Ing.

Petr Šesták

Ph.D.

CEITEC, RG-1-04 – Researcher

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Ing. Petr Šesták, Ph.D.

Curriculum vitae

Education and academic qualification

  • 1999 - 2004, Ing., Brno University of Technology - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering; Diploma thesis: The surface plasma nitration on fatique life under biaxial harmonic loading; supervisor: Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Pokluda, CSc.
  • 2004 - 2009, Ph.D., Brno University of Technology - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering; Thesis tittle: Microstructural and mechanical characteristics of NiTi alloy from first principles; thesis supervisor: Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Pokluda, CSc.

Scientific activities

Using ab-initio simulation computation of:
  1. elastic characteristics of ideal crystals
  2. theoretical strenghts of ideal crystals
  3. stability of ideal crystals
  4. influence of points and planar defects on mechanical characteristics

Projects

  • 2005 - 2011; participation on project: Simulation Modelling of Mechatronic Systems; project from Ministry of Education Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic - MSM0021630518
  • 2006 - 2007; participation on project: Multiscale modeling of advanced materials; project from Czech Science Foundation - GA 106/05/H008
  • 2006; Leader of the project: First principles study of the influence of point errors on mechanical and physical characteristics of materials; internal faculty project
  • 2009: Leader of the project: Influence of twinning in martensite on mechanical characteristic of NiTi shape memory alloy using ab-initio simulation, internal faculty project
  • 2009 - 2011; participation on the project: First-principles study of mechanical properties of ideal metallic fiber nano-composites; project from Czech Science Foundation - GA 106/09/1524
  • 2010 - 2012; Leader of the project: First principles study of martensitic transformation and twinning in NiTi shape memory alloy; POSTDOC project from Czech Science Foundation - P108/10/P412
  • 2012 - present; participation on the project: Strength, embrittlement and magnetism of clean and impurity-segregated grain boundaries in metallic materials; project from Czech Science Foundation - P108/12/0311
  • 2013 - present; participation at the project "Support of Interdisciplinary Excellence Research Teams Establishment at BUT" reg. number CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0005 (https://www.excelence.ro.vutbr.cz/)