Balcony cultivator: New biomimicry design approach in the sustainable device

Gejdoš, Miloš; Tončíková, Zuzana; Němec, Miroslav; Chovan, Miroslav; Gergeľ, Tomáš

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2017.12.008

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“…Their quality determines the existence of an enterprise, its prosperity, sustainable, and dynamic progress. Prosperous enterprises are aware of the fact that employees are the major contributors to profit, providing the chance for an enterprise to achieve the goals [97][98][99][100]. Human resources are a motive power affecting the success and sustainability of an enterprise [101].…”

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Knowledge and Human Capital as Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Human Resource Management

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The ability to do business successfully and to stay on the market is a unique feature of each company ensured by highly engaged and high-quality employees. Therefore, innovative leaders able to manage, motivate, and encourage other employees can be a great competitive advantage of an enterprise. Knowledge of important personality factors regarding leadership, incentives and stimulus, systematic assessment, and subsequent motivation factors are parts of human capital and essential conditions for effective development of its potential. Familiarity with various ways to motivate leaders and their implementation in practice are important for improving the work performance and reaching business goals. Pearson’s chi-square test is used to test correlation between the motivation factors relating to career aspiration and education. Following the research results, the fact that there is dependence between the motivation factors relating to career aspiration and completed education can be stated. The motivation factors relating to career aspiration are important, even very important for highly educated employees and employees with upper secondary education. Following the research results, the fact that the requirements and expectations relating to career aspiration are more demanding when the education completed by employees is higher is confirmed.

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“…Properties of lamellae and plywood used in furniture projects depend on many various factors, such as moisture content of veneers, temperature, pressure and pressing time [54][55][56][57][58]. Adhesive properties, its viscosity, thickness of adhesive layer, quality of adhesive application, mechanical properties of veneers, treatment quality or removal of small elements from the surface (saw dust) are other factors affecting the bending strength [59][60][61][62][63]. Due to high bending strength of lamellae during dynamic loading, laminated wood is preferred in furniture manufacturing, especially chairs and beds [64].…”

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Construction of Wood-Based Lamella for Increased Load on Seating Furniture

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The research on population shows that the count of overweight people has been constantly growing. Therefore, designing and modifying utility items, e.g., furniture should be brought into focus. Indeed, furniture function and safety is associated with the weight of a user. Current processes and standards dealing with the design of seating furniture do not meet the requirements of overweight users. The research is aimed at designing flexible chairs consisting of lamellae using the finite element method (FEM). Three types of glued lamellae based on wood with different number of layers and thickness were made and subsequently, their mechanical properties were tested. Values for modulus of elasticity and modulus of rupture were used to determine stress and deformation applying the FEM method for modelling flexible chairs. In this research, the methodology for evaluating the ultimate state of flexible chairs used to analyse deformation and stability was defined. The analysis confirms that several designed constructions meet the requirements of actual standards (valid for the weight of a user up to 110 kg) but fail to meet the requirements for weight gain of a population.

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“…A slatted base consists of a frame on which slats are fixed perpendicular to the cranio-caudal direction. Slats are traditionally fabricated in solid wood or laminated wood [1,[55][56][57]. Slats made of solid wood are attached to the frame separately using screws, or slats are loosely laid.…”

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Analysis to Improve the Strength of Beds Due to the Excess Weight of Users in Slovakia

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Good quality sleep is a prerequisite for regenerating the human body, hence, beds should be optimized for specific group of users, taking into consideration their size or age. Current research studies show similar trends in adult populations around the world, where increases in height as well as in weight can be observed. Not only the ergonomics but also the safety of beds, which is determined by the quality and dimensions of structural elements, must be taken into account in bed design. Designing the structural elements for users with a high body weight is presented in the paper. The properties of a bed’s structural elements, which ensure comfort as well as the safety of a bed are affected by the excess weight of users. New requirements for cross sections, suitable materials and construction of structural elements were set in accordance with the standard EN 1725:1998 [1]. Also, an analysis of stresses was done using the finite element method (FEM) and the calculation of allowable stresses related to a user weighing 150 kg. The results of our research provide complete standards and regulations associated with the safety requirements of bedroom furniture for users with a weight more than 110 kg to ensure that the manusfacture of quality products in Slovakia.

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Balcony cultivator: New biomimicry design approach in the sustainable device

Cited by 14 publications

References 39 publications

Knowledge and Human Capital as Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Human Resource Management

Knowledge and Human Capital as Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Human Resource Management

Construction of Wood-Based Lamella for Increased Load on Seating Furniture

Analysis to Improve the Strength of Beds Due to the Excess Weight of Users in Slovakia

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