GTU Scientists’ Research Wins State Grant Competition

A group of scientists and researchers from the Georgian Technical University has become one of the winners of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia’s 2024 state scientific grant competition for fundamental research.

The project “Complex research of vibrational transport-technological processes and design of new, highly efficient devices” is headed by Professor Viktor Zviadauri, Professor of the Department of Mining Technologies of the GTU Faculty of Mining Geology and head of the Department of Machine Dynamics of the Dvali Institute of Machine Mechanics. The coordinator is Chief Research employee Merab Chelidze.

The project also involves Aleksandre Didebulidze, Executive Secretary of the Innovation and High Technologies Center of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Mirian Tsotskhalashvili, Head of the Design Bureau of the Tbilisi Electric Locomotive Plant, Nana Dolidze, Doctor of Mining and Geoengineering, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Mining Geology, and Gela Javakhishvili, Professor of the GTU Faculty of Energy are involved in the project and Professor Grigory Panovko is the foreign consultant. 

According to Viktor Zviadauri, Professor of the Mining Technologies Department of the GTU Faculty of Mining Geology, the project includes the development and identification of a generalized mathematical model of the vibration transport technological (VTT) process of loose material. A general study of the process through mathematical modeling, and also the reduction of the VTT processes (three different devices) envisaged by the project, along with the determination of the mathematical modeling and design-technological parameters of each process.

As Vakhtang Zviadauri states, it is planned to design new, highly productive constructions of machines and equipment and, based on the projects, manufacture laboratory samples of new VTT machines and equipment, and conduct experiments on the samples.

“The project issues are related to the research of technological processes for processing and enrichment of loose mining and construction materials and the development and creation of devices. In this regard, publications, patents, reports, and physical samples of devices are planned, which will positively represent the faculty and the university, and will promote the lecture and practical involvement of students of all levels in the theoretical and applied aspects of research. Across the country, physical samples of new devices designed and created, such as a vibrating device with a new working body and a new vibration motor, a vibrating conveyor with a screw working body, a vibrating device for solidifying loose-liquid materials, will be offered to Georgian mining and construction companies,” notes Victor Zviadauri.

The project – “Complex research of vibration transport-technological processes and design of new, highly efficient devices” – will be implemented over three years.