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Head
Christophe Desrayaud
christophe.desrayaud@mines-stetienne.fr
Research fields
- Mechanics and Development Procedures
- Physical mechanics and Interfaces
- Physics and Mechanics for the Metallurgy
Human resources
99 persons
- 47 permanent staff: 22 Professors or assistants + 5 technical and administrative staff
- 53 PhD and Post-PhD students
Expertise, skills and know-how
- Experimental and digital simulation of direct manufacturing processes for synthetic and bio-sourced composites, powder metallurgy and multimaterials
- Thermomechanical processing of alloys, microstructural evolutions, new alloys
- Durability in extreme environments
- Materials for Design and the Creative Industries
Research units
Georges Friedel Laboratory, UMR 5703, CNRS – MINES Saint-Étienne joint laboratory
Scientific Departments
MPE – Mechanics and Proceeded of Development
Contact : Julien Bruchon, julien.bruchon@mines-stetienne.fr
- Direct manufacturing processes
- Multi-materials
- Numerical and physical modelling
- Multi-physics coupling
- Mechanics of solids
- Fluids and porous media
MPI – Physical mechanics and Interfaces
Contact: Frédéric Christien – frederic.christien@mines-stetienne.fr
- Durability in severe environments
- Stress corrosion cracking
- Hydrogen effects
- Surface analysis
- Sensory properties,
- Materials for design
PMM – Physics and Mechanics for the Metallurgy
Contact: Julien Favre, julien.favre@mines-stetienne.fr
- Innovating alloys
- Microstructures
- Volume and surface thermomechanical processing
- High-resolution analysis
- In-situ testing
Platforms
Instrumentation , Fabrication, Testing
Contact: Joël Monnatte, joel.monnatte@mines-stetienne.fr
- Mechanical testing under environment and in-situ (SEM)
- Thermomechanical testing
- Visual rendering
- Sensory analysis
- Prototyping
- Fabrication
Microstructure Caracterisation
Contact: Vincent Barnier, vincent.barnier@mines-stetienne.fr
- Scanning and transmission electron microscopy
- High-resolution EBSD and XRD surface analysis (XPS, Auger, AFM)
- Focused Ion Beam (EquipEx Manutech-USD)
Model Materials and Structures
Contact: Christophe Meunier, christophe.meunier@mines-stetienne.fr
- Cconventional and powder metallurgy
- Model alloys
- Microwave sintering
- Resin injection
- Bio-sourced structural composites
- Organic functional nano-composites, surface treatments
Computing and Digital Simulations
Contact: Nicolas Moulin, nicolas.moulin@mines-stetienne.fr
- Intensive parallel computing
- Level-set methods
- Multi-physics coupling
- 3D microstructure meshing
- Crystal plasticity
- Porous media