Professor Dyuis D. Ivlev. Dedication to 85th Birtday

Dyuis D. Ivlev (1930-2013) is an outstanding scientist in the fields of Continuum Mechanics (theory of Perfect Plasticity and Fracture) and AppliedMathematics. He has much contributed to the mathematical theory of plasticity, especially to study of hyperbolic three-dimensional problems of theperfect plasticity. Dyuis D. Ivlev was born in Chuvashia Republick, Russia, on September 6, 1930. In 1948 he left Chuvashia and after passing examinations entered Moscow State University. He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate(1953) of Moscow State University. In 1953 he continued his research workas a post graduate student of the same university. In 1956 he received PhDin Solid Mechanics from Moscow State University. The title of his PhD dissertation work is Approximate Solution of Elasti-Plastic Problems by thesmall parameter method. Three years later he was awarded DSc (Phys. &Math.) Degree from Moscow State University for his dissertation study Three-Dimensional Problem of the Theory of Perfect Plasticity. Since 1959he has been working as head of the Department of Elasticity and Plasticityof Voronezh State University, then (1966-1970) as Prof. of Bauman StateTechnical University and (1971-1982) as head of the Department of Higher Mathematics of Russian Polytechnical University. In 1982 he returned toChuvashia working in Chuvash State University (until 1993) and ChuvashState Pedagogical University (1993-2013) as head of Department of Mathematical Analysis. Prof. Dyuis D. Ivlev has been a member of National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Scientific Council on Problems of SolidMechanics, Mathematics and Mechanics Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Committee. He is the author of several books on theory of perfectplasticity and its applications and nearly 250 papers on the subject.