Andrii A. Plugin

Position: Head of the Department, Professor

Science degree, academic title: Doctor of Technical Sciences (Civil Engineering), Professor

Year of birth: 1963

Education:

Civil Engineer in Railways (CEng) since 1985. He graduated from the Civil Engineering Faculty of the Kharkiv Institute of Railway Engineers in specialty Civil Engineering in Railways, Track and Track Facilities

Candidate of Technical Sciences (PhD) since 1994. He defended his dissertation at the Kharkiv Civil Engineering Institute in specialty Building Materials and Products. Dissertation topic: “Improvement of the composition and structure of concrete taking into account the electrical surface properties of its components to increase the strength and stability of ring products”, supervisor – winner of the State Prizes of the USSR and Ukraine, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, DSc, Prof V.I. Babusnkin

Doctor of Technical Sciences (DSc) since 2006. He defended his dissertation at the Kharkiv State Technical University of Civil Engineering and Architecture in specialty Building materials and products. Dissertation topic: “Durability of concrete and reinforced concrete in water-saturated structures: Colloid-chemical bases”, scientific consultant – winner of the State Prizes of the USSR and Ukraine, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, DSc, Prof V.I. Babusnkin

Scientific activity direction:

development of theoretical and experimental bases of composition, structure, properties, destruction, corrosion, durability, technology of concrete and reinforced concrete, restoration of operational properties and protection of railway and building structures

Scientific adviser of the branch research laboratory of subrail bases and special reinforced concrete

Full member of the Academy of Civil Engineering of Ukraine and the Transport Academy of Ukraine

Deputy Chairman of the Specialized Academic Council D 64.820.02; Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on the examination of dissertations in architecture, construction and geodesy; expert of the section in the professional field “Construction Technologies, Design, Architecture” of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine; member of the branch expert council “Architecture and Construction” of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education; member of the technical committee for standardization “Roads and transport facilities”; member of the editorial boards of the Collected Scientific Works of Ukrainian State University of Railway Transport, Scientific Papers Сollection “Bridges and tunnels: theory, research, practice”, Bulletin of Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Author:

more than 400 scientific works and educational and methodical developments, including 16 monographs, 9 textbooks, 27 patents for inventions, many regulations: national standards, state and industry building codes, technical conditions of Ukraine, enterprise standards, instructions, rules of Ukrainian Railways. Has prepared 8 Candidates of Sciences (PhD), 1 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and 2 Doctors of Sciences (DSc)

Awards and diplomas:

Gratitude of the Minister of Transport and Communications of Ukraine (2007); Diploma of the State Administration of Railway Transport of Ukraine (2009); Railway Glory Badge of the Third Degree (2010); Diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sports of Ukraine (2011); Diploma of the Transport Academy of Ukraine (2012); Sign “For the Promotion of Railway Transport” (2013); Diploma of the South-Western Railway (2015); Commemorative sign “150 years of railway troops” (2015); Gratitude of the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine (2018); Laureate of the Prize named after Academician M.S. Budnikov of the Academy of Civil Engineering of Ukraine (2019); Laureate of the Prize of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (2019); Scholar of the nominal scholarship of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration named after Academician G.F. Proskura for outstanding scientists (2021)

Featured publications:

Andrii Plugin, Oleksandr Donets, Liudmyla Trykoz, Oleksii Pluhin. Electromechanical control method of rheological and technological characteristics of building mixtures. Results in Engineering 20 (2023) 101419.

Плугін А.А., Борзяк О.С., Плугін О.А., Крикун О.П., Зінченко В.В. Розвиток уявлень про електрокорозію конструкцій залізничної колії та удосконалення способів їхнього захисту з застосуванням електропровідних композицій. Збірник наукових праць Українського державного університету залізничного транспорту. 204 (2023) 35-52.

Andrii Plugin, Olga Borziak, Andrii Nykytynskyi, A. Zhyhlo, Vitalii Zhuravel. Correlation between crystallographic characteristics (according to the X-ray structural analysis data) and electrosurface mineral potentials. AIP Conference Proceedings 2684, 040019 (2023). 

Tatiana Kostyuk, Andrii Plugin, Olha Starkova, Dmitro Bondarenko, Olga Borziak. Software tools for development of a methodology for selecting construction materials according to their performance characteristics. AIP Conference Proceedings 2684, 040010 (2023).

Plugin, A.; Rucińska, T.; Borziak, O.; Pluhin, O.; Zhuravel, V.  Electrically Conductive Silicate Composite for Protection against Electrocorrosion. Minerals 2023, 13(5), 610. 

Plugin, A., Murygina, N., Miroshnichenko, S., Kaliuzhna, O. (2023). Materials for Connecting Railway Reinforced Concrete Bridge Deck with Steel Bridge Structures. In: Blikharskyy, Z. (eds) Proceedings of EcoComfort 2022. EcoComfort 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 290. Springer, Cham.

Andrii Plugin, Olga Borziak, Sergii Miroshnichenko, Oksana Krykun, and Vladyslava Zinchenko, Effect of internal concrete corrosion on reinforced-concrete sleepers. AIP Conference Proceedings 2557 (1) (2022) 070004. 

Плугін А.А., Калюжна О.В., Борзяк О.С., Плугін О.А., Савченко О.М. Надшвидке отримання передаточної міцності бетону залізобетонних шпал за допомогою комплексних добавок. Збірник наукових праць УкрДУЗТ, 197 (2021) 44-63.

Плугін А.А., Плугін Д.А., Мірошніченко С.В., Калінін О.А., Крикун О.П. Дослідження бетону залізобетонних шпал, що зазнали пошкоджень під час експлуатації. Мости та тунелі: теорія, дослідження, практика, 20 (2021) 56-65.

Плугін А.А., Калінін О.А., Мірошніченко С.В., Звєрєва А.С., Голіней В М., Ляхов М.С. Модель проникнення ін’єкційних цементних розчинів у заобробкові тріщинуваті скельні породи. Збірник наукових праць УкрДУЗТ, 196 (2021) 57-69.

Плугін А.А., Крикун О.П., Зінченко В.В., Борзяк О.С., Дудін О.А. Вплив корозії бетону від взаємодії лугів цементу з реакційноздатними заповнювачами на пошкодження залізобетонних шпал у колії. Збірник наукових праць УкрДУЗТ, 196 (2021) 43-57.

A.A.Plugin, O.A.Pluhin, V.V.Kasyanov, O.I.Dyomina, D.O.Bondarenko. Portland cement-based penetrating electrically conductive composition for protection against electrocorrosion. Funct. Mater. 2021; 28 (1): 121-130.

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