Prof.dr. Kalin is the editor of the book “History of mechanical engineering and technical culture in Slovenian territory”. This book, on 550 pages for the first time comprehensively describes the development of mechanical engineering and related fields in the area of the present-day Slovenia. The book was published during 50-th anniversary of the autonomous Faculty of mechanical engineering within the University of Ljubljana. The book is available in over 60 libraries in Slovenia.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 11378715Nanotechnologies are among the state-of-the-art techn. that are of key importance for the understanding of material interactions on the atomic level and have enabled the rising of a new field, called nanotribology. In this invited paper we showed that the experimental and theoretical research of interfaces phenomena at the nanometer scale affect the behaviour in the range from atomic up to micrometric scale. Namely, numerous studies in nanotribology have already expanded or even radically altered the observations of the macroscopic research as well as exposed new, so far unknown challenges.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 11652635Journal of Tribology, Transactions of the ASME: Guest editor (Feb-April, 2006), and Associate Editor (2006-present). ISSN 0742 4787. Based on dr. Kalin`s experience, recognition and many reviews, he was invited by Prof. M. Bryant (Editor in chief) to become Associate Editor for Journal of Tribology, which is one of the fundamental and the most respected SCI journals in the field of tribology. In 2012 he will complete the second 3-year mandate.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
COBISS.SI-ID: 7267077In this study polyalphaolefin base oil was used as lubricants and some tests were made with no lubricant in the contact. Results showed that the friction of boundary lubricated DLC contacts is always lower than friction of steel contacts. However, in boundary lubrication regime at very low speeds friction of DLC contacts increased in comparison with the non-lubricated conditions, which is the opposite to steel. Nevertheless, oil is required to stabilize friction behaviour and to prevent the high wear and the failure of the DLC coating at severe boundary lubrication conditions.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 11452443The study is focused on friction properties of the MoS2 nanotubes and commercially accessible MoS2 and graphite crystals. A comparison between these materials is performed on atomic level, using AFM in different conditions, air and ultra high vacuum, and on macroscopic level, where friction properties of the materials used as additives in base synthetic PAO oil were analyzed with a conventional tribotester. The MoS2 nanoparticles showed to be highly efficient. They provided the lowest friction on atomic level, while being especially effective in the run-in phase of the macroscopic tests.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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