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Use of infrared thermography in dairy cow health management
BERÁNKOVÁ, Barbora
The thesis deals with the use of infrared thermography in dairy cow health management. The research part of the thesis focuses on mammary physiology, thermoregulation, and heat stress management. It also outlines the issues of the most common disease in cattle with a focus on mastitis. The second part focuses on infrared thermography. It discusses its importance and application in operation. Subsequent chapters deal with thermographic cameras, the thermogram and the characteristics of live object measurements. The last chapter of the theoretical part focuses on robotic systems and their use in dairy farming. The practical part deals with the use of thermal cameras for mastitis recognition in dairy cows. On average, 800 dairy cows were included in the experiment and the observed data were collected from May 2023 to March 2024. For data evaluation, udder thermograms from dairy cows with the highest and lowest somatic cell counts were selected and compared with each other and statistically evaluated. The results of the experiment showed that the FLIR E96 camera with better resolution had a higher cumulative success rate of 71,43 %, which can already be considered statistically significant. Cohen's Kappa has a value of 0,407, which indicates a good correlation. In the case of the E6 camera, the cumulative success rate of the evaluation was 57,43 %. Cohen's Kappa has a value of 0,132, indicating very little agreement.
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Assessment of defects and faults of ETICS Systems
David, Jan ; Láník, Jaromír (referee) ; Schmid, Pavel (advisor)
This diploma thesis discusses the problems of defects and faults of external thermal insulation composite systems. The first part describes the correct procedures for application systems, the next part describes defects, faults and their causes and the end of the thesis describes the contactless diagnostic methods used for the survey of ETICS. This part is mainly focus on detection of anchors. The example shows the calculation of anchoring.
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Improving friction of lubricated contacts by modifying thermal conductivity
Šnevajs, Matěj ; Hartl, Martin (referee) ; Šperka, Petr (advisor)
This thesis deals with an experimental study regarding the effects of the thermal conductivity of contact bodies on the friction, lubricant film thickness and temperature distribution in EHL contact. The thesis focuses on the configuration of the ball on disc contact. The contact body materials are characterized by a wide range of thermal properties. New contact pairs are proposed and used in the study in order to make the contact bodies’ thermal properties dependent on the behaviour of EHL contact. The colorimetric interferometry method is used to measure the lubricant film thickness and the infrared thermography method is used to observe the temperature distribution in EHL contact. The author presents the assumed mechanism of heat transfer within EHL contact on the basis of different heat transfer mechanisms. The same conditions – such as the Hertz pressure, mean entrainment speed, sliding speed and ambient temperature – are induced for all the contact pair combinations. That is why the differences in the results are attributed to the different thermal phenomena in the contact, caused by the thermal properties of the contact bodies. In the case of contact bodies with a reduced heat dissipation capability, a reduction of the friction coefficient of up to 50 % is observed, which is attributed to an increase in the lubricant temperature, resulting in a decrease in its viscosity. This is confirmed by the infrared thermography method, whereby a significantly higher lubricant temperature is observed in the case of a combination of contact materials with a lower heat dissipation capability.
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Contactless temperature measurement in sliding contacts
Knoth, Tomáš ; Hajžman, Michal (referee) ; Omasta, Milan (advisor)
This work deals with the implementation of infrared thermography for detailed temperature mapping in conformal sliding contacts in a pin-on-disc configuration. The implemented method is then applied for study of textured sliding contacts. This method can bring unique insights into the temperature distribution in contacts with textured surfaces, where thermal phenomena play a crucial role. The current state of knowledge in this area relies mainly on numerical simulations, which is why the absence of experimental knowledge is a fundamental gap in knowledge. The research questions are devoted to the temperature distribution in contact and the demonstration of the occurrence of the so-called viscosity wedge effect. Hypotheses are built on the basis of works that study the issue using numerical simulations. The implementation of the method is based on the calibration and measurement procedure from the area of point contacts, where the ball-on-disc configuration is used. This method of calibration was confronted with applications on conformal textured surfaces and subsequently modified according to identified needs. In the second part of the work, contacts with textured surfaces are analyzed using the implemented method. The subject of interest here is parallel and near-parallel contacts. On the correction of the Stribeck curve according to the actual temperature of the lubricant, it is demonstrated that knowledge of the actual temperature of the lubricant in contact is essential for its study. However, the occurrence of thermal phenomena could not be proven in the range of experimental conditions.
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Application of thermography in the diagnostics of transport infrastructure objects
Janků, Michal ; Stryk, Josef
In order to maintain the proper condition of buildings, bridges, roads and other structures, their regular maintenance is essential. Often, if the distress is detected at the beginning of the disorder, the cost of removing it is far lower than after months of uncontrolled degradation. Locating a distress in time, often means detecting it before it is visible to the naked eye. A key means of detecting hidden distresses is non-destructive diagnostic methods (NDT), including thermographic testing. The purpose of the presented methodology is to provide an efficient tool that will allow a rapid assessment of the state of the transport infrastructure objects and help with the identification of the locations where visual inspection or detailed diagnosis is required. The thermographic measurement is non-contact and can be carried out without the need to exclude traffic on the road. The methodology describes possible ways of using infrared thermography, especially in diagnosis of bridges, roads and tunnels. The presented methodology was prepared within project TE01020168 - Centre for Effective and Sustainable Transport Infrastructure (CESTI), with financial support of the Czech Technology Agency within the Centre of Competence Program. This methodology is intended for road managers at all levels (state, county, city), designers, construction companies and other entities that can use data and processed outputs from thermographic measurements.
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Improving friction of lubricated contacts by modifying thermal conductivity
Šnevajs, Matěj ; Hartl, Martin (referee) ; Šperka, Petr (advisor)
This thesis deals with an experimental study regarding the effects of the thermal conductivity of contact bodies on the friction, lubricant film thickness and temperature distribution in EHL contact. The thesis focuses on the configuration of the ball on disc contact. The contact body materials are characterized by a wide range of thermal properties. New contact pairs are proposed and used in the study in order to make the contact bodies’ thermal properties dependent on the behaviour of EHL contact. The colorimetric interferometry method is used to measure the lubricant film thickness and the infrared thermography method is used to observe the temperature distribution in EHL contact. The author presents the assumed mechanism of heat transfer within EHL contact on the basis of different heat transfer mechanisms. The same conditions – such as the Hertz pressure, mean entrainment speed, sliding speed and ambient temperature – are induced for all the contact pair combinations. That is why the differences in the results are attributed to the different thermal phenomena in the contact, caused by the thermal properties of the contact bodies. In the case of contact bodies with a reduced heat dissipation capability, a reduction of the friction coefficient of up to 50 % is observed, which is attributed to an increase in the lubricant temperature, resulting in a decrease in its viscosity. This is confirmed by the infrared thermography method, whereby a significantly higher lubricant temperature is observed in the case of a combination of contact materials with a lower heat dissipation capability.
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Plasma Heat Flux to Solid Structures in Tokamaks
Vondráček, Petr ; Horáček, Jan (advisor) ; Gunn, James P. (referee) ; Svoboda, Vojtěch (referee)
Plasma Heat Flux to Solid Structures in Tokamaks Petr Vondráček Energy and particle exhaust is the key issue for future fusion reactors based on magnetic plasma confinement, namely for tokamaks. Good understanding of processes controlling plasma heat fluxes impinging the first wall of tokamaks is of a main concern for fusion research. This doctoral thesis is focused on experimental investigation of plasma heat fluxes in different locations of the COMPASS tokamak. A new infrared thermography system was built for this purpose as a part of this PhD research. There are four main topics studied using the system. First of all, a narrow near-SOL heat flux channel with a very steep radial profile is characterised in HFS limited discharges. It is shown that the near-SOL heat flux decay length is consistent with the drift-based model of the SOL heat transport. Secondly, heat loading of leading edges of misaligned limiters is broadly studied. The optical approximation of the heat flux distribution around a poloidal leading edge is confirmed as a valid approach. Heat loading of a magnetically shadowed side of a toroidal limiter gap is observed experimentally for the first time confirming predictions of particle-in-cell code simulations. Thirdly, localised hot-spots caused by the impact of runaway electrons as well as...
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Měření změn povrchové teploty vemene při procesu dojení metodou infračervené termografie
Goldová, Martina
This thesis was focused on measuring changes in surface temperature of the udder using infrared thermography. At the beginning, work dealt with the anatomy of the mammary gland, disease of the udder, milking machine and structure of milking ma-chine. The practical part was focused on infrared thermography and its use and an attempt was made, which examined the impact of the milking machine to the udder and teats temperature using an infrared camera. The experiment was made in the farm Petrkov on breed cows Jersey cattle, Czech fleckvieh cattle and Holstein cattle. Finally, of this work discusses the influence of the milking machine to the udder temperature.
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Assessment of defects and faults of ETICS Systems
David, Jan ; Láník, Jaromír (referee) ; Schmid, Pavel (advisor)
This diploma thesis discusses the problems of defects and faults of external thermal insulation composite systems. The first part describes the correct procedures for application systems, the next part describes defects, faults and their causes and the end of the thesis describes the contactless diagnostic methods used for the survey of ETICS. This part is mainly focus on detection of anchors. The example shows the calculation of anchoring.
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Possibilities of nondestructive diagnostics of ETICS
Zvěřina, Aleš
Article deals with possibilities of nondestructive diagnostics of exthernal thermal inulation systems (ETICS) and compares possibilities of 3 used and researched methods. Infrared thermography, which is one of most used method, impedance defectoscopy, a method, which has been used for investigating of flat roof for 3 years and radar diagnostics, using for reverse reconstruction of anchor plans of ETICS. A special focus is dedicate to impedance defectoscopy, becouse the results of this method is possible to display clearly as results on thermograms from infrared thermography.
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