Nina Orlovskaya

Associate Professor

Email: nina.orlovskaya@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-5770
Office: ENG I, Room 217

Office Hours: Mondays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 2:30-5 p.m.

Associate Professor Nina Orlovskaya works in design and development of novel advanced ceramics and ceramic composites. She graduated from Kiev Polytechnic Institute, with a B.S./M.S. in ceramics and she obtained her Ph.D. in materials science from the Institute for Problems of Materials Science at the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in Kiev.

She worked as a postdoc at the University of Vienna in Austria, the University of Hamburg-Harburg in Germany, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Her teaching interest lies in solid mechanics, research methods in mechanical and aerospace engineering and the introduction to ceramic materials, among others. Her favorite course to teach is “Science and Technology of Fuel Cells.”

Orlovskaya works on oxide and non-oxide ceramics and ceramic composites studying their synthesis, processing conditions, structural properties and mechanical behavior. Her interest in oxide ceramics lies in the area of electrochemically active ceramics mostly with fluorite and perovskite structures that are used for solid oxide fuel cells, oxygen separation membranes, chemical sensors or catalysis.

She and her students use presureless sintering to process Sc2O3, CeO2 or Y2O3 doped ZrO2, Gd2O3 doped CeO2, and LaCoO3, LaMnO3, LaFeO3 based perovskites. She studies oxide crystal structure using X-ray and neutron diffraction as well as micro-Raman spectroscopy, and she studies their instantaneous and time dependent mechanical behavior using four point bending and uniaxial compression.

She also works on the synthesis of boron rich solids through which she and her students discovered new OsB2 and IrB2 borides with ReB2-type hexagonal structures. Orlovskaya works intensively on the mechanical behavior of ZrB2, B4C, and SiC ceramics and ceramic composites and, in particular, is interested in their static and cyclic fatigue behavior.

Ceramics and ceramic composites
Mechanical properties
Raman spectroscopy
Energy conversion
Ceramic processing

Terracciano, A.C., De Oliveira, S.T., Vasu, S.S., Orlovskaya, N., LaCoO₃ catalytically enhanced MgO partially stabilized ZrO₂ in heterogeneous methane combustion, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 90, 330-335, 2018.
Lugovy, M., Orlovskaya, N., Pathak, S., Lara-Curcio, E., Radovic, M., Verbulo, D., Kuebler, J., Reece, M., Time and frequency dependent mechanical properties of LaCoO₃ based perovskites: I. Negative creep and internal friction, Appl. Phys, 124, 20, 205103, 2018.
Lugovy, M., Orlovskaya, N., Graule, T., Kuebler, J., Reece, M., Chen, Y., Ma, D., An, K., Time and frequency dependent mechanical properties of LaCoO₃ based perovskites: II. Neutron diffraction and domain mobility, Appl. Phys, 124, 20, 205104, 2018.
Lugovy, M., Orlovskaya, N., Slyunyayev,V., Mitrentsis, E., Neumann, M., Aneziris, C., Jelitto, H., Schneider, G.A., Kuebler, J., Comparative study of static and cyclic fatigue of ZrB₂-SiC ceramic composites, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 38, 4, 1128-1135, 2018
Terracciano, A.C., De Oliveira, S., Vazquez-Molina, D., Uribe-Romo, F.J., Vasu, S.S., Orlovskaya, N., Effect of catalytically active Ce₈Gd_0.2O_1.9 coating on the heterogeneous combustion of methane within MgO stabilized ZrO₂ porous ceramics, Combustion and Flame, 180, 32-39, 2017.
Orlovskaya, N., Xie, Z., Blair, R., Mechanochemical synthesis of hexagonal OsB₂, US 9,701, 542 B2, 2017.
Aman, A., Jordan, R., Chen, Y., Stadelman, R., Lugovy, M., Orlovskaya, N., Payzant, A., dela Cruz, C., Reece, M.J., Graule, T., Kuebler, J., Non-congruence of high temperature mechanical and structural behaviors of LaCoO₃ based perovskites, Euro. Ceram. Soc., 37, 4, 1563-1576, 2017.
Xie, Z., Blair, R.G., Orlovskaya, N., Cullen, D.A., Kata, D., Rutkowski, P., Lis, J., Qin, N., T-Raissi, A., Oxygen interaction with hexagonal OsB₂ at high temperature, Am. Ceram. Soc., 99, 12, 4057-4065, 2016.
Stadelmann, R., Lugovy, M., Orlovskaya, N., Mchaffey, P., Radovic, M., Sglavo, V.M., Grasso, S., Reece, M.J., Mechanical properties and residual stresses in ZrB₂-SiC spark plasma sintered ceramic composites, Journal of European Ceramic Society, 36, 7, 1527-1537, 2016.
Xie, Z., Terracciano, A., Cullen, D.A., Blair, R., Orlovskaya, N., In a search for an elusive IrB₂: Can mechanochemistry help?, of Solid State Chemistry, 233, 108-119, 2016.

EMPA Federal Institute for Materials Testing and Research, visiting professorship/academic guest, June 2009, June 2010, June 2011, June-July 2012, May-July 2014, May-July 2017, May-July 2018
High Tech Award, TechConnect World/National Innovation Summit & Showcase, 2016
UCF Research Incentive Award, 2015
Ecole Federale Polytechnique de Lausanne, visiting professor, sabbatical, August 2013-April 2014
University of Santiago, Chile, visiting professor, 2011 and 2012
UCF Lockheed Martin Faculty Fellow, 2010-2012.
DoE NETL Faculty Summer Visit, 2009
NATO ARW Award to organize a workshop on boron rich solids at UCF, 2009.
NSF Career Award, 2008.
Royal Society Travel Award, Queen Mary, University of London, 2007-2008
Faculty and Students Team (FAST) Award, DoE ORNL, 2004
NATO Expert in High Technology Area, 1998, 1999 and 2000
American Physical Society Award for a young researcher from the former Soviet Union, 1993

National Science Foundation
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy

EGM 3601: Solid Mechanics
EML 6085: Research Methods in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
EML 5937: Advanced Composite Engineering
EML 4051C: Senior Design I
EML 4501C: Senior Design II
EGN 3343: Thermodynamics
EGM 3601L: Solid Mechanics Lab
EML 5301: Science and Technology of Fuel Cells
EMA 3706: Structure and Properties of Aerospace Materials
EMA 5104: Intermediate Structure and Properties of Materials
EMA 4223: Fundamentals of Mechanical Behavior of Materials
EMA 5140: Introduction to Ceramic Materials
ENG 3365: Structure and Properties of Materials
EMA 3124: Design and Selection of Materials
EMA 3012C: Experimental Techniques in Mechanics and Materials