Course schedule
The official language of the training school is English.
Tuesday 26 October 2021
| 09:00-12:00 | Welcome breakfast & Registration Technical visits: - Research Laboratory in Hydrodynamics, Energetics and Atmospheric Environment (LHEEA) - Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Welcome talk by Mr. Jean-Baptiste Avrillier, Director of Centrale Nantes Introduction by Dr Odile Abraham (Infrastar training school coordinator) "Round table" |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Keynote: "The Role of Behavior Psychology in Affecting the Perception of Risk in SHM Decision-Making" Prof. Michael D. Todd (University of California San Diego) |
| 17:00 - 18:15 | Ice-breaker |
Wednesday 27 October 2021
| MODULE 3: RELIABILITY, RISK AND DECISION ANALYSES | |
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| 09:00 - 10:30 | Uncertainty and structural reliability assessment Prof. John Dalsgaard Sørensen (AAU) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break and discussion |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Decision and structural information analyses |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Exercises Prof. Sebastian Thöns (Lund University) & Prof. John Dalsgaard Sørensen (AAU) |
| 20:30 - ... | Dinner |
Thursday 28 October 2021
| MODULE 1: MONITORING AND AUSCULTATION | |
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| 09:00 - 10:30 | From sensors to useful signals for concrete evaluation and monitoring Dr Odile Abraham (Université Gustave Eiffel) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break and discussion |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | From signals to useful parameters: combination and data fusion, Probability of Detection, Receiver Operating Characteristic Dr Ernst Niederleithinger (BAM) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 - 17:00 | Demonstrations and exercises Group on Fibre Optics: How to size a crack ? Group on CWI: Coda wave interferometry a new very sensitive monitoring tool for concrete. Dr Xavier Chapeleau (Université Gustave Eiffel), Dr Ernst Niederleithinger (BAM), Dr Odile Abraham (Université Gustave Eiffel) |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Guided tour in Nantes |
Friday 29 October 2021
| MODULE 2: STRUCTURAL AND ACTION MODELS | |
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| 09:00 - 12:00 | Assessment of extreme values of effects in structures Lectures and exercises Dr Franziska Schmidt (Université Gustave Eiffel) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00 - 16:00 | Computational methods for transient diffusion problems in concrete structures Lectures and exercises Dr Boumediene Nedjar (Université Gustave Eiffel) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Final talk & award Dr Odile Abraham (Université Gustave Eiffel) |