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Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Dr hab. inż. Zygmunt MIKNO
ORCID: 0000-0002-8102-6020
Research ID: R-6522-2016
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Employment history in research departments

  • 10.04.1989 – 05.03.1990
    Instytut Spawalnictwa, Department for Electronic Control Systems
    Position: trainee, laboratory technician
     
  • 06.03.1990 – 26.09.2005
    Instytut Spawalnictwa, Department for Electronic Control Systems
    Position: assistant
     
  • 27.09.2005 – 30.04.2015
    Instytut Spawalnictwa, Department for Electronic Welding Equipment
    Position: assistant professor
     
  • 01.05.2015 – 5.02.2019
    Instytut Spawalnictwa, Department for Friction and Resistance Welding Technologies, Adhesive Bonding and Environmental Engineering
    Position: assistant professor
     
  • 8.02.2019 – 31.03.2021
    Instytut Spawalnictwa, Deputy Director
     
  • 01.04.2020 – till now
    Łukasiewicz - Instytut Spawalnictwa, Deputy Director for Research

Scientific fields

  • welding engineering
  • monitoring of welding processes
  • numerical calculations
  • research stands for the purpose of welding testing
  • welding equipment
  • joining technologies

Specialisation:

  • numerical simulation,
  • resistance welding technologies,  
  • construction of resistance welding equipment based on new components and solutions,
  • development and construction of research stands for the needs of broadly defined welding technologies,
  • assessment of the quality of resistance welded joints,
  • measurement of temperature in welding processes,
  • monitoring of the parameters of welding process.

International Research Projects:

  1. FleXible Production Experts for reconfigurable aSSembly technology, 2007-2011, XPRESS no. NMP2-CT-2006-026674, (consortium - 19 participants), task of Instytut Spawalnictwa - Development of a Welding prototype for automotive and electrical industry, European Commission, 6th Framework Program, leader of the task performed in Poland.
  2. Methodologies, accreditation and training within outsourced production processes and global production workflow, 2006-2008, European Commission, Partnership project (Education and culture) Leonardo da Vinci GlobalMat, member of the project team.

National Research Projects:

  1. Priority III, 2018, Higher Education for the Economy and Development, Operational Program Knowledge Education Development (Measure 3.1: Competences in higher education), Competent Graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Wrocław University of Technology, Instytut Spawalnictwa, member of the project team.
  2. An innovative method of controlling a servomechanical welding electrode force system in the techniques of joining thin-walled metal components 2015-2018, TANGO1/267374/NCBR/2015, NCN and NCBR, leader of the project.
  3. Development of an innovative high-performance compact welding machine with increased frequency, 2015-2017, PBS3/B4/12/2015, NCBR, leader of the project.
  4. Numerical and experimental comparative studies of projection welding with the use of pneumatic and servomechanical systems of electrode force control, 2011-2013, N N501 196940, MNiSW, leader of the project.
  5. Development of the measurement system and methodology in the research into structural changes in steels under the conditions of thermal welding cycles, 2006-2009, no. N505 002 31/0255, MEiN, leader of the project.
  6. Development and testing of a measuring system for recording the radiation of a welding arc in the MIG/MAG welding processes, 2005-2007, no. 3 T10C 021 28, MNiI, member of the project team.
  7. Research into spatial distribution of power in resistance welding of metals, 2003-2004, own research project no. 4 T08C 006 24, KBN, leader of the project.
  8. Equipment for simulation of welding thermal and stress-strain cycles, 1997-2000, special project no. 8 T10A 051 97 C/3327, KBN, member of the project team.
  9. New materials and technologies for welding engineering, thematic group III. 10.1. Welding equipment, Metrology for welding processes, 1997, research project no. PBZ 26-08, KBN, member of the project team.
  10. New materials and technologies for welding engineering, thematic group IV, Welding equipment, 1997, research project no. PBZ 26-08, KBN, member of the project team.
  11. Preparation of the production of inverter resistance welding machines, 1993-1996, special project no 8 T10A 051 97 C/3327, KBN, leader of the project.

Selected publications

  1. Zygmunt Mikno, 2018, Projection Welding of Nuts Involving the Use of Electromechanical and Pneumatic Electrode Force, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, DOI: org/10.1007/s00170-018-2525-5, vol. 99, pp. 1405-1425.
  2. Zygmunt Mikno, 2016, Projection Welding with Pneumatic and Servomechanical Electrode Operating Force Systems, Welding Journal (Welding Research), vol. 95, pp. 286-299.    
  3. Zygmunt Mikno, Mariusz Stępień, Bogusław Grzesik, 2017, Optimization of resistance welding by using electric servo actuator, Welding in the World, DOI: 10.1007/s40194-017-0437-x, vol. 61, pp. 453-462.    
  4. Zygmunt Mikno, Marcin Korzeniowski, Adam Pilarczyk, Paweł Kustroń, Andrzej Ambroziak, 2018, An Analysis of Resistance Welding Processes and The Expulsion of Liquid Metal from a Weld Nugget, Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, vol. 18, pp. 522-531.
  5. Zygmunt Mikno, Zbigniew Bartnik, 2016, Heating of electrodes during spot resistance welding in FEM calculations, Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, vol. 16, pp. 86-100.
  6. Stępień Mariusz, Grzesik Bogusław, Mikno Zygmunt, 2018, A numerical determination of power distribution in the resistance welding machine output circuit, Prooc. of 19th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Motion Control, IEEE-PEMC 2020, Budapest/Hungary, DOI: 10.1109/EPEPEMC.2018.8521972, pp. 639-644.
  7. Mariusz Stępień, Bogusław Grzesik, Zygmunt Mikno, 2017, A Comparison of Highly Coupled Step-Down Transformers Dedicated for Resistance Welding Systems, Prooc. of International Conference on Electromagnetic Devices and Processes in Environment Protection with Seminar Applications of Superconductors (ELMECO and AoS) Nałęczów/Poland,  DOI: 10.1109/ELMECO.2017.8267728, pp. 1-4.
  8. Mariusz Stępień, Bogusław Grzesik, Zygmunt Mikno, 2015, Analysis of actuators for large armature displacement, Prooc. of 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (Smart), Kuwait/Kuwait, IEEE Conf., DOI: 10.1109/SMART.2015.7399240, pp. 1-4.
  9. Zygmunt Mikno, Mariusz Stępień, Bogusław Grzesik, 2015, Optimising the Operation of Servomechanical Force Systems used in the Joining of Thin-walled Metal Elements in the Automotive Industry, Prooc. of 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Mobility Applications, Renewables and Technology (Smart), Kuwait/Kuwait, IEEE Conf., DOI: 10.1109/SMART.2015.7399241, pp. 1-8.
  10. Zygmunt Mikno, 2019, Cross-wire projection welding of aluminium alloys – pneumatic and electromechanical electrode force system, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, DOI: 10.1007/s00170-019-03443-5
  11. Z. Mikno, M. Stępień, , B. Grzesik, 2020, Numerical modelling and measurements of temperature for tests of structural transformations in steels under welding conditions, Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, vol. 65 s. 1405-1415

Published books/monographies:

  1. Zygmunt Mikno, „Analysis of resistance welding process with electromechanical electrode force system”, Publishing House of Silesian University of Technology, ISBN 978-83-7880-587-8, 2018
  2. Zygmunt Mikno, Andrzej Ambroziak, Tomasz Biskup, Bogusław Grzesik, Michał Jeleń, Henryk Kołodziej, Marcin Korzeniowski, Szymon Kowieski, Paweł Kustroń, Wojciech Oborski, Adam Pilarczyk, Janusz Skiba, Mariusz Stępień,  Innovative solutions for high-performance DC resistance welding machines, a monograph prepared on the basis of research results obtained during the INWELD project, financing by the National Centre for Research and Development under the Applied Research Program, project no. PBS3/B4/12/2015, ISBN 978-83-61272-73-1, Instytut Spawalnictwa, s. 1-244, Oldprint Printing House Żory. 2018
  3. Z. Mikno, 2020, Resistance Welding of Aluminium Alloys with an Electromechanical Electrode Force System, a chapter of the monography entitled Aluminium Alloy, www.intechopen.com/online-first, pp. 1-25, open access, DOI:10.5772/intechopen.93242

Patents, patent applications, utility models

  • patents (26, 3 of which are applied), main author of 17 patents:
    P. 232703, P.416596, P.236984, P.234119, P.231902, P. 230519, P. 234475, P.229445, P.228089, P.226755, P.229922, P.222764, P.222475, P.220870, P.217709, P.217717, P.217256, P.218257, P.215566, P.209092, P.206568, P.203345, P.199607, P.196710, P.174054, P.166550
  • patent application (1): P.431658
  • utility model (2): W.125647, W.70431

Awards

  • 22 medals and awards, including 8 gold and 3 silver medals, Stanisław Olszewski medal, 2 awards of the Minister of Science and Higher Education (2008 and 2011)

Implementations

  • 33 implementations of research results in industry as well as in research and development institutions

Membership in scientific organizations:

  1. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since 2016, Senior Member.
  2. International Institute of Welding (IIW), since 2014, member of Commission III.