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Project Objectives
- To produce guidelines on the durability requirements of concrete and steel infrastructure, the inspection and diagnosis of damage, the repair of materials and on methodologies for optimising maintenance.
- To create new competences in infrastructure design, construction and management through the
promotion of knowledge dissemination actions and the organisation of courses and workshops for owners, managers, contractors and repair materials producers.
- To stimulate the application of harmonised European standards for repair and to identify the requirement for applied research, in particular research topics concerning the quality control of new repair products and the rehabilitation processes resulting from their application.
- To promote the development and use of "green and smart" structural materials and repair products incorporating recycled materials, by-products
and new materials incorporating nano technologies, with reduced energy needs during production and application and with increased long-life performance without being hazardous for application technicians or users. This will be facilitated through the creation of a new Atlantic Area Cluster "Green and Smart Materials".
- To create DURATINET web-tools (the DURATINET website and the DB-DURATI database) to facilitate the exchange of information within the project and with the wider technical and scientific community. The web-platform will help to generate and disseminate knowledge on the performance of materials, on the diagnosis of damage, on service life prediction and on the ageing of repair materials. The database (DB-DURATI) will be created to store information on the performance of
structural and repair materials obtained from real structures. This information will be very useful for the benchmarking of service life models and for aiding
future decision-making relating to the selection of reliable structural maintenance and repair strategies in marine environments.
Project Objectives (PDF/39KB)
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