The Workshop on Vehicle-Induced Vibration on Bridges is going to be held on Friday, September 20, 2019, at 9:30AM in the building of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Prosecká 76, 190 00, Prague 9.

On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 1:30 PM, Ing. Jan Bryscen will give a lecture encompassing possibilities of scientific and technical computation approaches tailored for internet environment. The lecture will be held in the building of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Prague, Prosecká 76, Prague 9-Prosek.

 Renowned Dr. Vratislav Kafka passed away at the age of 90 on Sunday, September 1.

R.I.P.

On 18th September, 2019 at 3 p.m., you are cordially invited to a lecture given by Prof. Yuzo OBARA. The theme is Crack Front Geometry and Stress Intensity Factor of Semi‑circular Bend Specimens with Straight Through and Cracked Chevron Notches and the lecture will take place in the Meeting room of Center Telč, address Batelovská 854, 588 56 Telč, Czech Republic.

Ve středu 7. srpna náš ústav navštívil generální ředitel KOREA TESTING Co., Ltd. Dr-Ing Benedicto KIM z Jižní Koreje. Účelem návštěvy byly zejména konzultace ohledně klimatického a větrného tunelu. Firma KOREA TESTING se zabývá vývojem testovacích přístrojů a v té souvislosti p. generálního ředitele velmi zajímaly naše zkušenosti s problematikou návrhu, s konstrukčními a technologickými detaily a postupem výstavby Klimatického větrného tunelu ÚTAM s názvem „Vincenc Strouhal“, o kterém získal informace z mezinárodních publikací. Firma je pověřena zakázkou výstavby klimatického tunelu v Koreji, shání dodavatele v České republice a má zřejmě zájem i na konzultačních pracích s ÚTAM.

Dr. Benedicto KIM následně zamířil také do Centra Telč, aby si prohlédl Větrný a klimatický tunel.

Ve čtvrtek 27. června 2019 se v Obecním domě uskutečnila mezinárodní konference s názvem Řízení ochrany kulturního dědictví v měnícím se prostředí. Konferenci uspořádal Ústav teoretické a aplikované mechaniky Akademie věd ČR spolu s Městskou částí Praha -Troja v rámci projektu ProteCHt2save.

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 Department of Dynamics and Aerodynamics, Laboratory of Climatic and Wind Tunnel "Vincenc Strouhal" in the research Centre Telč.

A Newsletter of the project ProteCHt2save has been published. It is the third newsletter of the Interreg Central Europe Project.

Links:

CZ version

EN version

About ProteCHt2save project

Web page of the project

Spring Newsletter 1/2019 of ITAM has been published. Read it here.

You can also subscribe here.

At the end of June, ITAM CAS and Municipal District - Prague Troja will host an international conference with theme „Managing the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Changing Environment”. The conference will take place on June 27th, 2019 in mUnicipal House in the centre of old Prague. The venue is especially fitting for the ProteCHt2save conference, as the historic centre of Prague is a Cultural Heritage (UNESCO) site at risk posed by climate change impacts (in this case floods from the Vltava river enveloping the city). As part of the conference, there will be a technical visit focused on this issue.

For registration and additional information, contact prechova@itam.cas.cz.

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.