March 09, 2022 | Terrabite » View recording
Speaker: Dr. Peter Kiss, Professor of Biosystems Engineering, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Nihal D. Salman, Co-lecturer and Ph.D. Candidate, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Dr. Peter Kiss will introduce the Vehicle Technology Laboratory at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE) and research activity in terramechanics and land locomotion.
Ph.D. candidate Nihal Salman will discuss a state-of-the-art report of ongoing research on load-bearing capacity of soil as a homogeneous finite half-space.
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Speaker Bio
Dr. Peter Kiss
Dr. Peter Kiss is Professor of Biosystems Engineering at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Head of the Vehicle Technology Department and Laboratory. He graduated as a mechanical engineer. His research and education fields are: internal combustion engines, on-road and off-road vehicles, vehicle mobility, vehicle energetics, and terramechanics. He currently supervises five Ph.D. students: two students in engine technology researching exhaust gas after-treatment systems, and three students carrying out research in terramechanics. He has been a member of the ISTVS since 1991. He was 2nd and 1st vice-president of the Society between 2008 and 2014 and president of the Society between 2014 and 2017. He is an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Terramechanics and National Secretary for Hungary. He organized three ISTVS conferences in Budapest in 1991, 2006, and 2017.
Nihal D. Salman
Co-lecturer Nihal D Salman is also a Ph.D. candidate in terramechanics at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mechanical engineering. She was a lecturer for six years at the Middle Technical University, Iraq. Her area of expertise comprises the bearing capacity of the soil, pressure sinkage, finite and infinite half-space, and soil strength measuring techniques. She has been a member of the Iraqi Engineers Union since 2011. In 2017, she was awarded a Hungarian government scholarship through the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Program to study in the Ph.D. program in Hungary. She participated in the ISTVS conference in 2019 as a delegate. Nihal has authored eight articles from her Ph.D. research work, published in high-quality peer-reviewed journals.
