Department of Computational Mechanics and Engineering

Department of Computational Mechanics and Engineering came into being on September 1, 2012 (before this date as a Department of Strength of Materials and Computational Mechanics).

Director of the Department: Prof. Ewa Majchrzak
Deputy Director of the Department: Dr Wacław Kuś PhD

Department staff consists of 27 persons, including 25 research workers.

Main research fields of the Institute are:

• solid mechanics
• mechanics of continuum
• termomechanics
• parallel computing in mechanics
• computational mechanics computer science techniques in mechanical engineering and computational material science
• biomechanics
• multiscale modelling
• inverse problems
• optimization of systems and processes
• modelling of physical processes
• strength of strucrural elements in linear, non-linear and dynamic problems
• development and applications of BEM and FEM
• computer methods in termomechanics
• sensitivity analisis and methods of topology and shape optimization
• identification of internal defects
• numerical modelling of systems in stochastic and fuzzy uncertain conditions
• computer methods in static and dynamic fracture mechanics
• modelling of heat and mass diffusion
• moving boundary problems
• thermodynamics of foundry processes
• computer simulation of technological processes
• biomechanical models of bone and muscle systems
• modelling of heat and mass transfer in biomechanics