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Employees and Teams
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Prof. Stanisław Stupkiewicz, PhD, DSc phone:: +48 22 826 12 81 ext. 338 room: 135 e-mail: |
Secretary: |
Agnieszka Sokalska phone:: +48 22 826 98 34 / +48 22 826 12 81 ext. 255 room: 133 e-mail: |
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Research
Current Research Activities:
- Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials
- Thermomechanics of elastic-plastic continuous media
- Modelling of damage and fracture in metal-ceramic and cementitious composite materials
- Mathematical modelling and experimental investigations of intermetallics
- Modelling and identification of inelastic behaviour and fracture of materials
- IR thermography in non-destructive testing and in study of deformation processes
- Micromechanics of Materials
- Modelling of microstructure evolution and thermomechanical behaviour of shape memory alloys
- Micromechanical analysis of phenomena in contact and interphase layers
- Physically-based constitutive modelling of large plastic deformation of metals at complex strain paths
- Coupling between microstructure and mechanical properties of metallic materials
- Numerical simulations of materials behaviour
- Mechanics of Surface Layers
- Mechanics of contact of rough surfaces
- Identification of coatings and thin layers properties
- Surface metrology
- Fatigue life prediction of surface treated structural elements
- Generation of thin coatings by means of ion beam techniques
- Investigation of hybrid laser and burnishing surface treatment
Key Words:
- multifunctional materials, shape memory alloys, phase transformations, stored energy, microstructure, dislocation structures, shear bands, surface temperature distribution,
- constitutive models, plastic hardening and softening, cyclic loading, contact friction and wear, sensitivity analysis,
- plasticity, instability, strain localization, micromechanics, pseudo-elasticity, damage mechanics,
- surface layer, microstereometry, laser beam machining, ion implantation, finite elements method, stress state, simulation.
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Proposed PhD
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