Professor Bogdan Raniecki, Ph.D., D.Sc.,
RESUME
1. Personal Data
Date of Birth : March 1, 1938
Place of Birth : Warsaw, Poland
Martial Status : Married since 1963, one child.
2. Education
M.S. 1961 Mechanical Engineering, Warsaw Technical University, Warsaw, Poland
Ph.D.
1965
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of
Sciences,
Warsaw, Poland
Habilitation (D.Sc.)
1978
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of
Sciences,
Warsaw, Poland
3. Title of Professor
1987 conferred by President of Poland
4. Appointments
1961 - 1965 Assistant Professor, Military Technical Academy, Warsaw.
Division of Applied Physics. Warsaw, Poland
1965 - 1978 Assistant Professor
1978 - 1987 Associate Professor
1987
- to date
Full Professor, all in the Institute of Fundamental Technological
Research,
P.A.S., Warsaw
2001- to date Head of Department of Mechanics of Materials and Biomechanics,
at Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, P.A.S., Warsaw
5. Visiting Appointments
1969 (8 months) - Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, Division of Solid Mechanics and
Strength of Materials, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
1977 (one year) - Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Institute of Mechanics, Ruhr University, Germany.
1980/1983 (12 months) the same as above
1992
(3 months) - Laboratoire De Mécanique Appliquée,
Université de Franche-Comté,
Besancon,
France
1992 (6 months) - Visiting Professor in Kyoto University,
fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Japan.
6. Awards
1980 - T.Huber award from Polish Academy of Sciences,
The highest award in the field of Mechanics in Poland.
1992 - Medal Award of Kyushu University (Japan)
2001 - Distinguished Chivalric Cross "Polonia Restituta" - conferred by President of Poland.
7. Graduate Courses and Lectures Taught Abroad
1969 - Theory of Plasticity, 1 semester course, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
1975
- Waves in Elastic-Plastic Media. Lectures at the International Centre for
Mechanical Sciences
(CISM), Udine, Italy
1976 - Concepts of Applied Thermoplasticity, 1 semester course,
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
1978 - Infinitesimal Thermoplasticity, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
1982 - Thermodynamical Aspects of Cyclic and Monotone Plasticity, Lectures at CISM, Udine, Italy
1992
- Mechanics of elastic-plastic continuous media, Lecture course in Nagoya
University,
Dept. of Geotechnical Engng, course of 16-hours lectures
8. Graduate Courses Taught at IFTR and Technical Universities in Poland.
i) Mechanics of Continuous Media
ii) Problems of Applied Thermoplasticity
iii) Foundations of Phenomenological Theory of Plasticity (Poznan, Czestochowa)
iv) Concepts of Thermodynamics of Solids (Poznan)
9. Short Invited lectures at other Universities and R&D Centers of the Industrial Companies abroad.
- Essen University, Institute of Mechanics, Germany, 1980
- Darmstadt Technical University, Germany 1984
- Division of Engineering of Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, 1987
- Department of Civil Engineering Kyushu University, Japan 1992
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co. Research Center, Japan 1992
- Sumitomo Metal Industries, Research Institute, Japan 1992
- Nippon Steel Corporation, Research Institute, Japan 1992
- NKK Corporation, Steel Research Center, Japan 1992
- Century Research Center (Nagoya Branch), Japan 1992
- Laboratoire De Mécanique Appliquée, Université de Franche-Comté, Besancon, France, 1994, 1997,1999
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan 1998.
- Department of Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan, 1999
- Alfa Laval Separation Technology Development, Copenhagen A/S, Søborg - Denmark, 2000
- Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Hino/Tokyo, Japan,1997, 2000
- Bochum University, Institute of Mechanics, Germany 1980, 1983, 2000, 2002
10. Research Areas
- Inelastic Analysis of Materials and Structures: -Propagation of elastic-plastic waves
- Analysis of quasistatic bifurcations and strain localization at finite strain of elastic-plastic solids
- Formulation and application of constitutive models for inelastic behaviour of materials with emphasis on cyclic loadings, thermal and geometrical effects
- Application of concepts of thermodynamics in the inelastic analysis of materials. Mechanics of Phase Transformations
- Theoretical analysis of transient and residual stresses occurring during solidification and thermal hardening of metallic solids
- Formulation of the constitutive models that account for phase-transformation effects and kinetics of phase transformations in solids
11. Current Research Interests
- Strain-induced anisotropy under finite deformations of elastic-plastic solids and its connection with the formation of the texture
- Analysis of the rotational Bauschinger effects and its influence on strain localizations in metals and alloys
- Thermodynamics of Shape memory alloys
12. Publications
- About 73 papers published in national and international journals including lectures notes, 2 books, some co-authored by foreign reseachers (Japan-7 , Germany-5, USA-1, France-9, Spain-1, Vietnam-2, Former Soviet Union-1, Sweden 1)
13. Other Activities
i) Member of the Scientific Committee of several international conferences, such as:
a) "International Conference on Residual Stresses", Nancy, France,1988
b) "Calculation of Internal Stresses in Heat Treatments of Metallic Materials", Linkoping, Sweden, 1984
c)
Mecamat 95 "Mechanisms and
Mechanics of Solid- Solid Phase Transformations",
La Bresse, France, May 16-19, 1995
d)
7th European Mechanics of Materials Conference (EMMC7)
"Adaptive systems and
materials:constitutive materials and hybrid
structures" to be held in May 18-23, 2003
in Frejus, France
ii) Chairman of:
- XXV Polish Solid Mechanics Conference, 1983, Poland.
- 6th Polish-German Conference on Mechanics of Inelastic Materials and Structures, September 1993, Czerniejewo, Poland
- Polish-Japan Symposium on Mechanics of Shape Memory Alloys, September 1998, Zakopane, Poland
iii) Invited Member of the International Advisory Board of "Material Science Research International (MSRI)"-Journal (Japan, JSMS)
iv) Reviewer for the Applied Mechanics Reviews (up to 1983) and some other International Journals
v) Invited to deliver general lectures at three Polish Solid Mechanics Conferences and some international conferences, e.g.
- Plasticity Today,Udine, Italy, 1983; IUTAM Symposium on Coupled Effects in Thermoplasticity,
- Paris, France, 1986; IUTAM Symposium on Variations of Domain and Free-Boundary Problems in Solid Mechanics, Paris, France 1993
vi) Coordinator of the national research program sponsored by IFTR
vii) Supervision of 5 doctoral thesis
14. Knowledge of Foreign Languages
English, Russian, German
Last update: Warsaw, 20 March 2003