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Acknowledgements
I am grateful to my supervisor, Dr. István Zsigovics (BME) for his continuous enthusiastic encouragement and prospective intuitions that helped to mark the directions of my PhD study based on his extensive earlier experiences. He taught me the importance of the laboratory research work and showed how to carry out tests with high competence on my own. His professional potential made possible me to get involved in several in-situ and laboratory projects that became the basis of my PhD research.
I would like to record my deep gratitude to Assoc. Prof. Adorján Borosnyói (BME) for his valuable assistance in conducting the literature survey and preparing reference collection including also some hidden sources that were difficult to access. His insightful comments and constructive criticisms at different stages of my research were thought-provoking and they helped me focus my ideas. I am grateful to him for holding me to a high research standard.
My special acknowledgement is to Prof. György L. Balázs, Head of the BME Department of Construction Materials and Engineering Geology who provided me with the research place and its facilities. He has continuously been keeping his eyes on my research work and following its progress and showing how to take responsibility for the civil engineer society at an international level by making the new scientific results available and utilize them in research committees.
I am also grateful to Assoc. Prof. Zsuzsanna Józsa (BME) for sharing her experiences with me and her assistance in finding the valuable Hungarian references.
I must express many thanks to Mr. Gábor Földvári, Mr. Tamás Póka, Mr. Kristóf Dobó, Mr. Gábor Kovács, Mr. Zoltán Gyurkó and Mr. Tamás Mikó for their contribution in laboratory tests.
Many thanks to Mr. Krisztián Takács for his excited research in historical linguistics related to the ancient and medieval written records for the word ’hardness’.
I am also thankful to the former and current staff at BME Department of Construction Materials and Engineering Geology who each gave me either unique assistance or motivation.
I also wish to acknowledge the respectful activity by Prof. János Józsa, DSc, Chairman of the BME Pál
Vásárhelyi Doctoral School in Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences. He set examples by his persistent
commitment to teaching and research of high standard, his caring behaviour to every PhD student, and his
sincere and passionate love toward the ideal of the institute of BME. Special thanks to him for his
contribution in getting involved in the project „Talent care and cultivation in the scientific workshops of
BME” and for his recommendation letters when I applied for different grants.
My special thanks are directed to Assoc. Prof. Rita Kiss, DSc, Dr. habil (BME) who has been giving me inspiration by her remarkable scientific progress, by her exceptional responsibility and impetuous attitude to teaching and by research of very high standard, as well as by showing example by her tireless care for graduate students and PhD students.
I would like to extend my appreciation to Prof. Gintaris Kaklauskas (VGTU) for his kind interest in my research progress and trust in my research topic. He has been playing an exemplary role in my research activity with his remarkable scientific performance, with his simultaneous admirable lifestyle and respectful human values in every area of life.
I am also grateful to Dr. Lars Eckeldt (TU Braunschweig) for drawing my attention to particular statistical issues that I could adapted to my results and for his interest in my research findings.
I am especially grateful to Prof. Andor Windisch (BME) for his pioneering and stimulating thoughts that fuelled my research every time I met him. He made a deep impression on me by his unique way of scientific thinking, his exceptional attitude to research and his positively provocative phrases. It is a great honour that I had the opportunity to make conversations with him about my research topic.
Finally, I am thankful for the financial support of the Hungarian Ministry of Education that enabled me to start my PhD research and provided a scholarship for three years, as well as the research scholarship of the Dr. Gallus Rehm Foundation.
Parts of present PhD research work has been developed in the framework of the project "Development of
quality-oriented and harmonized R+D+I strategy and functional model at BME", supported by the New
Széchenyi Plan (Project ID: TÁMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KMR-2010-0002) and that of the project "Talent care
and cultivation in the scientific workshops of BME" supported by the grant
TÁMOP-4.2.2.B-10/1-2010-0009. Last year of my PhD research was completed in the framework of the Jedlik Ányos PhD Candidate
Scholarship supported by the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European
Social Fund in the framework of TÁMOP 4.2.4. A/1-11-1-2012-0001 ‘National Excellence Program’.
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