István Páczelt

Professor

Date and Place of Birth

August 22, 1939 Nyírparasznya, Hungary

Education

M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Miskolc (1962)
Ph.D. Polytechnic Institute, St.Petersburg (1969)

Language Skills

Russian, English

Assignments

University of Miskolc, Hungary (1962-present)
1962-66 Assistant Lecturer
1966-69 Ph.D. Student in Polytechnic Institute in St.Petersburg
1969-71 Assistant Professor
1971-83 Associate Professor
1982-83 Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
1983 - Full Professor
1983-94 Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
1993 - Head of Department of Mechanics

Awards and Memberships

Széchenyi Award (1999)
Doctor honoris causa, University of Harkov, May 1994;
Elected as corresponding member to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1987, as full member in 1995.
Hungarian Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Central European Association for Computational Mechanics
International Federation of Hungarian Engineers and Architects
Committe of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Interests

Computational Mechanics, Finite Element Method, Mechanical Contact, Structural Optimization

Five Representative Publications

Páczelt, I. and Szabó, T., "Optimal Shape Design for Contact Problems", Structural Optimisation, Vol. 7 (1/2), pp. 66-75, (1994).
Páczelt, I. and Szabó, T., "Application of the Augmented Lagrangian Technique for Solution of Contact Optimization Problems", Proceedings of Second International Conference Contact Mechanics 95, Ferrara, Italy, Computational Mechanics Publications, London, pp. 249-256, (1995).
Páczelt, I., "Finite Element Method in the Engineering Practice", Vol. 1., Miskolc University Press, 1999, p.450 (in Hungarian)
Páczelt, I. and Pere, B., "Investigation of contact wearing problems with hp-version of the Finite Element Method", Proceedings Thermal Stress'99, June 13-17, 1999, Cracow, Poland, Edited by J.J. Skrzypek and R.B. Hetnarski, Cracow University of Technology, p.81-84.
Páczelt, I., Szabó, B. and Szabó T., "Solution of Elastic Contact Problems by the p-Version of the Finite Element Method", Computers and Mathematics with Applications. 38 No.9-10, (2000), p.49-69

Address

Department of Mechanics,
University of Miskolc,
Miskolc-Egyetemváros, Miskolc, Hungary 3515
Room : A/4 442
Phone : +36 46 565-111 18-77
Fax : +36 46 565-163
E-mail: mechpacz@uni-miskolc.hu
http://www.mech.uni-miskolc.hu/staff/lecturers/I_Paczelt.html