Eduard I. Starovoitov is currently the professor of the Structural Mechanics, Geotechnics, and Building Structures Department, Belarusian State University of Transport (BSUT). His scientific interests are the stress–strain state of elastoplastic and viscoelastic laminated structural elements under the influence of quasi-static and dynamic loads. Prof. E. Starovoitov is the founder and leader of the Belarusian Scientific School for research of stress–strain state of layered viscoelastic-plastic elements of structures operating under conditions of complex static and dynamic effects in thermal and radiation fields. He has supervised 2 Doctors of Science and 11 Doctors of Philosophy (candidates of sciences). Prof. E. Starovoitov has more than 350 scientific works. There are 10 monographs; 10 textbooks, courses of lectures. More than 100 articles published in prestigious international scientific journals.Michael A. Zhuravkov is currently the head of the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Department, Belarusian State University (BSU), Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty. Prof. Zhuravkov is the science leader of research laboratory of Applied Mechanics. He has finished Belarusian State University in 1984, and he was postgraduate student of Belarusian State University, Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty, Department of Mechanics. His scientific interests are mathematics and computer modeling in Continuum mechanics, solid mechanics, geomechanics (rock mechanics), and biomechanics.Prof. Zhuravkov has more than 450 scientific works.He was working as a visiting professor at the Harbin University of Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology (China), Krakow Pedagogical University (Poland), Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), Royal Institute of Technology, KTH (Sweden), and others universities.Denis V. Leonenko is currently the head of the Structural Mechanics, Geotechnics, and Building Structures Department of the Belarusian State University of Transport. His scientific interests are mechanics of a deformable solid body and section-deformation of layered structural elements. He has supervised 1 Doctor of Philosophy (candidates of sciences) and 2 masters. Prof. D. Leonenko has more than 250 scientific works. He is the author of 5 monographs and courses of lectures. More than 70 articles are published in prestigious international scientific journals.Yongtao Lyu is currently an associate professor at the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, China. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s of engineering degrees (2001–2007) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (nationally TOP 10), China. Then he received the EPSRC scholarship and completed his Ph.D. study (2007–2010) at Cardiff University, UK. Afterward, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher (2010–2013) at the Institute of Biomechanics, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, and then as a senior research associate (2013–2015) at the Institute for Insilico Medicine, the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr. Lyu’s main research interests lie primarily in the mechanical behavior of biomaterials, the computational modeling of human body systems, and the bionic design of bone scaffolds. Dr. Lyu has published over 40 SCI-indexed academic papers.
