Course schedule
The official language of the training school is English.
Monday 13 November 2023
09:30-13:00 | Welcome breakfast & Registration Technical visits |
13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30 - 15:30 | Welcome talk by Ph Tamagny, Director of Nantes Campus |
15:30 - 17:00 | Keynote: "Advance US / NDT-CE / AI : the future of NDT" Prof. Parisa Shokouhi (Penn State Univ.) |
17:00 - 18:15 | Ice-breaker |
Tuesday 14 November 2023
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 - 13:00 | From signals to useful parameters: combination and data fusion, Probability of Detection, Receiver Operating Characteristic Dr Ernst Niederleithinger (BAM) |
13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30 - 17:30 | 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) |
18:30 - 20:00 | Guided tour in Nantes |
Wednesday 15 November 2023
MODULE 2: STRUCTURAL AND ACTION MODELS | |
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09:00 - 10:45 | Assessment of extreme values of effects in structures Lectures and exercises Dr Franziska Schmidt (Université Gustave Eiffel) |
10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break and discussion |
11:15 - 12:45 | Assessment of extreme values of effects in structures (cont'd) Lectures and exercises Dr Franziska Schmidt (Université Gustave Eiffel) |
12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30 - 17:30 | Computational methods for transient diffusion problems in concrete structures Lectures and exercises Dr Boumediene Nedjar (Université Gustave Eiffel) |
20:30 - ... | TW common Dinner |
Thursday 16 November
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 - 12:45 | Decision and structural information analyses |
12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30 - 16:30 | Exercises Prof. Sebastian Thöns (Lund University) & Prof. John Dalsgaard Sørensen (AAU) |
16:30 - 17:30 | Final talk & award Dr Odile Abraham (Université Gustave Eiffel) |