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Professor Mines-ParisTech
Mechanics of Materials

Research interest

• Mechanics of materials
• Constitutive equations at the macroscale, plasticity, viscoplasticity, thermomechanical loadings
• Micromechanical approach for deformation and damage phenomena, crystal plasticity
• Multiphysics approaches, phase transformation
• Computational mechanics
• Structural computation using finite element analyses
• Z-set/ZéBuLoN code

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Teaching

• Mines Paris : Course of mechanics of materials (1993-2011), Finite Element (2002-2008)
• Mines/Athens : Course on Non Linear Computational Mechanics (2009-present)

Current research

• Field measurements and crystal plasticity
• Multiscale study of the behaviour and failure of bainitic steels
• Numerical simulation of laser direct deposition
• Multiscale modeling of recrystallisation in metals
• Development of a phase field method in a finite element code
• Prévision Rof crack initiation in random multiaxial fatigue
• Failure of the irradiated bainitic steels
• Crack initiation and micro-propagation in polycrystalline aggregates
• Contact in parallel FE computations

Education

• Doctor of Sciences (DSc) (P. Germain, J.-L. Chaboche, J. Lemaitre, D. François, A. Pineau, A. Zaoui) - University of Paris VI (1987)
• PhD in mechanics of materials (Thesis supervisors : J.-L. Chaboche, J. Lemaitre) - University of Paris VI (1979)
• Civil Engineering Diploma, Ecole Centrale Paris (1975)

Professional experience

• 2006-2011 : Director of the UMR CNRS 7633
• 2008-2011 : Deputy Director of the Department "Mechanics and Materials" Mines ParisTech
• Since october 1994 : Professor at Ecole des Mines de Paris
• 1984-1994 : Assistant professor at Centre des Matériaux de l'Ecole des Mines de Paris
• 1978-1984 : Research engineer at Onera Châtillon, Direction des Structures
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