After 2 years of online meetings, a face-to-face meeting of the RILEM ASC committee members was finally held to design and experimentally validate a new test for the resistance of building materials to crystallization of water-soluble salts. The meeting of 14 participants was held on 27 June at ITAM under the chairmanship of Barbara Lubelli from TU Delft. Visitors to ITAM thus had the pleasure of benefiting once again from a physical meeting, which allowed for deeper and more time-consuming discussions and to get an update on the partners' other projects. The day's meeting was concluded by a joint dinner at the Kuchyň restaurant on Hradčany Square with an impressive view of Prague.

On November 7th and 8th, 2022, a symposium on Heritage Science: Interdisciplinarity, Internationality and Infrastructures will take place in the MUNI Telč University Center. The event takes place within the framework of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union and is supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences and Kraj Vysočina. Registration is possible until September 30, 2022.

After six months, we bring you the new issue of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechnianics, CAS Newsletter, summarizing the interesting events of the past half-year.

Newsletter 1/2022 - Czech

Newsletter 1/2022 - English

On 24 May 2022, we welcomed visitors from among the academic staff of the Swedish technical university in Lulea to the ITAM CAS venues in both Prague and Telč. The university is the largest in Sweden with almost 20 thousand students. The multi-member delegation led by Prof. G. Sas came from the Institute of Civil and Environmental Engineering and deals with structural monitoring and computational methods in the field of building materials. The delegation visited and was very interested in the ITAM laboratories in Prague and Telč.

IPERION HS and E-RIHS are organizing a series of webinars, a key source of state-of-the-art information on heritage science research, facilities, policy and impact. It contributes to developing a vibrant heritage science community and is intended for anyone involved in interdisciplinary heritage research. The theme of the 6/2022 webinar is “FAIR data: the challenges of interoperability”.

IPERION HS and E-RIHS are organizing a series of webinars, a key source of state-of-the-art information on heritage science research, facilities, policy and impact. It contributes to developing a vibrant heritage science community and is intended for anyone involved in interdisciplinary heritage research.

Within the framework of the Researchers at Risk initiative, the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences announces an international invitation for tenders for the following job positions:

The Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences is please to invite all interested persons to Open Day held on 30th April 2022 at experimental centre in Solvayovy Quary.

IPERION HS and E-RIHS are organizing a series of webinars, a key source of state-of-the-art information on heritage science research, facilities, policy and impact. It contributes to developing a vibrant heritage science community and is intended for anyone involved in interdisciplinary heritage research.

Newsletter no. 4 of the Interreg Central Europe project STRENCH (CE1665) has been published. The Newsletter covers the period from November 2021 to February 2022.

We are pleased to invite you to an international conference Hidden Beneath the Surface: Archaeological Areas of Europe. Deadline for abstracts → 30 June 2021.

Starting Research Career Infrastructure Services in Heritage Science

Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences operates specialised research infrastructure for heritage science and provides services for interdisciplinary research in the field. The STARCAIS programme offers infrastructure support to young researchers – Ph.D. students or post-docs - at the beginning of their career.

CONSErvation of 20th centrury concrete Cultural Heritage in urban changing environments

CONSECH20 is a research project that aims at developing effective approaches for conservation and protection of 20th cent. heritage concrete buildings against the ever-changing urban impacts, taking into account both technical and social aspects.

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.

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.