Sergei Stepanovich Balandin ( July 4, 1907 , the village of Zabornaya, Krasnokamsky District, Molotov Region - September 12, 1992 , Moscow ) is a Soviet designer of aircraft engines of the rod - less design.
| Sergey Stepanovich Balandin | |
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| Date of Birth | July 4, 1907 |
| Place of Birth | Zabornaya village, Krasnokamsky district, Molotov Oblast, Russia |
| Date of death | September 12, 1992 (aged 85) |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russia |
| A country |  Russian Empire  the USSR |
| Scientific field | mechanics , aircraft |
| Known as | Creator of the Aircraft Internal Combustion Engines |
Biography
Sergei Stepanovich Balandin is a designer of piston aircraft engines of an unusual rodless design developed in the USSR in the 1930s and 1940s. Major General Aviation. The successful application of the ellipsographic principle together with the absence of connecting rods and their counterweights on the crankshaft made it possible to create fairly compact and theoretically perfectly balanced internal combustion engines.
Development
In the period from 1937 to 1951, several engine modifications were developed and tested - from a simple experimental four-cylinder engine (OMB, 80β140 hp) to an eight-cylinder double-acting engine (OM127-RNb 3200 hp).
Engines with much higher powers (10,000 - 14,000 hp) were also designed, but were not brought to mass production due to the advent of jet and turbojet engines , as well as the complexity of the scheme proposed by Balandin.
Interest in the engines of the rod-free circuit remains today, and from time to time there are notes in the press about new solutions that eliminate the shortcomings of one of the BSM modifications described by Sergei Stepanovich Balandin on the pages of his book βRodless internal combustion enginesβ, which was published in two editions, in 1968 and 1972 respectively.
Some [ who? ] are convinced that at present another obstacle to the promotion of rodless engines on the market is the explicit or implicit resistance of engine manufacturers of the traditional crank scheme and parts for them.
Rewards
The Government of the USSR praised the labor merits of S. S. Balandin, awarding him orders and medals.
Bibliography
- S. S. Balandin. Rodless internal combustion engines . - 2. - M .: Mechanical Engineering, 1972. - 176 p. - 7000 copies.
Sources
- The Museum Of Retro Technology Parsons Epicyclic Engine (2007). Date of treatment January 30, 2008. Archived March 4, 2012.
- Hartmann Gerard Motor Burlet - the predecessor of Balandin motors . Gerard Hartmann (2007). Date of treatment August 19, 2008. Archived March 4, 2012.
- E.P. Golubkov Inventor: Balandin Sergey Stepanovich (2007). Date of treatment January 30, 2008. Archived March 4, 2012.