Course schedule

The official language of the training school is English.

Monday 13 November 2023

09:30-13:00Welcome breakfast & Registration
Technical visits
13:00 - 14:30Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30

Welcome talk by Ph Tamagny, Director of Nantes Campus
Introduction by Dr Odile Abraham (Infrastar training school coordinator)
"Round table"

15:30 - 17:00Keynote: "Advance US / NDT-CE / AI : the future of NDT"
Prof. Parisa Shokouhi (Penn State Univ.)
17:00 - 18:15Ice-breaker

Tuesday 14 November 2023

 MODULE 1: MONITORING AND AUSCULTATION
09:00 - 10:30From sensors to useful signals for concrete evaluation and monitoring
Dr Odile Abraham (Université Gustave Eiffel)
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break and discussion
11:00 - 13:00From signals to useful parameters: combination and data fusion, Probability of Detection, Receiver Operating Characteristic
Dr Ernst Niederleithinger (BAM)
13:00 - 14:30Lunch break
14:30 - 17:30Demonstrations 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 - 20:00Guided tour in Nantes

Wednesday 15 November 2023

 MODULE 2: STRUCTURAL AND ACTION MODELS
09:00 - 10:45Assessment of extreme values of effects in structures
Lectures and exercises
Dr Franziska Schmidt (Université Gustave Eiffel)
10:45 - 11:15Coffee break and discussion
11:15 - 12:45Assessment of extreme values of effects in structures (cont'd)
Lectures and exercises
Dr Franziska Schmidt (Université Gustave Eiffel)
12:45 - 14:30Lunch break
14:30 - 17:30Computational 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
09:00 - 10:30Uncertainty and structural reliability assessment
Prof. John Dalsgaard Sørensen (AAU)
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break and discussion
11:00 - 12:45

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

12:45 - 14:30Lunch break
14:30 - 16:30Exercises
Prof. Sebastian Thöns (Lund University) & Prof. John Dalsgaard Sørensen (AAU)
16:30 - 17:30

Final talk & award 

Dr Odile Abraham (Université Gustave Eiffel)