Course schedule
The official language of the training school is English.
Course schedule
Monday 24th November 2025
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. Guillaume Racineux, Director of the Engineering and Systems Sciences Doctoral School (Centrale Nantes) |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Keynote: "Climate adaptation engineering: A risk-based decision support to Infrastructure assets in a context of climate change: effects and adaptation" The keynote is open to the public. |
Tuesday 25th November 2025
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: Probability of Detection, Receiver Operating Characteristic Prof. Inka Mueller (Bochum University of Applied Sciences) |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch 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) |
| 19:00 | Social dinner at Le Cambronne restaurant |
Wednesday 26th November 2025
MODULE 2: STRUCTURAL AND ACTION MODELS
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| 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 |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee break and discussion |
10:45 – 12:15 | Fatigue analysis of structures |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch 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
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Thursday 27th November 2025
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 - 17:00 | Exercises Prof. Sebastian Thöns (Lund University) & Prof. John Dalsgaard Sørensen (AAU) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Final talk & award |