The thesis deals with the indication of combustion pressures of ignition engines. Introduction is devoted to thermodynamics of combustion engines and their diagrams. The following section describes the methods for measuring the combustion pressures of a spark ignition engine. This chapter describes three basic methods of measurement, the most described of which are piezoelectric sensors. The next part is devoted to the design of the measuring chain and to the description of the material used, which was used for the measurement on the engine under test. The main goal of the thesis was to evaluate the results obtained by measuring at the engine testing center of Mendel Uni-versity in Brno. The data were tabulated and graphically evaluated and subsequently described. At the end of the thesis everything is evaluated and the results summarized.

Diploma thesis is focused on the description of the parameters of nonlinear material models of concrete, which are implemented in a computational system LS-DYNA, interacting with performance of nonlinear test calculations in system LS-DYNA on selected problems, which are formed mainly by simulations of tests of mechanical and physical properties of concrete in uniaxial compressive and tensile on cylinders with applying different boundary conditions and by simulation of bending slab, with subsequent comparison of some results of test calculations with results of the experiment. The thesis includes creation of appropriate geometric models of selected problems, meshing of these geometric models, description of parameters and application of nonlinear material models of concrete on selected problems, application of loads and boundary conditions on selected problems and performance of nonlinear calculations in a computational system LS-DYNA. Evaluation of results is made on the basis of stress-strain diagrams and load-displacement diagrams based on nonlinear calculations taking into account strain rate effects and on the basis of hysteresis curves based on nonlinear calculations in case of application of cyclic loading on selected problems. Verification of nonlinear material models of concrete is made on the basis of comparison of some results of test calculations with results obtained from the experiment.