25/01/2021 Serbian Tribology Society and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade are organizing 10th International Conference on Tribology – BALKANTRIB '20. The Conference will be held online on May 20-22, 2021.

More info about the Conference on the webpage: http://balkantrib.mas.bg.ac.rs/

20/11/2016 New book, Advanced Tribological Coatings for Heavy-Duty Applications: Case Studies is published by Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The authors are: Prof. Dr. Mara Kandeva-Ivanova, Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Vencl and Prof. Dr. Dimitar Karastoyanov.

The monograph “Advanced Tribological Coatings for Heavy-Duty Applications: Case Studies” reflects the last trend in solving wear problems. It presents a summary of the researches conducted by the authors in the past few years, concerning the tribological coatings designed for different heavy-duty applications under the impact loads and high temperatures and pressures, in abrasive, erosive and corrosive environment. Three different deposition techniques and various coating materials were used and discussed, i.e. electroless plating process for deposition of nickel composite coatings with different nanoparticles (diamond, SiC and BN) addition; gas metal arc welding (GMAW) technique for hardfacing of different ferrous-based coatings; and high velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) spraying process for deposition of various superalloy coatings. download.

15/11/2016 Serbian Tribology Society and Faculty of Engineering in Kragujevac are organizing 15th International Conference on Tribology – SERBIATRIB '17. The Conference will be held in Kragujevac (Serbia), at the Faculty of Engineering, from 17 to 19 May 2017.

More info about the Conference on the webpage: http://www.serbiatrib.fink.rs

Workshop participants

Within the Workshop, the COST action CA15102 CRM-EXTREME meeting and poster session was held on 06 and 07 October. The Action focuses on the substitution of CRMs (like Cr, Co, Nb, W, Y) in high value alloys and metal-matrix composites used under extreme conditions of temperature, loading, friction, wear, corrosion, in energy, transportation and machinery manufacturing industries.

Poster Session

30/09/2016 The 13th International Conference on Tribology – ROTRIB’16 was held on September 22-24, 2016 in Galați, Romania.

There were about 110 participants from 9 countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Turkay) on the Conference, presenting 69 papers at the Conference. The Proceedings of the Conference will be printed in the form of Journal: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 174, 2017.

 Conference participants

20/09/2015 The 11th International Conference on Tribology – BULTRIB ’15 was held on September 11-13, 2015 in Sozopol, Bulgaria.

The BULTRIB ’13 Conference was organized together with the International Scientific Conference “70 years FIT”. There were about 40 participants from 7 countries (Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, Turkey, Slovakia and Serbia) on the Conference, and approximately 30 papers were presented at the Conference. Conference Proceedings will be printed in the form of Journal: Tribological Journal BULTRIB, 5, 2015.

Sozopol

Conference presentation

Conference opening

Section TPSM Chairmen

There were about 150 participants from 13 countries (Algeria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, UK and Ukraine) on the Conference, and more than 120 papers were presented at the Conference.

During the Conference, the Balkan Tribological Association (BTA) Managing Board Meeting took place. On the meeting Greece officially passed the mandate of BTA chairmanship to Romania for the next three years, i.e. until 2017. Meeting Minutes.

Conference diner

20/10/2014 Serbian Tribology Society and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade are organizing 14th International Conference on Tribology – SERBIATRIB '15. The Conference will be held in Belgrade (Serbia), at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, from 13 to 15 May 2015.

More info about the Conference on the webpage: http://www.serbiatrib.mfkg.rs/

03/10/2014 The 11th International Innovation Exhibition “ARCA 2013” was held on October 03-05, 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia. The exhibition venue was at National and University Library in Zagreb.

Poster „Development of domestic hybrid composites A356/SiCp/Grp with large graphite particles“, submitted by:

• Ilija Bobić

• Biljana Bobić

• Miroslav Babić

• Aleksandar Vencl

• Slobodan Mitrović

is awarded with Silver medal by the Union of Croatian Innovators.

25/07/2014 International Conference on Materials, Tribology and Recycling – MATRIB 2014 was held in Vela Luka (island Korčula), Croatia on June 26-28, 2014.

There were about 60 participants from eith countries (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ireland, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia). All papers from the Conference were published in the Proceedings. The last day of the Conference a very nice excursion to the nearby island Proizd was organized.

16/06/2014 The Fourth International Innovation and Invention Competition – IIIC 2013 (2013 IIIC第四屆國際創新發明海報競賽) was held on December 06, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan.

The competition was attended by representatives from 11 countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Taiwan and Ukraine). Announcement of winners was on Dec 07, 2013, and award ceremony on Dec 16, 2013.

Poster „Development of domestic hybrid composites A356/SiCp/Grp with large graphite particles“, submitted by:

• Ilija Bobić

• Biljana Bobić

• Miroslav Babić

• Aleksandar Vencl

• Slobodan Mitrović

is awarded with Gold medal by the Chinese Innovation and Invention Society.

09/06/2014 Filip Vučetić has completed his Master thesis “Tribological properties of the Zn-25Al alloy-based materials designed for the production of sliding components”.

Public defence was on 06.06.2014 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade. We wish him all the best in his further career.

05/06/2014 Visit of the colleagues from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technical University – Sofia (Bulgaria) to the Tribology Laboratory.

The visit was realised through the CEEPUS Network CIII-BG-0703: Modern trends in education and research on mechanical systems – bridging reliability, quality and tribology.

Tribology Laboratory Belgrade

Workshop opening

COST MP1303 MC Members from Serbia

Workshop presentations

The second Meeting of the Management Committee (MC) of COST Action MP1303 was held during the Workshop. At this moment the action gathers 22 countries. The objectives of this COST Action is a deeper understanding of the fundamental processes of tribological (friction and wear) on the nano- and micro-level and ability to control them. At the meeting, among other things, decisions about the place and time of the next workshop and summer school and the rules for the short-term visits of researchers were made.

05/01/2014 The 34th International Exhibition of Inventions, Technical Innovations, New Products and Youth Creative Work “MAKINOVA 2013” was held on October 15-19, 2013 in Skopje, Macedonia. The exhibition venue was at Skopje Fair within TEHNOMA 2013 International Fair.

Association of Inventors and Authors of Technical Improvements of Macedonia (Сојузот на пронаоѓачи и автори на технички унапредувања на Македонија – СПАТУМ) awarded Silver medal to the:

• Ilija Bobić

• Biljana Bobić

• Miroslav Babić

• Aleksandar Vencl

• Slobodan Mitrović

in the field of inventions and new technologies for: „Development of domestic hybrid composites A356/SiCp/Grp with large graphite particles”.

University representatives (lecturers) and participants of the CEEPUS Workshop

The BULTRIB ’13 Conference venue was at the Library Meetings Center of the Technical University in Sofia. There were about 60 participants from 11 countries (Algeria, Bulgaria, Germany, Poland, Republic of Srpska, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, Taiwan and Turkey) on the Conference, and 46 papers were presented at the Conference. Conference Proceedings will be printed in the form of Journal: Tribological Journal BULTRIB, 4, 2014.

In the last day of the Conference, a Conference trip was organized with a visit to the Exhibition of Panagyurishte Thracian Golden Treasure and the city-museum Koprivshtitsa.

Conference presentations

29/05/2013 The 33rd International Exhibition of Inventions, New Technologies and Design “Inventions-Belgrade 2013” was organized by Belgrade Association of Inventers on May 22-29, 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Belgrade Association of Inventors and Authors of Technical Improvements awarded Gold medal with Nikola Tesla's face to the:

• Ilija Bobić

• Biljana Bobić

• Miroslav Babić

• Aleksandar Vencl

• Slobodan Mitrović

in the field of new technologies for: “Development of production technology for domestic particulate hybrid composites A356/SiC + graphite with aluminum alloy matrix“.

27/05/2013 A student’s visit to the pharmaceutical plant Galenika a.d. (Maintenance Department of Solid Dosage Forms Plant).

The visit took place on 23.05.2013 as part of student activities within the subject Tribotechnique at 3rd year of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade.

20/05/2013 The 13th International Conference on Tribology – SERBIATRIB '13 was held on May 15-17, 2013 in Kragujevac, Serbia.

The Conference was organized by the Serbian Tribology Society and the Faculty of Engineering in Kragujevac. About 50 papers were presented at the Conference, mainly by the authors from Serbia and neighbouring countries. All papers are published in the Proceedings and can be downloaded from the following address SERBIATRIB – Proceedings.

Photo gallery from the Conference can be found at: http://www.serbiatrib.fink.rs/gallery13.html.

Conference opening

Guests and Organizers

22/11/2012 Serbian Tribology Society and Faculty of Engineering in Kragujevac are organizing 13th International Conference on Tribology – SERBIATRIB '13. The Conference will be held in Kragujevac (Serbia), at the Faculty of Engineering, from 15 to 17 May 2013.

More info about the Conference on the webpage: http://www.serbiatrib.fink.rs/

31/10/2012 International Welding Engineer Bojan Gligorijević from Institut Goša (Belgrade) gave a lecture (in Serbian): Wear Related Problems of the Equipment for Coal Preparation at Thermal Power Plant Kostolac B – Applied Technologies and Materials, to the 3rd year students of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade.

The lecture was in the frame of popularization of the ongoing national project: Investigation and Optimisation of Technological and Functional Characteristics of the Ventilation Mill at Thermal Power Plant Kostolac B.

11/06/2012 The 3rd International Conference on Diagnosis and Prediction in Mechanical Engineering Systems – DIPRE ‘12 was held (31.05-01.06.2012) in Galaţi, Romania.

The Conference was held in the Natural Sciences Museum Complex in Galaţi, with about 60 participants from 7 countries (Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Turkey, USA, France and Serbia). The Proceedings of the Conference, with 57 papers, is published on CD, and it is available from the following web page Conference papers.

Conference opening

Local TV station „Antena 1“ report

19/11/2011 The National Conference with International Participation BULTRIB 2011 was held on October 28-29, 2011 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

At the Conference opening the following 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:

• Prof. dr Aleksandar Rac (Serbia) and

• Prof. dr Minodora Ripa (Romania).

The Conference venue was at the International Meetings Center of the Technical University in Sofia. There were 47 participants (40 participants from Bulgaria and 7 participants from Rumania, Serbia and Turkey). All together 35 papers were in the Conference Programme and 25 of them were presented. Conference Proceedings is printed in the form of Journal: Tribological Journal BULTRIB, 2, 2, 2012, and it can be downloaded from the following address Conference papers.

During the visit to Sofia and Technical University of Sofia a cooperation agreement (International Faculty Agreement of Cooperation) was signed between the Faculty of Industrial Technology, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. link.

Conference opening

Together with the Conference BALKANTRIB '11 two other conference were also held: „9th International Conference THE-A Coatings“ and „4th International Conference on Manufacturing Engineering (ICMEΝ)“, at the same venue – Makedonia Palace hotel. On all three conferences, all together, there were about 180 participants from 15 countries. The Proceedings of the Conferences are published in hard-copies and on CDs as well.

During the Conference BALKANTRIB '11, the Balkan Tribological Association (BTA) Board Meeting took place. On the meeting Bulgaria officially passed the mandate of BTA chairmanship to Greece for the next three years (until 2014). For that period (2011-2014) the President of BTA will be Prof. K.-D. Bouzakis. The report concerning the Journal of the Balkan Tribological Association was submitted, the formation of the BTA web page was agreed, and the other matters of importance for BTA were discussed.

Break between the Sections

14/09/2011 The 38th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology was held in Lyon, France in the period 06-09.09.2011.

The Conference main subject was: „Energy and Health”. There were about 200 participants from 20 countries on the Conference. Papers from the Conference were not published in any kind of Proceedings. Only the USB (without ISBN number) with abstracts is provided.

 Conference participants

Conference opening

07/07/2011 International Conference on Materials, Tribology and Recycling – MATRIB 2011 was held in Vela Luka (island Korčula), Croatia in the period 29.06-01.07.2011.

There were about 50 participants from five countries (Croatia, Slovakia, USA, Ireland and Serbia). All papers from the Conference were published in the Proceedings. The last day of the Conference a very nice excursion to the nearby island Proizd was organized.

Excursion to island Proizd

27/05/2011 The 31st International Exhibition of Inventions, New Technologies and Design “Inventions-Belgrade 2011” was organized by Belgrade Association of Inventers on May 23-27, 2011 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Belgrade Association of Inventors and Authors of Technical Improvements awarded Bronze medal with Nikola Tesla's face to the:

• Biljana Bobić

• Aleksandar Vencl

• Miroslav Babić

• Slobodan Mitrović

• Ilija Bobić

in the field of new technologies for: “Metal matrix composites with high wear resistance obtained by the infiltration of silicon carbide (SiC) and graphite particles into the aluminium alloy (A356) matrix”.

Opening of the Conference

23/05/2011 The 12th International Conference on Tribology – SERBIATRIB '11 was held on May 10-13, 2011 in Kragujevac, Serbia.

The Conference was organized by the Serbian Tribology Society and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kragujevac. About 50 papers were presented at the Conference, mainly by the authors from Serbia and neighbouring countries. All papers are published in the Proceedings and can be downloaded from the following address SERBIATRIB – Proceedings.

On the last day of the Conference a Round Table: “Waste lubricating oils – problem or opportunity” was held.

10/05/2011 Professor Bharat Bhushan from The Ohio State University, Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics gave a lecture: Nanotribology, Nanomechanics and Materials Characterization Studies and Applications to Bio/nanotechnology and Biomimetics on the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade. The lecture was open-access type.

Lecture presentation: PDF format (13 MB) or PPT format (37 MB).

Prof. Bhushan giving a lecture in Belgrade

Lecture auditory

Opening of the Symposium

Entrance to the Symposium building

The Symposium main subject was: „Energy and Environmental Aspects of Tribology“. On the Symposium there were about 50 participants from nine countries (Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Germany, Mexico, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia).

Papers from the Symposium were published in the Proceedings and in the two scientific journals: Scientific Problems of Machines Operation and Maintenance (44, 3, 2009; 44, 4, 2009 and 45, 1, 2010) and Tribologia (41, 3, 2010). The last day of the Symposium the participants self-organized an excursion to the famous Wieliczka Salt Mine near Cracow.

Excursion to the Wieliczka Salt Mine

20/06/2010 Serbian Tribology Society and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kragujevac are organizing 12th International Conference on Tribology – SERBIATRIB '11. The Conference will be held in Kragujevac (Serbia), at the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, from 11 to 13 May 2011.

More info about the Conference on the webpage: http://www.serbiatrib.mfkg.rs/

11/11/2009 Visit of the students from Novi Sad and Kikinda to the Tribology Laboratory.

Lectures

Tribology Laboratory Belgrade

17/10/2009 Professor Nikolai K. Myshkin from Metal-Polymer Research Institute of Belarus National Academy of Sciences gave a lecture: Advances and Challenges in Tribology on the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade. The lecture was open-access type.

Lecture presentation: PDF format (4 MB) or PPT format (15 MB).

Prof. Myshkin giving a lecture in Belgrade

Lecture auditory

At the Congress, there were about 1200 participants from almost 50 countries (link with participating countries list). All papers (one-page abstracts) were published in the Proceedings. At the meeting of the International Tribology Council, which was held during the Congress, among other things, it was decided that the next, fifth, World Tribology Congress will be held in Turin (Italy) in September 2013.

Welcome reception

Opening of the Congress

Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Opening of the Conference

Opening of the Round Table

The SERBIATRIB Conference is traditionally organized by the Serbian Tribology Society 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 69 papers of authors from 19 countries. 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. All papers can be downloaded from the following address SERBIATRIB – Proceedings.

Selected papers from the Proceedings were undergone a standard peer review process and published in this special issues of two journals: FME Transactions (37, 2, 2009), the Scientific Journal published by the Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Belgrade and Tribology in industry (31, 1-2, 2009), the an official journal of the Serbian Tribology Society. A publication: “Serbian Tribology Society: History and Programme of Development” (in Serbian) was also published and promoted during the Conference. This publication 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.

At the Conference there were 74 participants (35 from abroad and 39 from Serbia) from 11 countries (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey and USA). All together 44 papers were presented at the Conference through the Plenary lectures and 6 thematic sections.

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.

Photograph from the Conference can be seen and downloaded from the following link (photographs).

Visit to the Nikola Tesla Museum

Boat trip with Conference diner

22/11/2008 ÖTG-Symposium 2008 on 20.11.2008 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Participation of the tribologist from Belgrade.

The symposium was organized by the Austrian Tribology Society (ÖTG) with the main subject: "Innovation in materials and lubrications for advanced eco-oriented tribosystems". Symposium was attended by more than 110 participants from eight countries (Austria, Germany, UK, Spain, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Slovenia and Serbia), and all together 30 papers were presented.

Belgrade tribologist at the Symposium

Reception at the Major of Wr. Neustadt

11/11/2008 Swiss company CSM Instruments and Tribology Laboratory Belgrade organised, at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, a technical seminar Advanced Mechanical Surface Testing seminar programme.

20/10/2008 Serbian Tribology Society and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade are 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.

More info about the Conference on the webpage: http://www.serbiatribo.org.rs/serbiatrib2009

16/06/2008 Participation of the Serbian tribologist in the 6th International Conference on Tribology – BALKANTRIB '08, from 12-14 June 2008 in Sozopol, Bulgaria.

The conference was attended by approximately 80 participants from a number of European countries with an emphasis on participants from Balkan countries. The papers (one-page abstracts) from the Conference were printed in the Abstract Proceedings.

Conference Plenary Lectures

The “tribological” carpets

22/06/2007 The 10th International Conference on Tribology – SERBIATRIB '07 was held on Jun 19-21, 2007 in Kragujevac, Serbia.

The Conference was organized by the Serbian Tribology Society and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kragujevac. About 50 papers were presented at the Conference, mainly by the authors from Serbia and neighbouring countries. All papers are published in the Proceedings and can be downloaded from the following address SERBIATRIB – Proceedings.

20/06/2007 New book is published by the Faculty of mechanical Engineering and the Serbian Tribology Society: Lubricants and Machine Lubrications (in Serbian), by the author: Aleksandar A. Rac, professor of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Belgrade.

29/11/2006 On the occasion of the retirement of our dear professor dr Aleksandar Rac, a cocktail party was held in the Laboratory for Fuels, Tribology and Combustion.