Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

• Type: Horizon 2020

• Defi: Model Driven Physical Systems Operation

• Objectif: Reduce the gap between a building?s designed and as-built energy performance.

• Duration: January 2015 to January 2019

• Coordinator: Manager and project head : NOBATEK, Germain Adell. For CERMA : Marjorie Musy

• Inria teams I4S

• Inria contact: J. Dumoulin

• Partners: Consortium of 20 Public and Industrial actors

• Website: http://built2spec-project.eu/

• Abstract: Built to Specifications (Built2Spec) is involving 20 European partners that seeks to reduce the gap between a building designed and as-built energy performance. To do this, the project put a new set of breakthrough technological advances for self-inspection checks and quality assurance measures into the hands of construction professionals. The project aims to deliver Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Thermal and 3D Imaging Tools among others.

  The project is in collaboration with formers members of the team, Alexandre Nassiopoulos and Jordan Brouns, now working at Ecotropy, SME.

• Call: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015 (Horizon 2020 – Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions – Innovative Training Networks)

• Type of Action: MSCA-ITN-ETN

• Objectif: Reduce the gap between a building?s designed and as-built energy performance.

• Duration: 48 months since 2016 May 1st

• Coordinator: Odile Abraham (IFSTTAR)

• Academic and industrial Partners: IFSTTAR, UNIVERSITY OF AALBORG, BAM, EPFL, GuD Consult Gmbh, COWI A/S, NeoStrain, PHIMECA

• Inria contact: X. Chapeleau

• Website: http://infrastar.eu/

• Abstract: The aim of INFRASTAR project is to develop tools combining modeling and measurements for the prediction of the fatigue behavior of concrete structures (bridges and foundations of wind turbines) with the ultimate objective of establishing an efficient strategy for inspection and reinforcement operations. In the second half of 2016, 12 young researchers were recruited to carry out and cross-examine research on monitoring and auscultation (WP 1), structural models (WP 2) and reliability of approaches for decision-making ( WP 3). In this project, a phd student (Antoine Bassil) was recruited (Nov. 2016) on the fatigue monitoring of concrete structure by fibre-optic sensors. During the first 6 months of the thesis, a State of the Art on the use of fiber optic sensors for structural health monitoring in civil engineering was done and mostly by focusing on distributed optical fiber sensor’s technology (DOFS) for crack detection in concrete. This State of the Art shows that distributed optical fiber sensor can localize accurately cracks in concrete if they propagate across the sensor. However, the quantification of the crack widths by distributed optical fiber sensor remains a scientific challenge. Indeed, it is necessary to take into account of the mechanical strain transfer of the fiber sensor. Now, the second part of the phd student work is to develop a theoretical model for the mechanical strain transfer function and to validate it by experimental tests. The main milestone of the modelling to overcome is to take into account of slippage and elasto-plastic effects

• Type: COST

• Objectif: Quantifying the value of structural health monitoring

• Duration: 11/2014 - 11/2018

• Coordinator: S. Thoens (DTU Denmark)

• Partner: 23 countries, see http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/tud/Actions/TU1402

• Inria contact: Laurent Mevel

• Abstract: Since 2014, until 2018, the COST Action has altogether around 120 participants from over 25 countries. This Action aims to develop and describe a theoretical framework, together with methods, tools, guidelines, examples and educational activities, for the quantification of the value of SHM. Progress of the action is presented in [40].

• Type: PHC PROCOPE

• Objectif: Statistical damage localization for civil structures

• Duration: 01/2017 - 12/2018

• Coordinator: M. Doehler

• Partner: BAM German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing

• Inria contact: M. Doehler

• Abstract: Our main objective is the development of a theoretically solid damage localization method that does not only work in simulations and lab experiments, but on structures in the field under real operational conditions. This German-French mobility grant is in support of Eva Viefhues' PhD thesis.

Together with SVS, we got the Danish Innobooster innovation grant for industrial research and transfer. In 2017, the grant was awarded to transfer methods for the identification of mode shapes and their uncertainty [30] to SVS' ARTeMIS software.