Academic Degrees, Titles and Awards

• 1988 – Ph.D. in Engineering at specialty “Friction and Wear in Machines”.
• 1990 – Senior Research Scientist at specialty “Friction and Wear in Machines”.
• 1994 – Doctor of engineering at specialty “Railway Rolling Stock and Haulage of Train”.
• 1999 – Professor at the Department of Hydraulic Gas Dynamics.
• 2004 – High Achiever of Education of Ukraine.
• 2007 – Scientific Achievement Medal.
• 2008 – Academician of the Engineering Academy of Ukraine.
• 2010 – Honoured Master of Sciences and Engineering of Ukraine.

Lines of Research of Scientific School

• Technical and economic efficiency of friction brakes of automobile and railway transport.
• Decreasing wear intensity of heavy-duty friction units.
• Automobile and railway transport safety.
• Antiterrorist safety of transport passengers.

Performed Research Projects

• Increase of efficiency of disc brake by means of selecting combination of 2+n friction materials in friction unit.
• Automated detection of foreign objects at the rails based on Rayleigh surface waves.
• Increase of wheel-rail adhesion by means of impulse supply of quartz sand under the wheels proportionally with movement speed.
• Decrease of wear intensity of rolling stock wheels by means of dosed discrete lubricating surface of wheel flange by solid lubrication.
• Raising of efficiency of disc brake by means of forced cooling of disc working elements.
• Mechanical valve for abrasive environment that implements principle of force minimization when interacting.
• Wheel pair for special railway transport with protection against derailment.
• Automation system for detecting cracks and reducing attachment of elements of locomotive underframe.
• Study of the force interaction of the wheel-rail tribological system when quartz sand is introduced into contact.

Inventions Introduced into Production

• Results of researches in wheel-rail adhesion improvement, wheel wear rate reduction and disk brake efficiency improvement are used at the enterprises of France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine.
• The device that increases wheel-rail adhesion by supplying quartz sand in proportion to the movement speed is installed on trams produced by Electrontrans (Lviv).
• The device for lubricating wheel flanges is installed on the trams produced by Electrontrans (Lviv).

Current Scientific Projects

• Disc brake based on applying nanomodified carbon-carbon friction materials for high-speed electric trains with a speed of 350-450 km/h.
• System for antiterrorist safety of railway passengers that provides automated train control in the case of terrorist act commitment.
• Magnetic system to improve wheel-rail adhesion due to supplying ferric oxide to wheel-and-rail contact.
• Sand-filling machines for trams and locomotives based on applying gravitation and mechanical method.

Top-qualification specialist training

Yurii Osenin has trained:

• eleven Ph.D. in Engineering Science at specialty 05.22.07 – “Railway Rolling Stock and Haulage of Train”;
• eighteen masters at specialties 8.04020202 – “Hydraulic Gas Dynamics” and 8.05050205 – “Hydraulic Machines, Hydraulic Power and Hydraulic and Pneumatic Control Systems”.

Publications

More than 200 scientific works including 6 monographs and 114 patents of France, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, Ukraine

Language Skills

• Russian
• Ukrainian
• German

Hobby

• Hatha yoga
• running.