Department of Applied Mechanics

Our colleague, Dr. Dénes Takács has been awarded the MTA Bolyai János Research Scholarship for the second time. Congratulations on this prestigious award, and we wish him good luck for the next 3 years of research!

01/07/2022

Dr. Giuseppe Habib will soon start a new research team at our department. The title of his application is "Dynamical integrity assessment of real-life engineering systems". This year 19 new Lendület research group is established, for details see the website of MTA.

16/06/2022

Prof. Gyula Béda received the most prestious award of BME, the József Nádor Memorial Medal for his outstanding educational and research activity in the last 7 decades and for his long-standing leading role at the Department of Applied Machanics and at the Faculty Mechanical Engineering.

30/05/2022

Professor Gábor Stépán received the Excellent Teacher Prize of BME. This prize is awarded based on the recommendation of University Students' Representation to professors who are in the first five places in the Student Opinion Survey (OHV). Congratulations!

30/05/2022

Our former PhD student, Dr. Balázs Fekete received Silver Group Achievement Award from NASA for his achievemtns in the Crawler Transporter 2 Crack Repair Team. The certificate is signed personally by Bill Nelson, the Administrator of NASA. Balazs received his PhD degree in 2016 supervised by Dr. András Szekeres, he worked 3 years for NASA, now he jointed to Blue Origin where his task is to design the BE-4 rocket. This is really rocket science!

11/05/2022

Dr. Szabolcs Berezvai was awarded a grant for his research project "Measurement, modelling and simulation of the energy absorption capacity of biologically inspired heterogeneous soft materials" submitted to the call for the National Scholarship for Young Talents (NFTÖ) of the Prime Minister's Office. The one-year scholarhsip will support the development of mechanical experiments and travel expenses related to the research work started in collaboration with researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara for the academic year 2022/2023.

11/05/2022

A new ELKH research group is established at our department supported by the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), Office for Supported Research Groups (TKI). The ELKH-BME Dynamics of Machines Research Group continues the work of the MTA-BME Research Group on Dynamics of Machines and Vehicles leaded by professor Gábor Stépán.

06/05/2022

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has awarded the title "Excellent MTA Institute" to our department as recognition of its internationally outstanding scientific achievements.
The department holds the title for the period from 4th May, 2022 to 30th June, 2027.

04/05/2022

Henrik Sykora received the 2021 CEACM (Central European Association for Computational Mechanics) Best Thesis Award for his PhD thesis titled "Dynamics of Stochastic Mechanical Systems with Delays". His supervisor was Dr. Daniel Bachrathy.
Congratulations!

18/03/2022

Our colleague, Dr. Tamás Insperger has been awarded the Hungarian Order of Merit Knight's Cross in recognition of his results in retarded dyanmical systems and his outstanding educational and teaching activities.
Congratulations!

17/03/2022

Prof. Gábor Stépán received the Jiangsu Friendship Award from the Jiangsu Provinvial Government in appreciation of his cooperation with Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) and for his support for Jiangsu's development.

09/12/2021

Dénes Takács received funding from NKFIH for a TÉT-IPARI project. In the next three years they will collaborate with Chinese Hefei University of Technology within the project titled "Key Technologies for Integrated Control of Multi-dimensional Coupling Dynamics of Intelligent Automated Vehicles with Time-delay effects".
Congratulations!

26/11/2021

The National Council of Student Research Societies awarded Master Teacher Gold Medal to Dr. Tamás Insperger for his supporting work supervisoring talented students in Student Research Conferences.

24/11/2021

The book titled „Delay and Uncertainty in Human Balancing Tasks” by Tamas Insperger and Prof. John Milton (The Claremont Colleges, USA) has been published by Springer.
Details: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84582-7

19/11/2021

Prof. Gabor Stepan received 2021 IFAC Life Time Achievement Awards on Time Delay Systems for his contributions to theoretical advances and engineering applications of time delay systems, and for his efforts in building bridges among various academic communities.
Details: timedelaysystems.caltech.edu

21/11/2021

The former dean of our faculty, former head of our department, prof. Gyula Béda has celebrated his 90th birthday this year. On the occasion of this anniversary, we have organized a workshop in honour of prof. Béda.

13/11/2021

Our PhD student, Hanna Zsófia Horváth received Pro Scientia Golden Medal Award from the section of engineering sciences of the National Students' Scientific Conference (OTDK). The title of her OTDK work was "Nonlinear vibrations of towed vehicles". Her supervisor was Dr. Dénes Takács.

01/09/2021

Our colleague, Dr. Bachrathy Dániel has been awarded the MTA Bolyai János Research Scholarship.
Congratulations on this prestigious award, and we wish him good luck for the next 3 years of research!

23/08/2021

Dr. Tamás Insperger received funding for OTKA research project with title "Experimental analysis of virtual and real human balancing tasks", Dr. Daniel Bachrathy received funding for OTKA young research project titled "Modelling Stochastic Effects in Machining of Flexible Parts - Stability and Surface Quality", Dr. Szabolcs Berezvai and Dr. David Hajdu received funding for postdoc project titled "Constitutive modelling of soft material based artificial muscles" and "Guaranteed stability of controlled dynamical systems with delay", respectively.
Congratulations!

05/08/2021

We are proud that the department's students won 6 prizes as follows (the supervisors are in parentheses):

• 1st prize:
  Horváth Hanna Zsófia (Dr. Takács Dénes)
  Gábos Zoltán (Dr. Dombóvári Zoltán)
• 3rd prize:
  Fodor Gergő (Dr. Sykora Henrik)
  Iklódi Zsolt (Dr. Dombóvári Zoltán)
• Special Prize:
  Takács Donát (Dr. Hénap Gábor)
  Berencsi Bence (Dr. Kossa Attila)

24/04/2021

The IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Working Group on Time Delay Systems has launched a new online seminar series on time delay systems, the TDS Webinar, where well-known professors of the field give a 1 hour talk. The opening presentation has been held by Prof. Gábor Stépán with the title "Parametric Sensitivity of Time-Delay Systems".

26/03/2021

Our colleague, Dr. Attila Kossa has been awarded the Hungarian Order of Merit Knight's Cross in recognition of his novel results in mechanical modelling of materials, the related numerical simulations and his outstanding educational and teaching activities.
Congratulations!

15/03/2021