The brake pads are an important component in the braking system of automotive. Materials used for brake pads should have stable and reliable frictional and wear properties under varying conditions of load, velocity, temperature and high durability. These factors must be satisfied simultaneously which makes it difficult to select effective brake pad...

By A L Crăciun, C Pinca-Bretotean, C Birtok-Băneasă, A Josan

The quality of castings has a particularly role in the Romanian foundries. In this context, quality assurance is the overall objective of the foundries. The paper presents the critical analysis performed on moulding- casting technology of the type Lifting mechanism. This casting is a subset of the lifting and rotating mechanism of the furnace vault...

By A Josan, C Pinca Bretotean, S Raţiu, E Ardelean, M Ardelean

The presence of the heavy metals toxic compounds (CuSO4 5H2O, ZnSO4 7H2O and 3CdSO4 8H2O) in water and soil can be observed by their negative effects on the germination and growth process for different vegetable (barley, oat, maize) who are used for human and animal consumption. This paper it aims the determination of germination and growth inhibit...

By V M Brezoczki, G M Filip

Audit of the information system, thanks to the increased use of ICT and related cyber-crime, becomes a very important process in modern companies and institutions. It is usual to engage or outsource a third party for independent financial audit. But what about auditing of the information system of public administration institutions? This paper give...

By D Drljača, B Latinović

An alternative and cost-effective solution to developing integrated PV system is to use hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar system. The temperature of PV modules increases due to the absorbed solar radiation that is not converted into electricity, causing a decrease in their efficiency. In hybrid PV/T solar systems the reduction of PV module t...

By M Dobrnjac, P Zivkovic, V Babic

Adopting the most appropriate technology for developing applications on an integrated software system for enterprises, may result in great savings both in cost and hours of work. This paper proposes a research study for the determination of a hierarchy between three SAP (System Applications and Products in Data Processing) technologies. The technol...

By A D Berdie, M Osaci, I Muscalagiu, C C Barz

In northern Romania, there are numerous tailing ponds, resulting from mining activities that present significant environmental risks. Some of them, including Vrănicioara tailing pond, were the subject of technical projects for ecological rehabilitation. Vrănicioara pond is located on the right side of Cavnic Valley, downstream Cavnic town, about 4 ...

By I Bud, S Duma, D Gusat, I Pasca, A Bud

The quality of electric energy capture and also the equipment operational safety depend essentially of the technical state of the contact line (CL). The present method for determining the technical state of CL based on advance programming is no longer efficient, due to the faults which can occur into the not programmed areas. Therefore, they cannot...

By S Rusu-Anghel, A Ene

The dielectric barrier discharge cell (DBDC), also called ozone cell, is the main component of the ozone generators widely used. When the cell is powered with a high voltage value (> 5 kV) in the dielectric gas, arises a high intensity electric field that influences ozone generation processes by silent discharge also called dielectric barrier di...

By I Ganea, R Morar

The distilled water has the advantage of high value dielectric constant (Ɛ = 81) in relation to ceramic glass materials, currently used for constructing the dielectric barrier. It was necessary to build a thin-walled enclosure of solid insulating material that contain distilled water to achieve a dielectric barrier. This was necessary to avoid expo...

By I Ganea