Course schedule

The official language of the training school is English.

Course schedule

Monday 30 September 2024

10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 13:00

 Welcome breakfast & Registration

 Technical visits

  
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
  
14:30 - 15:30

 Welcome talk by Agnès Jullien, Vice president international (Univ Gustave Eiffel) and Prof. Frédéric Grondin, Director of the Engineering and  Systems Sciences Doctoral School, Dean of the Academic Affairs (Centrale Nantes)
 Introduction by Dr Odile Abraham (Infrastar training school coordinator)
"Round table"

  
15:30 - 17:00

 Keynote: "Load testing of bridges"
Prof. Joan Ramon Casas Rius (CONSTRUTECH, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech)

The keynote is open to the public.

  

Tuesday 1st October 2024

 

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: Probability of Detection, Receiver Operating Characteristic
Prof. Inka Mueller (Bochum University of Applied Sciences)
  
13:00 - 14:30Lunch break
  
 Demonstrations and exercises
  

14:30 - 16:30

Fibre Optics: How to size a crack ?

Dr Xavier Chapeleau (Université Gustave Eiffel), Prof. Joan Ramon Casa Rius (CONSTRUTECH, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech

16:30 - 17:30

CWI: Coda wave interferometry, a new very sensitive monitoring tool for concrete.

Dr Odile Abraham (Université Gustave Eiffel)

19:00Social dinner at Le Cambronne restaurant
  

Wednesday 2 October 2024

 

MODULE 2: STRUCTURAL AND ACTION MODELS

 

08:30 - 09:45    Assessment of extreme values of effects in structures
    Lectures and exercises
    Dr Franziska Schmidt (Université Gustave Eiffel)
  
09:45 – 10:30

   Dynamic of structures and modal analysis
   Lectures and exercices
   Dr Mohamed Belmokhtar (Université Gustave Eiffel)

  
10:30 - 10:45  Coffee break and discussion
  

 

10:45 – 12:15

  Fatigue analysis of structures
  Lectures and exercises
  Dr Franziska Schmidt (Université Gustave Eiffel)

  
12:15 - 13:15Lunch break
  
13:15 - 14:30   Physic Informed Artificial Intelligence
   Prof Parisa Shokouhi (PennState University, USA)
  
14:30 - 17:30

   Computational methods for transient diffusion problems in concrete structures
   Lectures and exercises
   Prof Boumediene Nedjar (Université d'Evry Paris-Saclay)

 

Thursday 3 October 2024

 

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 - 17:00Exercises
Prof. Sebastian Thöns (Lund University) & Prof. John Dalsgaard Sørensen (AAU)
  
17:00 - 17:30

Final talk & award 
Dr Odile Abraham (Université Gustave Eiffel)