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Among about 150 DIVK active members most of the lecturers for IFMASS 10 had
been recruited. Some of them used to be participants in former IFMASSs. This resource
of experts in DIVK is significant support for development, and many institutions and
laboratories where they are engaged represent important experimental base for scientific
work, in the same time serving to solve the industrial problems. Let us mention DIVK
members from Military Technical Institute (VTI), Institute for Material Testing IMS,
Goša Institute, Mechanical Engineering Faculty (Mf), Belgrade, Faculty of Technology
and Metallurgy (TMF), Belgrade, from many DIVK donator members, like Electricity of
Serbia, TENT, GOŠA FOM,
Beogradske Elektrane, (Serbian heating company),
Belgrade. Important support in DIVK activities comes from SME companies and
innovation institutions
It is worth to mention that in this environment, involved through IFMASS and DIVK,
new ideas might be realized, and one example can illustrate this in the best way.
Innovation centre
SYSTEM
DC 90
, a small enterprise, recently promoted a new
laboratory for research in earthquake engineering based on fracture mechanics and
fatigue testing, consisting of two servohydraulic devices and vibrating table and
organized first Summer Scientific Workshop Colony. Servo hydraulic closed loop testing
machine (force ± 5000 kN, displacements ± 265 mm), with a vertical frame for
5000x3000x1000 mm sized samples, (Figure left) is located outdoor, smaller device with
vibrating table (Figure right) were designed and produced in Serbia. (More details can be
found in “Structural Integrity and Life”, Vol. 9, 3/2009).
Belgrade, October 2009. Prof. Dr. Stojan Sedmak
IFMASS 10 editor