Institute
of Applied Mechanics
About us
Institute of the Applied Mechanics is the direct descendent of the Institute
for Material Testing of the Royal Technical High School in Zagreb that
was established in 1920. The founder and the first Chair of the Institute
was Prof. S. P. Timoshenko, who gave huge contribution to the Institute
during his two years stay in Zagreb (1920 - 1922). The Institute had other
highly distinguished members, such as Prof. K. Chalishev, Prof. D.
Bazjanac and Prof. A. Vucetic. Currently, the staff
consists of over twenty lecturers/researchers.
The main task of the Institute is the teaching, research and application
of research results in the fields of:
analytical mechanics
biomechanics
continuum mechanics
dynamics of systems
experimental methods
numerical mechanics
structural analysis
The Institute consists of the three following chairs:
Chair of Advanced Dynamics and Systems
Chair of Experimental
Mechanics
Chair of Mechanics and Strength of
Materials
The research and teaching at the Institute are performed within the following laboratories:
Laboratory of Dynamics of Machinery and Theory of Mechanisms
Laboratory of Experimental Mechanics
Laboratory of Numerical Mechanics
The Institute has 30 - 40 grad. engineer graduates, 4 - 5 MSc graduates and 1 - 3 PhD graduates, yearly.