Chief of the Center of Structural Research and Tribo-Mechanical Testing of Materials and Mechanical Engineering Products, D. Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, Professor KUKAREKO Vladimir Arkadyevich
The center is accredited for compliance with the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 as a testing center for testing the mechanical properties and research of materials structure and mechanical engineering products (certificate № BY/112 02.1.0.1670 dated from 03.05.2010, the period of validity is up to 05.03.2020).
The center conducts the analysis of structure, phase and defining of mechanical and tribological properties of construction materials (including at high temperatures) and hardened layers for heat-and-power, chemical, mechanical engineering, building and other equipment.
The center is equipped with a complex of modern research instruments and testing machines to carry out research work in the field of studies of structure and tribo-mechanical properties of mechanical engineering materials; certification tests of materials and analysis of their destruction causes.
Deputy head of the Department of Technologies of Mechanical Engineering and Metallurgy – Head of the Laboratory of Nanostructured and Superhard Materials, D. Sc. in Eng., Associate Professor ZHORNIK Viktor Ivanovich
Director of R&D Center “Mechanical Engineering Technologies and Processing Equipment”, D. Sc. in Eng., Professor BASINYUK Vladimir Leonidovich
AREAS OF RESEARCH
development, research and testing of program-controlled drives of mechatronic systems based on commutatorless high-torque rotary and linear motors with permanent magnets and gearmotors based on them with friction and gears operating under normal and extreme conditions, including open space, development of STB and other normative documents for a drive of this type and their components, including documentation similar to EU documents;
development, research and implementation of technologies of automated formation of functionally oriented composite materials and multilayer multifunction (hardening, antifriction, electroinsulating, damping, etc.) coatings, including nanostructured and polymer coatings formed using the combined technologies of microarc oxidation, pyrolytic deposition and plating with a flexible tool to use in process equipment, gas pipelines, mobile land, aeronautical and space engineering;
development and research of methods and engineering solutions in the sphere of noise and vibration control of gear system on the basis of gearing, accelerated tests of mechanical, hydraulic drives and objects, methods and tools of complex automated monitoring, including mobile monitoring using on-board computerized systems, with tribological and vibro-acoustic parameters and properties of lubricants