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. We would like to invite you to the 9/2022 HS Academy webinar "Olfactory heritage: preserving the smell of sites and collections" that will take place on November 8th, 2022 at 3 p.m. (Rome time).

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 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.

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.

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.

Roman-catholic diocese of St.Pölten and the city of Brno own a great many buildings, such as churches, rectories and monasteries. These structures do not always have a purpose, which consequently has a negative impact on urban development. Not being in use causes their decay. The current problems are of the same character on both sides of the regions' borders, caused mainly by a negative demographic development and past political events in the course of the 20th century.

Utilization of nanomaterials for sustainable conservation of historical sculptures and architectonic works of litavský limestone.  More at: http://www.nanolithproject.eu/

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.