On November 8-10, 2018, an international scientific conference "Historic ruins - protection, use, management" will be held in Cracow. The conference is co-funded by the Interreg Central Europe Programme within project CE902 RUINS.

First Newsletter of the Interreg Central Europe project ProteCHt2save (Risk Assessment and Sustainable Protection of Cultural Heritage in Changing Environment), of which ITAM CAS is one of the partners, was published.

A seminary Developing a Neutral Equilibrium Device as Dynamic Virtual Piers for an Emergency Relief Bridge on Friday, May 4, 2018.

Spring Newsletter 1/2018 of the CET/ITAM has been published. You can read it here.

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On Wednesday 11th of April, 2018, the Faculty of Transport of CTU in Prague organised a Careed day on which ITAM (represented by Daniel Kytýř and Barbora Přechová) also participated. ITAM has been closely colaborating with the faculty over a long period (particularly the Department of Mechanics and Materials) - several of the ITAM's employess are the Faculty of Transport's alumni. Those interested in career at ITAM could watch a presentation and take Newsletters, brochure CET, leaflet CAMPT etc. They could also talk directly to ITAM employees and ask them any questions. Despite the competition from other exhibitors, ITAM aroused a relatively lively interest.

B. Přechová, D. Kytýř

Researcher in Laboratory of X-ray tomography in the research Centre of Excellence Telč
The Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i., announces an international invitation for tenders for the job position: Researcher in Laboratory of X-ray tomography in the research Centre of Excellence Telč

A seminary Current trends in the field of Wind Engineering and Disaster Mitigation in Japan a South Asian region will be held on Thursday, April 19, 2018.

On the 8th of March, 2018 our colleagues from the Technical University Dresden came for a visit at ITAM. The goal of the meeting was to acquaint the colleagues from TU Dresden with our laboratory equipment and methods used at ITAM. Another goal was to apprise each other about the reasearch topics and ongoing activities in both organisations in order to boost future cooperation. It was decided that similar visits will continue in the future.

A seminary Crystallization pressures of soluble salts in porous building materials will be held on Wednesday, March 28, 2018.

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

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.