This Ph.D. thesis was written under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Luboš Náhlík, Ph.D. and Assoc. Prof. Pavel Hutař, Ph.D. Thesis is focused mainly on application of generalized linear elastic fracture mechanics, which allows description of crack behaviour propagating from general singular stress concentrators, such as material interfaces or sharp V-notches, and verification of validity of used fracture criteria. The obtained results were used in the next part of the thesis, which deals with the issue of crack propagating in ceramic composites, where the stress distribution field is strongly influenced by the existence of material interface and presence of residual stresses, that arise during manufacturing process of composite.

The diploma thesis focuses on analysing the current Railway Infrastructure Administration methodology for designing the sleeper substructure concerning the construction's deformation resistance, its comparison with the multi-layered method, which is used in the road engineering and finite element method. It deals with various methodologies of determining the deformation resistance of the track substructure.

The master´s thesis subject is a sports club, which has a partial basement standing on a slightly sloping area with a basement and three floors. Roofing is solved over one part of a single-layered flat roof above the other parts of the wooden rafter in the form of double-layer roofs. The sports club is a restaurant, sports facilities and in the 2 and 3 floor are rooms for guests. The facade is designed contact system ETICS. External object dimensions 47.96 x 49.78 m The building is a parking lot, which leads driveway. Fundamentals are formed foundation passports, which are made of concrete C20/25. Perimeter load-bearing walls tl.400mm basement is constructed of concrete formwork system with the BTB B410 horizontal reinforcement and interior bearing walls tl.250mm basement are made of ceramic bricks POROTHERM. All perimeter bearing walls and floors tl.300mm 400 mm are designed ceramic block POROTHERM, internal bearing walls tl.250mm and 300mm are made of ceramic bricks POROTHERM. Partitions tl.100mm and 150 will be made also of ceramic bricks POROTHERM. The horizontal soffit is solved from the ceiling panels prestressed girder system and SPIROLL POROTHERM. The staircase is made concrete slab.

It handles about a „Retirement home“ named project (3 floors, with a partial basement, building on a slight slope). The base structure is of reinforced concrete strips. The walls of the basement are made with the application of hidden formwork type system BEST. The bearing and non-bearing walls are of majority used silicate bricks. The staircase structure consists of monolithic reinforced concrete 2x brokem slab. For ceilings slab panels, are used Spiroll. The building is finished with a single layered flat roof.

<p>Ispitivani su dvostruki slojeviti hidroksidi, LDH i me&scaron;oviti oksidi nastali njihovom<br />razgradnjom, sa različitim sadržajem Mg-Al-Fe i pro&scaron;irenom supstitucijom aluminijuma.<br />Koprecipitacione metode male i velike prezasićenosti odabrane su za sintezu LDH op&scaron;te<br />formule [Mg1_-xM(III)_x(OH)₂](CO₃)_x/2 &sdot; mH₂O, gde M(III) pretstavlja Al i/ili Fe, a x udeo<br />trovalentnih anjona, x = M(III) / [M(II) + M(III)], variran u intervalu 0,15 &lt; x &lt; 0,7.<br />Katalizatori na bazi me&scaron;ovitih oksida sa gvožđem pogodni za upotrebu u redoks<br />reakcijama, formirani su nakon termičke aktivacije - razlaganja LDH. Izvr&scaron;ena je<br />karakterizacija me&scaron;ovitih oksida nastalih iz LDH, kao i netretiranih LDH, ispitivanjem<br />kristalne strukture (XRD), termičke stabilnosti (TG-DTA), teksture (adsorpcija N₂), redoks<br />(H₂ TPR) i kiselo-baznih karakteristika (NH₃ TPD), a utvrđena je i priroda prisutnih vrsta<br />gvožđa (Moessbauer spektroskopija). Pokazano je kako metoda pripreme i obim<br />supstitucije M(III) jona utiču na strukturne, povr&scaron;inske i redoks karakteristike LDH i<br />njihovih me&scaron;ovitih oksida u korelaciji sa katalitičkim svojstvima u odabranim test<br />reakcijama (razgradnja N₂O i redukcija sa NH₃). Utvrđeno je da na katalitičku aktivnost<br />dominantno utiču redoks karakteristike i priroda vrste gvožđa u me&scaron;ovitom oksidu, ali<br />takođe i strukturne karakteristike polaznog LDH, pri čemu je povr&scaron;inska struktura aktivnih<br />centara intervalentnog Fe²⁺-Fe³⁺gvožđa ključna za redoks procese ispitivanih reakcija.<br />Kod svih me&scaron;ovitih oksida dobijenih iz LDH aktivni centri imaju relativno jednake jačine,<br />dok razlike u katalitičkom pona&scaron;anju potiču od razlika u dostupnosti aktivnih centara.<br />Najbolje performanse u katalitičkim reakcijama pokazali su uzorci sa najmanjom<br />stabilno&scaron;ću inicijalnih LDH kod kojih je količina supstituisanih M(III) jona bila blizu<br />granice za inkorporaciju u LDH matricu (x = 0,5), a naročito uzorak sintetisan metodom<br />velike prezasićenosti sa malom količinom dodatne Al(OH)₃ faze.</p> / <p>Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) and derived mixed oxides with different Mg-Al-Fe content and extended aluminum substitution were investigated. High and low supersaturation precipitation methods were used for the synthesis of LDHs with general formula [Mg1_-x M(III)_x (OH)₂](CO₃)_x/2 &sdot; mH₂O where M(III) presents Al and/or Fe and x the content of trivalent ions, x = M(III) / [M(II) + M(III)], varied between 0.15 &lt; x &lt; 0.7. Iron-containing mixed oxides, suitable as catalysts for redox reactions, were formed after thermal activation - decomposition of LDH. Both, LDHs and derived mixed oxides were characterized with respect to crystalline structure (XRD), thermal stability (TG-DTA), textural (N₂ adsorption), redox (H₂ TPR) and acid-base properties (NH₃ TPD) as well as the nature of the iron species (Moessbauer spectroscopy). It was demonstrated how preparation method and the extent of M(III) substitution influence the structure, surface and redox properties of LDHs and derived mixed oxides in correlation to catalytic properties in chosen test reactions (N₂O decomposition and reduction with NH3). The catalytic behavior is mainly determined by the redox properties and the nature of the iron species in mixed oxides, but also by the structural properties of initial LDHs. It was confirmed that surface structure of intervalent Fe²⁺-Fe³⁺ iron active sites is crucial for the redox processes in chosen reactions. The strength of active sites is similar for all mixed oxides derived from LDH, but the differences in catalytic behavior arise from the differences in active sites accessibility. The best catalytic results were obtained when the stability of the initial LDH matrix was lowest e.g. when the amount of substituted M(III) was near the limit for the incorporation into LDH matrix (x = 0.5), especially for the sample synthesized with high superasaturation method containing a small amount of additional Al(OH)₃ phase.</p>

The environmental concerns over the use of fossil fuels, and their resource constraints, as well as energy security concerns, have spurred great interest in generating electric energy from renewable sources. Solar and wind energy are abundant and potentially readily available. However, the generation of sustainable energies is generally intermittent and these energies have geographical limits which are relative to current large-scale energy generation facilities. To smooth out the intermittency of renewable energy production, low-cost electrical energy storage (EES) devices are becoming highly necessary. Among these EES technologies, lithium ion batteries are one of the most promising EES devices in terms of the characteristics of high gravimetric, volumetric energy density and environmentally friendly compared to lead-acid batteries and Ni-Cd batteries. Other advantages of Li-ion batteries are the ability of being recharged hundreds of times and high stability. Moreover, the dramatically growing market share of hybrid electrical and electrical vehicles in automobiles has motivated the development of high energy and power density LIBs with high mass loading. However, there are still several remaining challenges in LIBs for their further application in grid-scale ESSs. One of the global issues to date is the high costs including the cost of raw materials such as lithium and cobalt, production, machining, and transportation, etc. In addition, the increasing energy demand thereby leads to the pressures on the resource supply chains and thus increasing the cost of LIBs. Therefore, it is urgent to find a complementary or alternative EES device in a short term to satisfy the growing energy demand. Under the background of fast development of LIBs technology as well as the establishment of Li chemistry fundamentals in the last 40 years, rechargeable battery systems utilizing Na element have been extensively studied to develop less expensive and more sustainable ESSs. The sodium resource is abundantly existed in the planet. According to the periodic table, sodium is the most possible alternative to lithium, because it has the similar chemical and physical properties towards to lithium. As a consequence, the established fundamentals in LIBs can be reasonably analogized to SIBs. Moreover, Sodium is readily available from various sources-foods that contain sodium naturally, foods containing salt and other sodium-containing ingredients. Therefore, The study of SIBs technology and sodium chemistry are gaining increasing interests and attentions both in the scientific researchers and battery industry. However, theoretically speaking, the energy density of SIBs is lower than that of LIBs by using same electrode materials because sodium is more than 3 times heavier than Li as well as the standard electrode potential of Na (-2.71 V) is higher than Li (-3.04 V). Therefore, SIBs are not thought as an ideal candidate to substitute LIBs in the fields of small or middle-size portable devices, but are more favorable in a large grid support where the operation cost is the primary choice. Negative electrode is important component in a single cell. Exploring negative electrode materials with high electrochemical performance in LIBs and SIBs is indeed required for fulfilling the spreading energy demand. Among various negative electrode materials, layered transition metal sulfides (MSs) are reckoned as a promising class with high theoretical specific capacity and power capability due to their intrinsically layered structure which is beneficial to the diffusion of Li+ and Na+ . However, layered transition metal sulfides are suffering from intrinsically poor electrical conductivity, volume changes, high irreversibility and sluggish kinetics during Li+ /Na+ storage process. To address these issues, numerous strategies are applied to explore high performance LIBs and SIBs negative electrode materials in this PHD thesis. / Die ökologischen Bedenken hinsichtlich der Nutzung fossiler Brennstoffe und deren Ressourcenbeschränkungen sowie Bedenken hinsichtlich der Energiesicherheit haben großes Interesse an der Erzeugung elektrischer Energie aus erneuerbaren Quellen geweckt. Sonnen- und Windenergie sind im Überfluss vorhanden und potenziell leicht verfügbar. Die Erzeugung nachhaltiger Energien ist jedoch in der Regel intermittierend, und diese Energien haben geographische Grenzen, die im Vergleich zu den derzeitigen großen Energieerzeugungsanlagen relativ begrenzt sind. Um die Unterbrechungen in der Produktion erneuerbarer Energien auszugleichen, werden kostengünstige elektrische Energiespeicher (EES) dringend notwendig. Unter diesen EES-Technologien sind Lithium-Ionen-Batterien eines der vielversprechendsten EES-Geräte hinsichtlich der Eigenschaften einer hohen gravimetrischen, volumetrischen Energiedichte und umweltfreundlich im Vergleich zu Blei-Säure-Batterien und Ni-Cd-Batterien. Weitere Vorteile von Lithium-Ionen-Batterien sind die Fähigkeit, hunderte Male wieder aufgeladen werden zu können, und die hohe Stabilität. Darüber hinaus hat der dramatisch wachsende Marktanteil von Hybrid- und Elektrofahrzeugen in Automobilen die Entwicklung von LIBs mit hoher Energie- und Leistungsdichte und hoher Massenbelastung motiviert. Es gibt jedoch noch einige Herausforderungen in den LIBs, die für die weitere Anwendung in den ESSs im Rastermaßstab erforderlich sind. Eine der bisherigen globalen Fragen sind die Gesamtkosten einschließlich der Kosten für Rohstoffe wie Lithium und Kobalt, Produktion, Bearbeitung und Transport usw. Darüber hinaus führt die steigende Energienachfrage dadurch zu einem Druck auf die Ressourcenversorgungsketten und damit zu einer Verteuerung der LIBs. Daher ist es dringend erforderlich, kurzfristig eine ergänzende und alternative EES-Technologie zu finden, um den wachsenden Energiebedarf zu decken. Vor dem Hintergrund der schnellen Entwicklung der LIBs-Technologie sowie der Etablierung der Grundlagen der Li-Chemie in den letzten 40 Jahren wurden wiederaufladbare Batteriesysteme, die das Na-Element verwenden, umfassend untersucht, um kostengünstigere und nachhaltigere ESSs zu entwickeln. Die Natriumressource ist auf der Erde im Überfluss vorhanden. Nach dem Periodensystem ist Natrium die möglichste Alternative, da es die ähnlichen chemischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften von Lithium hat. Folglich lassen sich die etablierten Grundlagen der LIBs in vernünftiger Weise mit denen der SIBs vergleichen. Darüber hinaus ist Natrium aus verschiedenen Quellen leicht erhältlich - aus Lebensmitteln, die von Natur aus Natrium enthalten, aus Lebensmitteln, die Salz und andere natriumhaltige Zutaten enthalten. Daher gewinnt das Studium der SIBs-Technologie und Natriumchemie sowohl in der wissenschaftlichen Forschung als auch in der Batterieindustrie zunehmend an Interesse und Aufmerksamkeit. Theoretisch gesehen ist jedoch die Energiedichte von SIBs bei Verwendung der gleichen Elektrodenmaterialien niedriger als die von LIBs, da Natrium mehr als dreimal schwerer als Li ist und das Standardelektrodenpotential von Na (-2,71 V) höher als Li (-3,04 V) ist. Daher werden SIBs nicht als idealer Kandidat für den Ersatz von LIBs im Bereich kleiner oder mittelgroßer tragbarer Geräte angesehen, sondern sie sind günstiger bei einer großen Netzunterstützung, bei der die Betriebskosten die primäre Wahl sind. Die negative Elektrode ist ein notwendiger und wichtiger Teil in einer einzelnen Zelle. In der Tat ist es zur Erfüllung des sich ausbreitenden Energiebedarfs erforderlich, negative Elektroden-Materialien mit hoher elektrochemischer Leistung in LIBs und SIBs zu untersuchen. Unter den verschiedenen Materialien für negative Elektroden gelten geschichtete Übergangsmetallsulfide (MS) als eine vielversprechende Klasse mit hoher theoretischer spezifischer Kapazität und Leistungskapazität aufgrund ihrer intrinsisch geschichteten Struktur, die der Diffusion von Li+ und Na+ förderlich ist. Allerdings leiden schichtförmige Übergangsmetallsulfide unter inhärent schlechter elektrischer Leitfähigkeit, Volumenänderungen, hoher Irreversibilität und träger Kinetik während des Li+ /Na+ -Speicherprozesses. Um diese Probleme anzugehen, werden in dieser Doktorarbeit zahlreiche Strategien zur Untersuchung von Hochleistungs-LIBs und SIBs für negative Elektrodenmaterialien angewandt.

Die langfristige Speicherung von überschüssiger Energie aus regenerativen Quellen ist ein ungelöstes Problem der Energiewende. Ein Ansatz zur Lösung dieses Problems bietet das Power-to-Gas-Konzept, bei dem Methan aus Wasserstoff und Kohlenstoffdioxid als Ersatz für Erdgas erzeugt wird. Da diese Reaktion kinetisch limitiert ist, ist die Verwendung eines geeigneten heterogenen Katalysators erforderlich. Aufgrund ihrer hohen Aktivität und ihres niedrigen Preises werden häufig nickelhaltige Katalysatoren eingesetzt. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde die Eignung von Fe-Ni-Hydrotalcit-basierten Katalysatoren für dieses Konzept untersucht, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf der Bestimmung der Abhängigkeit der katalytischen Aktivität vom Eisengehalt lag. Dabei zeigte sich, dass geringe Mengen an Eisen die Methanausbeute verbessern. Eine Erklärung für diese Aktivitätssteigerung liefern die Ergebnisse von in-situ-DRIFTS-Untersuchungen an eisenhaltigen und eisenfreien Ni-Hydrotalcit-Katalysatoren.

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Исследовано поглощение мощности электромагнитного поля тканями головы человека в микроволновом диапазоне. Расчет электрического поля в тканях головы, индуцированного элементарной антенной, основано на применении функций Грина слоистых сред. Два вида излучателей, таких как полуволновый диполь и петлевая антенна сравниваются с точки зрения глубины проникновения электромагнитной энергии. Рассчитана мощность, поглощаемая в различных слоях модели головы человека. В заключении сделан вывод о преимуществе применения криволинейных токов, таких, как формируемых плоской спиралью. Рассмотрено влияние проводящего экрана на эффективность излучения антенны. Полученные результаты предполагается использовать при разработке эффективных сенсоров для микроволновой радиометрии мозга. / The power absorbed by human head tissues in the microwave range is investigated. Calculation of the electric field induced in the head tissues by antenna probe is based on the use of the Green’s functions of the stratified media. Two types of emitters such as a half-wave dipole and a loop antenna are compared in terms of the depth of electromagnetic energy penetration. The power absorbed by different layers of the human head model is calculated. The conclusion is made on the best efficiency of antenna with an annular current, such as a flat helix. The effect of the conducting screen on the efficiency of the antenna is studied. The data were obtained for designing effective field sensors for the microwave radiometry of the brain.

Immersion based technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), together falling under the umbrella of Extended Reality (XR) have taken the world by storm in the recent past. However, with the growing market and the increasing number of applications of XR, multiple challenges have arisen. To maintain acceptable levels of motion-to-photon latency, there is a need to serve the users with ultra low latency and with high reliability. To provide high quality rendering, these solutions have traditionally been deployed with wired connections, but severely inhibiting user mobility. Thus, the need to develop wireless solutions promising ultra low latency and high reliability emerges. Cloud/Edge based solutions promise to provide great dividends in this regard but it still remains crucial to understand how different scheduling policies perform against one another in terms of average throughput, mean system time, the number of UEs which can be serviced simultaneously etc. In this thesis, we explore how online packet scheduling policies such as first-come-first-serve, earliestdeadline-first, maximum weight scheduling etc. compare against other Quality of Experience(QoE)/ packet weight aware online scheduling policies and also against optimal offline schemes such as maximum-weighted-bipartitematching. We perform a detailed analysis of how these policies fare by studying various metrics such as the average-packet system time, competitive ratios, packet drop percentages and weight throughput, amongst others. Finally, we also explore how the introduction of multi-layered video encoding impacts XR service. Amongst the findings of the thesis, we conclude that it is possible to come up with solutions such as EDFα (which is a deadline and weight aware derivative of the earliest deadline first scheduling policy), which can either increase the weight throughput when compared to other baselines while also providing lesser packet drops and lower average system times for the scheduled packets. This algorithm can be further tuned by varying α to accordingly alter the weight throughput, system time and packet drop ratio depending on the precise user application. Additionally, we establish with the help of simulations that the introduction of multi-layered video encoding conclusively helps in reducing the average system time and eventually allows for more users to be accommodated in an XR based system at the cost of worsening video quality. / Immersionsbaserade teknologier som Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) och Mixed Reality (MR), som tillsammans faller under paraplyet Extended Reality (XR) har tagit världen med storm på senare tid. Men med den växande marknaden och det ökande antalet tillämpningar av XR har flera utmaningar uppstått. För att förhindra åksjuka hos användare och för att upprätthålla acceptabla nivåer av rörelse-till-foton-latens, finns det ett behov av att betjäna användarna med ultralåg latens och med hög tillförlitlighet. För att ge högkvalitativ rendering har dessa lösningar traditionellt implementerats med trådbundna anslutningar, men de hämmar kraftigt användarens rörlighet. Därför uppstår behovet av att utveckla trådlösa lösningar som lovar ultralåg latens och hög tillförlitlighet. Moln/Edge-baserade lösningar lovar att ge stor utdelning i detta avseende, men det är fortfarande viktigt att förstå hur olika schemaläggningspolicyer fungerar mot varandra när det gäller genomsnittlig genomströmning, genomsnittlig systemtid, antalet UE:er som kan betjänas samtidigt etc. I den här avhandlingen undersöker vi hur online-paketschemaläggningspolicyer som round robin, först till kvarnförst-kvarn, tidigast-deadline-först, schemaläggning för maximal vikt etc. jämförs med andra Quality of Experience (QoE)/Viktmedvetna onlineschemaläggningspolicyer och även mot optimala offline-scheman såsom maximalt viktad-bipartite-matchning. Vi utför en detaljerad analys av hur dessa policyer klarar sig genom att studera olika mätvärden, såsom den genomsnittliga paketets systemtid, konkurrensförhållanden, procentsatser för paketnedgång och viktad genomströmning, bland annat. Slutligen undersöker vi också hur introduktionen av flerskiktad videokodning påverkar XRtjänsten. Bland resultaten av avhandlingen drar vi slutsatsen att det är möjligt att komma med lösningar som EDFα (som är en deadline- och viktmedveten derivata av Earliest deadline first scheduling policy), som antingen kan öka den viktade genomströmning jämfört med andra baslinjer samtidigt som det ger mindre paketnedgångar och lägre genomsnittliga systemtider för de schemalagda paketen. Denna algoritm kan ställas in ytterligare genom att variera α för att följaktligen ändra den viktade genomströmningen, systemtiden och paketnedgångshastigheten beroende på den exakta användarapplikationen. Dessutom fastställer vi med hjälp av simuleringar att införandet av flerskiktsvideokodning definitivt hjälper till att minska den genomsnittliga systemtiden och så småningom tillåter fler användare att få plats i ett XR-baserat system.