
  • technology and equipment development for remote diagnostics and localization of sources of infrasonic exposure during rolling stock operation and safety means improvement for locomotive crews working conditions;
  • development of automated control system for labour protection on railway;
 Dr.Tech.Sc.,Assoc.Prof.
Viktor Vasilievich Rybkin
Additional information about research work.
    Dniepropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport (DIIT) incorporates 10 faculties, 39 departments, the Scientific & Research Institute of Rolling Stock, Track and Transport Constructions, 16 branch research laboratories, 20 groups of scientific & research departments (SRD). 50 Doctors of Sciences, Professors, 250 Candidates of Technical Sciences, 130 scientific and technical employees of SRD and students, who successfully carry out curricula, are engaged in research work. Every year up to 20 scientific works of fundamental and research orientation, about 100 applied scientific & research tasks are realized. Scientific researches are carried out according to Government programs, the State Committee on Problems of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Machine-Building Industry within the contracts with the USA, Iran, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Belarus etc. Most of research work is connected with railway transportation. 11 Scientific schools have been established and function at the moment, among them schools of technical mechanics, bridge dynamics, applied mathematics, chemistry of fluorides, soil mechanics that won sound recognition. Such scientific developments as hump decelerators of ÐÍÇ-ÄÈÈÒ model, lubricators of DIIT design, chemical sources of a current for space objects, laser high-power reflectors, new technologies of transport process, simulators for locomotive driver, underwater concreting technology for constructions, running gears design of carriages are widely introduced in CIS countries. Research divisions of the University perform work in the following basic directions:
  • researches in the field of the nonlinear mechanics, dynamics and stability of movement for complex discrete and continual systems;
  • dynamics of high-speed transport;
  • development of information system basis and creation of a data bank about carrying, transportation and traffic capacity of constructions;
  • development of a structure, theoretical bases and functioning algorithms of automated control system for trains breaking-up in the marshalling yards;
  • method development of railway embankments strengthening exposed to slipping and flooding;
  • use of perspective switching elements for reliability increase of rolling stock equipment;
  • technology development for plating of functional galvanic coverings (metals and alloys) with necessary properties;
  • development of means for complex fluorides reception and their quality monitoring;
  • monitoring and means development for working conditions and ecological situation improvement in railways;
  • improvement of the remote teaching system ÀÑÓ-ÂÓÇ (automated control system for higher school) including subsystems "Entrant", and development of teaching & supervising test programs for specialists' training.
   Scientific researches and technical developments are carried out by 16 branch research laboratories and scientific groups of 36 departments of DIIT. Laboratories of DIIT have necessary technical and scientific potential for various applied problems solving, many of which demand the comprehensive approach, i.e. experts attracting from other scientific branches.    DIIT possesses such laboratories accredited for technical competence and independence by Certification System UkrSEPRO and have corresponding certificates and licences:
  • Test laboratory of cars, accreditation certificate ¹UA 6.001.H.846 of 04.03.02 (on the base of BSRLs of "Cars" and "Reliability and unification of electric equipment for rolling stock", departments: heating engineering , automated electric drive); area of accreditation: freight and passenger cars, electric equipment of cars;
  • Test laboratory of rolling stock, the accreditation certificate ¹ UA 6.001.H.366 of 17.06.03 (on the base of BSRL "Dynamics and durability of rolling stock", track testing laboratory of department: automatics, telemechanics and communication; and department: building materials), area of accreditation: diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, freight and passenger cars, electric and diesel trains, special equipment, track machines, railway cranes, containers, track and turnouts, spare parts for railway transport, traffic lights, devices of signal system, building materials and products;
  • Branch research laboratory "Preservation of environment in railway transportation", the accreditation certificate ¹ ÓÇ-ÖÒåõÌ-016-2003 of 29.01.2003, area of accreditation: measurement of speed and volume of gases in gas mains, measurement of dust concentration in technological gases, concentration evaluation of caustic soda, nitric oxide, dioxide of sulphur, a sulphuric acid, carbon oxide, iron, manganese, chromium (III, VI), titanium and phenol.
  • Branch research laboratory "Dynamics of Bridges", licence A-A ¹265039 of 08.04.2002 of Dnepropetrovsk regional authority for building activity in respect of bridges and tunnels design and inspection.
  • The Eastern Scientific Centre of Transport Academy of Ukraine operates at DIIT; Dnepropetrovsk Certification Body for Railway Transportation, the Scientific and Technical Centre for Specialized Rolling Stock has been created here. A number of faculties and laboratories are head organizations for decision-making on railway transportation of Ukraine. Training of the scientific and pedagogical staff is carried out by doctoral studies (6 specialities) and postgraduate studies (20 specialities). Two specialized Academic Councils work for doctor's and master's theses upholding.
   At the technical University the eastern scientific centre of Transport Academy of Ukraine operates; Dnepropetrovsk body of certification for railway transportation facilities, the scientific and technical centre of the specialized rolling stock has been created. A number of faculties and laboratories are master organizations for the decision-making of concrete problems. Training of the scientific and pedagogical staff is made through doctoral studies (6 specialities) and postgraduate study (20 specialities). Two specialized academic councils for presentation of doctor's and master's theses work.