Active projects

Feb 2025 – Jun 2026

Transformation of plastic waste into primary raw material for programmable composite (PlaKom)

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic | Project ID: SQ01020035
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Novák
In collaboration with Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno 🇨🇿 (principal investigator: Dr. Milan Gaff), FF Servis 🇨🇿 (co-principal investigator: Dr. Miloš Faltus)
Jan 2025 – Dec 2027

Textile insulation system for the New European Bauhaus (TEXNEB)

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic | Project ID: SQ01020034
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Novák
In collaboration with Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno 🇨🇿 (co-principal investigator: Dr. Jaroslav Svoboda)
Jan 2025 – Dec 2027

Advanced models for quasibrittle failure (AMoQ)

Czech Science Foundation | Project ID: GA25-17495S
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Milan Jirásek
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

High-performance solvers for multi-physics materials simulations (HyPerMatSim)

Czech Technical University in Prague
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Zeman
In collaboration with Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven 🇧🇪 (principal investigator: Dr. Martin Diehl)
May 2024 – Jun 2026

Post-harvest residues from hemp cultivation as a raw material for a sustainable wood processing industry in the Czech Republic (KonoDesk)

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic | Project ID: SS07020070
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Novák
In collaboration with Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno 🇨🇿 (principal investigator: Dr. Petr Čech); Dřevodílo Rousínov 🇨🇿 (co-principal investigator: Petr Pflimpfl); and SMART TECHNIK 🇨🇿 (co-principal investigator: Zdeněk Suchomel)
Jan 2024 – Dec 2025

Free-material optimization for manufacturable modular structures

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic | Project ID: 8J24DE005
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Marek Tyburec
In collaboration with Department of Mathematics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 🇩🇪 (principal investigator: Prof. Michael Stingl)
Jan 2024 – Jun 2026

3D forming of planar wooden elements under the influence of the interaction of wood and plastic

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic | Project ID: FW10010309
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Novák
In collaboration with FORM 🇨🇿 (principal investigator: Josef Barták), Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno 🇨🇿 (co-principal investigator: Prof. Petr Horáček)
Jan 2024 – Dec 2026

Smart modeling of inelastic behavior in heterogeneous materials

Czech Science Foundation | Project ID: GA24-11845S
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Martin Doškář
Jun 2023 – May 2028

Robotics and advanced industrial production (ROBOPROX)

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic | Project ID: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004590
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Zeman
In collaboration with Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics 🇨🇿 (principal investigator: Prof. Zdeněk Hanzálek)

Past projects

Jan 2023 – Dec 2024

Development of composite dowel bars combining a basalt core and polymer outer layer along with design guidelines of their applications in concrete pavements

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic| Project ID: CK04000009
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Martin Doškář
In collaboration with LIKAL 🇨🇿 (principal investigator: Leo Jeniš)
Funding: 4 474 000 CZK
Jan 2022 – Dec 2024

Polynomial optimization in the design of globally optimal frame structures under dynamic loads (PolyDyn)

Czech Science Foundation| Project ID: GA22-15524S
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Zeman
In collaboration with Faculty of Electrical Engineering 🇨🇿 (co-principal investigator: Dr. Jakub Mareček), Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences 🇨🇿 (co-principal investigator: Prof. Michal Kočvara)
Funding: 3 635 000 CZK
Jan 2021 – Dec 2024

A therapeutic combined disability children's wheelchair for 24/7 use in wide spectra of activities (KIDDON)

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic| Project ID: FW03010688
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Novák
In collaboration with 1to1design 🇨🇿 (principal investigator: Dušan Poliaček)
Funding: 10 179 000 CZK
Jan 2019 – Jun 2024

Non-periodic pattern-forming metamaterials: Modular design and fabrication (PERFORM)

Czech Science Foundation| Project ID: GX19-26143X
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Zeman
In collaboration with Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics 🇨🇿 (co-principal investigator: Dr. Libor Přeučil)
Funding: 34 790 000 CZK
Jan 2019 – Jun 2023

Centre of Advanced Applied Sciences (CAAS)

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic| Project ID: CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000778-01
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Milan Jirásek
In collaboration with Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering 🇨🇿 (principal investigator: Prof. Igor Jex)
Jan 2017 – Dec 2019

Reliable two-scale Fourier/finite element-based simulations: Error-control, model reduction, and stochastics (R2SFFT)

Czech Science Foundation| Project ID: GC17-04150J
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Zeman
In collaboration with Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University 🇨🇿 (co-principal investigator: Prof. Miroslav Tůma), Institute of Scientific Computing, TU Braunschweig 🇩🇪 (principal investigator: Prof. Hermann G. Mattheis)
Funding: 3 397 000 CZK
Jan 2017 – Dec 2019

Hierarchical additive fabrication of composite components with functionally oriented filling (HAFFO)

Technology Agency of the Czech Republic| Project ID: TH02020420
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Novák
In collaboration with Compo Tech PLUS 🇨🇿 (principal investigator: Dr. Ondřej Uher)
Funding: 4 281 000 CZK
Oct 2016 – Sep 2020

Database of digital material microstructures for additive manufacturing (μLib)

Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic| Project ID: FV10202
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics: Jan Novák
In collaboration with CUBESPACE 🇨🇿 (principal investigator: Martin Kokta)
Funding: 6 000 000 CZK