The paper describes analyses solution of cut in the highway. There have been used three methods of making construction: reinforced wall with HDPE geogrids, soil nailing and retaining wall 20 meters long. AASHTO standards have been used for checking stability of reinforced wall and soil nailing, while retaining wall is based on EN 1997-I standards. ...

By Nejra Turčinović

In many countries, there is concern that enrolment in science and technology professions is decreasing and that more students need to be directed and interested in a career in science and technology. The reason why students do not choose science and technology studies is usually not about their abilities, but it is more related to student perceptio...

By Safet Brdarević, Dino Arnaut

The paper describes the microstructural examination of a joint of the base material, austenitic stainless steel with intermetallic strengthening classified according to its chemical composition and properties according to standard SAE AMS 5528 and metallic coating marked as NiCrAlY 4516 according to manufacturer catalog, Sulzer Metco. Coating is ap...

By Milenko Rimac, Mirsada Oruč, Strain Posavljak

It is obvious that higher education throughout Europe within the Bologna Process has been, and still is, undergoing serious and far-reaching reform processes with the ultimate goal of creating a European area of higher education. Quality assurance has been identified as one of the key segments of this process. In a series of communiques from minist...

By Ibrahim Plančić, Malik Čabaravdić

Higher education institutions are special organizational and business systems with an important role in the system of overall social reproduction. Accordingly, the activity itself, the mission, the forms of organization, the main contours of the process, structure, outcomes, and constraints are, to a greater or lesser extent, determined by the supe...

By Safet Brdarević, Nermina Zaimović-Uzunović

Maintenance has been changing over the period. Today we are moving to the fourth generation of Industry, where we are talking about great changes in field of production, work and understanding thereof. With device integration we will take care of the integration and exchange of information between machines and devices. Everything we start with word...

By Peter Krebelj

A brake disc is exposed to various loads during its operational life, which cause braking surface wearing, disc deformation, structural changes, residual stresses etc. The goal of this paper is to find out the main cause of fractures on braking surface, by measuring flatness and wear of braking surface, and to give main guidelines to prolong the op...

By Amel Karić, Samir Lemeš

For about sixty years principles of TQM, Kaizen, Six Sigma and others continuous improvement strategies (CIS) play a vital role in quality engineering and management. They are presented in many books, scientific and professional journals, consulting companies offers and first of all in the Internet as an easy tool (almost a patent) for an efficient...

By Adam Hamrol

Academic staff evaluation poses a unique challenge in higher education system in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The established practice of selfrepresenting the absolute authority in public higher education institutions attenuated by the emergence of private higher education institutions where the employers sought for the results, expressed their own, as ...

By Enes Dedić

The paper explained meaning and importance of the impact of construction machinery due to the specifics of their use. Describes how organization of maintenance activities of machines on construction sites and points to the impact this has on their performance. Accent was placed on possibilities of improving existing practice of building contractors...