CEEPUS Tribology BG 0703

Short description, research and educational contributions

At present the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Management (FMEM) is a modern university institution which offers a wide range of qualifications through undergraduate, postgraduate, professional and research programmers. The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Management consists of the Institute for Engineering Materials, the Institute of Mechanical Technology, the Mechanical Institute and the Institute for Materials Technology.

The Department of Metrology and Measuring Systems is a part of the Institute of Mechanical Technology. The main activities of the Department are:

· Coordinate Measuring Machines researches and Reverse Engineering

· New solutions for pneumatic measurement

· Topography of surfaces analysis

· Thermal diagnosis

· Quality as a result of the work of whole system

The following laboratories are used and they operate within the Department:

- Laboratory for nanometrology,

- Laboratory for roughness and surface topography measurement,

- Laboratory for thermal diagnostics,

- Laboratory for 3D coordinate measurement,

- Laboratory for air gauging.

The researchers at this department are specialized in Dimensional Metrology from macro to nano scale, with focus on accuracy measurement and new measurement instrument constructional solutions and new measurement solutions for industry. The Department of Metrology and Measurement Systems will contribute to the CEEPUS project by working towards:

• Nanometrology - Measurement with Atomic Force Microscope, Measurement with optical profilometer;

• Roughness and surface topography measurement - investigations on 3D surface topography measurement: accuracy of contact and non-contact topography measurement, its application in the unconventional production processes and technologies, fast measurement of topography with spiral sampling method;

• Thermal diagnostics - analysis of the thermal picture of workpiece in order to reveal structural defects, correction of the accuracy dependent on emissivity coefficient, thermal diagnostics of machine tools and unconventional devices, diagnostics of the prototypes of devices and of final products;

• Air gauging - especially non-contact measurement: improvement of static and dynamic metrological properties, application in in-process control, untypical measuring heads, non-contact form deviation measurement;

• 3D coordinate measurement (contact & non-contact) - accuracy of measurement of complicated shapes (irregular surfaces, gears, corpses etc.), calculation and simulation of form deviations, simulation of single-flank gear tests and calculations of dynamic deviations of transmission, digitalization of surface, digital modeling and Reverse Engineering, reproduction accuracy.