... Discovering and explaining an effect of enhancing the fracture toughness of metal matrix composites as a result of reinforcing the matrix with brittle fibres (1975). Discovering and explaining a synergetic effect in composites with metal matrix and oxide fibres (2000). Predicating a possibility of formation of non- brittle single crystalline fibres and realization of the possibility (2000). Discovery a new w ay to organize non- brittle structures composed of brittle components. ...