Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences - Centre Telč

ITAM works on scientific research in the field of solid phase mechanics, oriented particularly on micromechanics, biomechanics of solids, statistical dynamics of systems and media, nonlinear mechanics of systems, processes of failure of materials, mechanics of multifunctional materials, mechanics of particular media, and computer and numerical mechanics. It consists of a set of research laboratories providing complex information on historic materials and objects using advanced methods and technologies – X-ray radiology, X-ray computed tomography and complex material analyses. X-ray radiology applies one-shot or tile-by-tile large-area scanning of objects (flat objects, paintings) up to 1000 mm x 800 mm, available resolution in order of units of um); Advanced computed X-ray microtomography with resolution down to 1 um per pixel exploits a world-unique double source device protected under European patent and the unique detector registering individual photons with resolution of 2560x2560 pixels with the pixel pitch of 55 um, allowing resolution in order of units of micrometers per voxel; and complex material analyses exclusively serving to Heritage Science are concentrated under one roof (XRF, ICP-MS, GC-MS, FTIR, TIMS, AMS, PIXE, SEM-EDX, OSL, TL), which gives a unique opportunity to accelerate and optimise generation of data.