Zenon Mróz (pronounced: ; born 2 November 1930) is a Polish engineer, a member of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences (, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of distinguished scholars a ...

(PAN) and the

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(PAU). He specializes in

soil mechanics Soil mechanics is a branch of soil physics and applied mechanics that describes the behavior of soils. It differs from fluid mechanics and solid mechanics in the sense that soils consist of a heterogeneous mixture of fluids (usually air and ...

and

materials science Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials. Materials engineering is an engineering field of finding uses for materials in other fields and industries. The intellectual origins of materials sci ...

Life and career

He graduated from the

Warsaw University of Technology The Warsaw University of Technology () is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland and one of the largest in Central Europe. It employs 2,453 teaching faculty, with 357 professors (including 145 titular professors). The student body ...

in 1952. He joined the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1956. Between 1959 and 1960, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

where he collaborated with

William Prager William Prager, before 1940 Willy Prager (23 May 1903 – 17 March 1980), was a German-born American applied mathematician. In the field of mechanics he is well known for the Drucker–Prager yield criterion. Biography Willy Prager was born on 2 ...

. He obtained his

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in 1964 for research on constitutive models of plastic deformation. He was awarded the title of Professor of Technical Sciences in 1971. In 1986, he became a corresponding member of the

and in 2004, he became a full member of the organization.

Awards and honours

He received

honorary degree An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or '' ad hon ...

s from the

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(1995),

Faculté polytechnique de Mons The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Mons (, ) is a faculty of engineering at the University of Mons in the Wallonia region in Belgium. Before the 2009 merger of the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons and the University of Mons-Haina ...

(1997), Cracow University of Technology (1997),

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a Public university, public research university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to uptown Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also op ...

(1999) and

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(2003). He also became an honorary member of the

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(2003). In 2001, he became a recipient of the Officer's Cross of the

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. In 2004, he was awarded the Koiter Medal of the

American Society of Mechanical Engineers The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing edu ...

"for significant contributions to elastic/plastic material behavior modeling, to

tribology Tribology is the science and engineering of understanding friction, lubrication and wear phenomena for interacting surfaces in relative Motion (physics), motion. It is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on many academic fields, including physics, c ...

, and to

optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criteria, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfiel ...

Selected publications

*''Effect of Grain Roughness on Strength, Volume Changes, Elastic and Dissipated Energies During Quasi-Static Homogeneous Triaxial Compression Using DEM'' (with Jan Kozicki, Jacek Tejchman-Konarzewski, 2012) *''Topological sensitivity analysisand finite topology modifications: application to optimization of plates in bending'' (with Dariusz Bojczuk, 2009) *''Variational approach to the analysis of steady state thermoelastic wear regimes'' in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (with I. Paczelt, 2009) *''An energy model of segmentation cracking of thin films'' in Mechanics of Materials, Elsevier Science (with Marcin Białas, 2007) *''A simplified analysis of interface failure under compressive normal stress and monotonic or cyclic shear loading'' in International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (with Marcian Białas, 2005)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mróz, Zenon Living people 1930 births Polish engineers Warsaw University of Technology alumni Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences Members of the Polish Academy of Learning

Life and career

Awards and honours

Selected publications

See also

References