Marco Amato submits a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship proposal
An outgoing phase hosted by Luis Dorfmann at Tufts University, with our group hosting the return phase.
Czech Technical University in Prague
Computational Mechanics of Soft Materials
We develop mathematical models, numerical methods and open scientific software for soft solids — surface mechanics, instabilities, contact and multiphysics coupling.
Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering · in collaboration with the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, CAS
Research
The group combines nonlinear continuum mechanics, variational modeling, finite element methods and open-source implementation, with applications in advanced soft materials and structures.
Soft surfaces and surface energy
Surface elasticity, curvature dependence and the instabilities that surface stress drives in soft solids.
Contact of highly deformable bodies
Third-medium contact formulations and regularizations that stay robust when the contact zone dominates the problem.
Active and multiphysics materials
Magneto- and electro-elasticity, pneumatic actuation, and coupling that changes the effective response of a structure.
Scientific software
Open-source finite element development, from constitutive models to solvers, in OOFEM.
Recent news
Show all newsMartin Horák co-organized ICMM9 in Prague
The 9th International Conference on Material Modeling, held at the Faculty of Civil Engineering.
PRIORITY project on disruptive materials for submarine invisibility has started
The European Defence Fund project started on 1 September, with Martin Horák as Czech PI.
SOFFA received an excellent final evaluation
The ERC CZ project on soft surfaces, constitutive models, instabilities and numerics.
Institutional support through the CTU GAČR Near-Miss scheme
The group is supported for 2026 through the CTU scheme for highly rated GAČR proposals.