About me

SHORT INTERVIEW WITH ME ON CZECH TELEVISION ČT1 UDÁLOSTI (= MAIN NEWS) 1st March 2018, time approx. start at 35:50 http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/1097181328-udalosti/218411000100301

or http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/1097181328-udalosti/218411000100301/obsah/603964-motoriste-a-silne-mrazy

 From Polish conference www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Qv-QDOq-A

  Assoc. Professor Jan Krmela (1978) earned his PhD in Transport Means and Infrastructure from the University of Pardubice in 2004 and earned his Assoc. Professor degree in Transport Means and Infrastructure with the habilitation work "The computational modeling of automobile tires" at the University of Pardubice in 2010. He is currently head of the Department of numerical methods and computational modeling at the Faculty of Industrial Technologies in Púchov at Alexander Dubček University in Trenčín, Slovakia. He works at the Alexander Dubček University in Trenčín at Slovakia and the University of Pardubice at Czech Republic.

 He is a member of the Association of Mechanical Engineers (A.S.I.), the Czech Society for Mechanics and the Scientific Council at the Faculty of Industrial Technologies in Púchov. In 2006, he received a special award for science and research activities by the Rector of the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. In 2016, he was awarded the Bronze Medal of Maximilián Hell for the development of the Faculty of Industrial Technologies in Púchov, science and education.

  He has been gaining experience in the FEM program ANSYS since 2000. He co-operated with the Fraunhofer Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany and the Kompetenzzentrum - Das Virtuelle Fahrzeug Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz, Austria (long-term stays by programs Erasmus+, DAAD and others stays). In 2016, he delivered lectures at the Belarusian State Technological University in Minsk, Belarus. He has been a supervisor of dissertation thesis; five Ph.D. students successfully finished under his guidance. He received financed projects GAČR, FRVS, KEGA and Erasmus+. He gives lectures, lessons and organizes seminars on technical subjects. His research areas are composites, tires, textiles, polymers, computational simulation, special tests, 3D printing etc. His work has been published in such journals as Vlákna a textil (Fibres and Textiles), Procedia Engineering, Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering, Tire Technology International, Recent and International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering. He authored over 200 publications in journals and conference proceeding and authored of chapters of books and scientific monographs in the following research areas:

• Computational modeling and tests of composites with a rubber (an elastomer) matrix such as tire casings, especially with focus on strain-stress states and modal analysis and computational modeling of composites after the degradation processes, tire-road interaction and vehicle parts;
• Tests of tires on static and dynamic test machines with the pressure footprint analyses of contact footprints between tires and a plane road or a bump and also prediction of radial stiffness of tires;
• Low cyclic loading tests of composites with textiles on a test machine with a video extensometer and static tests of composites with planning of tests with a design of geometric parameters of test samples and test conditions for testing of tire casing parts;
• Tensile tests of textile yarns and textile fabric;
• Determination of material parameters that can be used as input data into computational models of composites and tires;
• Microscopic observation of interface bonds between steel and textile cords and an elastomer;
• 3D printing of technical objects and fashion accessories as earrings and ring from “wood“ for student model collection.