Transnational Lab Access
Transnational Access (TA) to a portfolio of world class research complementary infrastructures is offered to selected talented European researchers. Users are given access to the infrastructures for the design of the test specimen and the instrumentation, the execution of the tests and the processing and interpretation of results. The lead user and the majority of the users in a team should be working in an institution in a EU Member State or EU Associated Country, but other than the one where the TA facility is established.
Telepresence
Telepresence is the possibility to provide to remote users on-line access to the data during the experiments and virtual access to the equipment, so as to allow collaborative decision-making on the testing activities.
This is essential for tests involving concurrent use of geographically distributed platforms (distributed testing), in particular when splitting the tested structures in sub-parts, coupling physical tests and numerical models, and using substructuring algorithms.
Experimental Database
The creation of the distributed database aims to improve the dissemination and use of experimental results and to foster the impact of earthquake engineering research on practice, innovation and earthquake risk mitigation.
This requires harmonisation and unification of the European databases in earthquake engineering and the possibility of accessing, through a unique portal, the data stored at different database nodes which are able to dialog with the central portal using a common communication protocol.
Dissemination
Four international workshops are planned so as to promote TA in earthquake engineering and spread its RTD outcomes, to foster integration of the European earthquake engineering RTD community and to increase its visibility as a world leader:
