Igor Shabalin

Igor Shabalin was born in the town of Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast, USSR. After graduating from high school with a gold medal in 1967, Shabalin began studying Technology of Less-common, Dissipative and Radioactive Elements (Chemical Engineering for Nuclear Industry) in the Ural Polytechnic Institute (USTU-UPI), Sverdlovsk (now – Yekaterinburg). Shabalin attracted the attention of one of the leaders of the Soviet military industrial complex D. F. Ustinov,^[3] who recommended him to the Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for the city of Sverdlovsk, then - the Minister of General Machine Building of the USSR S. A. Afanasyev. As a result, Shabalin accomplished his student diploma work within the themes of this Ministry, with which his research activities were directly related until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991..^{[citation needed]}

After graduating from the university with an honorary diploma in 1973, Shabalin continued his studies with a postgraduate scholarship under the supervision of Vasilii G. Vlasov,^[4] obtaining his PhD degree in 1977 for the materials science and engineering of high-temperature carbide–carbon composites.^{[citation needed]}

His early work was on hetero-modulus ceramic composites,^[1] which were called "high-E – low-E materials"^[5] in the US, that Shabalin began to study during his PhD. Some of his experimental works, dating back to this period, about 20 years later led him to the discovery of the "ridge effect" phenomenon^[6] in the oxidation of carbon-containing compounds and composite materials.^{[citation needed]}

He worked on the optimization of microstructure and investigations of the properties of carbide–carbon composite materials, based on carbides of transition metals of groups 4-6. In 1982 for the creation of technological equipment for the production of similar materials, the team of designers and researchers was awarded a gold medal of the USSR Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy.^{[citation needed]}

Generalization and further development of these works led Shabalin to the creation of general concept and theory of design of hetero-modulus ceramic materials^[1] intended for the application in extreme conditions. For the implementation of promising developments of novel materials in products in the aerospace industry, by an order of the Minister of General Machine Building of the USSR, Scientific & Research Aerospace Industry Laboratory (ONIL-123) was established in 1984 under the leadership of Shabalin with the pilot production on the basis of one of the refractory plants of Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy.

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he worked as an assistant/advisor to his university colleague, Member and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma (Parliament) of the Russian Federation V. A. Yazev, whilst also was collaborating with a number of universities in Yekaterinburg as Professor of Economics, including the foundation of Department of Anti-Crisis Management (Insolvency Law) at the Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University (RSVPU). Since 2005, he has been a research fellow and Professor at the University of Salford Materials and Physics Research Centre.^[7]

Over the course of his scientific career, Shabalin has published around 350 scientific and technical papers and held over 40 Russian patents and author's certificates. The culmination of this activity has become his multi-volume book series "Ultra-High Temperature Materials", continuing the best traditions of the Ukrainian scientific school in Materials Science and Engineering of refractory compounds.^{[8][9][10][11][12]}

• Gorinskii, S. G.; Shabalin, I. L.; Korshunov, I. G.; Beketov, A. R.; Kokorin, A. F. (April 1979). "Thermophysical properties of hot-pressed TiC-C and ZrC-C composite materials at high temperatures". Soviet Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics. 18 (4): 266–269. doi:10.1007/BF00793813.
• Pakholkov, V. V.; Gorinskii, S. G.; Beketov, A. R.; Shabalin, I. L.; Ragozin, S. V. (August 1986). "Texture of hot-pressed vanadium carbide-carbon materials". Soviet Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics. 25 (8): 661–663. doi:10.1007/BF00796736.
• Zhukov, Yu. N.; Cherepanov, A. V.; Beketov, A. R.; Shabalin, I. L. (April 1991). "Inspection of the nonuniformity of a ceramic compact for machining by hardness measurement". Soviet Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics. 30 (4): 349–351. doi:10.1007/BF00795973.
• Shabalin, Igor L.; Roach, Daniel L. (January 2007). "Synthetic resin-bonded transition-metal carbide–carbon hetero-modulus ceramics". Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 27 (12): 3527–3538. doi:10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2007.02.198.
• Shabalin, Igor L.; Roach, Daniel L.; Shabalin, Leonid I. (December 2008). "Oxidation of titanium carbide–graphite hetero-modulus ceramics with low carbon content". Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 28 (16): 3165–3176. doi:10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2008.04.035.
• Shabalin, I.L.; Vishnyakov, V.M.; Bull, D.J.; Keens, S.G.; Yamshchikov, L.F.; Shabalin, L.I. (March 2009). "Initial stages of oxidation of near-stoichiometric titanium carbide at low oxygen pressures". Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 472 (1–2): 373–377. doi:10.1016/j.jallcom.2008.04.067.
• Shabalin, I. (September 2009). "Advances in materials science of metals, ceramics, and composites at the turn of the millennium:: Review of the encyclopedia 'Inorganic materials science', G. G. Gnesin and V. V. Skorokhod (eds.), Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 2008–2009". Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics. 48 (9–10): 610–612. doi:10.1007/s11106-010-9175-y.
• Shabalin, I L; Wang, Y; Krynkin, A V; Umnova, O V; Vishnyakov, V M; Shabalin, L I; Churkin, V K (October 2010). "Physicomechanical properties of ultrahigh temperature heteromodulus ceramics based on group 4 transition metal carbides". Advances in Applied Ceramics. 109 (7): 405–415. Bibcode:2010AdApC.109..405S. doi:10.1179/174367509X12535211569431.
• Pasupuleti, R.; Wang, Y.; Shabalin, I.; Li, L.Y.; Liu, Z.; Grove, S. (March 2011). "Modelling of moisture diffusion in multilayer woven fabric composites". Computational Materials Science. 50 (5): 1675–1680. doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2010.12.028.
• Yu. Popov, A.; Sivak, A. A.; Yu. Borodianska, H.; Shabalin, I. L. (April 2015). "High toughness TiB 2 –Al 2 O 3 composite ceramics produced by reactive hot pressing with fusible components". Advances in Applied Ceramics. 114 (3): 178–182. Bibcode:2015AdApC.114..178Y. doi:10.1179/1743676114Y.0000000202.
• Oleiwi, Hayder M.; Wang, Yu; Curioni, Michele; Chen, Xianyi; Yao, Guowen; Augusthus-Nelson, Levingshan; Ragazzon-Smith, A. H.; Shabalin, Igor (December 2018). "An experimental study of cathodic protection for chloride contaminated reinforced concrete". Materials and Structures. 51 (6) 148. doi:10.1617/s11527-018-1273-1. PMC 6394418. PMID 30881196.

• Shabalin, Igor L. (2014). Ultra-High Temperature Materials I. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7587-9. ISBN 978-94-007-7586-2.
• Shabalin, Igor L. (2019). Ultra-High Temperature Materials II. doi:10.1007/978-94-024-1302-1. ISBN 978-94-024-1300-7.
• Shabalin, Igor L. (2020). Ultra-High Temperature Materials III. doi:10.1007/978-94-024-2039-5. ISBN 978-94-024-2037-1.
• Shabalin, Igor L. (2022). Ultra-High Temperature Materials IV. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-07175-1. ISBN 978-3-031-07174-4.
• Shabalin, Igor L. (2025). Ultra-High Temperature Materials V. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-90263-5. ISBN 978-3-031-90262-8.