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The use of thermography in surveys of monuments
Valach, Jaroslav ; Eisler, Marek
Thermography expands the portfolio of methods that can be used to study the properties of objects in the surrounding world. As recently as a decade ago, the technology was frowned upon for potential military applications controlled, which limited competition in the offer of products and manufacturers and led to high prices of devices based on these principles. It was only thanks to the release of this control that it happened to expand production and make simplified products available to mass use, so get it today for example, a customer can purchase a smartphone with an additional thermographic module for only with a small price increase. Together with the availability of equipment, we observe an increase in the application of thermography in many areas, including surveys of buildings and monuments.
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Digital twin skin of the drinking water treatment plant - development and use in practice
Sochorová, Helena ; Andreides, D. ; Hložanka, F. ; Prokopová, Michaela ; Stejskal, O. ; Chalupa, L. ; Šmejkalová, P. ; Dolejš, P.
The contribution presents experiences with the development of a digital twin for optimizing the control of the DWTP within the pilot project in the Železná Ruda locality. The digital twin consists of two components, i.e. digital documentation in the object architecture processed by the reverse engineering process, which is data-connected with the real physical infrastructure (virtual replica of the infrastructure) and a simulation tool based on a mathematical model or a neural network (simulation of the water treatment process). Both components are accessible to the user via a web application, in which one can choose from three operating states (monitoring of the real state - default, simulation of scenarios of operating settings and prediction of pressure loss).
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Photo-active liquid crystalline materials: effect of lateral substitution far from the chiral center
Mironov, Sergei ; Suchánek, T. ; Marhoul, J. ; Cigl, Martin ; Hamplová, Věra ; Bubnov, Alexej
Photosensitive liquid crystalline (LC) materials give a fascinating possibility to tune and control the optical properties of soft systems distantly by illumination by UV-Vis light. Lateral substitution on the molecular core is an effective tool to tune the behaviour of chiral LCs. The effect of lateral substitution (by F, Cl, Br and methyl group) on the self-assembling behaviour, several new LCs with substituents placed on the benzene ring far from the chiral centre are and studied. All compounds, with exception of Br-substituted one, possess the cholesteric phase. The photosensitive behaviour, in particular the conversion of the E-Z isomers, was studied in toluene solution by HPLC. The kinetics of the photo-isomerization was identified under illumination by UV light. Due to presence of a photo-active azo group these materials can be used as functional dopants for design of smart photo-active liquid crystalline mixtures targeted for various applications in optoelectronics.
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Hybrid laser-MIG welding of steels for the energy industry
Mrňa, Libor ; Šebestová, Hana ; Horník, Petr ; Novotný, Jan
Laser-MIG welding can lead to the heterogeneity in the weld metal. A weld root's chemical composition corresponds to the base metal, while the face is formed dominantly by the filler wire that can have a different chemical composition. The study reports on the hybrid technology of laser-MIG welding utilized for joining creep-resistant martensitic stainless steel used in the production of steam turbine components. The hybrid welding system capable of modifying laser spot diameter was developed and the welds with chemically homogeneous weld metal were achieved.
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Design precipitation in Czech river basins
Müller, Miloslav ; Kašpar, Marek ; Hulec, Filip
Data on rainfall intensity on the territory of the Czech Republic with a horizontal resolution of 1 km2 and a time step of 10 minutes, obtained by adjusting radar estimates with data from rain gauge stations, were used to derive design areal precipitation in the Czech river basins of 1st to 4th order and in the basins of surface water bodies. When the rainfall accumulation time is doubled, the design precipitation total in individual pixels increases by about 20% on average. The magnitude of the design totals decreases with increasing catchment area, especially for shorter accumulation periods.
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Change in precipitation distribution as temperature rises expressed in diagnostic and prognostic data
Sokol, Zbyněk ; Řezáčová, Daniela
We summarize the main results that show how the distribution of precipitation changes with increasing temperature. Hourly rainfall totals from 97 rain gauge stations in the Czech Republic for the years 1997 to 2019 are used for the evaluation. Ground temperature, ground dew point temperature and temperature at the lifting condensation level are used to express the temperature change. The results show how an increase in temperature and a corresponding increase in saturation humidity (CC scaling) affects the distribution of precipitation in the study area. In general, the increase in precipitation as a function of observed temperature is clearly evident for the upper quantile values, but only for certain temperature intervals. It confirms the findings of other studies. In this paper, data from reanalyses performed by the ALADIN-CLIMAT/CZ model are treated similarly to the measured data.\n
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Evaluation of the areal extremeness of extreme weather events in Czechia in the period of 1961–2020
Kašpar, Marek ; Müller, Miloslav
Due to the multiplication of impacts of weather extremes when occurring in larger area, we proposed an areal approach of their evaluation. We evaluated six types of extreme weather events, namely, heat waves, cold waves, air temperature drops, windstorms, heavy precipitation, and heavy snowfalls. We employed the original method using the Weather Extremity Index derived from return periods of values of relevant meteorological variables in the affected area. Each event is characterized not only by the areal extremeness quantified with the index but also by the spatial extent and duration. In the studied period, heat and cold\nwaves generally reach higher index values in relation with larger affected area. The increase in the frequency and extremity of heat waves is in contrast with the decrease in the frequency of cold waves and significant heavy snowfalls. The frequency of windstorms is slightly decreasing with the most significant ones concentrated in the cold half-year. Air temperature drops are the most frequent in the warm half-year, nevertheless three of four top events occurred in January. The frequency of heavy precipitation tends to fluctuate. The obtained meteorological database of extreme events may help to estimate the parameters of future ones using climate models.
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Stochastic Weather Generators and Regional Climate Models: Rivals or Allies?
Dubrovský, Martin ; Štěpánek, Petr ; Meitner, Jan ; Zahradníček, Pavel
The paper demonstrates 'collaboration' between the stochastic weather generator SPAGETTA (WG) and Regional Climate Models (RCM) in analysing impacts of Climate Change (CC). In the first part of the paper, the generator is compared with the ensemble of 19 RCMs in terms of their ability to reproduce 11 spatial temperature and precipitation indices in eight European regions: the indices are based on registering days and spells exhibiting spatially significant occurrence of dry, wet, hot or cold weather, or possible combination of dryor-wet and hot-or-cold conditions. The obtained results indicate that both methodologies provide weather series of comparable quality. In the second part of the paper (which was done only for the Central Europe region), the WG parameters are modified using the RCM-based CC scenarios and the synthetic weather series representing the future climate are produced. This experiment is based on a set of CC scenarios, which consist of changes in selected combinations of following characteristics: (1) mean temperature, (2) temperature variability, (3) daily average precipitation (considering only wet days), (4) probability of wet day occurrence, (5) spatial lag-0 and lag-1day correlations of temperature and precipitation series. The synthetic series generated for each version of the CC scenario are analysed in terms the above mentioned spatial validation indices, the stress was put on effect of each of the five component of the CC scenario on individual validation indices. The results of the experiment indicate that the changes in temperature means is the main contributor to the changes in the validation obviously, except for the purely precipitation-based indices. Positive changes in the lag-0 and lag-1day correlations of both temperature and precipitation are the second most significant contributor to the changes in the validation indices.
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Characteristics of convective environment in ALADIN reanalysis
Zacharov, Petr, jr. ; Vokoun, Martin
For the prediction and assessment of the potential for convective cloud formation, various characteristics of the convective environment are used. Values of CAPE, CIN, wind speed, and temperature at several standard levels are available from the ALADIN reanalysis outputs, from which wind shear and vertical temperature gradient can be calculated. Verification allows for point comparison with data from sounding measurements, for example, from Prague, Libuš.
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