Course schedule

The official language of the training school is English.

Tuesday 27 October 2020

  
14:00 - 15:00Welcome and introduction by Dr Odile Abraham (Infrastar training school coordinator)
"Round table"
  
15:00 - 16:30Keynote: "Design and assessment criteria for safety and cost efficiency"
Prof. Jochen Köhler (NTNU)
  

Wednesday 28 October 2020

MODULE 2: STRUCTURAL AND ACTION MODELS
09:00 - 11:30Calibration of partial factor design formats - best practice and challenge
Lectures
Prof. Jochen Köhler (NTNU)
11:30 - 12:00Calibration of partial factor design formats - best practice and challenge
Exercise
Prof. Jochen Köhler (NTNU)
12:00 - 13:30Lunch break
13:30 - 15:30Deterministic and probabilistic approaches of fatigue of steel structures
Lectures and exercises
Bernard Jacob (Université Gustave Eiffel, Ifsttar)
15:30 - 15:50Coffee break and free discussion
15:50 - 17:20Assessment of extreme values of effects in structures
Lectures and exercises
Dr Franziska Schmidt (Université Gustave Eiffel, Ifsttar)
17:20 - 17:30Quiz by Bernard Jacob & Franziska Schmidt

Thursday 29 October 2020

MODULE 1: MONITORING AND AUSCULTATION
09:00 - 10:30From sensors to useful signals for concrete evaluation and monitoring
Dr Odile Abraham (Université Gustave Eiffel, Ifsttar)
10:30 - 10:50Coffee break and free discussion
10:50 - 12:20From signals to useful parameters: combination and data fusion, Probability of Detection, Receiver Operating Characteristic
Dr Ernst Niederleithinger (BAM)
12:20 - 12:35Quiz by Odile Abraham & Ernst Niederleithinger
12:35 - 14:00Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30Lecture: Optical fiber sensors
Dr Xavier Chapeleau (Université Gustave Eiffel, Ifsttar)
15:30 - 16:00Coffee break and discussion
16:00 - 17:30Exercises on advanced NDE (fibre optics and Coda Wave Interferometry)
Dr Ernst Niederleithinger (BAM)

Friday 30 October 2020

MODULE 3: RELIABILITY, RISK AND DECISION ANALYSES
09:00 - 10:30Uncertainty and structural reliability assessment
Prof. John Dalsgaard Sørensen (AAU)
10:30 - 10:50Coffee break and free discussion
10:50 - 12:20

Decision and structural information analyses
Prof. Sebastian Thöns (Lund University)

12:20 - 12:30Quiz by John Dalsgaard Sørensen & Sebastian Thöns
12:30 - 14:00Lunch break
14:00 - 17:30Exercises
Prof. Sebastian Thöns (Lund University) & Prof. John Dalsgaard Sørensen (AAU)
17:30 - 17:45Final talk
Dr Odile Abraham (Infrastar training school coordinator)