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Ákos Török is affiliated with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions to several subfields including Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Earth-Surface Processes, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

The main topics of Ákos Török's work encompass Rock Mechanics and Modeling, Building Materials and Conservation, Landslides and Related Hazards, Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis, Geophysical Methods and Applications, Tunneling and Rock Mechanics, and Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ákos Török include:

  • Balázs Vásárhelyi
  • Péter Görög
  • Seyed Morteza Davarpanah
  • Abolfazl Tarifard
  • Nikoletta Rozgonyi-Boissinot

Ákos Török has published extensively, with notable frequent publication venues such as Periodica Polytechnica Civil Engineering, Minerals, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, and Applied Sciences.

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Ákos Török include:

  • "Application of UAV in Topographic Modelling and Structural Geological Mapping of Quarries and Their Surroundings-Delineation of Fault-Bordered Raw Material Reserves," 2020, Sensors
  • "Centrifugal model test on a riverine landslide in the Three Gorges Reservoir induced by rainfall and water level fluctuation," 2022, Geoscience Frontiers
  • "Landslide susceptibility mapping in Three Gorges Reservoir area based on GIS and boosting decision tree model," 2023, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
  • "Stabilization of collapsible soils with nanomaterials, fibers, polymers, industrial waste, and microbes: Current trends," 2023, Construction and Building Materials
  • "Review of the creep constitutive models for rocks and the application of creep analysis in geomechanics," 2024, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Best Publications

  • The influence of fabric and water content on selected rock mechanical parameters of travertine, examples from Hungary

    Á. Török;B. Vásárhelyi

  • Mineralogical and colour changes of quartz sandstones by heat

    M. Hajpál;Á. Török

  • Critical degree of saturation: A control factor of freeze–thaw damage of porous limestones at Castle of Chambord, France

    Asaad Al-Omari;Asaad Al-Omari;Kevin Beck;Xavier Brunetaud;Ákos Török

  • Surface strength and mineralogy of weathering crusts on limestone buildings in Budapest

    Ákos Török

  • How river rocks round: resolving the shape-size paradox.

    Gabor Domokos;Douglas J. Jerolmack;Andras Á. Sipos;Ákos Török

  • Current methods and future trends in testing, durability analyses and provenance studies of natural stones used in historical monuments

    Á. Török;R. Přikryl

  • Urban and rural limestone weathering; the contribution of dust to black crust formation

    Ákos Török;Tobias Licha;Klaus Simon;Siegfried Siegesmund

  • Oolitic limestone in a polluted atmospheric environment in Budapest: weathering phenomena and alterations in physical properties

    Ákos Török

  • Observations on the factors influencing stability of building stones following contour scaling: a case study of oolitic limestones from Budapest, Hungary

    B.J. Smith;A. Török;J.J. McAlister;Y. Megarry

  • Element partitioning and potential mobility within surface dusts on buildings in a polluted urban environment, Budapest.

    John McAlister;Bernard Smith;A. Torok

  • Mineralogical, geochemical and microfabric evidences of gypsum crusts: a case study from Budapest

    Siegfried Siegesmund;Akos Török;Andre Hüpers;Christian Müller

  • Black crusts on travertine: factors controlling development and stability

    Ákos Török

  • Controls on development of Mid-Triassic ramps: Examples from southern Hungary

    Ákos Török

  • Review of the creep constitutive models for rocks and the application of creep analysis in geomechanics

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  • Transition metals and water-soluble ions in deposits on a building and their potential catalysis of stone decay

    J.J. McAlister;B.J. Smith;A. Török

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  • Freeze-thaw durability of repair mortars and porous limestone: compatibility issues

    Ákos Török;Balázs Szemerey-Kiss

  • GIS-based landslide hazard predicting system and its real-time test during a typhoon, Zhejiang Province, Southeast China

    Yiping Wu;Yiping Wu;Lixia Chen;Cong Cheng;Kunlong Yin;Kunlong Yin

  • Geomaterials in construction and their sustainability: Understanding their role in modern society

    R. Přikryl;Á. Török;M. Theodoridou;Miguel Gómez-Heras

  • Morphology and mineralogy of weathering crusts on highly porous oolitic limestones, a case study from Budapest

    Á. Török;N. Rozgonyi

  • Geochemical and mineralogical composition of black weathering crusts on limestones from seven different European countries

    Orsolya Farkas;Siegfried Siegesmund;Tobias Licha;Ákos Török

  • The influence of lithology and pore-size distribution on the durability of acid volcanic tuffs, Hungary

    Á. Török;L. Z. Forgó;T. Vogt;S. Löbens

  • The behaviour of consolidated volcanic tuffs: weathering mechanisms under simulated laboratory conditions

    H. Stück;L. Z. Forgó;J. Rüdrich;S. Siegesmund

  • Palynology of a terrestrial coal-bearing series across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary (Mecsek Mts, Hungary)

    Katrin Ruckwied;Annette E. Götz;József Pálfy;Ákos Török

  • Evolution of porosity in Hungarian building stones after simulated burning

    M. Gómez-Heras;De Buergo;R. Fort;M. Hajpál

  • Effect of Temperature Changes on the Mineralogy and Physical Proper- ties of Sandstones. A Laboratory Study.

    Ákos Török;Mónika Hajpál

Frequent Co-Authors

Siegfried Siegesmund
Siegfried Siegesmund University of Göttingen
Bernard Smith
Bernard Smith Queen's University Belfast
Csaba Szabó
Csaba Szabó University of Fribourg
Donatella Barca
Donatella Barca University of Calabria
József Pálfy
József Pálfy Eötvös Loránd University
Douglas J. Jerolmack
Douglas J. Jerolmack University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Dias
Daniel Dias Grenoble Alpes University

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