Organized by Balkan Tribological Association, Romanian Tribology Association and University Petroleum-Gas of Ploiesti, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering-Ploiesti, Romania.

History of the conference

The Balkan Tribological Association (BTA) was founded in 1993 with six member countries Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, FYRoM and Turkey. 

The International Conferences on Tribology BALKANTRIB is supported by the Balkan Tribological Association and is organized, every three years since 1993, in various Balkan countries and aim to stimulate collaboration between Balkan and other countries for developing research and development in tribology, as well as application aspects like innovative products and services. 

The First Balkan Conference on Tribology BALKANTRIB '93 was held on October 1-3, 1993 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The next conferences BALKANTRIB were as follows: BALKANTRIB'96, Thessaloniki, Greece; BALKANTRIB'99, Sinaia, Romania; BALKANTRIB'02, Kayseri, Turkey; BALKANTRIB'05, Kragujevac, Serbia, BALKANTRIB'08, Sozopol, Bulgaria, BALKANTRIB'11, Thessaloniki, Greece.

In 1994 the publishing of the Journal of the Balkan Tribological Association JBTA has started at the Publishing House "SciBulCom", Sofia and the journal is now indexed in prestigious databases such as Thomson Reuters having in 2013 an impact factor of 0.318 for the year of 2012.

 

The Romanian Tribology Association has decided to include any own tribology conferences to be held in Romania this year in favor of BALKANTRIB’ 14. So International conference ROTRIB'14 and 17th International conference VAREHD will be included in BALKANTRIB'14.

  Realised by the University Petroleum-Gas of Ploiesti, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering-Ploiesti, Romania.