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Duration: 2014-03-05 - 2016-03-05
Project coordinator: Eduardo Torroja Institute for Construction Science (IETCC)
Project consortium: Eduardo Torroja Institute for construction Science (IETCC) Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques (France) ELab Scientific srl, CNR (Italy) Istituto per la Conservation e la Valorizzazione dei Bei Culturali, CNR (Italy) Centre Scientifique et Technique de la Construction (Belgium) University of Liège, Département ArGEnCo (Belgium)
Funding bodies: JPI CH
Subject areas: Tangible Heritage, Materials, Conservation, Monitoring, Technologies/ scientific processes, Methods/procedures, Climate Change, Threats & changing environments
Budget: 75,000€

Presentation

  • The project main objective is to develop a real-time managing system to evaluate the corrosion process of ancient concrete exposed to natural ageing (including several weathering mechanisms such as carbonation and chloride-induced corrosion, and climate impact).
  • This system will provide self-adapting capabilities to different types of tangible heritage and incorporate embedded sensors and data transmission devices to allow for real-time control of the structural integrity of the investigated infrastructure.
  • To develop a novel monitoring system that will be integrated as part of the overall control, incorporating a data analysis and assessment software tool which will include computational structural prognosis models and dynamic re-design parameters based on continuously measured data.

Impacts & Results

  • The system will be the basis on Early Warning Systems (EWS) for the particular application of ancient concrete. The EWS are the essential tools for the handling of the natural and social threats that affect the protection of tangible heritage.
  • The project will contribute not only to the development of the EWS but in the basic aspects for a rational managing of the inventory and the prioritization of those to be protected.
  • To predict the damage based and decay mechanisms.
  • To integrate the performance Indicators concepts into an inspection methodology which should optimize the initial extra cost of the monitoring system by the benefits of a system that enables the real-time monitoring system.
  • To set priorities of intervention to manage the optimum protection of cultural patrimony by the public authorities in each area.
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