Dragan Rakić

Dragan Rakić is an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics and Automatic Control, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia. His research focuses on structural safety assessment, material modeling, and computational mechanics. He specializes in dam safety analysis, finite element method applications, and tribomechanical systems. His work integrates machine learning and artificial intelligence for predictive modeling in engineering systems.

Key research areas include structural integrity assessment, geotechnical modeling of embankment dams, and failure analysis of civil infrastructure. He contributes to national guidelines for dam safety in Serbia and develops user interfaces for constitutive model parameter identification. His projects address resilience of water resource systems under hazardous events, combining system dynamics and neural networks.

Academically, he is affiliated with the Department for Applied Mechanics and Automatic Control, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects involving mechanical, civil, and environmental engineering. His publications span dam stability analysis, material behavior modeling, and failure assessment methodologies.