Department of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials - RMT1 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Scientific field

Engineering and technical sciences

Scientific discipline

Materials Engineering

Priority Research Areas of the Silesian University of Technology

POB3 – Materials of the future; 

POB4 – Smart cities and future mobility

Scientific activities:

Scientific titles:

• professor in engineering-technical sciences granted at 2020
• DSc degree in materials engineering, 2010
• PhD degree in materials engineering, 2003

Activities forms:

• publishing in materials engineering
• application and realization of projects in materials engineering
• consulting
• projects and opinions for industry
• scientific-research and service works / projects

Research interests

Materials:

– steels and cast iron alloys

– automotive AHSS steels: DP, TRIP, IF, TWIP, medium-Mn, TRIPLEX, 22MnB5, mild

– structural low-alloyed steels HSLA: microalloyed with Nb, Ti, V

– hard-rusting and stainless steels

– aluminum, copper alloys and etc.

Phenomena:

– phase transformations in solids

– deformability and plasticity of metals

– microalloying

– termomechanical processes

– steel weldability

Processes:

– thermomechanical rolling and forging

– heat treatment (quenching, tempering, annealing, solutioning, aging)

– controlled thermomechanical processing

– isothermal and multi-step heat treatment

– deep drawing, stamping, bending, etc.

Scientific career

Titles and scientific degrees:

– professor in engineering-technical sciences, 2020, President of Poland

Relationships between microstructure and mechanical properties and weldability of high-strength multiphase steels

– DSc (habilitation) in materials engineering, 2010, Silesian University of Technology

Structure of C-Mn-Si-Al steels formed with strain-induced martensitic transformation

– PhD in materials engineering, 2003, Silesian University of Technology

Development of the structure and mechanical properties of thermomechanically-processed microalloyed structural steels

Positions:

– Deputy chairman of Materials Engineering Discipline Board, Silesian University of Technology, term 2020-2024

– Deputy chairman of Materials Engineering Discipline Board, Silesian University of Technology, term 2019-2020

– Deputy Director for Science in Institute of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, 2017-2019

– Head of Division of Constructional and Special Materials Engineering in Institute of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, 2017-2019

Scientific Boards:

– Board of Review member, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (Springer), Key Reader, from 2017

– Editorial Board member, Journal of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Metallurgy, from 2018

– Editorial Board member, Materials (MDPI), from 2019

– Editorial Board member, Stal Metale & Nowe Technologie, from 2014

Scientific collaboration:

– RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

– Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

– National Centre for Metallurgical Research (CENIM), Madrid, Spain

– University for Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Wels, Austria

– VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

– SBŁ – Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy, Gliwice, Poland

– SBŁ – Institute of  Non-Ferrous Metals, Gliwice, Poland

– SBŁ – Institute of Welding, Gliwice, Poland

Membership of scientific associations:

•  A member of Committee for Materials Engineering and Metallurgy PAN, 2020-2023
• A member of Metal Forming Processes Section of Committee for Metallurgy PAN, 2016-2020 
• A member of Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia, Italy, from 2008 
• A member of The Association for Iron & Steel Technology, USA, from 2010 
• A member of the Polish Materials Science Society, PTM, Poland, from 2020
• A member of the Society of Polish Mechanical Technicians and Engineers, SIMP,  Poland, from 2010

Topics of supervised master’s theses in the last five years: /optional/

Topics related to structural HSLA and automotive AHSS steels, constructional and special steels, non-ferrous metals

Topics of supervised doctoral theses: /optional/

• Development of the microstructure and mechanical properties of high-strength thermomechanically-processed bainitic steels with retained austenite
• Effect of plastic deformation on mechanical stability of retained austenite in bainitic steels
• Effect of temperature on strain-induced martensitic transformation in high-strength multiphase steels
• Effect of strain rate on the martensitic transformation in multiphase steels with retained austenite
•  Improvement of high-strength medium-Mn steels ductility through intercritical annealing

Laboratories:

• deformation dilatometer
• simulator of metallurgical and plastic deformation processes, Gleeble
• full metalography