The Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce the launch of a tender for an additional postdoctoral position for the project "CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_053/0016918 Rozvoj lidských zdrojů ÚTAM AV ČR" (Development of Human Resources at ITAM CAS), for the "Dynamics and Wind Engineering" activity.

In the prestigious yearbook Elettra synchrotron Highlights for the years 2019-2020, an article by the author team from the Materials Research Department composed of Radek Ševčík and Dita Machová was included among the best in the past two years. The article fosuses on changing the microstructure of limestone after application of nanocalcium in combination with calcium carbonate polymorphs. Other co-authors were researchers from Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste (Italy) and Jülich Center for Neutron Science JCNS at MLZ (Germany).

Cultural Heritage objects built from calcareous material are often exposed to adverse environmental conditions which may cause significant damage. The so called nano lime has been used to protect and conserve them. The Czech, German and Italian scientists - among them our colleagues from Centre Telč ITAM CAS, Radek Ševčík, Dita Machová and Alberto Viani - studied the efficiency of the material in protecting the cultural heritage objects in Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ). They used only non-invasive methods.

ITAM CAS as a member of the IPERION HS consortium is delighted to announce the 1st Call for proposals on November 2nd, for Transnational Access (TNA) to a wide range of high-level scientific instruments, methodologies, data and tools for advancing knowledge and innovation in the field of Heritage Science. This call is a great opportunity to develop an idea or implement research.

The EU funded project “Living Danube Limes” which comprises partners from 10 Danube countries (among which is also ITAM CAS) and sets out to implement a host of measures to protect the historic infrastructure and develop the touristic potential of the 2000 year old Roman heritage on the Danube, has started in July 2020. A special feature of the project will be the fully authentic reconstruction of a Roman Danube ship from the 4th century CE.

Invitation to the Final Workshop

ITAM CAS, as one of the partners in the E-RIHS Preparatory Phase project, invites you to participate on the final workshop of the project. During the half-day event, the results of the project, its legacy and the perspective toward E-RIHS ERIC will be presented. The workshop will be held on 23rd September, 2020.

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..

On the 1st of April, 2020 the new project IPERION HS of the framework programme HORIZON 2020 supported by EK officially started. One of the partners in the consorcium is also ITAM CAS.

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

Links:

CZ version

EN version

About the project Interreg CE ProteCHt2save

Website 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.