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On the K0 factor

Róbert Szepesházi

Publication Name: Periodica Polytechnica Civil Engineering

Publication Date: 1994-01-01

Volume: 38

Issue: 1

Page Range: 127-135

Description:

After presenting the significance of the K0 factor the paper discusses some aspects of the formulae for the coefficient of earth pressure at rest, mainly the well-known Jaky's equation. An improvement for the critical Jaky's assumption is introduced and a modified K0 ...φ relationship is deduced. All the formulae originating from Jaky's idea and some other continuum mechanical or speculative equations are tested against 153 measured data. The original Jaky's equation, and the ones from Vierbiczky and Matsuoka-Sakakibara were found to be the best. -from Author

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

Human-Centric Automation and Optimization for Smart Homes

János Botzheim Noel Nuo Wi Tay Naoyuki Kubota

Publication Name: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Publication Date: 2018-10-01

Volume: 15

Issue: 4

Page Range: 1759-1771

Description:

A smart home needs to be human-centric, where it tries to fulfill human needs given the devices it has. Various works are developed to provide homes with reasoning and planning capability to fulfill goals, but most do not support complex sequence of plans or require significant manual effort in devising subplans. This is further aggravated by the need to optimize conflicting personal goals. A solution is to solve the planning problem represented as constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). But CSP uses hard constraints and, thus, cannot handle optimization and partial goal fulfillment efficiently. This paper aims to extend this approach to weighted CSP. Knowledge representation to help in generating planning rules is also proposed, as well as methods to improve performances. Case studies show that the system can provide intelligent and complex plans from activities generated from semantic annotations of the devices, as well as optimization to maximize personal constraints' fulfillment. Note to Practitioners - Smart home should maximize the fulfillment of personal goals that are often conflicting. For example, it should try to fulfill as much as possible the requests made by both the mother and daughter who wants to watch TV but both having different channel preferences. That said, every person has a set of goals or constraints that they hope the smart home can fulfill. Therefore, human-centric system that automates the loosely coupled devices of the smart home to optimize the goals or constraints of individuals in the home is developed. Automated planning is done using converted services extracted from devices, where conversion is done using existing tools and concepts from Web technologies. Weighted constraint satisfaction that provides the declarative approach to cover large problem domain to realize the automated planner with optimization capability is proposed. Details to speed up planning through search space reduction are also given. Real-time case studies are run in a prototype smart home to demonstrate its applicability and intelligence, where every planning is performed under a maximum of 10 s. The vision of this paper is to be able to implement such system in a community, where devices everywhere can cooperate to ensure the well-being of the community.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2018.2789658

Earthquake-Induced Waste Repurposing: A Sustainable Solution for Post-Earthquake Debris Management in Urban Construction

Nurullah Bektaş M. Shmlls

Publication Name: Buildings

Publication Date: 2024-04-01

Volume: 14

Issue: 4

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Product sustainability has moved beyond being an elective preference to becoming a certain necessity. However, earthquakes in different regions, particularly Türkiye–Syria, Afghanistan, and Morocco, have produced a substantial amount of construction waste and debris. In the context of green urban initiatives and environmental preservation, theeffective management and reduction of environmental impact (EI) are imperative. This urgency underscores the significance of the study’s focus on a ten-story reinforced concrete (RC) dormitory building in Győr, Hungary, chosen as a case study. The research delves into the incorporation of three distinct concrete compositions through seismic design, aligning with the innovative approach of emphasizing recycled aggregate-based concrete to mitigate the EI. Utilizing AxisVM X7 and Revit software, the study meticulously created and analyzed a detailed building model, revealing a significant percentage (35%) and amount (1519.89 tons) of concrete waste that could be incorporated into construction. The results also showed a reduction in both total carbon emissions and the price of materials by falling 27.5% and 9.13%, respectively. We propose an eco-friendly way to effectively reuse debris from earthquakes, focusing on the case study of the 2023 Türkiye–Syria earthquake and encouraging resource efficiency while also addressing the construction waste problems that arise after an earthquake.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3390/buildings14040948

Mechanical Studies of Subperiosteal Implants

Ibolya Zsoldos K. Kulcsár

Publication Name: Periodica Polytechnica Mechanical Engineering

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 68

Issue: 1

Page Range: 53-62

Description:

When designing subperiosteal implants, mechanical testing of the implant and abutment is inevitable. Subperiosteal implants and their abutments are medical devices made to order, so each implant requires a separate design, since each patient has a different bone surface, for which the implant must be designed. For the mechanical testing of subperiosteal implants, a new test apparatus was constructed, on which mechanical simulations were carried out, the subperiosteal implants were tested together with their abutments. In addition to the finite element analysis simulation, the test apparatus can also be used to determine how much force is generated by the chewing force on the subperiosteal implant and its abutment as a result of the chewing mechanism.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3311/PPme.23706

Vibration analysis of a suspension system subject to high level of measurement noise

Gábor Rödönyi György Istenes Ferenc Szauter

Publication Name: 2017 4th International Conference on Control Decision and Information Technologies Codit 2017

Publication Date: 2017-11-08

Volume: 2017-January

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 881-886

Description:

Using only vertical acceleration measurements for the sprung and unsprung masses of a suspension system of a commercial city bus, the goal of the paper is to develop an analysis method to find the vibration modes of the mechanical system from data measured during real life operation. The identified vibration modes can be used to (in)validate first principle physical models of the system, while the identified ARMA models can be used to develop uncertainty models. The challenge in the problem is that the measurements are subject to very high level of noise due to maneuvering of the vehicle, nonlinear effects of the suspension system, vibration of the engine and the gear system, and sensor noise. Nonparametric and parametric modeling methods are applied to evaluate the quality of the measurements and find the invariant properties of the suspension system. It is shown based on multiple experiments that independently of the actual road properties and operating conditions, eigen-frequencies of some vibration modes can be determined with relatively small uncertainty, while the corresponding damping factors have varying amount of uncertainty. Comparing the results with the modes of a full car vehicle model developed based on physical considerations, it can be concluded that an identification algorithm for obtaining the parameters of the physical model must be complemented with a suitable uncertainty modeling and classification.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1109/CoDIT.2017.8102707

Determination of the health-protective effect of ancient cereals and one possibility of increasing their functionality

E. Lakatos Székelyhidi Rita Beatrix Sik Anna Márkus

Publication Name: Cereal Research Communications

Publication Date: 2024-03-01

Volume: 52

Issue: 1

Page Range: 247-253

Description:

This study aimed to examine the differences between the antioxidant capacity, and the total polyphenol content of the ancient grains namely Einkorn (Triticum monococcum L.) and Khorasan (Triticum turanicum) compared with wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), furthermore attempt to create a functional loaf enriched with rosemary (Salvia Rosmarinus Spenn.). To achieve this goal, 1, 3, and 5% of rosemary were added to the loafs made of Einkorn, Khorasan, and common wheat flour, and then the changes in their antioxidant and polyphenol content were examined. Based on the spectrophotometric results, it can be said that the type of wheat clearly affects the amount of the tested components. In all cases, the loafs made from common wheat contained the least amount of antioxidants (0.74 mg AAE/g) and polyphenols (0.41 mg GAE/g). On the other hand, Khorasan loaves showed outstanding values in terms of their antioxidant (0.89 mg AAE/g) and polyphenol (0.68 mg GAE/g) content. Einkorn loaves contained smaller amounts of the tested antioxidants (0.71 mg AAE/g) and polyphenols (0.51 mg GAE/g), but they were still better than common wheat loaves. The addition of rosemary can significantly increase the amount of compounds with an antioxidant effect in bakery products, but care must be taken to preserve the favorable organoleptic properties. It has been proven that ancient grains have a more positive physiological effect than common wheat, and the health-protective properties of bakery products can be increased by adding herbs. Graphical abstract: (Figure presented.)

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1007/s42976-023-00384-4

Can Older Adults Become Exercise Junkies? Commentary on ‘Exercise Addiction in Older Adults: Health Preservation or Fear of Death?’ by Surenkok and Colleagues

Attila Szabo

Publication Name: Psychogeriatrics

Publication Date: 2026-03-01

Volume: 26

Issue: 2

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

No description provided

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1111/psyg.70154

Contribution to the development of a new type of DC/DC converters

Z. Puklus Peter Csaba Szilagyi László Hodossy

Publication Name: IECON Proceedings Industrial Electronics Conference

Publication Date: 1997-12-01

Volume: 2

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 581-586

Description:

This paper presents the test results and simplified design method of a new type symmetrical resonant DC/DC converter. The realized converter operates in the frequency range of 30-300 kHz. This paper contributes the theoretical results of the resonant type DC/DC converters and shows the limits of their usage. The simulation results support the theory of the losing converter. The output voltage-current curve (Vo-Io) shows the typical features of the converter operation. This paper also deals with converters working with non ideal resonant circuit.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

Types of development paths and the hierarchy of the regional centres of Central and Eastern Europe

Ádám Páthy

Publication Name: Regional Statistics

Publication Date: 2017-01-01

Volume: 7

Issue: 2

Page Range: 124-147

Description:

After the rapid transformation period of the 1990s, determined predominantly by the crisis effects of a radical political-economic transition, the reshaping of the spatial structure and urban networks slowed in the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The spillover effects of the market economy transition are fad-ing, and cannot be generalized. Instead, other factors, such as involvement in global processes and the creation and exploitation of new types of synergies, become the main drivers of the differ-entiation and development in the urban system. This study attempts to explore the framework and specifics of this new environment by exam-ining resources for development in the Eastern and Central European regional centres.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.15196/rs070202