Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Dr hab. inż. Zygmunt MIKNO |
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:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Development of an innovative high-performance compact welding machine with increased frequency, 2015-2017, PBS3/B4/12/2015, NCBR, leader of the project.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Zygmunt Mikno, 2016, Projection Welding with Pneumatic and Servomechanical Electrode Operating Force Systems, Welding Journal (Welding Research), vol. 95, pp. 286-299.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- 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
- 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:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since 2016, Senior Member.
- International Institute of Welding (IIW), since 2014, member of Commission III.