Amount of damage Cracks in the metal, flaking of metal fragments or sharp edges on ‘blunt’ instruments risk injury to the patient’s eye during surgery. If these defects cannot be repaired adequately for patient safety, the instrument should be discarded. Cracks in the hinges of scissors, needle holders, forceps joints and haemostats will continue to cause problems with alignment and cannot be r...

Recent developments in gas-to-liquid conversion industry lead to reduction in initial investment, and it is expected by growth in demand for refined products in countries and the need to import these products in the countries. Implementing such projects can prevent currency outflow. In this article an integrated structure is developed for producing liquid fuels from natural gas through Fischer-...

in a competitive market, timely production and speed of response to orders, also flexibility of manufacturing companies to production of various products required by customers is necessary. production companies to survive in the market, must be able to deliver their products with the use of all factors of production. for this purpose, one of the most challenging factors of production, keeping r...

Purpose: In this paper the experimental equipment and design of the system for deformation and forming force measuring by single point incremental sheet metal forming are described. Beside this the analysis results of the impact of the wall angle, tool rotation, vertical step size, tool diameter and lubrication on the magnitude of forming force and plastic logarithmic strain are presented. Desi...

G. Paraschiv, Department of Biotechnical Systems, Biotechnical Systems Engineering Faculty, Polytehnic University of Bucharest, Romania D. Dobrotă, Department of Engineering and Management of Technological Systems, Engineering Faculty, University “Constantin Brâncuşi” Târgu-Jiu, Romania Metal structures of the mining equipment are made of a steel with good weldability and mechanical characteris...

New government policies aim at the closure of material flows as part of Integrated Chain Management (ICMl. One of the main implementation instruments is extended producer responsibility. which makes Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) formally responsible for. take-back, recovery and reuse of discarded products. One of the key problems for OEMs is to determine to what extent return products...

public health instruments have been under constant development and renewal for decades. international legal instruments, with their binding character and strength, have a special place in this development. the start of the 21st century saw, in particular, the birth of the first world health organization (who)-era health treaties – the who framework convention on tobacco control (who fctc) and i...