Jérôme MOLIMARD

  • Responsibilities and Duties

    Co-director of “Science, Engineering, Health” Doctoral School

  • Skills

    Experimental mechanics / Soft tissues biomechanics / Medical Device / Tribology

  • Research Topics

    Intéraction of textile-based medical devices and human body
    On-going projects:
    . Capture and Modelling of the Shod Foot in Motion (coll. INRIA Alps, funding ANR)
    . Mechanical Characterization of Orthotics: Application to Lumbar Belts in Low Back Pain (Coll. IMT Albi, CHU-SE, L&R)
    . Subcutaneous modeling: in vitro and in silico approaches (Coll. Nemera)
    . Digital signatures of the forearm cardiovascular system (Coll. CEA)
    . EPAD-C2 – Understanding the measurement of girdle dissociation in falls in the elderly. Case-control study (Coll. CHU)

  • Teaching Areas

    Master level:
    . Experimental methods
    . Biomechanics
    . Medical Devices and sensors

    SIS doctoral school:
    . Experimental mechanics

  • Education

    1994: Master of Engineering, Master of Mechanics, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
    1999: PhD in Mechanics, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon – dir. L. Flamand, Ph. Vergne
    2007: Habilitation, Université Jean Monnet

  • Career History

    1994-1996: Alternative civilian service, Univ. Joseph Fourier
    1996-1999: Junior engineer, Institut de Recherche sur la Sidérurgie, Maizières-lès-Metz
    1999: Junior engineer, INSAVALOR, Lyon
    2000-2011: Assistant professor, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, Mines Saint-Etienne
    depuis 2011: Full professor, Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering, Mines Saint-Etienne

  • Main Publications

    Book:
    . J Molimard, Experimental mechanics of solids and structures, John Wiley & Sons, 2016
    . J Molimard, Biomedical devices and sensors, Wiley, 2024

  • Distinctions

    . Knight’s title in the Order of the Academic Palms, Jan 2018
    . Hetteny Award for the best publication, Society for Experimental Mechanics, Jun 2011

173 documents

  • Christian Gogu, Raphael T. Hafkta, Rodolphe Le Riche, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin. Illustrating the advantages of a Bayesian over a least squares approach to material properties identification. ESM Centennial Mechanics Conference: Liviu Librescu Session, May 2008, Blacksburg, United States. ⟨emse-00687650⟩
  • M. Demirel, Laurent Robert, Jérôme Molimard, Jean-José Orteu, Alain Vautrin. Mesure de gradients de déformations au sein de matériaux composites par capteur à fibre optique à réseau de Bragg.. Quinzièmes Journées Nationales des Composites, 2007, Marseille, France. pp.781-788 ;ISBN 978-2-87717-090-1. ⟨hal-00294476⟩
  • S. Vacher, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin. Inverse Analysis of Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Measurements. Xth SEM Annual conference on Experimental Mechanics, 2007, Springfield, United States. ⟨hal-00294631⟩
  • Gustavo Silva, Rodolphe Le Riche, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin. Exact and efficient interpolation using finite elements shape functions. 2007. ⟨hal-00122640v2⟩
  • S. Vacher, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin. Monitoring of the LRI process by optical fiber Bragg gratings. ICEM'13 Congress, 2007, Alexandroupolis, Greece. pp.641-642. ⟨hal-00294637⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, K. Zhani, C. Desrayaud, M. Darrieulat. Extension of the grid method to large displacements. International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM'13 Congress), 2007, Alexandroupolis, Greece. 643-644 (part: C). ⟨hal-00294449⟩
  • S.V Lomov, Dmitry S. Ivanov, Ignaas Verpoest, Masaru Zako, Tetsusei Kurashiki, et al.. Full-field strain measurements for validation of meso-FE analysis of textile composites. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 2007, 39 (6), pp.1218-1231. ⟨10.1016/j.compositesa.2007.09.011⟩. ⟨emse-00502167⟩
  • Gustavo Silva, Rodolphe Le Riche, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin. Aspects numériques de la comparaison éléments finis-mesures de champs Application à l'identification de propriétés de matériaux. 8e Colloque national en calcul des structures, CSMA, May 2007, Giens, France. ⟨hal-01509272⟩
  • Raul R. Cordero, Jérôme Molimard, Amalia Martínez, Fernando Labbe. Uncertainty analysis of temporal phase-stepping algorithms for interferometry. Optics Communications, 2007, 275 (1), pp.144-155. ⟨10.1016/j.optcom.2007.02.057⟩. ⟨hal-00294751⟩
  • G. Silva, Rodolphe Le Riche, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin, Christophe Galerne. Identification of Material Properties using FEMU: Application to the Open Hole Tensile Test. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2007, 7-8, pp.73-78. ⟨10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.7-8.73⟩. ⟨hal-00294002⟩