Victor Krylov
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Victor Krylov is Russian-born British academic, professor of Acoustics and Vibration at Loughborough University
Loughborough University
Loughborough University is a research based campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England...

. In recognition of his contribution to the field of Acoustics
Acoustics
Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics...

, he was awarded the prestigious Rayleigh Medal
Rayleigh Medal
The Rayleigh Medal is a prize awarded annually by the Institute of Acoustics for "outstanding contributions to acoustics". The prize is named after John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh.-List of recipients:...

 by the Institute of Acoustics
Institute of Acoustics
The Institute of Acoustics is a British professional engineering institution founded in 1974. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers. The Institute's address is 77A St Peters Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3BN,...

 in 2000.

Victor Krylov was born in Tambov, Russia. After initial training in Radio Physics and Electronics, he received his PhD in Physics and Mathematics (specialisation in Acoustics
Acoustics
Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics...

) from the Moscow State University
Moscow State University
Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...

 in 1981. In 1989 he received his DSc in the same disciplines from the Moscow State University
Moscow State University
Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...

 and from the Higher Attestation Commission
Higher Attestation Commission
Higher Attestation Commission is a name of a national government agency in Russia, Ukraine and some other post-Soviet states that oversees awarding of advanced academic degrees...

 of the former USSR. He has been a research fellow and then a senior research fellow in the Moscow State University
Moscow State University
Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...

 from 1980 to 1993. In 1990-1991 he was a SERC visiting fellow in the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...

. From 1993 he has been a Professor of Acoustics in the Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University is a public teaching and research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as a new university in 1992 from the existing Trent Polytechnic , however it can trace its roots back to 1843 with the establishment of the Nottingham Government School of Design...

, and in 2001 he joined Loughborough University
Loughborough University
Loughborough University is a research based campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England...

 as Professor of Acoustics and Vibration.

Krylov has been awarded the Highest National Young Scientists Award of the former USSR in 1984 (Lenin Komsomol Prize
Lenin Komsomol Prize
Lenin Komsomol Prize was a Soviet annual award for the best works in science, engineering, literature or art carried out by young authors of age not exceeding 33 years...

) and the Rayleigh Medal
Rayleigh Medal
The Rayleigh Medal is a prize awarded annually by the Institute of Acoustics for "outstanding contributions to acoustics". The prize is named after John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh.-List of recipients:...

 from the Institute of Acoustics
Institute of Acoustics
The Institute of Acoustics is a British professional engineering institution founded in 1974. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers. The Institute's address is 77A St Peters Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3BN,...

 in 2000. His main contributions are in the fields of Physical acoustics, Surface acoustic wave
Surface acoustic wave
]A surface acoustic wave is an acoustic wave traveling along the surface of a material exhibiting elasticity, with an amplitude that typically decays exponentially with depth into the substrate.-Discovery:...

s, Laser ultrasonics
Laser ultrasonics
Laser-ultrasonics uses lasers to generate and detect ultrasonic waves. It is a non-contact technique used to measure materials thickness, detect flaws and materials characterization...

, Acoustic emission, Ultrasonic non-destructive testing of materials, Railway- and road-generated ground vibrations
Ground vibrations
Ground vibrations is a technical term that is being used to describe mostly man-made vibrations of the ground, in contrast to natural vibrations of the Earth studied by seismology. For example, vibrations caused by explosions, construction works, railway and road transport, etc - all belong to...

, Low-frequency noise
Noise
In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In both analog and digital electronics, noise is random unwanted perturbation to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the acoustic noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission with significant electrical noise...

 and vibration
Vibration
Vibration refers to mechanical oscillations about an equilibrium point. The oscillations may be periodic such as the motion of a pendulum or random such as the movement of a tire on a gravel road.Vibration is occasionally "desirable"...

, Localised elastic waves in complex structures, Structure-borne vehicle interior noise. He has authored/co-authored/edited five books and more than 250 journal and conference papers.

He has been involved actively in the professional life of the acoustic community in the UK and overseas, serving as a member of the Research Coordination Committee of the Institute of Acoustics
Institute of Acoustics
The Institute of Acoustics is a British professional engineering institution founded in 1974. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers. The Institute's address is 77A St Peters Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3BN,...

 (IOA), the Committee of the joint Physical Acoustics Group of the Institute of Acoustics
Institute of Acoustics
The Institute of Acoustics is a British professional engineering institution founded in 1974. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers. The Institute's address is 77A St Peters Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3BN,...

 (IOA) and the Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....

 (IOP), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences , mainly to universities in the United Kingdom...

 (EPSRC) Peer Review College. He is a fellow of the Institute of Acoustics
Institute of Acoustics
The Institute of Acoustics is a British professional engineering institution founded in 1974. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers. The Institute's address is 77A St Peters Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3BN,...

, member of the Acoustical Society of America
Acoustical Society of America
The Acoustical Society of America is an international scientific society dedicated to increasing and diffusing the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications.-History:...

, member of the European Mechanics Society, member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
Edinburgh Mathematical Society
The Edinburgh Mathematical Society is the leading mathematical society in Scotland.The Society was founded in 1883 by a group of Edinburgh schoolteachers and academics, on the initiative of A. Y. Fraser and A. J. G. Barclay, teachers at George Watson's College and Cargill Gilston Knott, who was the...

. He serves in the Editorial Boards of the journals 'Applied Acoustics' and 'Journal of Sound and Vibration
Journal of Sound and Vibration
The Journal of Sound and Vibration is a scientific journal in the field of acoustics. It is published by Elsevier.-External links:*...

'.

External links

Loughborough University profile

Professor Victor Krylov profile

Books

• Krasil'nikov, V.A., Krylov, V.V., Introduction to Physical Acoustics (in Russian), Nauka, Moscow, 1984.

• Krasil'nikov, V.A., Krylov, V.V., Surface Acoustic Waves (in Russian), Znanie, Moscow, 1985.

• Krylov, V.V., Basic Principles of Sound Radiation and Scattering (in Russian), Moscow University Press, Moscow, 1989.

• Biryukov, S.V., Gulyaev, Yu.V., Krylov, V.V., Plessky, V.P., Surface Acoustic Waves in Inhomogeneous Media, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1995.

• Krylov, V.V. (ed), Noise and Vibration from High Speed Trains, Thomas Telford Publishing, London, 2001.
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