Ing. Jan Kober, Ph.D.

Education

• PhD: Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

Department of Materials (2016)

Thesis: Application of Nonlinear Ultrasonic Methods and Time Reversed Acoustics in Nondestructive Testing of Materials (in Czech)

• MSc.: Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

Department of Materials (2009)

Thesis: Correspondence between Images of Material Microstructure and Fatigue Crack Morphology

Employment

• Institute of Thermomechanics of the CAS, Dept. Impacts and Waves in Solids, Laboratory of Nondestructive Testing (from 2009)

Stays abroad

• Politecnico di Torino, DISAT, Nonlinear acoustics, metamaterials and soft matter Laboratory, (2019/2020, 6 months)

Selected publications

• J. Kober, A. Kirchner, A. Kruisova, M. Chlada, S. Hirsekorn, T. Weißgärber, and Z. Prevorovsky, Assessing Porosity in Selective Electron Beam Melting Manufactured Ti – 6Al – 4V by Nonlinear Impact Modulation Spectroscopy, J. Nondestruct. Eval. 123, (2020).
• J. Kober, Z. Prevorovsky, and M. Chlada, In Situ Calibration of Acoustic Emission Transducers by Time Reversal Method, Sensors Actuators A Phys. 240, 50 (2016).
• J. Kober, Z. Dvorakova, Z. Prevorovsky, and J. Krofta, Time Reversal Transfer: Exploring the Robustness of Time Reversed Acoustics in Media with Geometry Perturbations, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 138, EL49 (2015).
• J. Kober and Z. Prevorovsky, Theoretical Investigation of Nonlinear Ultrasonic Wave Modulation Spectroscopy at Crack Interface, NDT E Int. 61, 10 (2014).

Grants