Prof.dr. A. Metrikine

Prof.dr. A. Metrikine

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Biography

Andrei is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. Currently he is Chair of the Department of Engineering Structures and Head of Section of Offshore Engineering within the Department of Hydraulic Engineering.   Andrei also holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sound and Vibration. Andrei graduated in radio-physics from the State University of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia in 1989 and received his PhD and DSc in 1992 and 1998 in St.Petersburg, Russia.  In 1994-1998 he held a number of post-doctoral positions, including one at the Institute for Mechanics of the Hannover University, Germany awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. Since 1999 Andrei is employed by TU Delft. 

Projects

Andrei currently leads 2 large projects, namely
1. Loads and Damage within the EUROS perspective program (5 PhD students) 2. GDP: Gentle Driving of Piles (3 PhD students and 2 post-docs)
He is currently promotor of 18 PhD students who are pursuing their PhD degree. The topics of the PhD studies are listed at Andrei's homepage http://homepage.tudelft.nl/v5u5c/ 

Expertise

Andrei’s research interests focus on vibrations of and waves in structures that are in contact with solids and fluids and on the dynamics of complex materials. The main application areas of his research include:

  • Dynamics of offshore wind turbines with the focus on foundations
  • Dynamics of high-speed trains and railway lines 
  • Dynamics of flexible offshore structures
In terms of fundamentals of vibrations of structures and associated waves in the surrounding media Andrei is most interested in the nonlinear synchronization phenomena (VIV, human-induced vibrations of bridges, ice-induced vibrations), wave-induced instabilities (dynamics of high-speed trains) and multi-physics interactions, including electro- and magneto-elasticity. His research interests also extend to the areas of structural acoustics and pile driving by means of shakers operating at high frequencies.
Andrei is also a professional teacher. Especially he enjoys being a supervisor of MSc graduation theses. To-date, he was involved as university supervisor and chair in nearly 400 theses. 

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Prizes

  • 2022

    David Hislop Award

    The winner of this year’s David Hislop Award (also known as the Offshore award) is Frequency effects in the dynamic lateral stiffness of monopiles in sand: insight from field tests and 3D FE modelling, by Evangelos Kementzetzidis, Andrei V. Metrikine, Willem G. Versteijlen and Federico Pisanò.

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