ABOUT US:

ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering

is an international and interdisciplinary journal which reports on scientific and technical contributions and publishes invited review papers covering the full spectrum of engineering.

Every year, in four online issues (fascicules 1 - 4), ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering [e-ISSN: 2067-3809] publishes a series of reviews covering the most exciting and developing areas of engineering. Each issue contains papers reviewed by international researchers who are experts in their fields. The result is a journal that gives the scientists and engineers the opportunity to keep informed of all the current developments in their own, and related, areas of research, ensuring the new ideas across an increasingly the interdisciplinary field.

ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering

has been published since 2008, as an online supplement of the ANNALS OF FACULTY ENGINEERING HUNEDOARA – INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING.

ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering

becomes very soon an independent, free-access, online, international and multidisciplinary scientific publication of the University POLITEHNICA Timisoara,

FACULTY ENGINEERING HUNEDOARA.

Now, the ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering is also edited by the University POLITEHNICA Timisoara, FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TIMISOARA.

The ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering

is coordinated by the Steering Committee, comprising a Chairman (Manager and Editor-in-Chief), Co-Chairmen (dean of the Faculty, presidents of support professional associations and directors of affiliated research centers) and several representative members of the Editorial Board (regional collaborators of the Journal).

Board members are chosen based on the Journals’s needs so that they cover all the Journals’s topics, to maintaining high editorial standards as illustrated in objective and prompt reviews.

The Editor-in-Chief of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editor may confer with the members of the Editorial Board or reviewers in making this decision.

ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering

is dedicated to the best practices on editorial matters. The editorial policy of the ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering is based on the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing and Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity cases of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Institutions and journals both have important duties relating to research and publication misconduct. Institutions are responsible for the conduct of their researchers and for encouraging a healthy research environment. ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering adopted the Flowcharts on how to handle common ethical problems and the short guide to ethical editing for editors,  based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)’s guidelines.

SCOPE & AUDIENCE:

ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering

is a good opportunity for the researchers to exchange information and to present the results of their research activity. Scientists and engineers with an interest in the respective interfaces of engineering fields, technology and materials, information processes, research in various industrial applications are the target and audience of ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering. It publishes articles of interest to researchers and engineers and to other scientists involved with materials phenomena and computational modeling.

We are looking forward to a fruitful collaboration and we welcome you to publish in our ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering.

The journal's coverage will reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of engineering,  recognizing wide-ranging contributions to the development of methods, tools and evaluation strategies relevant to the field. Numerical modelling or simulation, as well as theoretical and experimental approaches to engineering will form the core of ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering's content, however approaches from a range of environmental science and economics are strongly encouraged.

As an open-access journal ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering will serve the whole engineering research community, offering a stimulating combination of the following:

Research Papers - concise, high impact original research articles,

Scientific Papers - concise, high impact original theoretical articles,

Perspectives - commissioned commentaries highlighting the impact and wider implications of research appearing in the journal.

ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering focused on engineering sciences and other innovative allied research areas, in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance and timeliness. Submitted papers should describe original and previously unpublished works, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal.

ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering appear in four issues per year and is open to the reviews, papers, short communications and breakings news inserted as Scientific Events, in the field of engineering.

To be published in ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering, a paper should meet four general criteria:

Provides strong evidence for its conclusions.

Novel (we do not consider meeting report abstracts and preprints on community servers to compromise novelty).

Of extreme importance to scientists in the specific field.

Ideally, interesting to researchers in other related disciplines.

Our aim is to provide forum to all authors to publish their research and share their knowledge. We believe in quality research work and for this our experienced team of editorial board will do blind peer review of every research paper to maintain the quality standard of every volume.

ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering

is 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 ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin 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 ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin 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 ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering.

Benefits of open access for authors of our publications, which allows them to maximize 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 ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin 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://acta.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.

ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin 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. ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin 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.

A summary of our OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT, is here presented:

The above statement applies to all peer-reviewed research articles including invited review articles that are published in ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin 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.

ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin 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.

Publishing in ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin 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 ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering as part of its investment in global research and development.

The ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering is an open-access journal with full texts freely available on the journal’s Web site (http://acta.fih.upt.ro). Managed by University POLITEHNICA Timisoara, it is funded through institutional resources. Furthermore, the ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin 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 ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin 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 ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin 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 ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS – Bulletin of Engineering welcomes article submissions and does not charge a publication fee. Submit your article today and gain worldwide visibility for your article.

Copyright Transfer Agreement Form

This document must be signed by all authors and submitted with the manuscript.

The undersigned author(s) hereby assigns, conveys, and otherwise transfers all rights, title, interest, and copyright ownership of said work for publication. Work includes the material submitted for publication and any other related material submitted to ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS - Bulletin of Engineering. In the event that ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS - Bulletin of Engineering does not publish said work, the author(s) will be so notified and all rights assigned hereunder will revert to the author(s).

The assignment of rights to ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS - Bulletin of Engineering includes but is not expressly limited to rights to edit, publish, reproduce, distribute copies, include in indexes or search databases in print, electronic, or other media, whether or not in use at the time of execution of this agreement, and claim copyright in said work throughout the world for the full duration of the copyright and any renewals or extensions thereof.

All accepted works become the property of ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS - Bulletin of Engineering and may not be published elsewhere without prior written permission from ACTA TECHNICA CORVINIENSIS - Bulletin of Engineering.

The author(s) hereby represents and warrants that they are sole author(s) of the work, that all authors have participated in and agree with the content and conclusions of the work, that the work is original, and does not infringe upon any copyright, propriety, or personal right of any third party, and that no part of it nor any work based on substantially similar data has been submitted to another publication.

If the reasoned recommendation of the Editorial Board is publication in another Journal (ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara - International Journal of Engineering, http://annals.fih.upt.ro/), You agree to a transfer of publication by ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara - International Journal of Engineering (http://annals.fih.upt.ro/).

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