Procedure for Certification - SAMCO NETWORK

1 SAMCO Final Report 2006 F06 Certification Procedure for Certification Arsenal Research GmbH. Business Area Transport Technology 1210 Vienna, Giefinggasse 2 AUSTRIA Vienna, March 2006 SAMCO Final Report 2006 F06 Certification Page 2 of 44 Table of Contents 1 GENERAL AND DEFINITION 4 2 BENEFITS 7 3 PREFACE 7 Structural Assessment 7 Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) 8 4 INTRODUCTION 9 5 Certification OF PERSONNEL - STRUCTURAL VIBRATION SPECIALIST (SVS)

2 11 State of negotiation 11 General Information about the Training Courses 14 Procedure of Certification - process chart as required in EN ISO/IEC 17024*) example of Certification draft of arsenal research 16 Definition and Aim of the Training Course 18 Target Group 18 Long Term Benefits of the Training 18 Administrative Issues of the Training Course 19 Training Policy 19 Advertising the training program

3 20 Training Targets 20 Specifications for Trainers 21 Training Officer: 21 Lecturers.

4 22 Train the Trainer Workshop 22 Who should attend the training? 23 Duration of training 24 Attendance on the training program 24 Distance learning

5 24 Costs of a Training Course 24 Required training resources 25 Equipment for the training laboratory 25 Classroom for the theoretical education 25 The Training Program and Performance 26 Theoretical Training - Methode 26 The Training Program 27

6 Training methods 30 SAMCO Final Report 2006 F06 Certification Page 3 of 44 Practical training - targets 30 Round-robin tests and benchmark tests 31 Examination procedures 33 Requirements 33 Targets of the examination 33

7 Preparations for examination 33 Post processing of training 34 Preparation of training feedback 34 Feedback from the trainees: 34 Feedback from the trainers.

8 34 Evaluation of the training feedback 34 Certification procedures 35 First application of the certificate 35 Requirements for Extension 35 Validity of the certificate and extension of Certification .

9 36 Usefully codes 37 6 ABOUT HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE 38 Hardware 38 Method/Software 39 Artificial Test Data 41 Evaluation of Ambient Data 42 Shaking Table Tests 43 SAMCO Final Report 2006 F06 Certification Page 4 of 44 1 General and Definition The aim of this report is to develop a Certification Procedure within the SAMCO project.

10 The work is organised according the proposal, in particular this contribution is related to work package 4 - Certification . The objectives of this task in the proposal stage have been: To create a Certification agency to help overcoming duplication and costly parallel development. To enable calibration of methodologies and hardware components. To fulfil the targets of Certification as proposed, the following work should be conducted. This report should serve as draft for implementation of the following tasks: Setting up a Procedure for Certification To carry out Certification benchmarks To contribute to the codes and rec