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FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
The dean of the faculty Prof. Gábor Stépán
member of the HAS

• The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is the
  second oldest and the second biggest one in the
  university
• There are 10 departments and about 140
  researchers in the faculty
• Based on the generality and diversity of the
  mechanical sciences wide range of industrial
  innovation and development project can be joined
  to the faculty

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When you renew the design of the car or its parts

• You may choose
• Department of Machine and Industrial Product
  Design
• (aesthetic design of the carbody or design of
  machine element, analysis of efficiency of
  driving system, tribological investigation)
• Department of Fluid Mechanics
• (analysis of air resistance of car, improvement
  of catalic converter and exhaust gas
  recirculation system using computational fluid
  dynamics simulation

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When you improve the engine and circulation system

• You may choose
• Department of Energy Engineering
• (Understand combustion and emission,
  investigation of fuel properties and alternative
  fuels, engine tests )
• Department of Hydrodynamics Systems
• (aeroacoustical investigations)

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When you interested in new materials or new
technologies

• You may choose
• Department of Material Science and Engineering
• (investigation and improvement of metallic
  materials, development of forming and welding
  technologies )
• Department of Polymer Engineering
• (trial of carbon fibers and polymer based
  materials )
• Department of Manufacturing Science and
  Engineering
• (development of manufacturing, automation of
  assembly lines, optimizing large scale production
  systems )

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When you extend the intelligence and sensing
ability of cars

• You may choose
• Department of Mechatronics, Optics and
  Information Engineering
• (development and analysis sensors, mechatronics
  devices, additional intelligence for more
  comfortable driving )
• Department of Applied Mechanics
• (investigation of tyre dynamics, thermal and
  thermo-mechanical stress, fracture meghanical
  experiments in composite materials)

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Projects
CONTACT MECHANICS, RUBBER FRICTION (SLIDING AND
ROLLING), FE MODELLING
Competence in 1. Modeling of the non-linear,
time- and temperature-dependent material
behavior of rubber and rubber-like
materials 2. Characterization of the asphalts
surface topography (Power Spectral Analysis,
surface roughness measurements, etc.) 3.
Contact modeling of rubber/ rough
counterpart sliding pairs
4. FE modeling of hysteresis induced rolling
and sliding resistance 5. FE modeling of
hysteresis induced and friction related heat
generation (thermo-mechanical coupled
analysis)
EU FP6 research project Knowledge-based Radical
Innovation Surfacing for Tribology and Advanced
Lubrication (EU Project Reference
NMP3-CT-2005-515837, www.kristal-project.org)
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Projects
Tire dynamics - Memory effect of tire
Investigation of shimmy phenomenon with the a
special time delayed tire model. Results of the
theoretical calculations, (predicted stability
boundary and quasi-periodic vibrations) are
validated by experiments.
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Projects
Utilisation of high proof grade crude alcohol in
low-scale dual fuel diesel engine
(Identify/develop promising technologies capable
of controlling HC emissions from lean-burn
engines (esp. Diesels) at low exhaust
temperatures (as low as 150c) characteristic of
advanced combustion processes, such as PCI and
HCCI, Novel combustion systems for multi-fuel
engines.)

• Benefits of the dual fuel diesel engines
• High compression ratio therefore high efficiency,
• Qualitative control, therefore high efficiency on
  part load,
• Flexible for fuels, (crude alcohol, biogas,
  methanol,..)
• Decreasing PM,
• ..

Alcohol Injector (primary fuel)
Diesel Fuel Injector (Secondery fuel)
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Projects
Large-scale horizontal wind tunnel for vehicle
aerodynamics investigations
Wind tunnel experiment
CFD analysis
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Projects
Upper Limb Physiotherapy Exercises for Patients
Suffering from Spastic Hemiparesis (REHAROB - EC
IST 1999-13109 project)
Exercise 4 with ABB robots. Simulation in Deneb
IGRIP
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Projects
Neuro-Rehabilitation
The ALLADIN project focuses on the development of
a user-friendly natural language based decision
support software for neuro-rehabilitation, in
particular in stroke. ALLADIN, if implemented
provides an adequate and fast solution for a
client centred practice, for discharge planning
and for utilization of rehabilitation resources.
This fulfils the social and political expectation
of a substantial but honest cost cutting by
measuring therapeutic efficiency in terms of mean
quality-adjusted duration.
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Projects
Risk Management

• The RESCUER project focuses on both
• the development of an intelligent mechatronic
  Emergency Risk Management tool and
• on the associated Information and Communication
  Technology.
• To improve risk management by using new
  mechatronic intelligent methods for bomb
  disposal and rescue operations IT techniques
  for the management of rescue missions.
• To apply and combine advanced and intelligent
  sensing techniques for the detection of
  explosives, chemical, biological and radioactive
  materials, and human bodies.
• ..

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Projects
Hybrid method for aeroacoustic simulations
Edge Tone plane free jet wedge
interaction periodic vortex shedding dipole
sound source model for outside rear-view mirrors
or woodwind instruments Cavity Tone flow over
a cavity unstable shear layer interaction with
the downstream edge complex sound source e.g.
flow over gaps on body of a car or sunroof windo
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Contacts
Additional and more detailed information can be
gained from the slides of the departments or
searching the homepage of the faculty http//por
tal.bme.hu/langs/en/GPK.aspx
You can contact directly the departments or the
Vice Dean of the international and scientific
affairs, Dr. Tibor Szalay szalay_at_manuf.bme.hu
Other contact of the faculty Mail Muegyetem rkp.
3, Budapest H-1111, HUNGARY, EU Postal address
P.O.Box 91, Budapest, H-1521, HUNGARY, EU