Specialist in the field of reliability, strength and durability handling and power equipment. Author of over 400 scientific publications, including 29 monographs and textbooks, 35 patents, and 12 certificates of state registration of computer programs.\r\nMain scientific interests:\r\n— theoretical and applied research in the field of industrial safety of hazardous industrial objects in relation to lifting machines, boiler equipment, pipelines and pressure vessels, including their design, reliability analysis, risk analysis, expert diagnostics, security, mathematical modeling and optimization, and automation design and calculation works;\r\n— development of the statistical theory of erosion of materials and structures, the creation of probabilistic methods of predicting the wear resistance and mass transfer for power equipment, research and computer modeling of problems of reliability, strength and wear of steam turbines.