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Welcome to our wiki! This site is maintained by the Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague.
All coworkers and students of the department are invited to share information on various activities and resources related to mechanics (teaching, research, applications, consulting, etc.).
The information is arranged according to the following list:

• Conferences - international and national conferences, symposia and workshops
• Courses - intensive courses, typically for graduate students
• Vacancies - open positions in mechanics (e.g. postdocs, researchers, assistant professors)
• Projects - calls for proposals, list of funding agencies
• Seminar - program of the solid mechanics seminar organized by the department
• Meetings - thematic internal meetings focused on research problems solved at the department, organized on an ad-hoc basis
• Defences - BSc, MSc and PhD theses, habilitations
• Alumni - our former colleagues (students or coworkers of the department)
• Literature - recommendations of useful books and papers
• Software - recommendations of handy software tools
• Links

A special section (in Czech), referred to as Student's Corner, is intended for undergraduate students (see also the menu on the left).
Electronic teaching aids are collected in our Virtual Laboratory of Mechanics.
An overview of approaching events can be found in the section entitled Current events (see also the menu on the left).
If you have any comments or suggestions, please switch to the Discussion tab (see the top menu with tabs Page / Discussion).

Important news and announcements

• Our colleague Jaroslav Kruis will speak on Damage mechanics in civil engineering: models, numerical implementation and applications at the upcoming Nečas Seminar on April 7 from 3:40pm.
• Our next Solid Mechanics Seminar takes place on April 17 from 3pm in the Department meeting room B366:

Tomáš Roubíček (Charles University): Various solution concepts in rate-independent evolution systems

• Department of Mechanics opens a PhD/PostDoc position in the frame of EU funded project "Multiscale Modelling Platform: Smart design of nanoenabled products in green technologies" focused on development of software integration platform for multiphysics simulations, see the announcement in Czech and English for more details.

Recent papers

Here we list five most recent publications of members of our department (author names in bold face). Items are added to the list once published online.

1. A. Kučerová, M. Lepš: Soft computing-based calibration of microplane M4 model parameters: Methodology and validation, Advances in Engineering Software, online 28 February 2014
2. J. Sýkora: Modeling of degradation processes in historical mortars, Advances in Engineering Software, online 18 February 2014
3. M. Horák, B. Patzák, M. Jirásek: On design of element evaluators in OOFEM, Advances in Engineering Software, online 12 February 2014
4. M. Jirásek, P. Havlásek: Accurate approximations of concrete creep compliance functions based on continuous retardation spectra, Computers and Structures 135 (2014): 155-168.
5. W.R.L. da Silva, V. Šmilauer, P. Štemberk: Upscaling semi-adiabatic measurements for simulating temperature evolution of mass concrete structures, Materials and Structures, online 14 November 2013