Thermophysical and Mechanical Properties of Materials
Brief characteristics
Thermophysical parameters and mechanical parameters of building and ceramic materials are determining for their practical application. For this reason it is important that the relations between these key properties and the individual details of the production process are investigated from the experimental or theoretical viewpoint. Detailed knowledge on a given material and its properties provides the possibilities to determine its specific practical use.
Research team leader and team members
prof. RNDr. Libor Vozár, CSc.
doc. Ing. Igor Štubňa, CSc.
doc. RNDr. Igor Medveď, PhD.
Mgr. Ján Ondruška, PhD.
RNDr. Tomáš Húlan
Mgr. Štefan Csáki
Mgr. Tomáš Ondro
Mgr. Ivana Sunitrová
doc. Ing. Igor Štubňa, CSc.
doc. RNDr. Igor Medveď, PhD.
Mgr. Ján Ondruška, PhD.
RNDr. Tomáš Húlan
Mgr. Štefan Csáki
Mgr. Tomáš Ondro
Mgr. Ivana Sunitrová
Most significant research projects
- APVV - SK-CZ-0004-09: Štúdium prenosu tepla konvenciou a radiáciou v podmienkach s vysokými teplotnými gradientami (Study of Heat Transfer by Convection and Radiation in the Conditions of High Temperature Gradients). 2010 – 2011;
- APVV - SK-CZ-0005-09: Štúdium procesu výpalu keramického črepu na báze popolčekovo-ílovej surovinovej zmesi (The Study of Ceramic Shard Firing Process Based on Ash-Clay Stock Mix). 2010 – 2011.
Publications
- Chmelík, F. – Trník, A. – Štubňa, I. – Pešička, J.: Creation of Microcracks in Porcelain during Firing. Journal of the European Ceramics Society. 2011, 31(13): 2205-2209;
- Knapek, M. – Húlan, T. – Minárik, P. – Dobroň, P. – Štubňa, I. – Straška, J. – Chmelík, F.: Study of Microcracking in Illite-based Ceramics during Firing. Journal of the European Ceramics Society. 2016, 36(1): 221-226;
- Kováč, J. – Trník, A. – Medveď, I. - Štubňa, I. – Chmelík, F. – Trník, A. – Šín, P.: Acoustic Emission Study of Quartz Porcelain during Heating Stage of Firing. Ceramics International. 2012, 38(8):6919-6922;
- Kováč, J. – Trník, A. – Medveď, I. – Vozár, L.: Influence of Calcite in a Ceramic Body on Its Thermophysical Properties. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 2013, 114(3):963-970;
- Ondruška, J. – Trník, A. – Medveď, I.: Estimation of Mass Transfer Parameters during Dehydroxylation in a Large Ceramic Body by Inverse Methods. Ceramics International. 2011, 37(8):3299-3305;
- Ondruška, J. – Štubňa, I. – Trnovcová V. – Medveď, I. – Kaljuvee, N.: Polarization and Depolarization Currents in Kaolin. Applied Clay Science. 2015, 114: 157-160.
Conferences
- 17th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, United States, June 2009;
- 31th International Thermal Conductivity Conference and the 19th International Thermal Expansion Symposium, Saguenay, Canada, June 2011;
- 19th European Conference on Thermophysical Properties, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2011;
- 18th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, USA, June 2012;
- 15th International Clay Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013;
- 3rd International Conference on Applied Materials and Electronics Engineering, Hong Kong, China, April 2014;
- 10th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics, Orlando, USA, July 2014;
- 11th European Symposium on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Helsinki, Finland, August 2014;
- 20th European Conference on Thermophysical Properties, Porto, Portugal, September 2014;
- 19th Symposium on Thermophysical properties, Boulder, USA, June 2015.
International cooperation
Department of Materials Engineering and Chemistry, Faculty of Civil engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic;Faculty of Energy Technology, University of Maribor, Slovenia;
Laboratory of Inorganic Materials, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia;
Department of Physics of Materials, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic;
Department of Chemistry, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, United States.
