CEEPUS Tribology BG 0703

Short description, research and educational contributions

The Faculty of Mechanical Engineerings and Mechatronics was a division of the Faculty of Electro-mechanics founded in 1921. The faculty breaks down into the following domains and specializations: “Mechanical Engineering” - thermal systems and equipment, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, industrial process equipment; “Mechatronics and Robotics” - mechatronics and nanotechnologies; “Engineering and Management” - engineering economics applied to mechanics; “Applied Engineering Sciences” - optometry. There are four departments in the faculty: “Machine Elements and Tribology”, “Thermal Machinery and Equipment and Thermotechnics”, “Technological Equipment” and “Fine Mechanics and Mechatronics”. The studies are organized on three level: Bachelor’s degree - with 440 students; Master degree with 160 students; Doctoral degree with 40 students. The main laboratories of the faculty are: “Center of Excellence in Mechanical Engineerings and Tribology”; “Network of laboratories for the development of thermo-mechanical processes for clean and efficient use of alternative fuels”; “Laboratory for the development of robots and artificial intelligence equipments”; “Laboratory for processing of polymeric materials”; “IT network laboratories of the faculty with a total of 200 last generation computers”.

The Department of Machine elements and Tribology is involved in the following program studies: - Undergraduate courses in: Machine elements and Mechanisms; Tribology; Management for Mechanical Engineering; IT basis for Mechanical Engineering; - Postgraduate courses in: CAD-CAE in Mechanical Engineering; Entrepreneurship for SMEs; Biomedical Engineering. In the Department functions the “Center of Excellence in Mechanical Engineerings and Tribology”, which has four laboratories:

- Tribology

- Rheology

- Mechanical transmissions

- Computer assisted mechanical engineering.

The educational activities of the Department are in Romanian, English, French and German and the main fields are: Machine elements and Mechanisms; Tribology; Mechanical transmissions; Finite element analysis; Computer aided design. The respective contribution of the Department of Machine elements and Tribology to the CEEPUS project concerns the development of the following long term scientific ideas:

• Rheology of lubricants (oil, greases, biodegradable lubricants, technological fluids etc.)

• Tribological properties of coatings materials (mechanical properties, adhesion of coatings and engineered surfaces, process-structure-property interrelationships, property/performance mapping)

• Reliability and durability of mechanical components (damage accumulation model for various machine elements, vibration and noise of gears and gearboxes, flexible product development for machine elements)

• Biotribology (tribology of human joints and prothesis, rheology of sinovial fluid)

• Tribological behaviour of materials in dry and boundary friction (Stribeck curve, friction and wear processes and phenomena).