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See also :
The development of international partnerships
LCPC maintains ongoing relationships with a number of
outstanding technical resource centers throughout the
world: the United States, Quebec, Japan and South Korea.
- United States: The relationship with
the Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center has been
renewed and bolstered by the formal participation
of the American partner in a FERHL project within
the scope of the 5th RTD Framework Program; LCPC has
been named leader of this project. Moreover, LCPC
organized a Franco-American workshop in 2001 at its
Nantes facility on the topic of pavement maintenance
management methods. A mixed American delegation composed
of public service agencies and corporations attended
this workshop.
- Quebec: The joint efforts initiated
between the LCPC, the Ministry of Transport, this
Ministry's laboratory and the University of Laval,
France, are being pursued; these efforts have focused
on: full-scale testing of pavement reaction to freezing/thawing
effects, mix design of bituminous macadam, performance
indices in pavement design, and an overall evaluation
of the state of civil engineering structures. A tripartite
LCPC - University of Laval - University of Sherbrooke
relationship was also set up on the topic of high
performance concretes.
- Japan: the LCPC continues to enjoy
an active and constructive relationship with the Public
Works Research Institute. A series of mutually-beneficial
researcher exchanges have already occured. During
2001, LCPC held the 3rd joint LCPC-PWRI seminar in
Nantes; seminar sessions dealt with pavement materials,
natural risks and advanced construction methods.
- South Korea: A cooperative agreement
is in effect with the Korean Institute of Construction
Technologies; this agreement pertains to both researcher
and documentation exchanges.
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The LCPC maintains very close ties with several international
or European technical associations. Some have demanded
that the laboratory to host their Web site. This is the
case for the following associations:
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The
World Road Association (AIPCR / PIARC), whose
membership includes some one hundred governments
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Network
of European Centrifuge for Environmental Research
(NECER), which encompasses eleven European research
laboratories http://heberge.lcpc.fr/necer/
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The
WAVE Project within the Transport Program
sponsored by the DG VII (European Commission), which
concerns the weigh-in-motion and combines the efforts
of eleven partners and associated partners from
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Lagrange
laboratory - the "Laboratoire Lagrange"
is a European Grouping for Research. It brings together
researchers of CNRS, CNR, Universities of Montpellier
and Rome (Tor Vergata), Ecole nationale des Ponts
et Chaussées and LCPC. Its research relates
particularly to multipurpose materials, contact
and shocks of solids, granular materials, the mechanics
of historical buildings, dynamics and large bridges.
http://heberge.lcpc.fr/lagrange/
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The LAVIA Project is the French project of experimentation
and evaluation of the limiting device speed adapting
at the authorized speed.
http://heberge.lcpc.fr/lavia/
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