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Influence of sheet/purlin fasteners spacing on shear flexibility of the diaphragm
PublikacjaThe paper presents the influence of sheet/purlin fasteners location (in reference to trapezoidal profile cross section) on shear flexibility of the cladding acting as a diaphragm. Analytical procedures were presented and their limitations were discussed. Next, selected schemes of fasteners location, known from engineering practice, but not included in European codes and recommendations, were analysed numerically in order to observe...
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Ultrasonic Tomography of Brick Columns Based on FEM Calculations
PublikacjaUltrasonic tomography is one of the most developed method of non-destructive testing. Despite being used mainly in medicine, it is becoming more and more popular as a method for monitoring of structural elements. It allows to examine the internal structure and technical condition of the tested element. This paper investigates the influence of crosssectional geometry on an obtained tomographic image. Wave propagation signals were...
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Influence of fasteners and connections flexibility on deflections of steel building including the stressed skin effect
PublikacjaThe paper presents the analysis of the influence of fasteners and connections flexibility on displacements of symmetrical single-bay pitched-roof steel building, including trapezoidal cladding acting as a diaphragm. The purpose of the article was to compare numerical models with and without taking into consideration fasteners and connections flexibility in order to observe the differences in transverse stiffness of the building...
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Design Evolution of the Ultrasonic Piezoelectric Motor Using Three Rotating Mode Actuators
PublikacjaThe development process and experimental investigation of the multicell piezoelectric motor is presented in this paper. The proposed design consists of three individual cells integrated into the stator, double rotor, and a preload system. Those elements are combined into a symmetrical structure of the motor. The two new prototypes have been designed, simulated and tested. Finite element numerical analysis is carried out to obtain...
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Strongly anisotropic surface elasticity and antiplane surface waves
PublikacjaWithin the new model of surface elasticity, the propagation of anti-plane surface waves is discussed. For the proposed model, the surface strain energy depends on surface stretching and on changing of curvature along a preferred direction. From the continuum mechanics point of view, the model describes finite deformations of an elastic solid with an elastic membrane attached on its boundary reinforced by a family of aligned elastic...
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Damage Analysis of Tensioning Cable Anchorage Zone of a Bridge Superstructure, Using CDP Abaqus Material Model
PublikacjaNumerical analysis of the tensioning cables anchorage zone of a bridge superstructure is presented in this paper. It aims to identify why severe concrete cracking occurs during the tensioning process in the vicinity of anchor heads. In order to simulate the tensioning, among others, a so-called local numerical model of a section of the bridge superstructure was created in the Abaqus Finite Element Method (FEM) environment. The...
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Modal analysis of railway current collectors using Autodesk Inventor
PublikacjaThe paper presents the results of modal analysis of railway current collector type 160EC. In the first place, the analysis was carried out analytically for a simplified two lumped mass pantograph model. Then numerical analysis was conducted in the Autodesk Inventor (AI) on the prepared multibody model using the AI modal analysis algorithm, which is based on the finite element method (FEM). Model elements which are most relevant...
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Application of linear buckling sensitivity analysis to economic design of cylindrical steel silos composed of corrugated sheets and columns
PublikacjaThe paper deals with global stability of steel cylindrical silos composed of corrugated walls and vertical columns with loads imposed by a bulk solid following Eurocode 1. The optimum silo design with respect to the steel weight was based on a sensitivity analysis method. The changes of silo column profiles at each design step were performed by means of influence lines for the buckling load factor due to the unit column bending...
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Wykorzystanie ciepła niskotemperaturowego do procesu suszenia peletu ze słomy z wykorzystaniem mikrostrugowego wymiennika ciepła
PublikacjaW artykule przedstawiono wpływ temperatury medium suszącego na zmiany względnej oraz bezwzględnej zawartości wilgoci podczas suszenia peletu ze słomy. Proces suszenia przeprowadzono przy stałym ciśnieniu atmosferycznym i różnych wartościach temperatury powietrza, jako czynnika suszącego, wynoszących odpowiednio: 40℃, 60℃, 80℃, 100℃ oraz 120℃. Badania eksperymentalne wykonywano na innowacyjnym stanowisku wyposażonym w mikrostrugowy...
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Historical carpentry corner log joints—Numerical analysis within stochastic framework
PublikacjaThe paper presents the results of numerical analysis performed on historical, traditional carpentry corner logjoints of two basic topologies: the short-corner dovetail connection and the saddle notch connection. These types of carpentry joints are commonly used in currently preserved objects of wooden architecture. All connections have been modelled in pinewood, which has been defined in the Finite Element software MSC.Marc/Mentat...
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Parallel Implementation of the Discrete Green's Function Formulation of the FDTD Method on a Multicore Central Processing Unit
PublikacjaParallel implementation of the discrete Green's function formulation of the finite-difference time-domain (DGF-FDTD) method was developed on a multicore central processing unit. DGF-FDTD avoids computations of the electromagnetic field in free-space cells and does not require domain termination by absorbing boundary conditions. Computed DGF-FDTD solutions are compatible with the FDTD grid enabling the perfect hybridization of FDTD...
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Half-Order Modeling of Saturated Synchronous Machine
PublikacjaNoninteger order systems are used to model diffusion in conductive parts of electrical machines as they lead to more compact and knowledge models but also to improve their precision. In this paper a linear half-order impedance model of a ferromagnetic sheet deduced from the diffusion of magnetic field is briefly introduced. Then, from physical considerations and finite elements simulation, the nonlinear half-order impedance model...
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Axial capacity of steel built-up battened columns
PublikacjaThis paper deals with the numerical investigation aimed to study the axial capacity of pin-ended steel built-up columns. Three methods of calculating forces in chords and batten, taking into account the material and geometric imperfections specified in the Eurocode 3 are considered. The aim of this study was to compare different methods allowing the calculation of the column load capacity and determine a simpler and faster method...
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The interaction of the pulsed laser irradiation with titania nanotubes - Theoretical studies on the thermal effect
PublikacjaThis paper reports temperature dispersion simulations of titania nanotubes irradiated by the 355 nm, pulsed, nanosecond laser. The modelling with the use of Finite Elements Method concerns titania nanotubes of the length and the wall thickness in the range of 0.5–2 μm and 5–20 nm, respectively. The uniqueness of the morphology was preserved by ensuring the wall thickness variation along the height of the tube, which was determined...
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Numerical Modelling of Connections Between Stones in Foundations of Historical Buildings
PublikacjaThe aim of this paper is to analyse the behaviour of old building foundations composed of stones (the main load-bearing elements) and mortar, based on numerical analysis. Some basic aspects of historical foundations are briefly discussed, with an emphasis on their development, techniques, and material. The behaviour of a foundation subjected to the loads transmitted from the upper parts of the structure is described...
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A new library for construction of automata
PublikacjaWe present a new library of functions that construct minimal, acyclic, deterministic, finite-state automata in the same format as the author's fsa package, and also accepted by the author's fadd library of functions that use finite-state automata as dictionaries in natural language processing.
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An Efficient Simulation Method of Massive MIMO Antenna Arrays used in 5G Mobile Phones
PublikacjaThis paper deals with a model-order reduction method, applied to speed-up the simulations of MIMO antenna arrays, performed by means of finite element method. The obtained results of the numerical tests show that the described technique is reliable and considerably increases the efficiency of the standard finite element method.
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Metoda analizy wielokryterialnej do planowania rozwoju sieci elektroenergetycznej średniego i niskiego napięcia
PublikacjaW artykule przedstawiono metodę wspomagającą decyzje w zakresie wyboru wariantu przyłączenia odbioru do sieci elektroenergetycznej dystrybucyjnej niskiego napięcia lub średniego napięcia oraz mikrogeneracji do sieci niskiego napięcia. Metodę tą zaimplementowano w skoroszycie kalkulacyjnym Microsoft Excel i zastosowano do analizy złożonych przypadków przyłączenia odbioru lub mikrogeneracji.
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Tuning a Hybrid GPU-CPU V-Cycle Multilevel Preconditioner for Solving Large Real and Complex Systems of FEM Equations
PublikacjaThis letter presents techniques for tuning an accelerated preconditioned conjugate gradient solver with a multilevel preconditioner. The solver is optimized for a fast solution of sparse systems of equations arising in computational electromagnetics in a finite element method using higher-order elements. The goal of the tuning is to increase the throughput while at the same time reducing the memory requirements in order to allow...
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Smart acoustic band structures
PublikacjaSmart acoustic band structures exhibit very interesting and non-standard physical properties due to the periodic nature of their certain characteristic on different scale levels. They manifest mostly in their frequency spectra as socalled frequency band-gaps or stop-bands, what has a great impact on the behaviour of these structures in relation to the propagation of vibro-acoustic signals that can be transmitted through the structures...
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The use of a two-phase Monte Carlo material model to reflect the dispersion of asphalt concrete fracture parameters
PublikacjaThe work covers comprehensive laboratory tests of semi-circular bending (SCB) of asphalt concrete samples. The results of two test series, including four and 32 SCB specimens, indicate a substantial scatter of force–deflection (F-d) histories. The numerical analysis is aimed to reflect the maximum breaking load and fracture energy of the samples, pointing out their random character. The original simulation-based fictitious Monte...
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Electromagnetic plane wave scattering from a cylindrical object with an arbitrary cross section using a hybrid technique
PublikacjaA hybrid technique combining finite-element and mode-matching methods for the analysis of scattering problems in open and closed areas is presented. The main idea of the analysis is based on the utilization of the finite-element method to calculate the post impedance matrix and combine it with external excitation. The discrete analysis, which is the most time- and memory-consuming, is limited here only to the close proximity of...
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Asymptotic Expansion Method with Respect to Small Parameter for Ternary Diffusion Models
PublikacjaTernary diffusion models lead to strongly coupled systems of PDEs. We choose the smallest diffusion coefficient as a small parameter in a power series expansion whose components fulfill relatively simple equations. Although this series is divergent, one can use its finite sums to derive feasible numerical approximations, e.g. finite difference methods (FDMs).
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Reduced order models in computational electromagnetics (in memory of Ruediger Vahldieck)
PublikacjaThis paper reviews research of Ruediger Vahldieck's group and the group at the Gdansk University of Technology in the area of model order reduction techniques for accelerating full-wave simulations. The applications of reduced order models to filter design as well as of local and nested(multilevel) macromodels for solving 3D wave equations and wave-guiding problems using finite difference and finite element methods are discussed.
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Nonlinear Modeling in Time Domain Numerical Analysis of Stringed Instrument Dynamics
PublikacjaMusical instruments are very various in terms of sound quality with their timbre shaped by materials and geometry. Materials' impact is commonly treated as dominant one by musicians, while it is unclear whether it is true or not. The research proposed in the study focuses on determining influence of both these factors on sound quality based on their impact on harmonic composition. Numerical approach has been chosen to allowed independent...
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Double-diffusive natural convection energy transfer in magnetically influenced Casson fluid flow in trapezoidal enclosure with fillets
PublikacjaThe prime motive of this disquisition is to deal with mathematical analysis of natural convection energy transport driven by combined buoyancy effects of thermal and solutal diffusion in a trapezoidal enclosure. Casson fluid rheological constitutive model depicting attributes of viscoelastic liquids is envisioned. The influence of the inclined magnetic field governed by Lorentz field law is also considered. To raise the essence...
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Moments of Hermite-Gaussian functionals
PublikacjaMoments of finite products of Hermite-Gaussian functionals are expressed by covariances of Gaussian sequence.
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Report no WOiO/II/67/2015 - Expertise about load capacity of twistlock foundation and sliding foundation
PublikacjaCustomer delivered to Laboratory 17 elements - twist lock foundations and sliding lock foundations (ship equipment for container lashing). Elements were selected from production series. Each element was loaded for braking load. After test visual inspection had been performed. The expertise contains: description of tested elements, test assumptions, test stand, results and conclusions
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Linking of adjacent three-storey buildings for mitigation of structural pounding during earthquakes
PublikacjaThe reports after major earthquakes indicate that the earthquake-induced pounding between insufficiently separated buildings may lead to significant damage or even total collapse of structures. An intensive study has recently been carried out on mitigation of pounding hazards so as to minimize the structural damages or prevent collisions at all. The aim of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of the method when two adjacent...
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Cast iron in the 19th-century building equipment
PublikacjaCast iron is a material, characteristics of which enable to receive extremely artistic elements. It maintains good strength properties at the same time. That combination of these seemingly contrary traits makes it a commodity that was widely used in the 19th century industry and architecture. These usages were not only as decorative elements, technical and structural ones. The production of new household utilities started, which...
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Techniki zwiększania efektywności metody elementów skończonych poprzez redukcję dziedziny obliczeniowej z wykorzystaniem własności geometrii struktur
PublikacjaWspółczesna elektronika ze względu na swój szybki rozwój wymaga od nas efektywnego modelowania zjawisk polowych. Celem rozprawy jest zwiększanie efektywności metody elementów skończonych poprzez redukcję dziedziny obliczeniowej z wykorzystaniem własności geometrii struktur oraz jej hybrydyzację z użyciem technik analitycznych. Rozprawa zawiera przegląd stanu wiedzy na temat dostępnych obecnie technik modelowania jak również opis...
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On the Agile Mindset of an Effective Team – An Industrial Opinion Survey
PublikacjaIn this paper we present the results of an opinion survey among 52 agile practitioners who evaluated the importance of 26 selected elements of the agile mindset to the effectiveness of an agile team. In total, we have identified 70 unique agile mindset elements based on 11 literature sources and 5 interviews with industry experts. 7 elements belonged to the “support for business goals” category, 20 to the “relationships within...
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Analysis of Historic Brick Walls' Strengthening Methods
PublikacjaAnalysis of the behavior of historical brick walls is difficult and complicated. However, computer calculations are being increasingly used in the evaluation of cultural heritage buildings and some of their elements. The aim of this paper is to analyze the historic brick walls reinforcement. Different methods of strengthening are compared and discussed. Numerical analysis, based on finite element method, was conducted on the assumption...
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Innowacyjny moduł ultradźwiękowy systemu monitoringu technicznego mostu podwieszonego w Rzeszowie
PublikacjaW artykule przedstawiono system monitoringu technicznego konstrukcji mostu podwieszonego nad rzeką Wisłok. System będzie wyposażony w dodatkowy moduł ultradźwiękowy umożliwiający śledzenie degradacji mechanicznej betonu w pylonie mostu. Wczesne wykrywanie stref mikropęknięć, przed pojawieniem się widocznych rys, umożliwia monitorowanie amplitud propagującej fali ultradźwiękowej oraz analizę sygnałów w dziedzinie częstotliwości.
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RADIATION OF HIGH INTENSITY SOUND BY CIRCULAR DISC BY MEANS OF THE NUMERICAL METHOD
PublikacjaThe main goal of this paper is to find sound pressure distribution radiated by the circular piezoelectric disc that vibrates with the finite amplitude. There has been presented the pressure distribution close to the radiating surface. Also it is shown the sound pressure distribution in the 3D form. The mathematic modeling was carried out on the base of the nonlinear acoustic equation with the proper boundary condition. The axial...
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Sophistication assessment of existing FEM models of orbital blowout trauma: Is models valuation justified?
PublikacjaAfter a thorough study of the work entitled “Development and validation of an optimized finite element model of the human orbit”, some doubts aroused concerning the sophistication assessment of the existing finite element method (FEM) models of orbital blow-out. Although the work was unquestionably innovative, and the results were not only fascinating but also invaluable, the authors stated that their model was the most sophisticated...
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Chromatic cost coloring of weighted bipartite graphs
PublikacjaGiven a graph G and a sequence of color costs C, the Cost Coloring optimization problem consists in finding a coloring of G with the smallest total cost with respect to C. We present an analysis of this problem with respect to weighted bipartite graphs. We specify for which finite sequences of color costs the problem is NP-hard and we present an exact polynomial algorithm for the other finite sequences. These results are then extended...
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Partially prestressed concrete beams with bonded and unbonded strands
PublikacjaThis article relate the tests of partially prestressed concrete beams. There is presented the research programme - geometry of elements, method of loading, the materials and variables. There have been shown preliminary test results of prestressed concrete elements with bonded and unbonded strands, and compared to the test results of R.C. beam.
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A large family of filled skutterudites stabilized by electron count
PublikacjaThe Zintl concept is important in solid-state chemistry to explain how some compounds that combine electropositive and main group elements can be stable at formulas that at their simplest level do not make any sense. The electronegative elements in such compounds form a polyatomic electron-accepting molecule inside the solid, a ‘polyanion’, that fills its available energy states with electrons from the electropositive elements...
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O projektowaniu ściany szczelinowej
PublikacjaW pracy przedstawiono proces weryfikacji i porównania obliczeń otrzymanych z programu bazującego na metodzie elementów skończonych z wynikami analitycznymi dla analizowanej ściany szczelinowej z przyporą ziemną. Dodatkowo autorzy dokonali krótkiego przeglądu literatury z zakresu ścian szczelinowych.
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GPR simulations for diagnostics of a reinforced concrete beam
PublikacjaThe most popular technique for modelling of an electromagnetic field, the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, has recently become a popular technique as an interpretation tool for ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements. The aim of this study is to detect the size and the position of damage in a reinforced concrete beam using GPR maps. Numerical simulations were carried out using the finite differ-ence time domain...
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Hybrid Method Analysis of Unshielded Guiding Structures
PublikacjaA combination of mode matching, finite element methods and generalized impedance matrix is presented in a context of propagation problems for open guiding structures. The computational domain is divided into two regions: the first one is a circular cylinder containing whole guiding structure and the second one surrounds this artificial cylinder. The impedance matrix is calculated with the use of finite element method in the first...
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The Influence of Shear Deformation in analysis of plane frames
PublikacjaThe focus of the paper is to investigate the influence of shear deformation effect on the distribution of internal forces and frame deformation. To estimate shear deformation effect, the Timoshenko beam theory and the concept of shear deformation coefficients are used. Analysis of example frames gives the possibility to evaluate what have the most impact on size of shear deformation and in which type of frames the shear deformation...
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Analiza wrażliwości tarczy z wykorzystaniem metody elementów skończonych
PublikacjaW pracy przedstawiono przykład zastosowania analizy wrażliwości tarczy modelowanej przy pomocy metody elementów skończonych. Podstawy teoretyczne oraz przykład numeryczny dotyczą wpływu różnicowania grubości całej tarczy oraz jej obszarów – jako zmiennej pro-jektowej – na przemieszczenie wybranego punktu – jako zmiennej stanu.
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Multifrequency Wideband Sonar Array
PublikacjaThis paper describes of new approach to Multifrequency Wideband Arrays (MWA),applied piezocomposite technologies of the array elements. MWA operating in transmitting(Tx) and receiving (Rx) mode on two or three bands, requires state-of-the-art technology andefficient array designing than conventional array in which separate arrays for every band oreven separate Tx and Rx transducers/arrays are used. The new piezocomposite elements...
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Identification of the Agile Mindset and Its Comparison to the Competencies of Selected Agile Roles
PublikacjaIn this paper we present the results of the identification and evalua-tion of the elements of an agile mindset as well as its comparison to the compe-tence models for the roles of Scrum Master, Product Owner and agile analyst. We have identified 70 unique agile mindset elements from literature and 5 in-terviews with experts. Based on an opinion survey among 52 agile practitioners we evaluated the importance of 26 selected elements...
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Contact with coupled adhesion and friction: Computational framework, applications, and new insights
PublikacjaContact involving soft materials often combines dry adhesion, sliding friction, and large deformations. At the local level, these three aspects are rarely captured simultaneously, but included in the theoretical models by Mergel et al., (2019). We here develop a corresponding finite element framework that captures 3D finite-strain contact of two deformable bodies. This framework is suitable to investigate sliding friction even...
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The central server of the Border Guard's distributed multimedia system for monitoring and visualisation of ongoing and archival events
PublikacjaThe paper presents the architecture and functionalities of the central server (CENTER) of the distributed system for the Polish Border Guard (BG) for monitoring maritime areas. The overall system has been extended to incorporate, apart from map data, also different multimedia elements such as video from cameras or audio from telephone connections operated by BG units. This requires new system elements: Archive Servers for storing...
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A Hopf type theorem for equivariant local maps
PublikacjaWe study otopy classes of equivariant local maps and prove a Hopf type theorem for such maps in the case of a real finite-dimensional orthogonal representation of a compact Lie group.
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Verification of algorithms determining wave loads on support structure of wind turbine
PublikacjaThe offshore wind turbines require determination of wave loads on their support structure. This structure is fixed and, therefore, this problem is reduced to solving only the diffraction problem, which is determined by Laplace equation and conditions on the following boundaries: on the support structure, on the sea free surface and on its bottom, and at infinity on free surface. The linear problem was applied to determine the wave...