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12/10/10
Meeting of
the Balkan
tribological
association Managing Committee
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15.09.2010
From 13 to 16
September 2010 in Sozopol, Bulgaria, the International Jubilee Conference of the
Faculty of Machine Technology at the Technical University of Sofia was held.
A new Section
"Tribology and Tribotechnologies" was formed in the frame of the Conference.
Except the paper presentations, the Program of this Section envisages to
hold a Meeting of the Managing Committee of the Balkan Tribological
Association (BTA).
The
schedule
of the Balkan Tribological Association Managing Committee meeting included:
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Discussion on
the proposal for establishing a "College for
experts of the Balkan Tribological
Association" for the needs of South-East European countries;
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Proposals of
the BTA member-countries for awarding a honorary academic degrees of the
Interdisciplinary Civil Academy (Bulgaria) to eminent tribologists;
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Founding a
Scientific Expert Tribological Council of the Balkan Tribological Association to
the Interdisciplinary Civil Academy;
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Miscellaneous.
At the
meeting, chaired by the President of BTA prof. Mara Kandeva, following decisions
were made:
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preparation
of highly qualified and technical specialists in tribology,
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preparation
of academic specialists, teachers and research in tribology and
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informational, organizational and scientific-methodological activity related to
the development of highly qualified engineering and academic specialists for
needs of the civil society.
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Assoc. prof.
dr Mara Kandeva, Director,
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Assoc. prof.
dr Emilia Assenova, Mediator and
- Assoc. prof.
dr Nikola Tonchev, Vice director.
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5A Slavinska
Str., Sofia 1000, Bulgaria.
During
particularly meeting of the Balkan Tribological Association the next distinguish
Balkan tribologists have got awards HONORARY DIPLOMA and MEDAL from the
International Civil Academy for the significant contribution to the organizing,
development and success of the Balkan Tribological Association and BALKANTRIB:
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Prof. dr
Miroslav Babić, Serbia;
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Prof. dr
Niculae N. Antonescu, Romania;
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Prof. dr
Andrei Tudor,
Romania;
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Prof. dr
Slavi
Ivanov,
Bulgaria;
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Prof. dr
Hakan Kaleli, Turkey.
The awards
are assigned by prof. dr Nyagol Manolov, President of the Interdisciplinary
Civil Academy.
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Honorary diploma and Medal |
Prof.
Babić receive award from the President of ICA prof. Manolov |
29/09/10
New issue of tribology in industry News Letter:
September 2010.
10/02/10
New issue of tribology in industry News Letter:
January 2010.
20/09/09
Participation of the serbian tribologist in the IV World Tribology Congress 2009,
from 6 to 11 September 2009 in Kyoto, Japan.
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Entrance to the Congress
building in Kyoto |
Opening of the Congress |
12/06/09
Report from the
11th
International Conference on Tribology - SERBIATRIB '09
The 11th
International Conference on Tribology - SERBIATRIB 09 was held on May 13-15,
2009 in Belgrade, Serbia. The SERBIATRIB Conference is traditionally
organized by the Serbian Tribology Society (STS) every two years, since
1989. This year the Conference was organized by the
Serbian Tribology Society and the University of Belgrade, Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering.
The
Proceedings of the Conference contains 405 pages, with all together 69
papers of authors from 19 countries (Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Netherlands,
Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine and USA).
Approximately 38 papers were submitted by the foreign authors and app. 31 papers
by the Serbian authors. Most of the papers were written in english language
(53) and the rest were in serbian language (16).
Selected
papers from the Proceedings (19 papers) were undergone a standard peer review
process and published in this special issues of two journals: FME
Transactions,
the Scientific
Journal published by the Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Belgrade and
Tribology
in industry, the an official journal of the Serbian Tribology Society. A
publications: "Serbian
Tribology Society: History and Programme of Development"
(in serbian) was also published and promoted during the Conference.
This
publications gives a short history of the Serbian Tribology Society, a review of
the Society activities over the last 17 years, as well as the future trends and
challenges that stands in front of the Society. An interesting thing within this
publications is a reprint of a paper (just most interesting parts), one of the
first written in serbian language, that speaks about machine parts wear. The
original of the paper is printed in 1934, in a engineering journal:
"Технички
лист".
As a
Concomitant
events of the Conference a
Carpets Exhibition with tribological motives was
also presented by
the
Lecturer
Zeynep çavdar
kaleli,
from the Sakarya University, Fine
Arts faculty (Turkey).
The Conference is
financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development
of the Republic of Serbia, CSM Instruments (Switzerland),
Schaefer
(Italy), Serbian Chamber
of Commerce, Messer Tehnogas AD, Oil Rafinery Modriča (Bosnia and Herzegovina),
Technology Transfer Center Hanover (Germany) and RAR Batajnica.
At the
Conference there were 74 participants (35 from abroad and 39
from Serbia).
All together 11 countries were deputized: Austria
(3 participants), Bosnia and Herzegovina (6), Croatia (1), Germany (1),
Greece (3), Italy (2), Romania (11), Serbia (39), Switzerland (1), Turkey (6)
and USA (1). 44 papers were presented at the Conference through the Plenary
lectures and 6 thematic sections (38 in english and 6 in serbian language).
On the third day
of the Conference a
Round Table"Waste oils in the Republic
of Serbia"
was held in the
organization of Serbian Tribology Society, Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Oil
and Gas Association of Serbia.
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Prof. dr B. Ivković opens
the Conference |
Opening
of the Round Table: Waste oils
in the Republic of Serbia |
Photograph from the
Conference can be seen and downloaded from the following link (photographs).
20/02/09
New issue of tribology in industry News Letter:
February 2009.
03/02/09
In memoriam: V. N. Constantinescu, ROMANIA
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of Romanian Tribology Association we are
deeply grieved to announce that Professor V.N. Constantinescu, former President
of Romanian Academy, passed away suddenly, on January 31, 2009, in Bucharest, at
the age of 77.
http://romania-on-line.net/whoswho/ConstantinescuVirgil.htm
Emanuel Diaconescu, Mircea D. Pascovici and Andrei
Tudor (on behalf of them, Minodora Ripa).
20/06/07
Serbian Tribology Society and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade is
organizing
11th
International Conference on Tribology – SERBIATRIB '09. The Conference
will be held in Belgrade (Serbia), at the
Mechanical Engineering Faculty,
from 13 to
15 May 2009.
16/06/08
Participation of the serbian tribologist in the
6th International Conference on
Tribology - BALKANTRIB
'08,
from 12-14 June 2008
in Sozopol, Bulgaria.
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Prof. dr A.
Rac held lecture on BALKANTRIB '08 |
A group of participants on BALKANTRIB '08
and
“tribological”
carpets |
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