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Smart Materials in Architecture: Useful Tools with Practical Applications or Fascinating Inventions for Experimental Design?
PublicationFor at least several decades smart or so-called intelligent materials, being the result of great advancements in material engineering, appear in architecture in different applications. Most of them are called "smart" because of their inherent properties: a real-time response to environmental stimuli. There are also those considered to be "smart" due to smart design: their original structure or the composition of their materials...
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Museum Institutions in Monuments - Positive and Negative Aspects of Adaptation: The New Amber Museum and Museum of Science in Gdansk, Poland
PublicationThe issue of the creation and location of new museums is a current topic. The decision of where and how to create new museum facilities will impact successful function in the future. Museums are either located in newly designed buildings or in existing buildings. In general, existing buildings adapted for museum use are either formally under conservational protection or not. With regard to museum location in preserved monuments,...
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Detail, Facture, and Colour in the Architecture of Polish Single-Family Houses after 1989
PublicationThe article presents single-family houses architecture transformations since 1989, with particularly close attention paid to the significance of detail, facture, and colour. The article presents the architecture as an art of designing and building facilities with both use and aesthetic value, an art of shaping space and building forms. Architectural work should correspond to the intended function, technique, economic and aesthetic...
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Image-based numerical modeling of the tensile deformation behavior and mechanical properties of additive manufactured Ti–6Al–4V diamond lattice structures
PublicationThis work concerns the numerical modeling of the deformation process and mechanical properties of structures obtained by the additive method laser power bed fusion (LPBF). The investigation uses diamond structures of Ti–6Al–4V titanium implantation alloy with various relative densities. To model the process of tensile deformation of the materials, geometric models were used, mapping the realistic shape of the examined structures....
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Investigation of changes in the type B PLC effect of Al-Mg-Cu type alloy for various strain rates
PublicationEfekt Portevina-LeChateliera ujawnia się w postaci skokowych zmian naprężenia w trakcie procesu odkształcenia próbek pewnych stopów. Zjawisko PLC występuje w kilku odmianach charakteryzujących się istotnymi różnicami zarówno w przestrzennym rozkładzie pasm odkształcenia jak też przebiegu krzywej naprężeniowej. Przebiegi odpowiadające różnym odmianom serration charakteryzują się odmiennymi właściwościami rozkładu energetycznego...
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Investigation of changes in the type B PLC effect of Al–Mg–Cu type alloy for various strain rates
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Analysis of Transparent Concrete as an Innovative Material Used in Civil Engineering
PublicationSince the dawn of history concrete has been, right behind stone and brick, one of the oldest building materials. The ancient Romans took advantage of its opportunities. They constructed amazing architectural objects, which survived centuries as whole buildings or parts of them. Concrete is so ubiquitous, that when we are walking in a newer districts of cities we are virtually surrounded by concrete from everywhere. Sometimes...
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Facile synthesis and characterization of graphene and N-doped graphene by CVD method from liquid precursors for promising electrode materials
PublicationIn this study, high-quality and few-layered graphene was synthesized using the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method from liquid sources. Two different liquid carbon sources, pyridine, and benzene, were used and deposited on nickel foam under heat conditions using a bubbler in a quartz tube. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman analysis confirmed the crystalline properties of graphene and N-doped graphene, demonstrating the high...
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Polish experience with cold in-place recycling
PublicationDeep cold in-place recycling using cement and asphalt emulsion has been used for reconstruction of existing roads since the beginning of the 1990s. This paper describes the first Polish requirements for mineral-cement-emulsion mixtures. As requirements stated for the strength of the mineral-cement-emulsion mixtures were quite high, most of the mixtures were designed using high amount of cement and aggregate added for the improvement...
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The Dilemmas of Choosing a Suitable Technology for Low Energy and Passive Houses in the Context of their Overheating Issues
PublicationIn compliance with European Union directives, numerous countries are introducing increasingly stricter legal limits on the estimated energy consumption of newly designed residential buildings. However, the fact, that regulations and designers' efforts are focused on decreasing energy consumption (and consequently carbon dioxide emissions) only at the post-occupancy stage, may lead to a significant increase in the carbon footprint...
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Ergonomic Aspects of Transport of Patient through the Operating Theatre
PublicationOne of the most crucial decisions to be made while designing and re-modernizing an operating theatre is selecting a method of transporting the patient through the hospital’s spatial arrangement. This decision, while irrelevant at first thought, implies numerous project and functional consequences. Designing an operating theatre within a hospital is related to numerous specialist requirements with an aim of minimizing the risk of...
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Functionalized nanodiamonds as a perspective green carbo-catalyst for removal of emerging organic pollutants
PublicationRapid industrial and urban development jointly with rising global population strongly affect the large-scale issues with drinking, groundwater, and surface water pollution. Concerns are not limited to environmental issues but also human health impact becoming serious global aspect. Organic pollution becomes a primarily serious hazard, therefore, the novel sophisticated approaches to treat them are thoroughly investigated. Among...
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Valuation of Residential Premises for the Purposes of Securing the Receivables of the Creditor in Poland
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Costs of Urbanisation in Poland, Based on the Example of Wrocław
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Application of Spatial Models in Making Location Decisions of Wind Power Plant in Poland
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Outdoor Advertising in Public Space and its Legal System in Poland over the Centuries
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Historical Heritage and Space Transformation
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Financing Housing Support Programs in Poland in the Light of National Housing Resources
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Thermal-Humidity Parameters of 3D Printed Wall
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Copper recovery from model chloride solution using polymer inclusion membranes with 1-decyl-2,4-dimethylimidazle
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The role of β-diketones in the extraction of cobalt (II) and nickel (II) ions
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The Effect of Spikes Occurrence on Surface Texture Parameter Assessments
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Tourism Infrastructure Providing Access to Areas of Protected Landscape and Nature in Poland. Selected Examples
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Health-Promoting Places: Rain Gardens and Sustainable Water Management
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Health-Promoting Places: Architectural Variety
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Some of Challenges Faced by Eco-Neighbourhoods in Poland in Comparison with EcoQuartier Program in France
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Multiplication Analysis of the Cause, Form and Extent of Damage to Buildings in Areas with Mining Impact
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Impact of Mining Exploitation on Properties with Engineering Structures by Local Urban Development Plans
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Scheduling Repetitive Construction Processes Using the Learning-Forgetting Theory
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Optimization of inventory costs management in the construction enterprise
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Slope Reinforcement with the Utilization of the Coal Waste Anthropogenic Material
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Evaluation of Supply Chain Management Systems Used in Civil Engineering
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Meta-Design and the Triple Learning Organization in Architectural Design Process
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Influence of the Organizational Schemes of the Construction Process on the Quality of the Structures Erected Based on Selected Legal Aspects from Russia, Slovakia, and Poland
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Comparison of ANN Classifier to the Neuro-Fuzzy System for Collusion Detection in the Tender Procedures of Road Construction Sector
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Modelling Negotiations of Construction Subcontract based on a Game Theory – Results of an Experiment
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Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks in predicting fair price level in the road construction industry
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Managing Delays in Construction Projects Aiming at Cost Overrun Minimization
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Loads from Compressive Strain Caused by Mining Activity Illustrated with the Example of Two Buildings in Silesia
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Electrochemical oxidation of ionic liquids at highly boron doped diamond electrodes
PublicationUtlenianie elektrochemiczne przy zastosowaniu elektrod diamentowych wysoko domieszkowanych borem (BDD) było badane pod względem przydatności do utylizacji roztworów zawierających ciecze jonowe (ILs). Dwustronne elektrody Si/BDD przygotowano metodą chemicznego osadzania z fazy lotnej wspomaganego plazmą (MW PE CVD). Badanie przy użyciu skaningowej mikroskopii elektronowej (SEM) potwierdziło, że wytworzone warstwy były ciągłe i miały...
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Application of decision–making parametric structures in the analysis of a compound planetary gear
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Shot peening intensity effect on bending fatigue strength of S235, S355 and P460 structural steels
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CARBOCHAIN POLYMER-GLUCOSE HYBRIDS: SYNTHESIS, THERMAL/MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND BIODEGRADABILITY
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Using CFD software for the evaluation of hygrothermal conditions at wall-window perimeters
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Modelling of Edge Insulation Depending on Boundary Conditions for the Ground Level
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Porosimetric, Thermal and Strength Tests of Aerated and Nonaerated Concretes
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Reasons for changes in the value of unit pressure of compression products supporting external treatment
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New method of processing heat treatment experiments with numerical simulation support
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Electrochemical oxidation of sulphamerazine at boron-doped diamond electrodes: Influence of boron concentration
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Electrochemical oxidation of ionic liquids at highly boron doped diamond electrodes
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