Active projects
Feb 2025 – Jun 2026
Transformation of plastic waste into primary raw material for programmable composite (PlaKom)
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)
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)
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics:
Milan Jirásek
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
High-performance solvers for multi-physics materials simulations (HyPerMatSim)
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)
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
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
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
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics:
Martin Doškář
In collaboration with Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology 🇨🇿 (principal investigator: Prof. Jan Eliáš) and Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology 🇳🇱 (Dr. Alexander Heilein)
Jun 2023 – May 2028
Robotics and advanced industrial production (ROBOPROX)
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
Jan 2022 – Dec 2024
Polynomial optimization in the design of globally optimal frame structures under dynamic loads (PolyDyn)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Principal investigator @OpenMechanics:
Jan Novák
In collaboration with CUBESPACE 🇨🇿 (principal investigator: Martin Kokta)
Funding: 6 000 000 CZK