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1st INFRASTAR Training School

The INFRASTAR (Innovation and Networking for Fatigue and Reliability Analysis of Structures - Training for Assessment of Risk) training school aims to provide lectures and hands-on trainings to Master and PhD students, early-stage researchers, and young professionals in order to be well aware of all aspects of asset management of civil infrastructures with respect to fatigue of materials.

8 April 2019 - 12 April 2019
France
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The participants in the first Infrastar training school will get additional knowledge about their own field but also about what is performed beforehand and afterwards.

The courses will provide multi-disciplinary and intersectoral basic concepts in three core fields:
1. Monitoring and auscultation,
2. Structural and action models, and
3. Reliability, risk and decision analyses;
ranging from the design to the dismantling of the structures: bridges and wind turbines.

The lectures will be given by a panel of international scientific experts, researchers and professors:
- Dr Marc Thiele (BAM, Germany)
- Dr Odile Abraham (Ifsttar, France)
- Prof. Eugen Brühwiler (EPFL, Switzerland)
- Dr Ernst Niederleithinger (BAM, Germany)
- Prof. John Popovics (University of Illinois, USA)
- Dr Franziska Schmidt (Ifsttar, France)
- Prof. John Dalsgaard Sørensen (AAU, Denmark)
- Assoc. Prof. Sebastian Thöns (DTU, Denmark)

A participant who has successfully taken part in the Infrastar training school will be able to understand:
1. How to smarten the structures and its benefits.
2. How to model structural and material behaviours of civil infrastructures under loading.
3. How to develop, perform and assess structural risks and the value of structural information.

Keywords

concrete, fatigue, SHM, NDT, CWI, fibre optics, reliability, bridge, wind turbine, UHPFRC, extreme value theory, risk anaysis, monitoring, value of information, maintenance