CONCRETE

[:ru]Гусев Б. В.[:en]Gussev B. V.[:] [:ru]член–корреспондент РАН, д. т. н., проф., Московский государственный университет путей сообщения (МИИТ)[:en]Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Eng. Sciences, Professor, Moscow State University of Transport Communications (MIIT)[:]

Alitinform №4-5 (11) 2009 г. 57-62 p.

Abstract

In 2009 there will be centenary of the birth of an outstanding scientist in the field of construction materials science — Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Engineering Science, Professor Alexander Efremovich Sheikin.

Professor Alexander E. Sheikin is a founder in the establishing of science of cement concrete which presents one of the main directions of contemporary materials science in the field of construction, and he is one of the greatest scientists who have been studying processes of curing, strength and deformability of cement concrete.

In 1930 he entered the Leningrad Chemical-Technological Institute where he has been studying in two faculties — of silicates and of engineering and economics. In 1935 he graduated from the institute with Honour’s degree of diploma and started to work in production sphere. In 1936 Alexander Sheikin entered a PhD programme in the Leningrad Institute of Railway Transportation, in the department «Construction materials» and simultaneously entered into a scientific school — «Beliaev’s School». It consisted of then young scientists who later became widely known, both in Russia and abroad, they were professors V. P. Petrov, I. P. Alexandrin, A. V. Satalkin, V. A. Gastev and others. And A. Sheikin ranks rather high among them.

Having been studying properties of cement concrete, A. E. Sheikin became one of the first in the world who began to study and improve properties of the main component of this material — cement, and of a product of its hydration — cement stone (cement brick). Even the first works completed by Sheikin in 1936–1942 [1] laid foundation for a new direction in studying concrete’s properties.