Bořek Patzák

• 1993 graduated from Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, specialization in Structural Design & Transportation Engineering.
• 1997 defended doctoral dissertation thesis "Material models for concrete" at Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.
• 1997-2000 assistant professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Structural Mechanics.
• 2000-2002 research engineer at EPFL, ENAC, Laboratory of Structural and Continuum Mechanics (LSC) in Lausanne. I worked with Milan Jirásek on a project on adaptive techniques for strain-softening materials.
• 2002-2010 associate professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Mechanics.
• since 2010 professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Mechanics.
• since 2018 vice-dean for Science and Research, Faculty of Civil Engineering.

• Principal investigator of research projects supported by Czech Science Foundation GACR:
  • SUMO: Sustainable design empowered by materials modelling, semantic interoperability and multi-criteria optimization, project no. 22-35755K, 2022-2024.
  • Process modeling for 3D printing and other additive technologies, project no. 20-20096S, 2020-2022.
  • Multiscale modeling of early age concrete, project no.: 16-20008S, 2016-2018.
  • Multi-scale casting simulations of fresh concrete, project no.: 13-23584S, 2013-2015.
  • MuPIF - a Multi-Physic Integration Framework, project no.:P105/10/1402, 2010-2012.
  • Algorithms for Representation of Moving Boundaries, project no.:103/06/1845, 2006-2008.
• EU funded projects:
  
  • Musicode: An experimentally-validated multi-scale materials, process and device modelling & design platform enabling non-expert access to open innovation in the Organic and Large Area Electronics Industry, project number 953187, 2021-2024.
  • Composelector: Multi-scale Composite Material Selection Platform with a Seamless Integration of Materials Models and Multidisciplinary Design Framework, project number 721105, 2017-2021.
  • MMP: Multiscale Modelling Platform: Smart design of nano-enabled products in green technologies, project number 604279, 2014-2016.
  • ICMEg: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering expert group, project number 606711, 2013-2016.
• Other projects
  • Deema:Design and Optimisation Open Innovation HUB for Composites Modeling and Desig, TACR M-ERA.NET 2 project no. TH75020002, 2021-2024.
  • Centre for Advanced Materials and Efficient Buildings, TACR National Center of Competence (contract no. TN01000056), 2019-2022.
  • Research team member of the TailorCrete EU project (www.tailorcrete.com).
  • Research team member of the MSM 6840770003 project:
    "Algorithms for Computer Simulation and Application in Engineering" (Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic).

Research interests:

• Design and development of scientific simulation tools, see list of my software projects.
• Numerical methods in mechanics
• Digital twins and simulation platforms
• High performance computing and software development - high performance computing, load-balancing, object oriented design.

Graduate and undergraduate research opportunities: I am always looking for capable and highly motivated students (undergraduate and graduate) with backgrounds and interests in math, engineering, finite element method, and informatics to join my research program. Please contact me to discuss current opportunities.

OOFEM course for Ph.D. students, engineers interested in simulation and researchers to allow them to quickly acquire the knowledge and practical skills necessary to employ OOFEM. More details here.

Check the link to OOFEM gallery illustrating some of my results.

• Bořek Patzák, Stanislav Šulc, and Václav Šmilauer. Towards digital twins: Design of an entity data model in the mupif simulation platform. Advances in Engineering Software, 197:103733, 2024.
• J. Voříšek and B. Patzák. Gpams: A g-code processor for advanced additive manufacturing simulations. Additive Manufacturing, 65:103279, 2023.
• E. Dvořáková and B. Patzák. An isogeometric Timoshenko curved beam element with an enhanced representation of concentrated loads. Computers and Structures, 270, 2022.
• E. Dvořáková and B. Patzák. Isogeometric bernoulli beam element with an exact representation of concentrated loadings. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 361:112745, 2019.
• F. Kolařík, B. Patzák, and J. Zeman. Computational homogenization of fresh concrete flow around reinforcing bars. Computers and Structures, 207:37 -- 49, 2018.
• Martin Horák, Bořek Patzák, and Jan Novák. An isogeometric extension of trefftz method for elastostatics in two dimensions. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 0(1-15), 2018.
• F. Kolařík, B. Patzák, and L.N. Thrane. Modeling of fiber orientation in viscous fluid flow with application to self-compacting concrete. Computers and Structures, 154:91 -- 100, 2015.
• B. Patzák, D. Rypl, and J. Kruis. Mupif – a distributed multi-physics integration tool. Advances in Engineering Software, 60–61(0):89 -- 97, 2013.
• B. Patzák and D. Rypl. Object-oriented, parallel finite element framework with dynamic load balancing. Advances in Engineering Software, 47(1):35 -- 50, 2012.
• B. Patzák and Z. Bittnar. Modeling of fresh concrete flow. Computers and Structures, 87(15-16):962--969, 2009.
• B. Patzák and M. Jirásek. Adaptive resolution of localized damage in quasibrittle materials. Journal of Engineering Mechanics Division ASCE, 130:720--732, 2004.
• B. Patzák and M. Jirásek. Process zone resolution by extended finite elements. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 70(7-8):837--1097, May 2003.
• M. Jirásek and B. Patzák. Consistent tangent stiffness for nonlocal damage models. Computers and Structures, 80(14-15):1279--1293, June 2002.
• B. Patzák and Z. Bittnar. Design of object oriented finite element code. Advances in Engineering Software, 32(10-11):759--767, 2001.

Complete list of my publications

OOFEM

I have been developing this free, object-oriented, multiphysics, parallel finite element code since 1997. Visit its homepage at www.oofem.org or check out its features. OOFEM is released under GNU Lesser General Public License.

MuPIF

Multi-Physics Integration Framework (MuPIF) is an open source distributed integration framework, that will facilitate the implementation of multi-physic and multi-level simulations, built from independently developed components. The design supports various coupling strategies, discretization techniques, and also the distributed applications. License: GNU Lesser General Public License.

EduBeam

Educational project with the aim to develop simple and easy to use code for structural analysis of beam structures. The main goal is to provide a platform for students to extend. Students can utilize their knowledge, learn simple and efficient programming in Python, and contribute to this project. EduBeam is released under GNU General Public License.

PointCloud2BIM

The PointCloud2BIM library provides a set of algorithms to facilitate atomated processing of 3D Laser scans of buildings (Point Clouds) and identification of fundamental entities, such as floors, rooms, walls and openings.

You can check my github profile for a record of my open source contributions.