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The 1 SAMCO Workshop was held in
Como / Italy in April 2002, half a year after
the SAMCO Kick-Off Meeting in Assisi.
22 persons attended this first workshop of
which the main subjects were the Progress
of the SAMCO activities as well as the 6th
Framework Programme. Further the NEES
Project was touched on and a prototype of
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the SAMCO Database was launched. The 4 SAMCO Workshop was the 1
International Summer Academy on
Structural Assessment, Monitoring and
Control. It was a One-Week-Event in July
2003 at the Robinson College of Cambridge
University. About 90 persons from 22
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countries participated in the event, 37% of The 7 SAMCO Workshop took place in
them came from industry; the others were June 2004 in Rome / Italy. In the course of
researchers and students. The first Summer the workshop a view on SAMCO covering
Academy was a great success for the the entire positive and negative sides of the
SAMCO network. The way of dealing with network as well as suggestions how to
subjects in longer presentations was unique improve the cooperation were presented. At
and provided unusual quality of information this it was mentioned that SAMCO had a
nd transfer. The collected contributions were good core group, however the role of
The 2 SAMCO Workshop, held in women might be enhanced to become
outstanding and provided a very good
Brussels dealt mainly with the topics equal. Further a connection to
insight into the current practice in the field.
Monitoring and Assessment, Seismic environmental and social sciences would be
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Assessment and Active Control. The basic The main topics of the 5 desired, items which were briefly discussed
idea was to disseminate information about SAMCO Workshop with the will to seize those suggestions.
the SAMCO network, show recent research taking place in Vienna / Some of the requests have already been
work in the field and stimulate a discussion Austria were the SAMCO covered by I-SAMCO.
on new projects to be submitted within the progress, the second call
6th framework programme. of NMP under the Sixth
Framework Programme
as well as a range of
proposals for projects
within the framework of
SAMCO, introduced by
SAMCO members and
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The 3 SAMCO partners.
Workshop took place in
Vienna / Austria where
the integrated project E- th
In April 2004 the 6 SAMCO Workshop
MOI and its sub- was held in Warsaw / Poland. This was the
projects, in particular the first NAS (Newly Associated States)
items determination of Workshop in the History of SAMCO. The
the final consortium, aim of the Workshop was at first to bring
financial allocation together experts in structural assessment,
within the project and monitoring and control from Poland and the
definition of detailed former EU member states to build
objectives were discussed.
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The 8 SAMCO Workshop in September The first International Workshop, the NEES
2004 was the Harmonization Workshop in and NEESgrid Seminar, was held in Ispra /
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Ispra / Italy with the aim to enable Italy from May 23 to May 24 2005. The
international collaboration, harmonise seminar taking place on the premises of
communication and standardise data and JRC Ispra 2005 was organized by NEESit
protocols. The intention was to invite (international Partner NSF) and JRC
researchers from Europe, America and Asia (project participant.
dealing with experimental data to give
presentations on the subject explaining the This international workshop held in the
current practice of their regions. Each course of the I-SAMCO project had the
presentation was followed by an in depth following objectives:
discussion on a probable global format to Identification of the current
be proposed and standardised. The practice and state of the art
workshop ended in a resolution on Meeting of the International
international collaboration, comprising a
roadmap for data format standardisation, a forum
definition of priority areas and programs, Integration of SAMCO partners
international joint calls (NSF-EU-Japan- Coordination and harmonization
China) and funding mechanisms.
of ongoing RTD activities
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The 14 SAMCO (NAS) Workshop was
planned to be held in Hungary, however it
was cancelled.
80 persons from 27 nations from all over the The Final Workshop took place from
world participated in the SAMCO Summer th st
March 30 to 31 at EMPA / Switzerland. It
The I-SAMCO (International SAMCO) Kick- Academy, which took place from was very well attended with around 50
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Off Meeting took place in Vienna / Austria in September 5 to September 9 2005 in the persons. Amongst other items the history
May 2004. As the specific support action I- province of Salzburg in Austria, to be more and achievements of the SAMCO project,
SAMCO is embedded in SAMCO it was precise, in Thumersbach, situated at the the future of SAMCO as well as project
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concurrently the 9 SAMCO Workshop. mountain lake Zeller See opposite the small ideas for FP 7 were outlined. Further the
Large networks and projects have been town Zell am See. European Association for SAMCO was
identified worldwide acting along the same founded in the course of the workshop.
lines as SAMCO to accommodate the
international demand for standardization
initiatives. I-SAMCO is scheduled to
operate until November 2006.
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The 10 SAMCO Workshop took place on
April 28th and 29th at BAM (Federal
Institute for Materials Research and
Testing) in Berlin / Germany and was well
attended by 28 participants from all over
Europe.
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(Figure 3-left) and represents randomly Due to this relation, temperature sensitive According to the widely known eq. 2,
occurring ambient and forced vibration asphalt layer is implemented into the cross frequency of vibration is proportional to the
conditions ( => scatter ). sections of the global structural analysis square-root of the moment of inertia [4]. For
that reason, a curve in terms of frequency
needs to be generated (Figure 5- middle)
1. Eigenfrequency Temperature for the next step, when a temperature-
00:00:00
00:00:00 based stiffness path is eliminated from the
Time Time
22:00:00 22:00:00 overall trend (from Fig. 5 left to Fig. 5 right).
20:00:00 20:00:00 The obtained trend shows very clearly the
18:00:00 18:00:00
remaining impact of freight traffic itself,
which strongly affects the timeframe
16:00:00 16:00:00 between 5 a.m and 10 p.m, when trucks are
14:00:00 14:00:00 allowed to pass the bridge and cause two
characteristic offsets during the course of
12:00:00 12:00:00
the day.
10:00:00 10:00:00
08:00:00 08:00:00
06:00:00 06:00:00
04:00:00 04:00:00
02:00:00 02:00:00
[Hz] [C]
00:00:00 00:00:00
0,710 0,720 0,730 0,740 0,750 0,760 0,770 0,0 5,0 10,0 15,0 20,0 25,0
18:00:00 18:00:00
18:00:00
To describe the verified phenomenon 16:00:00
16:00:00 16:00:00
mechanically, it has to be focused on
14:00:00 14:00:00
temperature dependence of the roadbeds 14:00:00
16:00:00
the competent authorities are available only
10000
9500 14:00:00
per hour. For some introductive exploration
8000 12:00:00
on approximate additional mass
10:00:00
6000
5000
compensation steps need to be undertaken.
08:00:00
4000
2750 06:00:00 Frequency of vibration, based on eq. 2
2000 1000 04:00:00 again, is inversely proportional to the
Tem p [C]
0
350
[N/mm2]
02:00:00 square root of the mass. This means, that
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Fig. 4: Modified pattern of stiffness being strongly affected by traffic loading (moving additional
masses)
06:00:00
The procedure will be optimized in
04:00:00
progressive stages, as soon as the already
introduced cantilever-sensor based
02:00:00
[Hz] approach is implemented.
00:00:00
0,710 0,720 0,730 0,740 0,750 0,760 0,770
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Announcements
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2006 AUGUST g 18 to 19
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JUNE g 23 to 26 I-SAMCO Workshop
g 12th 16th ICDVC-2006 - "Advances in Structural
Advances in Modeling The Second International Monitoring of Historical
and Control of Flexible Conference on Dynamics, and Modern Structures"
Prague / Czech Republic
Mechanical Systems Vibration and Control
Udine / Italy Beijing / China LOCATION
Applicants must apply at least one month The workshop should bring together
before the beginning of the course. scientists and practicing experts in the field
Application forms can be sent by post or on- who will present their work and should
line through our web site: http://www.cism.it attract also young entrants.
It will be focused on the different aspects
A letter of confirmation will be sent to
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