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

  • Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin, Jean-Marc Béraud, Patrick Henrat. Méthode de grille : contribution à la conception d'une structure en matériaux composites en milieu industriel. CFM 2007 - 18ème Congrès Français de Mécanique, Aug 2007, Grenoble, France. ⟨hal-03360420⟩
  • G. Silva, Rodolphe Le Riche, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin, Christophe Galerne. Aspects numériques de la comparaison éléments finis - mesures de champs: application à l'identification de propriétés de matériaux. 8ième colloque national en calcul de structures, 2007, Giens, France. pp.287-292. ⟨hal-00294189⟩
  • O. Siret, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin. Identification des caractéristiques du joint collé d'un assemblage à double recouvrement.. 18ème Congrès Français de Mécanique, 2007, Grenoble, France. pp.édition sur CD-ROM. ⟨hal-00294822⟩
  • Mustafa Demirel, Laurent Robert, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin, Jean-José Orteu. Strain and temperature discrimination and measurement using superimposed fiber bragg grating sensor. 13th International conference on experimental mechanics, Jul 2007, Alexandroupolis, Greece. p.639-640. ⟨hal-01764805⟩
  • Michel Querry, Philippe Vergne, Jérôme Molimard. Relevance of Colorimetric Interferometry for Thin Surface Film Contaminants. Developments in Surface Contamination and Cleaning, William Andrew Publisher; Elsevier, pp.675-690, 2007, ⟨10.1016/B978-081551555-5.50014-9⟩. ⟨hal-00381273⟩
  • Marco Gigliotti, Frédéric Jacquemin, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin. Modelling and Experimental Characterisation of Hygrothermoelastic Stress in Polymer Matrix Composites. Macromolecular Symposia, 2007, 247 (1), pp.199-210. ⟨10.1002/masy.200750123⟩. ⟨hal-00294736⟩
  • 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⟩
  • Marco Gigliotti, Jérôme Molimard, Frédéric Jacquemin, Alain Vautrin. On the nonlinear deformations of thin unsymmetric 0/90 composite plates under hygrothermal loads. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 2006, 37 (4), pp.624-629. ⟨10.1016/j.compositesa.2005.05.003⟩. ⟨hal-00292950⟩
  • S. Vacher, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin, H. Gagnaire, P. Henrat. Monitoring of Resin Infusion Process by Embedded Optical Fibres. ECCM 12 12 th European Conference on Composite Materials, Sep 2006, Biarritz, France. 8 p. ⟨hal-00293397⟩