• CEMENT PASTE CONTAINING MICRONIZED RECYCLED CONCRETE - INFLUENCE OF HARDENING ACCELERATORS ON THE MODULUS OF ELASTICITY 

      Autor: Ďureje, Jakub; Prošek, Zdeněk
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      The article deals with the selection of a suitable hardening accelerator for cement composite material for mass production of masonry blocks. The blocks contain cement and finely ground recycled concrete in ratio 1:1. Three ...
    • COMPARING MORI-TANAKA METHOD AND FIRST-ORDER HOMOGENIZATION SCHEME IN THE VISCOELASTIC MODELING OF UNIDIRECTIONAL FIBROUS COMPOSITES 

      Autor: Valentová, Soňa; Šejnoha, Michal; Vorel, Jan
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      A comparative study of the viscous response of polymer matrix based fibrous composites predicted by the Mori-Tanaka method and finite element simulations based on the 1st order homogenization theory is presented. Aligned ...
    • DENSITOMETRY-BASED FEM SIMULATIONS OF NOVEL POROUS IMPLANTS AND CORRESPONDING STRESS DISTRIBUTION AT THE PERI-IMPLANT AREA 

      Autor: Řehounek, Luboš; Jíra, Aleš
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      The presented work focuses on determining the stress distribution at the peri-implant area around dental implants. A numerical analysis simulating the conditions of chewing food has been performed on a FEM model. This model ...
    • DESIGN OF TUNED MASS DAMPERS FOR LARGE STRUCTURES USING MODAL ANALYSIS 

      Autor: Štepánek, Jan; Máca, Jiří
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Tuned mass damper is a device, which can be highly useful when dealing with excessive vibration and is widely used in many engineering fields. However, its proper design and optimization is a complicated task. This study ...
    • DIAGNOSTICS OF UNFIRED EARTH WITH METHYLENE BLUE TEST 

      Autor: Plaček Otcovská, Tereza; Mužíková, Barbora; Padevět, Pavel
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Unfired earth is important historic building material. Final properties of unfired earth constructions are influenced by amount and kind of clay in earth mixtures. Methylene blue test is a method that helps determining the ...
    • EULER AND EXPONENTIAL ALGORITHM IN VISCOELASTIC ANALYSES OF LAMINATED GLASS 

      Autor: Schmidt, Jaroslav; Zemanová, Alena
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Laminated glass combines two remarkable materials: glass and a polymer ply. While glass is stiff and brittle, the polymer ply is a rate-dependent compliant material. Together, they form a material which keeps the aesthetic ...
    • EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF CEMENT PASTE MICROSTRUCTURE AND ITS HYDRATION UNDER SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE TO ACETONE 

      Autor: Khmurovska, Yuliia; Štemberk, Petr; Němeček, Jiří; Doleželová, Magdaléna
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      The solvent exchange methods are commonly used in order to arrest cement hydration reaction. This paper presents preliminary results of experimental investigation of cement paste microstructure under short-term (24 hours) ...
    • HOMOGENIZATION OF UNREINFORCED OLD MASONRY WALL COMPARISON OF SCALAR ISOTROPIC AND ORTHOTROPIC DAMAGE MODELS 

      Autor: Bernardo, Vasco; Krejčí, Tomáš; Koudelka, Tomáš; Šejnoha, Michal
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Masonry is a heterogeneous composite material made of bricks bonded by a mortar matrix. Modeling such a material on macroscale typically calls for homogenization adopting a suitable constitutive model capable of capturing ...
    • INFLUENCE OF MATERIAL DAMPING ON THE RESPONSE OF UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES SUBJECTED TO EARTHQUAKE 

      Autor: Pavelcová, Veronika; Poklopová, Tereza; Šejnoha, Michal; Janda, Tomáš
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      The paper describes a finite element simulation of the response of a real underground structure subjected to earthquake using GEO5 FEM program. It concentrates on the influence of material damping with respect to a specific ...
    • LOCALIZATION ANALYSIS OF AN ORTHOTROPIC MULTI-SURFACE PLASTICITY MODEL UNDER UNIAXIAL STRESS 

      Autor: Pagani, Claudio; Jirásek, Milan; Horák, Martin
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Numerical simulations of masonry structures are often based on continuum macromodelling approaches that need constitutive laws able to phenomenologically reproduce the behavior of the material. To capture the deformation ...
    • LONG-TIME INVESTIGATION OF CEMENT PASTES WITH MICRONIZED OLD CONCRETE, INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT TYPE OF MIXING APPROACH ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES 

      Autor: Prošek, Zdeněk; Tesárek, Pavel
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      The article focuses on the impact of different type of mixing approach on resulting mechanical properties of cement composites. The monitored parameters of the mixing approach were the speed of mixing and the method of ...
    • MECHANICAL AND IMAGE ANALYSIS OF ADHESION BETWEEN MINERAL AGGREGATE AND BITUMINOUS BINDER 

      Autor: Trejbal, Jan; Valentová, Tereza; Nežerka, Václav; Semerák, Petr
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Asphalt mixtures often fail due to poor interaction between mineral aggregate and bituminous binder. Therefore, many efforts are being made on adhesion improvement between the two materials. In this work, paving grade ...
    • MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CEMENT COMPOSITE CONTAINING RECYCLED CONCRETE AND ALKALI ACTIVATED BLAST FURNACE SLAG 

      Autor: Horych, Jan; Tesárek, Pavel; Prošek, Zdeněk
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Recycling of materials is very popular and very important in these days. Finding the new ways to process and use these materials is a key to get rid of a lot of construction waste. The amount of landfilling needs to be ...
    • MECHANICAL TESTING AND NUMERICAL MODELLING OF POROUS STRUCTURES IMPROVING OSEINTEGRATION OF IMPLANTS 

      Autor: Vakrčka, Petr; Jíra, Aleš; Hájková, Petra
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Implants, such as dental, are ordinary devices in medical care nowadays, even though they are quite expensive. In the present study, the use of trabecular and gyroid structures as external layer of implants is examined. ...
    • MICRO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CEMENT AND SLAG COMPOSITES MEASURED BY NANOINDENTATION 

      Autor: Němeček, Jiří; Němeček, Jiří
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      In this study, the micromechanical response of two cementitious composites was characterized by nanoindentation. Pure Portland cement paste and Portland cement with 50 vol. % replaced with granulated blast furnace slag ...
    • MODELLING OF CRACK PROPAGATION: COMPARISON OF DISCRETE LATTICE SYSTEM AND COHESIVE ZONE MODEL 

      Autor: Mikeš, Karel; Bormann, Franz; Rokoš, Ondřej; Peerlings, Ron H.J.
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Lattice models are often used to analyze materials with discrete micro-structures mainly due to their ability to accurately reflect behaviour of individual fibres or struts and capture macroscopic phenomena such as crack ...
    • MUPIF WORKFLOW EDITOR AND AUTOMATIC CODE GENERATOR 

      Autor: Šulc, Stanislav; Šmilauer, Vít; Patzák, Bořek
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Integrating applications or codes into MuPIF API Model enables easy integration of such APIs into any workflow representing complex multiphysical simulation. This concept of MuPIF also enables automatic code generation of ...
    • ON EVALUATION OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL ISOGEOMETRIC BEAM ELEMENT 

      Autor: Dvořáková, Edita; Patzák, Bořek
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      The exact description of the arbitrarily curved geometries, including conic sections, is an undeniable advantage of isogeometric analysis (IGA) over standard finite element method (FEM). With B-spline/NURBS approximation ...
    • ON OPTIMUM DESIGN OF FRAME STRUCTURES 

      Autor: Tyburec, Marek; Zeman, Jan; Kružík, Martin; Henrion, Didier
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Optimization of frame structures is formulated as a non-convex optimization problem, which is currently solved to local optimality. In this contribution, we investigate four optimization approaches: (i) general non-linear ...
    • ON TUNING THE DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING FEM FRAMEWORK 

      Autor: Bošanský, Michal; Patzák, Bořek
      (České vysoké učení technické v PrazeCzech Technical University in Prague, 2020)
      Developments in computer hardware are currently bringing new opportunities for numerical modelling. The current trend in technology is parallel processing making use of multiple processing units simultaneously to solve a ...