Research Fields and Scientific Activity

Main field of interest and research problems:

• nonlinear mechanics of structures (buckling and postcritical analysis of elastoplastic beams, arches, plates and shells, following or multiple loads), I.1,2, II.1,2,3 (references on the attached list of publications)
• computational methods (analysis of two-point BVPs, "exact" finite elements, consistent approach in the Newton-Raphson method with constraint equations), II.4,5, III.5,6
• analysis of engineering problems (dynamics of high voltage outdoor sustations under shot circuit currents, analysis of R/C cooling towers), V.2,43,96,105
• applications of neurocomputing in mechanics of structures and materials and in structural mechanics ( neural procedures in hybrid FEM/NN programs, identification analysis and implicit modelling of physical relationships, NNs in experimental mechanics, NNs and nondestructive methods for damage identification), II.6, 33,34, 37,39,42

Professional Activities Abroad:

Scientific Activities:

• 6 books ( 2 co-authored, 3 edited, 1 co-edited)
• about 160 original papers
• more than 40 chapters in books, state-of-the-art-papers and published invited lectures
• more than 170 oral scientific presentations including 43 general and invited lectures at congresses, conferences and symposia
• supervisor of 14 doctoral dissertations, reviewer of more than 60 Ph.D.Thesis, external examinator at TU Delft, Herriot-Watt Univ. Edinburgh, TU Helsinki, TU Wien
• coordinator of 11 research projects sponsored by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Committee of Scientific Research and Subsidy of Polish Foundation for Science
• organizer or co-organizer of 6 international conferences (recently Chairman of the Orga- zing Committee of the European Conference on Computational Mechanics, ECCOMAS- ECCM-2001) and 18 tri- and bilateral conferences (including 15 Polish-Hungarian-Austrian Inter-Institute Seminars)
• organizer or chairman of scientific committees of 7 general Polish conferences on civil engineering, shell structures and computational mechanics

Editorship or Membership of Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals:

• Mechanika i Komputer (Mechanics and Computer), PAS, Warsaw, Member of Editorial Board and Managing Editor, 1978-89
• Archiwum Inżynierii Lšdowej (Archives of Civil Engineering), Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Member of Editorial Board since 1984
• Studia z Zakresu Inżynierii (Research in Civil Engineering), PAS, Warsaw, Member of Editorial Board, since 1988
• Computer Assisted Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Central-European Association for Computational Mechanics, Member of Editorial Board and Managing Editor, since 1992
• Meccanica, AIMETA, Italy, Member of Body of Referees, since 1975
• Polska Bibliografia Analityczna Mechaniki (Polish Analytical Bibliography of Mechanics), PAS, Warsaw, Member of Reviewers Body, 1965-90
• Applied Mechanics Review, USA, Member of Reviewers Body, 1966-85
• Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, Vilnius, Lithuania, since 2000

Scientific Committees:

• Committee of Mechanics of PAS, member since 1975
• Committee of Civil Engineering of PAS, member since 1978, Member of Managing Board since 1981
• Scientific Committee of Civil Engineering of PAS, member since 1978, Member of Managing Board since 1981
• Scientific Committee of the Institute of Metallurgy of PAS, member since 1999
• Section of Structural Mechanics at the Committee of Civil Engineering, member since 1969, chairman since 1981
• Section of Neural Networks and Soft Computing at the Committee of Computer Sciences, of PAS, member since 1999
• Stability Research Council, Bethlehem, USA, Polish representative since 1988
• Advisory Board of the Polish Ministry of National Education, Expert for Civil Engineering, since 1992
• SEFI (Societé Européenne pour la Formation des Ingenieurs), Curriculum Development Working Group, Brussels, UE, Polish Representative, 1992-2000
• Polish Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, member since 1965, Chairman of the Cracow Division, 1975-79
• Polish Association for Computational Mechanics, member-founder, since 1992
• Brothers Œniadecki Foundation, Jagiellonian University, Member of Scientific Council, e 1994-2001, V-ce President of Managing Board, since 2001

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