Head:

Prof. Jan Holnicki-Szulc, Ph.D., D.Sc.

phone: (48-22) 826 12 81 ext. 355

phone/fax: (48-22) 828 74 93

room: 116

e-mail: Jan.Holnicki@ippt.gov.pl

Secretary:

Sylwia Czubkowska

(48-22) 826-96-15; (48-22) 826-12-81 ext. 164

room: 81

e-mail: sczubko@ippt.gov.pl

Project management:

Magdalena Wolska, M.Sc.

phone: (48-22) 827-74-76; (48-22) 826-12-81 ext. 153

room: 121

e-mail: mwolska@ippt.gov.pl

The Department has three Divisions:

• Adaptronic Systems (Prof. Jan Holnicki-Szulc, Ph.D., D.Sc.)
  Smart Technology Centre
• Control and System Dynamics (Prof. Roman Bogacz, Ph.D., D.Sc.)
• Intelligent Systems (Prof. Adam Borkowski, Ph.D., D.Sc.)

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Staff:

Professors:

Roman Bogacz, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Adam Borkowski, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Jan Holnicki-Szulc, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Associate Professors:

Czesław Bajer, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Janusz Grzędziński, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Tomasz Szolc, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Senior Researchers:

Bartłomiej Błachowski, Ph.D.

Michał Gnatowski, Ph.D.

Szymon Imiełowski, Ph.D.

Łukasz Jankowski, Ph.D.

Gytis Karciauskas, Ph.D.

Przemysław Kołakowski, Ph.D.

Monika Kowalczyk, Ph.D.

Zenon Kulpa, Ph.D.

Jerzy Motylewski, Ph.D.

Anita Orłowska, Ph.D.

Andrzej Ossowski, Ph.D

Barbara Siemiątkowska, Ph.D.

Marek Skłodowski, Ph.D.

Tomasz Zieliński, Ph.D.

Graduates:

Grzegorz Mikułowski, M.Sc.

Piotr Pawłowski, M.Sc.

Andrzej Świercz, M.Sc.

Ph.D. Students:

Grzegorz Chaś M.Sc.

Bartłomiej Dyniewicz, M.Sc.

Cezary Graczykowski, M.Sc.

Marek Kokot, M.Sc.

Robert Konowrocki, M.Sc.

Arkadiusz Mróz, M.Sc.

Małgorzata Mróz, M.Sc.

Marian Ostrowski, M.Sc.

Nquyen Quoc Thanh, M.Sc.

Michał Rak, M.Sc.

Krzysztof Sekuła, M.Sc.

Marcin Wikło, M.Sc.

Technicians:

Stefan Kotowski, M.Sc.

Paweł Olszewski

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Current Research Activities:

• Identification of loads (including impact) via off- and on-line approaches;
• Structural health monitoring and active control of vibrations;
• Adaptive impact absorption;
• Adaptive vibroacoustics for noise attenuation;
• Dynamic phenomena in the railway vehicle-track system,
  Vibrations generated by vehicles, phenomena in fast train tracks, track models,
  Dynamic contact problems in rail-wheel system,
  Noise generation and damping,
  Semipassive damping in spans under moving load,
  Experimental investigation of friction, self-exciting vibrations;
• Dynamic phenomena in mechanical systems and structures:
  vibrations of structures under moving loads,
  dynamic modelling of the rotor-shaft systems of energetic machines and an analysis of their vibrations coupled by the manufacturing and exploitation imperfections,
  modelling and dynamic analysis of drive systems of machines and vehicles;
• Dynamic diagnostics
  fault diagnostics of turbine elements (applications: energetic turbogenerator sets, aircraft engines),
  diagnostics of elements of structures under moving loads;
• Stability analysis of structures subjected to nonconservative loadings;
• Dynamic phenomenon of flow around a body;
• Mobile robots;
• Computer-Aided Engineering Design;
• Diagrammatic knowledge representation and reasoning.

Key Words:

• smart structures, adaptive control, crashworthiness, structural health monitoring, vibration control, FEM modelling, safety and integrity of engineering systems;
• stability of motion, periodic structures, friction, structural dynamics, structural stability, non-conservative systems, crashworthiness of vehicles, vehicle-infrastructure interaction, active control systems;
• aeroelasticity, flutter, unsteady areodynamics, nonlinearities;
• mobile robots, mapping, navigation, path planning, neural networks, fuzzy systems, rough sets, graph grammars, knowledge-based design.