Research fields

Materials Synthesis and Processing
Materials Testing and Characterization

Infrastructure

The Research Center for Advanced Metallic, Ceramic and Composite Materials and Technologies integrates specialized infrastructures for the synthesis and processing of materials, such as melting, heat treatment or sintering furnaces, plastic deformation equipment, powder metallurgy installations, equipment for obtaining thin layers by physical or chemical methods, devices for obtaining nanopowders by biological or chemical methods, respectively additive manufacturing installations using various technologies: selective laser sintering (SLS), filament deposition modeling (FDM), stereolithography (SLA), etc.
The Research Center also has specialized infrastructures for advanced material characterization: optical or digital microscopes, mechanical testing equipment, durometers, thin layer characterization equipment, thermal analysis equipment, spectrophotometers, corrosion resistance testing equipment, equipment for determining electrical properties.

Projects

• Ecological composites made using 3D printing techniques to obtain sound-absorbing panels (PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2021-0294) 

• Magnetron sputtered Me-Me binary oxynitride multifunctional thin solid films (PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-1209)

• Driving up Reliability and Efficiency of Additive Manufacturing (DREAM Horizon 2020)

• Optimisation of the Ecotechnology of Induction Hardening of Large Diameter Bearing Rings (Bridge Grant)

• Industrial Research Services Structure Surface Implant: Mechanical Features DENTIX

• Driving up Reliability and Efficiency of Additive Manufacturing Premiere H2020

Team

Head of the Research Centre:
Scientific researcher II Dr. Eng. Mihai Alin POP mihai.pop@unitbv.ro

Permanent members:
Assoc. prof. dr. eng. Tibor BEDŐ - bedo.tibor@unitbv.ro
Lect. dr. eng. Andreea Maria CRISBĂȘAN - andreea.crisbasan@unitbv.ro
Prof. dr. eng. Daniel CRISTEA - daniel.cristea@unitbv.ro
Assoc. prof. dr. eng. Camelia GABOR - camelia.gabor@unitbv.ro
Lect. dr. eng. Iuliana GHEORGHIȚĂ – iuliana.gheorghita@unitbv.ro
Prof. dr. eng. Ioan MILOȘAN - milosan@unitbv.ro
Prof. dr. eng. Daniel MUNTEANU - danielmunteanu@unitbv.ro
Assoc. prof. dr. eng. Ioana POPESCU - ioana.ghiuta@unitbv.ro
Lect. dr. eng. Simona Corina RADU – simona.matei@unitbv.ro
Prof. dr. eng. Maria STOICĂNESCU - stoican.m@unitbv.ro
Assoc. prof. dr. ing. Vasile Adrian SURDU - vasile.surdu@unitbv.ro

PhD students and collaborating professors:
Prof. dr. eng. Aurel CRIȘAN
Prof. dr. eng. Virgil GEAMĂN
Prof. dr. eng. Ioan GIACOMELLI
Prof. dr. eng. Cornel SAMOILĂ
Prof. dr. phys. Doru URSUȚIU
Ph.D. student Bianca Valeria CATARGIU
Ph.D. student Bogdan Marian DUMAN
Ph.D. student Edvina CIPI
Ph.D. student Gianina POPESCU
Ph.D. student Katiuska SANTOS CEDENO
Ph.D. student Cosmin Nicolae SPÎRCHEZ
Ph.D. student Iuliana TUDORACHE (NISTOR)
Ph.D. student Mircea Florin DRĂGHICI
Ph.D. student Sorin BUTUC
Ph.D. student Alin Floricel MIHAI