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This booklet contains abstracts presented at the 9th Annual PhD Workshop, which took place on September 22, 2023. The annual PhD workshop is the integral part of PhD program of Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Aeronautical Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering, launched in academic year 2014/15. The PhD program is jointly developed by two faculties of University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture and Faculty of Metallurgy. The PhD Workshop is aimed to provide forum for exchange of ideas among PhD students, to help students to strengthen their presentation skills and to provide a platform to initiate new scientific collaborations. Additionally, the workshop should unify quality and transparency of PhD theses produced at different modules of the PhD program.
Contributions in this booklet are divided in two broad groups, abstracts of preliminary PhD topics and abstracts of final PhD topics. Former are mostly presented by the first year PhD candidates, while latter are presented by PhD students of second and higher years. Abstract are structured in a way to encourage students to write clearly and concisely purposes of their PhD theses in order to bring their research closer to the wide community and even to those who are not specialists in the field. This booklet could be a valuable and relevant reference for PhD students and their mentors as it represents kind of a milestone in the progress of their PhDs. It will also be useful for all stakeholders of PhD education to evaluate quality and progress of PhD theses. Finally, it can be useful for the industry in Croatia as it contains in one place most of the research efforts at two faculties.
35 participants on the PhD Workshop presented preliminary topics of their theses, while 16 participants presented final PhD topics. Contributions collected in the booklet of abstracts are from different modules o the PhD study: Process and Energy Engineering (14 contributions), Computational Mechanics (5), Theory of Structure (6), Mechatronics and Robotics (6), Industrial Engineering and Management (3), Scientific Metrology in Mechanical Engineering (3), Aeronautical Engineering (1), Material Engineering (4), Advanced Production Technologies (4), Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (2) and Metallurgical Engineering (3). Diversity of these topics clearly indicates broad and rich research interests and activities at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture and Faculty of Metallurgy.