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SMACH is an innovative start-up promoting the introduction of mechanical engineering into conservation and cultural heritage studies.<\/p>\n
Based in France, our team works on projects all over Europe.<\/p>\n
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Our experimental approach is key to achieve breakthroughs, at the interface between arts and engineering<\/strong>. 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Our reactivity allows us to intervene on a location within a day if necessary.<\/p>\n Thanks to our international network, we are always at the cutting-edge of engineering and research for the dynamic and quasi-static monitoring of structures’ integrity.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row custom_padding_last_edited=”on|phone” admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”66px||66px||true|false” custom_margin_tablet=”66px||66px||true|false” custom_margin_phone=”66px||44px||false|false” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”66px|88px|66px|88px|true|true” custom_padding_tablet=”66px|88px|66px|88px|true|true” custom_padding_phone=”11px|11px|0px|11px|false|true” border_width_all=”9px” border_color_all=”rgba(0,0,165,0.06)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” 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Her expertise spans from mechanical engineering to cutting-edge science, in collaboration with various institutions throughout Europe and abroad including the Netherlands, Great-Britain, Italy, France, La Reunion.<\/p>\n C\u00e9cilia has also participated in international research projects with LRMH’s cultural heritage research centre, the Imperial College in London, Glasgow University, as well as museums, such as the Louvre, where she has been involved in the annual structural integrity monitoring of the Mona Lisa.<\/p>\n Personal website: ceciliagauvin.com<\/a> Sales Director<\/strong><\/p>\n Gilles Tournillon is associate director of S-MA-C-H and the founder of the Atelier Tournillon. 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Since then, she specialised in the conservation and analysis of friable media drawings, in various European museums (Rijksmuseum, Louvre Museum, Musee Marmottan-Monet).<\/p>\n This practical experience inspires her to develop her activities around 3 axis: applied research in conservation, multidisciplinary projects and mechanics of cultural heritage as diagnosis tool.<\/p>\n Since 2014, besides her conservation activities, she has been doing a PhD at the Technical University of Delft, in the Aerospace Engineering faculty. With an experimental and holistic approach, she studies the fatigue behaviour of friable media subjected to vibrations.<\/p>\n LinkedIn: leila-sauvage-68481530<\/a> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SMACH Science & Mechanicsin Conservation of HeritageSMACH is an innovative start-up promoting the introduction of mechanical engineering into conservation and cultural heritage studies. 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