Mechanical engineering
Lovre Krstulović Opara researcher ID: G-2819-2013
- development, dynamical testing and thermographic evaluation of novel auxetic cell structures with negative Poisson ratio
- evaluation of energy absorption performances of metal cellular structures produced by classical foaming and rapid prototyping
- nondestructive thermographic testing of metals and composites based on active infrared thermography and Xenon flashes
- development of advanced computational methods for signal processing and filtering of thermal images used in non-destructive testing
- design, optimization and testing of hybrid aluminum facades
- design of hybrid aluminum renewable energy wind and solar systems
- design of extruded aluminum structural members
- design of structural components subjected to fatigue
Representative publications
- Servo-hydraulic dynamic load frame INSTRON – quasistatic, fatigue and dynamic testing of materials and structures
- cooled middle-wave infrared InSb infrared camera Flir SC 5000 – enables thermographic NDT and tracing of yielding process in materials
- Xenon flash lamp 6 kJ - generates heat flow in metals used for thermographic NDT of materials and structures
- HBM MGC plus – multi-channel amplifier for strain gauges and thermo-couples
- NDT equipment – ultrasound testing, penetrant testing, magnetic particles inspection visual testing
- Nextengine 3D scanner
- Krautkramer DM 4 – thickness measuring gauge
- Krautkramer USM Go – A scan ultrasound device
- UCI AlphaDur mini – Vickers hardness testing equipment
- Graphical workstations for modelling and design of aluminum structural members including software for design and analysis of aluminum profiles tools
- Equipment for analysis and synthesis of hybrid solar panels and mini wind turbines
- Equipment for glass and ventilated facades performance testing
- 1,5 kW mini solar power plant
- Solar panels performance testing equipment ( KIMO France)
- Solar radiation performance measuring equipment with wind measuring equipment (KIMO France)
- Multichannel temperature measuring equipment (PICO GB)
- Heat conduction measuring e equipment (GreenTEQ, Swiss)
- 3D scanner for scanning of aluminum cross sections
- 3D rapid prototyping equipment –hot wire method
- CNC mill for Al profiles rapid prototyping