Research laboratories and site testing

DATA ABOUT RESPONDENT

Full name
Ms Snezana MARINKOVIĆ
Name of your institution
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Institutions’s country
Serbia
Institution’s address
Bul. kralja Aleksandra 73 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Are you responsible on behalf of the institution
Yes
Your position in the institution
  • Research Infrastructure Manager (administrative)
Your telephone number
+381 11 3370 102
Your email address
sneska@imk.grf.bg.ac.rs
Institution's website address
http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE OR IMPORTANT RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

Research infrastrcture website
http://www.grf.bg.ac.rs/
Organisation / institution type of RI
  • University/Higher education

Main scientificdomain: Engineering

Category: Civil Engineering RI

Other scientific and technological domains served by RI
  • Engineering
RI type
  • Single-sited
  • Other: national
Short description

Main activities of Faculty of Civil Engineering are education and research in the field of structural, hydraulic, transportation and environmental engineering, as well as in the field of geodesy and geoinformatics. Most of the research infrastructure is rather old, with more then 30 years of operation.

OPERATION AND UPGRADE OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND OR IMPORTANT RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

Years in operation
  • More than 25 years
Comment on cooperation
So far, the Dept. of Hydraulic & Environmental Eng. of the Faculty has had a successful cooperation with Technical University of Hamburg – Harburg (TUHH), University of Exeter, Imperial College London, Technical universities of Athens, Bucharest, Ljubljana, etc. Other departments of the Faculty have also made contacts with numerous universities abroad. Presently, contacts with Montenegro and Macedonia are sporadic, while the staff takes part in teaching at the University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Within Serbia, the Faculty has close relations with all other Faculties of Civil Engineering (Novi Sad, Nis, Subotica, Kosovska Mitrovica). The Dept. of Hydraulic & Env. Eng. takes part in COST action http://www.cost.esf.org/ , and has a joint EU project “Educate!” http://www.water-msc.org/ . From COST cooperation, a very successful contacts between scientists have been achieved, and as a result, an international state-of-the-art book has been published (“Advances in Urban Flood Management”, Taylor&Francis / Balkema, London (стр. 39, ISBN 0415436621, 2007), while from the Educate! project, one generation of students from 4 countries has successfully completed their master studies, and the second generation has enrolled. On academic level, cooperation is possible on a suitable research topic, both experimental and numerical. The expected deliverables will be international journal or conference papers, specialist diploma, master thesis, or doctoral dissertation, depending on candidate, his/her background, and period of cooperation. On the industrial (commercial) level, cooperation can be in providing (lending) laboratory facilities, building scale models, chemical analysis of water, and all levels of engineering design projects and feasibility studies.

STAFF, INTERNAL USERS AND EXTERNAL USERS

Short description of access policy and procedures for users of this research infrastructure
The research facilities are open to external users, though the Faculty has no funds of its own to grant to external users, however, is willing to accept candidates whose fees will be covered by an external scientific or governmental institution. Unfortunately, so far very little has been done on attracting external users, mainly due to lack of funding.

FINANCE

SCIENTIFIC IMPACT

RESEARCH SERVICES PROVIDED TO USERS AND RESEARCHERS

Research services provided to users and researchers
There are several research laboratories at Faculty of Civil Engineering where on site testing facilities are available: 1. Laboratory for structures: testing of structures on site and laboratory testing of models. 2. Laboratory for materials: laboratory testing of building materials and in-situ testing of built-in materials. 3. Soil mechanics laboratory: laboratory testing of various engineering properties of soil. 4. Laboratory for pavement materials: laboratory testing of asphalt binder, aggregate and asphalt mixes for pavements on roads and airports. 5. Building physics laboratory: testing of the properties in the field of building thermics, lighting and acoustics. 6. Laboratory for electronics: electrical measurement of the nonelectric quantities 7. Laboratory for sanitary engineering: physical and chemical analysis of water. Types of water: potable water, groundwater and surface water, waste water. 8. Laboratory for fluid mechanics and flow measurement: basic research in a field of incompressible fluids; control and calibration of flow meters for custody transfer application; research of hydraulics conditions in open canals. 9. Laboratory for hydrometry and hydrology: analyses of sediment flow in river bed; hydrological analyses of rainfall; analysis of water flow in river bed. 10. Laboratory for hydraulics and waterway regulation: analysis of hydraulics conditions and impacts in canals; analysis of hydraulics conditions and impacts in pressurized systems; analysis of flow in saturated and unsaturated environments.

Entry created by Davor Kozmus on November 27, 2012
Modified on November 27, 2012