The spring issue of ITAM CAS Newsletter has been published. You can look forward to an article from the Department of Lime Technologies about Baroque stucco techniques, using x-ray tomography, we will read a curse tablet and you will find out more about the topic of degradation of microstructure of concrete in agressive environment in an article from the Department of Materials Research. This and more, you can find in the new Newsletter 1/2020 here. The Czech version can be found here..

A Newsletter of the project ProteCHt2save has been published. It is the 5th newsletter of this Interreg Central Europe project.

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About the project Interreg CE ProteCHt2save

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Interdisciplinary workshop ScolaTelcz 2020 is planned for Sunday 9th - Saturday 15th February, 2020. In the course of the interdisciplinary workshop in the UNESCO World Heritage City students of different disciplines (architecture, sociology, geography, preservation of monuments, economics, building physics, geography, etc.) from various universities (Technical University of Prague, Masaryk University of Brno, Danube University Krems) will prepare and present a revitalization concept for a former social housing building in Telč. More information and registration at www.scolatelcz.net.

The workshop on tools for modelling and evaluation of historical building structures is going to be held on Thursday, January 9, 2020, at 9:30AM in the building of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Prosecká 76, 190 00, Prague 9
 

The 2nd LFG event organised by ITAM and Municipality Prague-Troja was held on 11th December, 2019 in the Troja Municipal House. Apart from updating the local stakeholders on the project progress, there were two important points on the agenda: organisation of the pilot exercise TROJAN HORSE 2019 (scheduled for 16th December, 2019 in Prague-Troja), and the presentation of the Manual for Owners [and managers of cultural heritage].

Autumn Newsletteru of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the CAS has just been released.

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Dr. Náprstek, a long-term employee from ITAM CAS, received several honorary posts in 2019 - an Honorary Fellowship from the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration in September 2019, in March 2019, he was elected a member of the Advisory Committee of the International EUROMECH Association and in September 2019, he was elected to the Steering Committee of the International Association for the Organization of ICOVP Congresses.

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 10:00 AM, Dr. O. Skružná will give a lecture Návrh materiálové a technologické kopie raně barokní štukové výzdoby. The lecture will be held in the building of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Prague, Prosecká 76, Prague 9-Prosek.

On Friday, November 15, 2019 at 10:00 AM, Dr. Anton S. Mazur will give a lecture "Solid-State NMR" division of the Saint-Petersburg State University Scientific Park. The lecture will be held in the building of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Prague, Prosecká 76, Prague 9-Prosek.

A Newsletter of the project ProteCHt2save has been published. It is the 4th newsletter of the Interreg Central Europe Project.

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CZ version

EN version

About ProteCHt2save project

Web page of the project

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.