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IMPROVED FASTENING SYSTEMS OF CLADDING WALL PANELS OF PRECAST BUILDINGS IN SEISMIC ZONES (SAFECLADDING)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SME associations
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: Italy,Slovenia,Greece,Türkiye,European organisations area,Belgium,Germany,Italy,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2012, 2012)
Start date: 2012-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2775364.09
EU funding (EUR): 2118600.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The current design practice of precast buildings is based on a frame model where the peripheral cladding panels enter only as masses without any stiffness. The panels are then connected to the structure with fastenings dimensioned with a local calculation on the base of their mass for anchorage forces orthogonal to the plane of the panels. This design approach does not work, as it was recently dramatically shown by several recent violent shakes, like L’Aquila in 2009 and Grenada in 2010. The panels, fixed in this way to the structure, come to be integral part of the resisting system conditioning its seismic response. The high stiffness of this resisting system leads to forces much higher than those calculated from the frame model. These forces are related to the global mass of the floors and are primarily directed in the plane of the walls. Furthermore, the seismic force reduction in the type of precast structures of concern relies on energy dissipation in plastic hinges formed in the columns. Very large drifts of the columns are needed to activate this energy dissipation foreseen in design. However, typically the capacity of the connections between cladding and structure is exhausted well before such large drifts can develop. Therefore, the design of these connections cannot rely on the seismic reduction factor used for design of the bare structure. New technological solutions for connectors with proper design approaches are urgently required. The research project SAFECLADDING is thus aimed to investigate, by means of a balanced combination of experimental and analytical activity, the seismic behaviour of precast structures with cladding wall panels and to develop innovative connection devices and novel design approaches for a correct conception and dimensioning of the fastening system to guarantee good seismic performance of the structure throughout its service life.

Keywords: seismic behaviour,isostatic systems,integrated systems,dissipative systems,existing structures
Sustainable and intelligent management of energy for smarter railway systems in Europe: an integrated optimisation approach (MERLIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,France,Spain,France,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Czechia,United Kingdom,Germany,Sweden,Germany,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-SST-2012-RTD-1, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6961200.44
EU funding (EUR): 4499325.0
Participants: 20
Project status: CLOSED

MERLIN’s main aim and purpose is to investigate and demonstrate the viability of an integrated management system to achieve a more sustainable and optimised energy usage in European electric mainline railway systems. MERLIN will provide an integrated optimisation approach that includes multiple elements, dynamic forecasting supply-demand scenarios and cost considerations to support operational decisions leading to a cost-effective intelligent management of energy and resources through: • Improved design of existing and new railway distribution networks and electrical systems as well as their interfaces with the public grid and considering network interconnections • Better understanding of the influence on energy demand of operations and operational procedures of the different elements of the railway system • Identification of technologies and solutions able to further contribute to the optimisation of energy usage • More efficient traction energy supply based on optimised use of resources • Understanding of the cross-dependency between these different technological solutions to define optimum combinations for optimised energy usage • Improving cost effectiveness of the overall railway system • Contribution to European standardisation (TecRec) MERLIN will also deliver the interface protocol and the architecture for energy management systems in the railway domain, combining the technical development with new business model that would enable and foster their application.

Keywords: energy management smart grid
Wireless charging for Electic Vehicles (UNPLUGGED)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Italy,Italy,Sweden,Germany,Germany,Belgium,Spain,United Kingdom,France,Spain,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-SST-2012-RTD-1, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3576692.25
EU funding (EUR): 2254850.51
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

UNPLUGGED project aims to investigate how the use of inductive charging of Electric Vehicles (EV) in urban environments improves the convenience and sustainability of car-based mobility. In particular, it will be investigated how smart inductive charging infrastructure can facilitate full EV integration in the urban road systems while improving customer acceptance and perceived practicality. UNPLUGGED will achieve these goals by examining in detail the technical feasibility, practical issues, interoperability, user perception and socio-economic impacts of inductive charging. As one special variant, inductive en-route charging will be investigated thoroughly. As part of the project, two smart inductive charging systems will be built, taking into consideration requirements from OEMs, energy utilities and end users. The systems will be innovative and will go beyond the current state of the art in terms of high power transfer, allowing for smart communication between the vehicle and the grid, as well as being in line with the latest inductive charging standards and considering interoperability. These innovative inductive charging systems designed and built as part of the project will then be tested and assessed in order to understand their potential impacts on urban mobility and the acceptance of e-mobility. Application in an en-route charging scenario in particular will be examined for different vehicle types, ranging from cars to buses. It is anticipated that UNPLUGGED will provide clear evidence on and demonstrate whether the use of smart inductive charging infrastructure can overcome some of the perceived barriers for e-mobility, such as range and size of on-board energy storage, and practical difficulties associated with installing traditional charging post infrastructure. UNPLUGGED will also include a feasibility study and economic model for dynamic en-route inductive charging. This technology is currently less mature than static en-route charging, however, it ha

Keywords: inductive charging electric vehicles static dynamic urban coil wireless power energy battery
Optimal Electrical Powertrain via Adaptable Voltage and Transmission Ratio (AVTR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Poland,Germany,Austria,Italy
Call:  (FP7-2012-ICT-GC, 2012)
Start date: 2012-05-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5276034.0
EU funding (EUR): 3489988.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

AVTR addresses the development of the complete Electrical powertrain optimised as a whole of systems: - Energy saving in pure urban drive up to 20% with respect to state of-the-art fixed transmission ratio, - Avoid the use of Permanent Magnet Motors because non optimal elements when integrated in a multi ratios transmission PWT. When designing for energy savings, the maximum efficiency is calculated for the overall PWT over the urban drive, the most suitable motor is the one that matches at the best the rest of the powertrain rather than the motor having the highest peak efficiency, - Address the application to the largest market context (vehicles ranging in weight less than 1000kg), - High fun to drive because of the adaptable transmission ratio allowing best acceleration in all conditions, - Application of 32 bit processing for fast change of Voltage and Transmission Ratio - Overall cost reduction per a defined range because of the reduced battery capacity - Demonstration of the operation of a fail safefail-safe four wheel drive by the coupling of two AVTRs systems in the front and rear axels - Reduced cost of ownership and maintanaincemaintenance for the end user due a significant reduction of energy use and overall electromechanical stress. The ambitious objectives are obtained by integrating in a single air cooled compact module: high- power electronic and related intelligence performing variable DC-DC converters and motor drive, asynchronous motor, Variable transmission block and differential. Early demonstration of the technology will be made by preparing specific AVTRs to be installed on a FEV of new concepts for urban mobility and easily adaptable to the majority of electrical vehicles that will be sold before 2020.

Keywords: systems integration,power electronic packaging in harsh environment,automatic variable transmission,fail safe electromechanical systems
Energy ManagEment and RechArging for efficient eLectric car Driving (EMERALD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for a low carbon economy
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Spain,Spain,Poland,Greece,Poland,Germany,Türkiye,Spain,Italy,Spain,Spain
Call:  (FP7-2012-ICT-GC, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4663764.0
EU funding (EUR): 3150000.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

EMERALD focuses on energy use optimisation and on the seamless integration of the FEV into the transport and energy infrastructure, by delivering clear advances over the state-of-the-art. The goal is to assist the FEV in becoming a successful commercial product. To this end, EMERALD will innovate a range of novel ICT solutions, each one seamlessly integrated with the others, providing a multifaceted and comprehensive approach on these issues. EMERALD will introduce Integrated in-vehicle energy management, comprising: • Dynamic energy-driven management of FEV auxiliaries, tightly integrated with consumption prediction functionality, enabling pre-emptive energy conservation measures. • Energy-efficient long-range route planning and optimisation, enabling extension of FEV’s driving range and automatic scheduling of recharging stops en route. • Performance-centric machine learning for consumption prediction, introducing optimisation and cooperative training of machine learning functions targeted for energy consumption and traffic prediction based on experience. • Driver profiling functionalities, through monitoring of acceleration/braking patterns, for the enhancement of route consumption prediction functionality. • V2G traffic and consumption data synchronisation, as a new cooperative information-sharing scheme. • User-centric charge and discharge management, enabling automatically-generated, optimal for the user, charge and discharge schedules, accessible both on-board and on his mobile phone. EMERALD will also introduce: Enhanced FEV-related power demand prediction and power flow management support, taking advantage of consumption patterns as shared in a cooperative manner by the FEVs themselves, as well as from FEVs’ recharging bookings; Cooperative FEV fleet management, though holistic and dynamic, multi-parameter, fleet control optimisation, taking into account energy and recharging limitations; and FEV-specific driver training for energy efficiency.

Keywords: fully electric vehicles,energy efficiency,cooperative systems,fleet management,energy management,power demand prediction,driver training,route planning,learning-based functionalities
Ageing and efficiency Simulation & TEsting under Real world conditions for Innovative electric vehicle Components and Systems (ASTERICS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Italy,Belgium,France,Austria,Slovenia,Italy,Sweden,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SST-2012-RTD-1, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4280294.0
EU funding (EUR): 2699979.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

Following the Green Car Initiative (GCI) included in the European Economic Recovery Plan there is a high demand for electrification of transport in Europe. There are currently several concepts for FEV (fully electric vehicle) and HEV (hybrid electric vehicle) that support this “electro mobility” demand. The development and improvement of the different concepts require a huge effort in analysis, design, implementation and testing and not to forget feeding back experience, results and knowledge to new generations of Electric Vehicles. Advanced modelling tools and testing procedures going from one-dimension to three dimensional approaches have a fundamental role to play in optimizing during the earliest project phases for the energy dimensioning of FEV & HEV as well as their “energy management strategies” while reducing project’s development lead-time as well as to build-up requirements for subsystems and their related control units. Research in this project will focus on the development and validation of numerical simulation tools, virtual prototyping and advanced physical testing procedures and on the standardization of such tools in order to: • Investigate solutions for improving the efficiency and performance of future generation EV and their constituent components and sub-systems that may be critical from the energy efficiency point of view. The development of these sub-systems is however excluded. • Assess the effect of different sub-systems solutions in terms of energy efficiency and related increase of autonomy on different specific real life driving cycles that will take into account traffic constraints, road slope evolution, etc. • Verify technological feasibility and economic viability of the advanced solutions proposed. ASTERICS project aim is to develop advanced modelling and testing tools and methods that will be the base for future developments of FEV & HEV trough all Europe, contributing to the competitiveness in this sector, in all its aspects.

Keywords: simulation tools models testing methodologies
FUture prospects on TRansport evolution and innovation challenges for the competitiveness of Europe (FUTRE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: HORIZONTAL ACTIVITIES for implementation of the TRANSPORT PROGRAMME
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Greece,Portugal,Germany,Germany,European organisations area
Call:  (FP7-TPT-2012-RTD-1, 2012)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2014-09-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1182578.72
EU funding (EUR): 876860.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The project will highlight which future challenges and demand drivers can have a considerable impact on the global demand patterns in the passenger and the freight transport and how this might affect the competitiveness of related industries and service providers. In doing so, it aims at bridging the gap between the manifold studies on the future of the European transport system and its subsections on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the issue of competitiveness that needs to be supported by targeted research strategies.

Keywords: innovation transport future competitiveness
Cities demonstrating cybernetic mobility (CITYMOBIL2)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Sustainable surface transport (INCLUDING THE �EUROPEAN GREEN CARS INITIATIVE�)
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,France,United Kingdom,Belgium,Belgium,United Kingdom,Germany,Switzerland,Spain,France,Finland,France,France,France,Greece,Spain,Switzerland,France,France,Portugal,Italy,Spain,Italy,Italy,Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-SST-2012-RTD-1, 2012)
Start date: 2012-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 15286789.52
EU funding (EUR): 9500000.0
Participants: 48
Project status: CLOSED

European cities face four main mobility problems: congestion, land use , safety and environment. One of the main causes of such problems is the car-ownership rate. The centres of large cities address this issue combining efficient mass transits with car restriction policies but peripheral areas and smaller cities remain dominated by private cars. CityMobil has demonstrated how automating road vehicles can lead to different transport concepts, from partly automated car-share schemes through CyberCars and PRT, to BRT which can make urban mobility more sustainable. However CityMobil has also highlighted three main barriers to the deployment of automated road vehicles: the implementation framework, the legal framework and the unknown wider economic effect. The CityMobil2 goal is to address these barriers and finally to remove them. To smooth the implementation process CityMobil2 will remove the uncertainties which presently hamper procurement and implementation of automated systems. On one hand CityMobil2 features 12 cities which will revise their mobility plans and adopt wherever they will prove effective automated transport systems. Then CityMobil2 will select the best 5 cases (among the 12 cities) to organise demonstrators. The project will procure two sets of automated vehicles and deliver them to the five most motivated cities for a 6 to 8 months demonstration in each city. To change the legal framework CityMobil2 will establish a workgroup with scientists, system builders, cities, and the national certification authorities. The workgroup will to deliver a proposal for a European Directive to set a common legal framework to certify automated transport systems. Finally an industrial study will assess the industrial potential of automated systems on European economy and any eventual negative effect and make a balance of them.

Keywords: cybercars,cities,demonstration,ec directive
European Transport Network Alliance (ETNA PLUS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: HORIZONTAL ACTIVITIES for implementation of the TRANSPORT PROGRAMME
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy,France,Greece,Poland,Spain,Romania,Netherlands,Germany,Slovakia,Estonia,Portugal,United Kingdom,Bulgaria,United Kingdom,Croatia
Call:  (FP7-TPT-2012-RTD-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1892359.6
EU funding (EUR): 1579537.0
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

The European Transport Network Alliance-ETNA Plus-is a 3 year coordination action that will build upon the activities and knowledge acquired in the ongoing project European Transport NCP Alliance (ETNA) with a new and wider approach reflecting the new political context and the priority given to Europe 2020 and to the Horizon 2020 objectives. It will also take advantage of the positive results of TransNEW and MARKET-UP FP7 projects and, to avoid duplication of efforts, will make use of existing data and information, collaborating with the TRKC (Transport Knowledge Research Centre) and CORDIS PS. The overall objective of ETNA Plus is to foster innovation in trans-national cooperation in Transport with a focus on promoting the active participation of new actors and regions in EU research calls and projects. Transport NCPs will be key players in this mechanism, but their role will be complemented and enhanced thanks to the contribution of other relevant stakeholders, which will bring to the project a real added value both in terms of knowledge and expertise. ETNA Plus will also seek the active involvement of 56 Associated Partners (APs) nominated officially as Transport NCPs. ETNA Plus will target transnational cooperation through different activities, following a two-fold approach; on one side, specific initiatives to raise awareness on the EU transport R&I landscape will be carried out, on the other side, efforts to improve the level of expertise on EU funding (e.g. Horizon 2020) will be undertaken both at NCP and researcher level. To this end, the proposal foresees: the development of a web tool on EU funding opportunities, both public and private; an analysis of innovation strategies implemented in the industrialized Countries; the support to stakeholders to build trans-national consortia and the reinforcement of Transport NCPs’ and researchers’ expertise through ad hoc training and twinning measures; networking with other initiatives relevant to transport R

Keywords: european transport research & innovation funding,trans-national cooperation,consortia building,ncp services