There was given lecture by Michal Vopálenský on topics: X-ray tomography in the service of historical sciences within the Science Café Jihlava on Tuesday March 20, 2018

A second Newsletter of the Interreg Central Europe project RUINS (Sustainable re-use, preservation and modern management of historical ruins in Central Europe - elaboration of integrated model and guidelines based on the synthesis of the best European experiences), in which ITAM CAS is one of the partners, was published.

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Ing. Jiří Náprstek, DrSc. (ITAM ACS) chairman of the Czech Society of Mechanics
As a result of a secret election in January 2018, a new Head Committee of the Czech Society of Mechanics (CSM) was established. On its meeting on 7th February 2018 the new functionaries of the CSM were elected. Based on this vote, the new chairman for the next for years became Ing. Jiří Náprstek, DrSc. from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the CAS.
More information about domestic and international activities, management of the CSM and its history can be found on: https://www.csm.cz.

Newsletter CET 2/2017 was published in October 2017. It is possible to view or download it here.

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From 12th-14th September, 2017, the 2nd Interim Meeting of the European project E-RIHS PP (European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science Preparatory Phase) supported from the Horizon 2020 programme took place in the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics in Prague. The event was organized by ITAM. The goal of the project is the preparation of functioning of a new European large research infrastructure for heritage science. E-RIHS PP joints together 18 countries and over 80 research institutions.

From 9th to 13th September, 2017, the 10th conference of EURODYN 2017 took place in Rome, hosted by the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome. The conference is an annual event of European Association for Structural Dynamics (EASD). During this conference, a scientist from ITAM CAS, Ing. J. Náprstek, DrSc., was given a Special award for outstanding and sustained contributions in the field of Structural Dynamics. He received it from the president of EASD Prof. G. Müller. The award is the highest honour of EASD - it is not awarded annually, rather only in cases where a committee concludes that amongst the candidates there is at least one person worthy of the distinction. Congratulations!

V neděli 25. června 2017 se v krásných prostorách zámku a parku Průhonice uskutečnil 3. ročník A-festu - multižánrového festivalu Akademie věd. Letos se ho zúčasnilo i hudební uskupení z Ústavu teoretické a aplikované mechaniky AV ČR, v. v. i. Musici Mechanici, ve složení Barbora Přechová - zpěv a Michal Vopálenský - klavír. Na housličky hostovala Kateřina Vopálenská.

On June 1^st, 2017, the new director of ITAM CAS, v. v. i., assoc. prof. Ing. Stanislav Pospíšil, Ph.D., was appointed to his office. The previous director Prof. Ing. Miloš Drdácký, DrSc., dr. h. c. was in office for almost twenty years. In the presence of the ITAM's employees, the documents of appointment were presented to the new director by the president of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prof. Zažímalová, who also gave her heartfelt thanks to the leaving director Prof. Drdácký for the years of his selfless work for the institute and she highlighted both his personal and scientific qualities.

We cordially invite you to attend the lecture of prof. Olega Gendelman (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion) entitled: "Energy exchange, localization and transient phenomena in essentially non-linear oscillatory systems". The lecture will be held in the ITAM CAS (Prosecká 76), Prague, on 21st June 2017, at 14:00.

In the second half of 1990s, an increased attention was paid to the safeguarding of the built heritage and its integration into the life of contemporary society. The complexity of problems of cultural heritage called for modern interdisciplinary approach and this was started in a systematic way in 1995 by founding of a new department of the Institute - the Associated Research Centre for Historic Structures and Sites (ARCHISS) - joining together researchers from two institutes of the Academy of Sciences. The process continued, because of success in grant project competitions and now there are scientists involved in the research from other institutes and universities and two operating research units - one in Prague and one in another World Heritage City of Telč.

Patrimonia is a research program for young people, which enables them to participate in a process of preservation of cultural heritage, to try in practise a scientific research in cooperation with experts and to find out interesting facts and links in their neighbourhoods. Another aim of the project is to document and safeguard our minor cultural heritage - i.e. vanishing family heritage (letters, diaries), oral testimonies, old routes etc. Patrimonia puts to use the potential of school and other groups of young people using the modern information technologies in the course of the collection of the data, thus potentially creating a basis for a digital atlas of cultural heritage.

MONDIS (MONument Damage Information System) is a research project run by the Department of Cybernetics in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague and the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the Czech Academy of Sciences. The main project objectives include the integration of existing knowledge and expertise from the field of cultural heritage protection, including the enhancement of cooperation and exchange of experience. The MONDIS project aims to support professionals addressing the structural and technical conditions of heritage buildings and working on designing appropriate measures or structural interventions. This is done using a knowledge base intended for documentation and analysis of the defects and damages in heritage buildings.

Designed as a closed circuit with controlled wind velocity and temperature conditions. It consists of climatic and aerodynamic parts. While the aerodynamic part provides well-fitted conditions to study wind effects on scaled model of prototypes, an equipment of the climatic part is suited for investigation of influences of weather including the wind, temperature, rain and heat radiation. Using the cooling/heating exchanger, cycle temperature changing of the airflow is available in the whole tunnel within the range of -10 to 30 C in relatively short time period. Integral part of the tunnel equipment consists of instruments for airflow diagnostic, data acquisition system, direct pressure surface measurement, precise thermometry and of many other types of handy accessories for instant use. Workshops for manufacturing of testing models are available in the same building.

The website deals with historical production of burnt lime and related lime technologies, traditional craftsmanship of prossesing and utilization of lime in construction. The main objective is a thourough and complex knowledge of the above, a material-based research and a reconstruction of historical procedures. A common goal is to bring attention to the unique historical techniques, which used to be succesfully employed in the past, nowadays, however, are for the main part forgotten. The website is concieved as an open one, striving to gradually add new related information researched by a wide range of experts on archeology, construction materials, history of construction etc.