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Centre Telč

 

welcome to the website of the Centre Telč of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the CAS, which provides information about realization and reasearch programme of this project.The project of building the research and development centre was co-funded under the Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation from the European Regional Development Fund and from the state budget.

 

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“You are Cursed by the God YHW:” an early Hebrew inscription from Mt. Ebal

11 Oct 2023
You are cursed by the God YHW - this is the text of the curse that scientists managed to decode from a small lead tablet found on Mount Ebal in the West Bank. The inscription is two centuries older than all the Hebrew texts known to date in Israel. The text that the researchers uncovered is written in Proto-Hebrew script, which can be dated to about 1400-1200 BCE. The lead amulet could not be mechanically opened without fatal damage. Experts therefore used X-ray computed tomography to read the text, including virtual table straightening. Daniel Vavřík from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the CAS made a significant contribution to the international research. The cursing tablet (defixe) was discovered during the analysis of material left over from the excavations of Israeli archaeologist Adam Zertal, who was engaged in research on Mount Ebal in Samaria in the West Bank between 1982 and 1989. He discovered two altars there. The smaller Late Bronze Age altar, which the archaeologist dated to the mid-13th century BC, lay directly below the larger Iron Age altar. The amulet probably came from the altar's filling. According to biblical tradition, the first Israelite leader, Joshua, was to build an altar on Mount Ebal as part of a ceremony to renew his covenant with the Lord shortly after the Israelites returned to Canaan from Egypt. The lead tablet has external dimensions of 20 × 20 × 4 mm. It was created by folding a lead strip with engraved text so that it would remain hidden inside and not be visible from the outside.

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Cultural Heritage Protection enters Higher Education with CHePiCC online

4 Jul 2023

 'Cultural Heritage Protection in Climate Change online' project concludes with launch of online course and publication of Summer University Concept

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CHARISMA

4 May 2023

The Charisma project team is happy to announce that the results of the second Work Package are finally ready!

Here you can find an article for the presentation of PR2

Here you can find the report
 

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IPERION HS: 7th call open for ARCHLAB & FIXLAB – deadline May 31, 2023

27 Mar 2023

 An additional 7th call for Transnational (TNA) Access to the services offered by ARCHLAB and FIXLAB platforms within IPERION HS is open until May 31st, 2023.

 

You can access also services of our Laboratory of X-ray Tomography.

More info about the call here.

 

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Technology of Restoration of Renaissance Sgraffito Plasters - tradition and metamorphosis

23 Mar 2023

Technology of Restoration of Renaissance Sgraffito Plasters - tradition and metamorphosis

The project is supported by the NAKI III programme funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
Project implementation from 1.3.2023 to 31.12.2027
Project identification code: DH23P03OVV019

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Our institute is hosting 2nd Training Camp within IPERION HS Academy.

24 Jan 2023

Our institute is hosting 2nd Training Camp within IPERION HS Academy.

The 2nd Training Camp “Built Heritage in Changing Environment” is held this year from June 26th to June 30th, in Telč, Czech Republic.

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Newsletter ITAM 2/2022

11 Jan 2023

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 2/2022 - Czech

Newsletter 2/2022 - English

 

 

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5th HS Academy Lecture: "Current Topics in Heritage Science"

10 Jan 2023

It is our pleasure to invite you to the HS Academy Lecture #05 of the series "Current Topics in Heritage Science" (CTinHS) to be held online on 19th January, 2023, at 3 pm (Rome time).
Sahra Talamo will present a lecture (30 minutes of webinar followed by Q&A session) on the topic "Timing the spread of creative innovations by Homo sapiens and Neanderthals using the radiocarbon dating method". Kindly find below the brief information about the event.

 

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Prof. Miroš Pirner has passed away

14 Dec 2022

prof. Ing. Miroš Pirner, DrSc., dr.h.c. 11.9.1928 - 13.12.2022

We are deeply saddened to announce that on Tuesday, 13 December 2022, our long-time colleague and former Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Prof. Miroš Pirner, has passed away at the age of 94. The last farewell took place on Wednesday, 21 December 2022 at 12:15 pm in the ceremonial hall of the crematorium in Prague-Motol.

 

PDF Announcement in Czech.

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Climatic Wind Tunnel

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.

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AEDECC M00273

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.

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Nanolith

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

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GAČR 14-20374P

Během karbonatace vápna je třeba sledovat kvantitativní zastoupení polymorfů CaCO3 (kalcit, aragonit, vaterit) a jejich formační kinetiku. Relativní množství odlišných krystalických forem CaCO3 silně ovlivňuje vlastnosti vápenných malt. Kinetika procesu karbonatace a tvorba polymorfů CaCO3 ve vápenných pastách a omítkách bude zkoumána rentgenovou práškovou difrakcí, Ramanovou spektroskopií a infračervenou spektroskopií s Fourierovou transformací. Termogravimetrická analýza bude použita k určení stupně hydratace a rovněž karbonatace. Skenovací elektronová mikroskopie bude použita ke zkoumání mikrostruktury vzorků na morfologickém základu. Vápenné omítky jsou důležitým stavebním materiálem a v oblasti kulturního dědictví hrají klíčovou roli jako optimální materiál pro opravu historických budov. Očekává se, že výsledky této studie budou mít zásadní přínos ke stávajícím znalostem o kinetickém chování, vývoji fází a morfologii během karbonatační reakce vápenných past a malt.

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ARCCHIP

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.

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