Accessibility of coastal structures and all the more offshore structures is particularly limited. It is therefore needed to propose suitable monitoring strategies. These ones must be reliable and adapted to the encountered pathologies. They must also include the data collection and their treatment to be easily usable by the owners.

Contacts

• Concrete non destructive assessment: Odile Abraham (CODA US, surface waves, impact-echo), Vincent Baltazart (image analysis), Geraldine Villain (Durability indicators), Sergio Palma Lopes (Resistivity), Xavier Derobert (Electromagnetic techniques), Jean Dumoulin (IR thermography)
• Cables non destructive assessment: Lamine Dieng (Vibration), Laurent Gaillet (Acoustic), Laurent Laguerre (US)
• Steel structures monitoring: Lamine Dieng, Laurent Gaillet, Sylvain Chataigner
• Global structural monitoring (dynamic methods): Vincent Le Cam, Xavier Chapeleau
• Optical fibers: Xavier Chapeleau

Main goals

• Increase reliability in renewable energy supply,
• Design and maintain distribution networks,
• Manage variable energy flow,
• Extend the infrastructures functionality to the production or storage of energy.