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INSPIRE · INNOVATIVE GROUND INTERFACE CONCEPTS FOR STRUCTURE PROTECTION

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2019-03-01 → 2023-08-31
EU contribution
€3,878,821
Participants
20
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

INNOVATIVE GROUND INTERFACE CONCEPTS FOR STRUCTURE PROTECTION

Aiming to foster a new generation of highly skilled researchers and engineers, INSPIRE has successfully carried out a comprehensive set of research, training, and dissemination activities. Throughout a total duration of four and a half years, from 1st March 2019 to 31st August 2023, the project has delivered excellent research outcomes (as evidenced by the approximately 100 publications in top-notch scientific journals and international conference proceedings) and a wide array of educational activities. The project’s focus has centred on the scientific field of engineering metamaterials, with a specific emphasis on the development and implementation of an innovative, holistic approach to safeguard structures against various ground-induced hazards. This protection encompasses threats such as earthquakes, as well as other sources of low-frequency noise and vibration excitations. The INSPIRE training programme has equipped researchers with innovative and creative skills, implementing a joint multidisciplinary research training programme focused on the growth of scientific and technological knowledge and professional skills through research on individual, personalized projects. The project has crucially enhanced the European innovation through high-impact technological applications, leading to directly exploitable solutions for a market the global size of which is expected to reach USD 11.72 trillion by 2025. INSPIRE has created a legacy for the future generations of researchers, with training material and relationships with companies offering secondment opportunities for further cohorts of students outside of the project.

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Project objective

IINSPIRE aims to foster a new generation of highly qualified researchers and engineers, which will create a critical mass kernel, able to implement a holistic and novel soil-foundation-structure concept for the efficient protection of structures from all ground induced hazards, including earthquakes and all other sources of low-frequency noise and vibration excitations. This concept offers a drastic breakthrough over the existing approaches in crucial aspects:A)Wave inhibition capabilities over broadband low-frequency excitation in all three spatial directions B)General applicability to broad classes of structures and infrastructures C)Simple, reliable and resilient design, leading to easy and low-cost implementation and maintenanceINSPIRE mainly relies on recent innovative scientific and technological concepts, mainly developed within the broad concept of meta-materials. The notion of “meta-materials” refers to natural or artificial materials or structures which exhibit extraordinary properties for inhibiting or conditioning wave propagation in all spatial directions over broad frequency bands. Quite recently, the feasibility of the application of meta-material concepts has been also demonstrated for seismic and infrasound waves. These general developments of metamaterials will be further enriched and advanced through novel absorption and isolation concepts, such as negative effective mass and stiffness

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Participants

  • ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION · ATHINACoordinatorGreece
  • A.D.K. ARONIS - DRETTAS - KARLAFTIS SYMVOULOI MICHANIKOI ANONYMOS ETAIREIA · AthinaGreece
  • ADT OMEGA CONSULTING ENGINEERS AE · AthinaGreece
  • ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA · BolognaItaly
  • BAUDYN GMBH · HamburgGermany
  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · ParisFrance
  • EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · ZuerichSwitzerland
  • FIP MEC SRL · Selvazzano Dentro (Pd)Italy
  • G. CHARALAMPOPOULOS - S. MOUZAKITHS OE · MarousiGreece
  • HF Holding SA · NivellesBelgium
  • INGENIEURGESELLSCHAFT DR ING FISCHBACH MBH · ErfstadtGermany
  • IsolgommaItaly
  • JRC -JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
  • RHEINLAND-PFALZISCHE TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT · KaiserslauternGermany
  • RINA CONSULTING SPA · GENOVAItaly
  • SOCIETE NATIONALE SNCF · SAINT-DENISFrance
  • TREVI SOCIETA PER AZIONI · CesenaItaly
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO · TrentoItaly
  • UNIVERSITE DE LILLE · LilleFrance
  • UNIVERSITE DE MONS · MonsBelgium

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union