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Latvijas Universitātes rektors un goda biedrs profesors Mārtiņš Bīmanis
2017
Raksts iekļauts LU Bibliotēkas veidotajā virtuālajā izstādē "Pēc diviem mirkļiem 100 gadi : rektoru galerija"
Zur Frage der Wasserversorgung Rigas nebst einem neuen Vorschlag zur Lösung darselben: unter Anlehnung an den am 23. Februar c. im Technischen Verein…
1893
Ūdens vadi: Latvijas Universitātes inženieru fakultātē 1921-22 m. g. lasīto lekciju konspekts, 1. daļa
1922
Increasing the Wear Resistance of Metallic Materials by applying Thermochemical Treatments
2019
Wear is defined as mechanical or physical damage to a contact surface by another as a result of a relative movement. The structure of the steels has a great influence on abrasion resistance, so that certain thermo-chemical treatments applied to steels, besides the structural changes, are also aimed at changes in the chemical composition in the superficial layers as a result of diffusion with certain elements. A highly used thermo-chemical treatment is the aluminization, especially as a process for increasing the wear resistance, of the hot oxidation resistance, in order to replace the expensive refractory alloys with heating resistance up to 800-1000 °C with cheaper materials.
Active heave compensation of floating wind turbine installation using a catamaran construction vessel
2021
Abstract The application of floating wind turbines is limited by the high cost that increases with the water depth. Offshore installation and maintenance continue to consume a high percentage of the project budget. To improve the installation efficiency of the floating offshore wind turbine, a novel concept is proposed by the SFI MOVE project. Several wind turbine superstructure components are preassembled onshore and carried to the installation site by a catamaran construction vessel. Each assembly can then be installed using only one lift, and the concept is less sensitive to weather conditions. In this paper, a control algorithm of the proposed hydraulic active heave compensator system i…
Using Design Thinking to Redesign the Educational Experience
2021
In a world that is ever changing and full of uncertainties, there is an undeniable need to equip students with competencies that exceed cognitive knowledge, thus enabling them to develop their individual potentials. Using case study methodology, Design Thinking and ProblemBased Learning, this paper presents a program that brought together students and teachers from different faculties with the purpose of developing innovative solutions to important and pressing societal challenges. Given the unprecedented context generated by the worldwide spread of SARS–COV2 Virus, the program challenged students to find solutions to redesign the educational process. The aim was to equip them with the skil…
Input-to-State Stability of Lur’e Hyperbolic Distributed Complex-Valued Parameter Control Systems: LOI Approach
2013
Published version of an article in the journal: Mathematical Problems in Engineering. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/364057 Open access In this work, input-to-state stability of Lur'e hyperbolic distributed complex-valued parameter control systems has been addressed. Using comparison principle, delay-dependent sufficient conditions for the input-to-state stability in complex Hilbert spaces are established in terms of linear operator inequalities. Finally, numerical computation illustrates our result.
Analysis of Low-Altitude Aerial Sequences for Road Traffic Diagnosis using Graph Partitioning and Markov Hierarchical Models
2016
International audience; This article focuses on an original approach aiming the processing of low-altitude aerial sequences taken from an helicopter (or drone) and presenting a road traffic. Proposed system attempts to extract vehicles from acquired sequences. Our approach begins with detecting the primitives of sequence images. At the time of this step of segmentation, the system computes dominant motion for each pair of images. This motion is computed using wavelets analysis on optical flow equation and robust techniques. Interesting areas (areas not affected by the dominant motion) are detected thanks to a Markov hierarchical model. Primitives stemming from segmentation and interesting a…
Semantic oriented data structuration for MABS Application to BIM
2013
International audience; This paper presents a multiagent-based simulation approach to qualify the usage of buildings from the design phase. Our approach combines ontology and evolution process based on machine learning algorithms. The ontology relies on semantic data structures for the representation of environment components, agent knowledge and all data generated during the simulation.
Semantic and Multi-scale BIM/CIM/LIM
2019
Compliance checking for building models, cities and territories involve formalizing a set of model schema knowledge and constraint. The objective of our study is to propose: an information model to federate heterogeneous data sources describing an urban area (building and building environment) along with a method for formally specifying of urban rules. The overall goal we pursue is to be able to query and to verify data against different regulations and/or requirements. The purpose of this article is to describe our approach for interoperability among different data sources (e.g. IFC, CityGML) thus creating a consistent description of an urban area.