Professional position:

Head of the Division of Computational Mechanics and Applied Informatics

Affiliation:

Institute of Computational Mechanics and Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Silesian University of Technology ul. Konarskiego 18A,
44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Fax: +48 32 237 1282
Phone: +48 32 237 1635
e-mail: Piotr.Fedelinski@polsl.pl

Scientific research:

• computational mechanics,
• dynamics of deformable bodies,
• fracture mechanics,
• micromechanics,
• sensitivity analysis and optimization of structures,
• finite element method,
• boundary element method

Teaching activities:

• strength of materials,
• theory of plasticity,
• fracture mechanics,
• continuum mechanics,
• theoretical mechanics,
• finite element method,
• boundary element method

Education:

• 1976-1981
  Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc., Eng., Field: Heavy Duty Machines, Specialization: Mechanics Grade: very good with distinction
• 1991
  Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D., Field: Design and Exploitation of Machines, Specialization: Computational Mechanics “Boundary element method for shape optimal design of vibrating structures”, supervisor: Prof. Tadeusz Burczyński
• 2000
  Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, D.Sc., Field: Design and Exploitation of Machines, Specialization: Computational Mechanics “The boundary element method in dynamic analysis of deformable structures with cracks”
• 2019
  Prof. Field: Technical Sciences, President of Poland

Experience:

• 1981-1992
  Silesian University of Technology - assistant
• 1992-2002
  Silesian University of Technology - lecturer
• 2003-2019
  Silesian University of Technology – professor
• since 2019 Silesian University of Technology – full professor
• 2008-2012 Vice-Dean for Science
• 2012-2016 Vice-Dean for Science and Cooperation with Industry
• 1991
  scientific visit - 6 months, TEMPUS programme, Institut for Maskinteknik, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark
• 1992-1995
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow - 2.5 years, Wessex Institute of Technology, University of Portsmouth, Great Britain
• 1999
  lecturer - 2 months, Faculdade de Engenharia Mechanica, Departamento de Mecanica Computacional, Universidade Estudal de Campinas, Brazil

Supervision of Ph.D. theses:

• 2005 – Radosław Górski, Ph.D, Eng. “Dynamic analysis and optimization of composite materials by the boundary element method”
• 2006 – Grzegorz Dziatkiewicz, Ph.D, Eng. “Analysis of coupled mechanical and electrical fields in piezoelectric materials by the boundary element method”
• 2007 – Tomasz Czyż, Ph.D, Eng. “Analysis of dynamically loaded elasto-plastic structures by the boundary element method”
• 2009 – Jacek Ptaszny, Ph.D, Eng. “Fast multipole boundary element method for analysis of linear elastic structures”
• Mateusz Holek, M.Sc., Eng. ”Numerical homogenization of elastic materials with cracks” (in progress)

Membership of Scientific Committees and Societies:

• Computational Methods and Optimization, Committee of Mechanics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
• Polish Association of Computational Mechanics
• International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Awards:

• 1980 – Copernicus medal “Primus inter pares”
• 2002 – Silver Cross of Merit
• 2002 – Medal of Merit for the Silesian University of Technology
• 2008 - Medal of the National Education Commission
• 2011 – Golden Cross of Merit
• 2013 – Silver Medal of Merit for the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Monographs:

• Fedeliński P., The boundary element method in dynamic analysis of deformable structures with cracks, Silesian University of Technology Press, Gliwice, Mechanics, No 137, 132 pages (2000) (in Polish).
• Fedeliński P. (Ed.) Czyż T., Dziatkiewicz G., Fedeliński P., Górski R., Ptaszny J., Advanced computer modelling in micromechanics, Silesian University of Technology Press, Gliwice, Monograph No 427, 124 pages (2013).
• Fedeliński P., Boundary element method in dynamics of deformable structures, Silesian University of Technology Press, Gliwice, Monograph No 622, 125 pages (2016) (in Polish).

Selected works:

• Burczyński T., Fedeliński P., Shape sensitivity analysis of natural frequencies of structures using boundary elements, Structural Optimization, Vol. 2, pp. 47-54 (1990).
• Burczyński T., Fedeliński P., Shape sensitivity analysis and optimal design of static and vibrating systems using the boundary element method, Cybernetics and Control, Vol. 19, No 3-4, pp. 47-71 (1990).
• Burczyński T., Fedeliński P., Boundary elements in shape design sensitivity analysis and optimal design of vibrating structures, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 8, No 6, pp. 294-300 (1991).
• Fedeliński P., Burczyński T., Shape optimal design of vibrating structures using boundary elements, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Vol. 71, No 6, pp. 726-728 (1991).
• Fedeliński P., Aliabadi M.H., Rooke D.P., The dual boundary element method for structures subjected to inertial forces, Boundary Element Abstracts, Vol. 4, No 4, pp. 150-152 (1993).
• Fedeliński P., Aliabadi M.H., Rooke D.P., The dual boundary element method: J-integral for dynamic stress intensity factors, International Journal of Fracture, Vol. 65, No 4, pp. 369-381 (1994).
• Fedeliński P., Aliabadi M.H., Rooke D.P., A single-region time-domain BEM for dynamic crack problems, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 32, No 24, pp. 3555-3571 (1995).
• Fedeliński P., Aliabadi, M.H., Rooke, D.P., Boundary element formulations for dynamic cracked structures, Chapter 2, Dynamic Fracture Mechanics, Ed. Aliabadi M.H., Computational Mechanics Publications, pp. 61-100 (1995).
• Fedeliński P., Aliabadi, M.H., Rooke, D.P., The Laplace transform DBEM method for mixed-mode dynamic crack analysis, Computers and Structures, Vol. 59, No 6, pp. 1021-1031 (1996).
• Fedeliński P., Aliabadi M.H., Rooke D.P., Boundary element formulations for the dynamic analysis of cracked structures, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 17, pp. 45-56 (1996).
• Fedeliński P., Aliabadi, M.H., Rooke, D.P., The time-domain DBEM for rapidly growing cracks, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 40, pp. 1555-1572 (1997).
• Sladek J., Sladek V., Fedeliński P., Integral formulation for elastodynamic T-stresses, International Journal of Fracture, Vol. 84, pp. 103-116 (1997).
• Sladek J., Sladek V., Fedeliński P., Contour integrals for mixed-mode crack analysis of the second fracture parameter, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 27, pp. 115-127 (1997).
• Fedeliński P., The three-dimensional boundary element method in dynamic analysis of cracks, Building Research Journal, Vol. 46, pp. 257-275 (1998).
• Fedeliński P., The boundary element method in dynamic crack analysis, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Vol. 36, pp. 403-421 (1998).
• Sladek J., Sladek V., Fedeliński P., Computation of the second fracture parameter in elastodynamics by the boundary element method, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 30, pp.725-734 (1999).
• Fedeliński P., Integral transform methods in 3-D dynamic fracture mechanics, in “IUTAM/IACM/IABEM Symposium on Advanced Mathematical and Computational Mechanics Aspects of the Boundary Element Method”, Ed. Burczyński T., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht-Boston-London, pp.111-121 (2001).
• Albuquerque E.L., Sollero P., Fedeliński P., Dual reciprocity boundary element method in Laplace domain applied to anisotropic dynamic crack problems, Computers and Structures, Vol. 81, pp. 1703-1713 (2003).
• Albuquerque E.L., Sollero P., Fedeliński P., Free vibration analysis of anisotropic material structures using the boundary element method, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 27, pp. 977-985 (2003).
• Fedeliński P., Boundary element method in dynamic analysis of cracks, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, Vol. 28, pp. 1135-1147 (2004).
• Górski R., Fedeliński P., Analysis, optimization and identification of composite structures using boundary element method. Journal of Computational and Applied Mechanics, A Publication of the University of Miskolc, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 53-65 (2005).
• Fedeliński P., Górski R., Analysis and optimization of dynamically loaded reinforced plates by the coupled boundary and finite element method, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, Vol. 15, No 1, pp. 31-40 (2006).
• Dziatkiewicz G., Fedeliński P., Dynamic analysis of piezoelectric structures by the dual reciprocity boundary element method, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, Vol. 17, No 1, pp. 35-46 (2007).
• Ptaszny J., Fedeliński P., Fast multipole boundary element method for analysis of plates with many holes, Archives of Mechanics, Vol. 59, No 4-5, pp. 385-401 (2007).
• Fedeliński P., Górski R., Czyż T., Dziatkiewicz G., New applications of the boundary element method in dynamics of solids, Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 8, pp. 10003-10006 (2008).
• Ptaszny J., Fedeliński P., Stress analysis of linear elastic structures by the fast multipole boundary element method, Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 3-4, pp. 223-240 (2009).
• Ptaszny J., Fedeliński P., Numerical homogenization by using the fast multipole boundary element method, Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 181-193 (2011).
• Ptaszny J., Fedeliński P., Numerical homogenization of polymer/clay nanocomposites by the boundary element method, Archives of Mechanics, Vol. 63, No. 5-6, pp. 517-532 (2011).
• Fedeliński P., Analysis of representative volume elements with random microcracks, Chapter 17, Computational Modelling and Advanced Simulation, Eds Murin J. et al., Computational Methods in Applied Sciences 24, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., pp. 333-341 (2011).
• Dziatkiewicz G., Fedeliński P., Indirect Trefftz method for solving Cauchy problem of linear piezoelecricity, Chapter 3, Computational Modelling and Advanced Simulation, Eds Murin J. et al., Computational Methods in Applied Sciences 24, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., pp. 49-65 (2011).
• Fedeliński P., Computer modeling of dynamic fracture experiments, Key Engineering Materials, Vol. 454, Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland, pp. 113-125 (2011).
• Fedeliński P., Górski R., Dziatkiewicz G., Ptaszny J., Computer modelling and analysis of effective properties of composites, Computer Methods in Materials Science, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 3-8 (2011).
• Fedeliński P., Computer modeling and analysis of microstructures with fibres and cracks, Journal of Achievements in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 242-249 (2012).
• Fedeliński P., Czyż T., Homogenization of elasto-plastic materials by the boundary element method, Computer Methods in Materials Science, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 395-401 (2013).
• Fedeliński P., Górski R., Czyż T., Dziatkiewicz G., Ptaszny J., Analysis of effective properties of materials by using the boundary element method, Archives of Mechanics, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 1-17 (2014).
• Ptaszny J., Dziatkiewicz G., Fedeliński P., Boundary element modelling of nanocomposites, Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, Vol. 12, No 1, pp. 33-43 (2014).
• Fedeliński P., Górski R., Optimal arrangement of reinforcement in composites, Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 15, No 2, pp. 525-531 (2015).
• Fedeliński P., Dynamically loaded branched and intersecting cracks, Journal of Civil Engineering, Environment and Architecture, Vol. 34, No. 64, pp. 17-26 (2017).
• Fedeliński P., Effective properties of sintered materials with branched cracks, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings 1922, pp. 030008-1-8 (2018).
• Fedeliński P., Boundary element analysis of cracks under compression, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings 2078, pp. 020009-1-7 (2019).