Commonly, maintenance is perceived as “fixing broken things”. As such, it is associated with failure consequences and unplanned expenses, both of which negatively impact business plans or customer satisfaction. However, as failures are an inevitability of the life of any technological system, it would be worthwhile to start looking at m...

By Jezdimir Knezevic

Robot manipulators are usually used in many industrial apllications where a number of practical tasks should be executed. The very important part of that execution is interaction between robot and environment. Control of the interaction is crucial for successful execution of industrial processes. Typical applications include deburring, machining, a...

By Sedin Murtić, Edin Begović, Malik Čabaravdić

Repairing technologies for pipelines still require attention due to large extent of distribution network containing different construction parts including elbows, branch connections and others. Repairing of the defects in the branch connection area without interruption of the gas supply is very difficult. Such defects mostly require replacing of th...

By Marek Patek, Augustin Sladek, Miloš Mičian

As the result of combustion process in boilers of the Thermal Power Plant „Kakanj“, flue gases develop, which are undesirable for the environment, for people living in the plant neighborhood and for flora and fauna. In order to perform environmental protection a lot of efforts and organizational activities should be put in action and si...

By Elma Ekinović, Nedim Hodžić, Almir Kahriman

In this paper, the possibility of proportioning self-compacting concrete with high volume calcareous fly ash (W) for precast elements has been investigated. So far, numerous mix design methods for self-compacting concrete have been developed, so as the most appropriate method in this investigation, the UCL method was chosen. In the first phase, the...

By Adnan Mujkanović, Ilhan Bušatlić, Marina Jovanović, Dženana Bečirhodžić, Vahid Redžić