Dr. Andrei Metrikine

Professor
Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands

Professor Engineering
Biography

Andrei Metrikine is currently Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor and is head of the Wave Mechanics Research Group, based in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He 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.

Research Intrest

Offshore Engineering

List of Publications
Vortex-induced vibrations of a freely vibrating cylinder near a plane boundary: Experimental investigation and theoretical modelling
The in-plane free vibration of an elastically supported thin ring rotating at high speeds revisited
Initial results of a study into the estimation of the development of frequency lock-in for offshore structures subjected to ice loading

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