ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara

– International Journal of Engineering is a free-access international and multidisciplinary publication of the Faculty of Engineering Hunedoara, which reports on scientific and technical contributions.

ANNALS OF FACULTY ENGINEERING HUNEDOARA

– INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING

ISSN: 1584-2665 (printed editions, in two fascicules)

ISSN: 1584-2673 (CD-ROM edition, in two fascicules)

ISSN: 2601-2332 (online, all four fascicules)

ISSN-L: 1584-2665

ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara

– International Journal of Engineering is edited and published by:

UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA TIMISOARA,

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING HUNEDOARA

ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara

– International Journal of Engineering is edited and published with kindly support and cooperation of:

General Association of Romanian Engineers

(AGIR) – branch of HUNEDOARA

The research activity of the teaching staff is recognized by the National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education Institutions, which approved of the opening within the Faculty of Engineering of HUNEDOARA of a Research Center on “Optimizations in the Industry of Materials”. The Center is involved in activities of material obtaining, automation, and computer-controlled processes in material industry, endurance and safety in exploitation of materials.

HISTORY:

The ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering has been published since 2003, in English, replacing the journal named ANALELE Facultăţii de Inginerie din Hunedoara (ISSN 1454 – 6531) that appeared regularly since 1999, in Romanian.

At the beginning, in ANALELE Facultăţii de Inginerie din Hunedoara, Romanian university teaching staff published alongside with researchers, focusing on specific themes related to engineering, science, ecology and economical science, as well as interdisciplinary approaches. This collaboration grants the spreading of information relevant to the academic community and the economic medium.

The development of the international dimension of higher education and scientific research, have lead to the strengthening of direct relations with researchers from the neighboring countries and to the extension of the scientific collaborations in elsewhere in the World. Within this context, the achievement and functioning of an interactive partnership, corresponding to the exigencies of the modernization process and connection to the European space required a re-evaluation of the contents and layout of our JOURNAL, both by adopting stricter criteria maintaining the contents of the scientific materials we publish and by changing its title, which was made in order to insure the universal accessibility of the ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering.

Both the Faculty of Engineering of Hunedoara, in particular, and the University Politehnica  Timisoara, in general, benefit from competent personnel, open to the new and to the European integration. With this aim, our Journal is helping them as a debate forum, meant to promote ideas, programs and initiatives, finalized or in course of research, as well as a possibility of turning into account their creative and innovative potential.

The scientific connections and the collaborations of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Engineering of Hunedoara with the members of some national associations and professional societies, as well as with teaching staff of Romanian Universities facilitate the scientific collaboration with other institutions, research centers and academic societies in specific fields. These collaborations can act as means of making public the results of scientific research, development and technological transfer.

At the same time, the professional and personal relationships with outstanding foreign institutions allow us to cooperate with the teaching staff and researchers from these centers and to integrate our Faculty within the European informational and scientific circuits. In this sense, there is a wide range of themes hosted by ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering, according to the preoccupations of our collaborators in various fields of research.

OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT:

ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineeringis a fully open access journal, with free and permanent unrestricted online access to scholarly research, which means that all articles are freely available on the internet without charge to all users immediately upon publication. Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.

We provide immediate free access to the full text of articles in .pdf format. The ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering do not charge for article submission, processing or publication. This ‘Platinum’ open access policy increases the visibility and accessibility of the published content.

From the beginning, the ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering has insisted on being an open-access journal, not charging fees to either authors or readers and providing no compensation to reviewers. We are very proud to maintain it as a major feature of the ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering.

Benefits of open access for authors of our publications, which allows them to maximise the audience their works are able to reach, rather than tying them to a limited audience of subscribers, include:

free access to the full extent for all users worldwide, with no subscription fees,

direct and barrier-free online dissemination of scientific results at no charge for readers,

authors retain copyright to their own works and are free to distribute them as they wish,

increased visibility, discoverability, readership and impact,

higher citation rates due to higher visibility,

rapid manuscript submission, with no submission fees,

rapid online publication, with no publication fees,

relative no spatial constraints,

articles are archived and searched through several major library and databases.

All issues of ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering can be loaded in pdf-format free of charge immediately after their initial publication. This ensures the full text articles will be immediately and permanently free to access by everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.

The full text articles are published online immediately after their procedures are finished and are openly and freely accessible afterwards. Each article can be loaded individually and also the full text of each issue is available for anyone interested in the journal. The journal has its own website (http://annals.fih.upt.ro) which acts as an easily accessible user interface to the journal. No fees or subscriptions are required for access to the full text articles.

ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering provides immediate open access to its electronic content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. We do not charge our authors any fees for publication or processing, nor do we charge readers to download articles. ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering is free to all at any time and in perpetuity. Thus, we depend upon the financial underwriting provided by the University POLITEHNICA Timisoara, the goodwill of our international editorial team, and the continuing support of our network of peer reviewers.

REPRINTS & COPYRIGHT:

The above statement applies to all peer-reviewed research articles including invited review articles that are published in ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering. All authors publishing with us accept these as the terms of publication. Please note that copyright of the content of all articles and reviews remains with the designated author of the article or review.

ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering is published freely online, and authors will have free electronic access to the full text (.pdf) of the articles. Authors can freely download the .pdf file from which they can print unlimited copies of their articles.

Authors will retain copyright to their articles but must agree to apply the Creative Commons Attribution (CC by) license to their work. Under the terms of this license, no permission is required from the author(s) or publisher for members of the community to copy, distribute, transmit, or adapt the article content, provided that a proper, prominent and unambiguous attribution is given to the authors in a manner that makes clear that the materials are being reused under permission of a Creative Commons license.

A submitted manuscript must be an original contribution, not previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. However, a complete report following publication of a preliminary report, usually in the form of an abstract, or a paper that has been presented at a scientific meeting, if not published in full in a conference proceedings may be submitted. When the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree to automatically transfer of the copyright of the article to the publisher.

We use now the Quetext software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted or published manuscripts. Further details on our authorship, originality and plagiarism policies can be found in our Ethics Statements section.

FUNDING STATEMENT:

Publishing in ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering is free of charge. There are no author fees. All services including peer review, copy editing, typesetting, production of web pages and reproduction of color images are included. The journal is free of charge to access, read and download.

All costs associated with publishing and hosting this journal are funded by ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering as part of its investment in global research and development.

The ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering is an open-access journal with full texts freely available on the journal’s Web site (http://annals.fih.upt.ro). Managed by University POLITEHNICA Timisoara, it is funded through institutional resources. Furthermore, the ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering has a contract with the publisher University POLITEHNICA Timisoara, who covers publishing and printing costs. We still depend on institutional funding, which helps to maintain and develop our editorial activities. This finally means that neither authors nor readers have to pay.

Publication in ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering is totally FREE (No Article submission charges nor article processing charges and no publication fees or additional costs), as one of the main goals of the ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering is to provide global researchers with a free publishing platform. This makes University POLITEHNICA Timisoara a place where important knowledge of managing a global scientific journal is independently generated and maintained. Through this effort, although small, the scientific community will continue to benefit from an open-access journal with high criteria for both authors and reviewers. We consider the desire to put quality over profit as feasible and realistic.

The ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara – International Journal of Engineering welcomes article submissions and does not charge a publication fee. Submit your article today and gain worldwide visibility for your article.

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