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Ing. Ján Kopačka

Phone +420 266 053 442 E-mail kopacka@it.cas.cz Room M7201B Department Department D 4 - Impact and Waves in Solids Research area computational contact mechanics
Curriculum vitae
Education
2010 − present: Doctoral study at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, CTU in Prague, study programme Mechanics of solids, deformable bodies and continua
2004 − 2010: Graduate study at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, CTU in Prague, study programme Engineering mechanics and mechatronics
2000 − 2004: Secondary School of Engineering, VOŠ, SPŠ a OV Čáslav, study programme Mechatronics

Honors and Awards
2010: Babuška prize (1st place in master's thesis category)

Professional Experience
2013 − present: Design engineer in Research Center of Manufacturing Technology (60 %)
2010 − 2012: Design engineer in VAMET s.r.o. (60 %)
2009 − present: Research assistant in Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v. v. i. (40 %)

Scientific Societies Membership
Czech Society for Mechanics

View author's publications in the ASCR database
Selected publications
ResearcherID: G-7841-2014

Peer Review Publications
J. Kopačka, D. Gabriel, J. Plešek, M. Ulbin, Assessment of methods for computing the closest point projection, penetration and gap functions in contact problems, submitted to Int. J. Numer. Methods Eng., 2015.

Proceedings
J.Kopačka, D. Gabriel, R. Kolman, J. Plešek, Isogeometric contact analysis: A study of an explicit dynamic contact algorithm, in Proc. VKMKP 2014, Pilsen, Czech Republic, October 27, 2014. pdf

J. Kopačka, D. Gabriel, J. Plešek, R. Kolman, Influence of mass lumping techniques on contact pressure oscillations in explicit finite element contact-impact algorithm based on isogeometric analysis with NURBS, in Proc. SVCS International Symposium on Stability, Vibration, and Control of Machines and Structures, Belgrade, Serbia, July 3-5, 2014. pdf

J. Kopačka, D. Gabriel, R. Kolman, J. Plešek, M. Ulbin, Studies in numerical stability of explicit contact-impact algorithm to the finite element solution of wave propagation problems, in Proc. 4th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Kos Island, Greece, June 12-14, 2013. pdf

J. Kopačka, R. Kolman, D. Gabriel, J. Plešek, Frictionless contact of elastic bodies: Comparison of treatment in finite element analysis and isogeometric analysis, in Proc. Engineering Mechanics 2012, Svratka, Czech Republic, May 14-17, 2012. pdf

J. Kopačka, D. Gabriel, J. Plešek, M. Ulbin, Utilising optimization methods for computing of normal vector to contact surface, in Proc. Engineering Mechanics 2010, Svratka, Czech Republic, May 10-13, 2010. pdf

Master's Thesis
J. Kopačka, Assessment of numerical procedures for determination of the penalty function in contact problems, Master's thesis, 2010. pdf


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