Mr Piotr Fiborek was born in 1980 in Gdansk. He studied at the Gdansk University of Technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from 1999-2004. The title of his M.Sc. thesis was ‘Design of a control system applied in the heating of the railroad switches’.

In October 2012, he started a doctoral study at the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery. His scientific research focuses on modelling elastic waves propagation in complex structures, e.g. unidirectional and woven fibre-reinforced composite plates, honeycomb sandwich panels. In January 2015, he started working in the Mechanics of Intelligent Structures Department.

Research experience:

• 9th Eccomas Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, SMART 2019, Paris, France, 2019,
• 9th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Malaga (META), Marseille, France, 2018,
• 7th EASN International Conference on Innovation in European Aeronautics Research, Warsaw, Poland, 2017,
• 8th Eccomas Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, SMART 2017, Madrid,  Spain, 2017,
• 7th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Malaga (META), Spain, 2016,
• 5th International Summer School on Smart Materials and Structures, Trento, Italy, 2016,
• 3rd Polish Congress of Mechanics and 21st  International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics, Gdańsk, Poland, 2015,
• 39th Solid Mechanics Conference (SolMech), Zakopane, Poland, 2014

Project manager:

• ‘Modelling-assisted damage identification function for structural health monitoring of composite structures under varying environmental conditions’, funding provided by the National Science Centre (NCN), Poland, 2019-2022

Most important papers:

• Kudela, P., Radzienski, M., Fiborek, P., & Wandowski, T. (2020). Elastic constants identification of woven fabric reinforced composites by using guided wave dispersion curves and genetic algorithm. Composite Structures, 249, 112569.
• Balasubramaniam, K., Fiborek, P., & Malinowski, P. H. (2021, March). Lamb waves based assessment of impact damage in multilayered CFRP plate. In Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems XV (Vol. 11593, p. 115930O). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
• Kudela, P., Moll, J., & Fiborek, P. (2020). Parallel spectral element method for guided wave based structural health monitoring. Smart Materials and Structures, 29(9), 095010.
• Fiborek, P., Kudela, P., & Ostachowicz, W. M. (2019). 2D–3D interface coupling in the time domain spectral element method for the adhesive layer effects on guided wave propagation in composite plates. Smart Materials and Structures, 28(5), 055014.
• Sikdar, S., Fiborek, P., Kudela, P., Banerjee, S., & Ostachowicz, W. (2018). Effects of debonding on Lamb wave propagation in a bonded composite structure under variable temperature conditions. Smart Materials and Structures, 28(1), 015021.
• Fiborek, P., Malinowski, P. H., Kudela, P., Wandowski, T., & Ostachowicz, W. M. (2018). Time-domain spectral element method for modelling of the electromechanical impedance of disbonded composites. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 29(16), 3214-3221.
• Sikdar, S., Ostachowicz, W., Kudela, P., & Fiborek, P. (2018, March). Study of disbond effects in a jointed composite structure under variable ambient temperatures. In Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2018 (Vol. 10598, p. 105980G). International Society for Optics and Photonics.