Professor Pavel Trivailo

Employment history

• Jan 03 – current, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, School of Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering (SAMME), RMIT.
• Nov 02 – Nov 03 Discipline Director, Aerospace & Systems Engineering, School of Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering (SAMME), RMIT.
• Aug 01 – Mar 03, Chair, Engineering Centre for Aerospace, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Automotive & Renewable Energy Research, RMIT.
• Sep 96 – current, Head and Research Task Manager, RMIT/DSTO-Australia Centre of Expertise in Aerodynamic Loading (CoE-AL).
• Jan 97 – current, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering, RMIT.
• Feb 97 - Dec 97, Senior Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering, RMIT.
• Feb 94 - Feb 97, ARC Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering, RMIT.
• Oct 92 - Jun 94:Researcher (for the project with Missile Systems Analysis Group, Weapon Systems Div., DSTO), Dept of Aerospace, RMIT.
• Aug 92:Immigration to Australia.
• Apr 91 - Feb 92, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director (Science and Technology), Aerospace Research and Design Consultancy Company "MISHID" of the Russian-American Joint Venture "ELBE".
• Oct 89 - Mar 91, National Patent Expert (part-time) at the USSR National Scientific Technical Institute of State Patent Expertise, The State Committee on Inventions and Discoveries.
• Apr 88 - Mar 91, Senior Research Fellow and A/Prof (part time) at the Moscow "K.E.Tsiolkovsky" Institute of Aviation Technology (MATI) in Strength Structural Design and Vibrations, and Aircraft & Spacecraft Engineering.
• Dec 83 - Mar 88, Senior Researcher Fellow, Research Institute of Strength Problems (RISP), Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
• Apr 81 - Dec 83, Research Fellow, Research Institute of Strength Problems (RISP), Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
• Apr 80 - Mar 81, Researcher (Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Scholarship), Research Institute of Strength Problems (RISP).

Other achievements

• RMIT “Discovery Research Award-2003”.
• DSTO Australia/DARPA (USA) Research Contract “Mach 5/50” [2003-cur].
• ARC Discovery Grant-2003/04 “Remote Delivery and Capture of Payloads using Aerial Deployed Tethers”.
• RMIT PhD Supervisor of the Year 2000.Supervised 33 Postgraduate research students at RMIT (including 14 current, and 27 for which he is a Senior Supervisor).
• Japanese Government Award-2002 for Australia-Japan PhD exchange

Community Interaction

• Associated Editor & Member of Editorial Board of the International Journal on Inverse Problems in Science & Engineering (IPSE).
• RMIT Representative at the Avalon Airshows (2003, 2001, 1999).
• Invited Lecture for the Royal Society of Victoria, Australia, Thursday, 13 July 2000.
• Instructor at the International Short Course “The State of the Art in Vibration-Based Structural Damage Identification“. Instructors: Dr.C.R.Farrar, Dr S.W.Doebling (Los Alamos Dynamics, USA) & Dr. P.M.Trivailo (RMIT).
• Member of The International Tethered Satellite Committee (Chaired by Prof H.Fujii, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan), 1998-cur

Specialisation:

• Vibration
• Dynamics
• Control of Complex Systems

Current main areas of research interest:

• Non-linear dynamic modelling of the Space Tethered Systems
• Dynamic and Control of Underwater and Aerial Towed Systems
• Smart structures, control systems design, vibrations, structural health monitoring and parameter identification in large flexible structures/systems
• Synthesis of Smart Engineering Control Systems for Industrial Applications
• Aircraft loads
• Non-linear co-rotational FE modelling of elastic systems
• Sport Dynamics
• Virtual Engineering Design
• Non-linear and linear aircraft flight dynamics, stability and automatic flight controls, spacecraft dynamics
• Design of aircraft and space mechanisms
• Dynamic stability and flow-induced vibration of complex gas(fluid)/structuresystems
• Smart Energy Sourcing From Structural Deformatio

• May 1991, Tenure Rank (Qualification) of Senior Research Fellow in Structural Dynamics and Strength of Apparatuses & Machines, the National Highest Accreditation Board at the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
• Dec.1980, PhD, Research Institute of Strength Problems of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences & Highest Accreditation Board of the USSR.
• Feb.1980, Master of Engineering Sciences from the Ukrainian National Polytechnical University (UNPU).
• Aug.1978, Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (First Class Honours) from the Ukrainian National Polytechnical University (UNPU)

Affiliations / Professional memberships

• 1994 – current, Member of The IEAust (Engineers, Australia), CPEng
• 1997 – 2002, Member of The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration
• 2000 – 2003, Member of Royal Society of Victoria

Industry collaboration

• Head (1999-cur) and Research Task Manager (1996-current) for the DSTO Platforms Sciences Laboratory (Airframes and Engines Division) Centre of Expertise in Aerodynamic Loading (CoE-AL
• Project Leader for DSTO/DARPA “Mach 5/50“ Project at RMIT, 2003-cur;
• Project Leader for the DSTO (Maritime and Platforms Division) Research Project on Dynamic and Control of Uninhabited Underwater Vehicles (Minehunters), 2002-cur;
• Chief Investigator for the ARC Linkages Grants with Holden (1997-2003).
• Chief Investigator for the DSTO (Weapon Systems Division, Missile Systems Analysis Group) Research Project, 1992-1994