Background
PAPKOVICH, Pyotr was born on April 5, 1887.
PAPKOVICH, Pyotr was born on April 5, 1887.
1911 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Polytech Institute.
From 1911 helped design and build warships and merchant and passenger vessels. From 1916 lectured on construction mech at Leningrad Polytech Institute. 1925-1930 professor, Leningrad Polytech Institute.
1934-1940 professor, Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. From 1934 professor Naval Academy. Developed and perfected methods of calculating the static and dynamic loading of modem ship structures.
Did important research on elasticity theory. 1932 solved the problem of elasticity theory with displacement in the form of harmonic functions. Studied general theorems of the stability of an elastic system.
Devised and proved experimental methods of studying ship strength. Wrote course on Stroitel’naya mekhanika korablya (Construction Ship Machanics).
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1933.