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

  • Gustavo Silva, Jérôme Molimard, Rodolphe Le Riche, Alain Vautrin. Integrated Strategy for Identification of Material Properties using OFFMs. Photomechanics, 2006, Clermont-Ferrand, France. pp.184-185. ⟨hal-00295022⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin, J.-M. Béraud, P. Henrat. Contribution to composite T beam design in industrial environment by using the grid technique. Conference on Composites Testing and Model Identification CompTest, 2006, Porto, Portugal. ⟨hal-00295076⟩
  • Jung-Ryul Lee, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin, Yves Surrel. Diffraction grating interferometers for mechanical characterisations of advanced fabric laminates. Optics and Laser Technology, 2006, 38 (1), pp.51-66. ⟨10.1016/j.optlastec.2004.10.002⟩. ⟨hal-00293005⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, D. Bounda, Alain Vautrin. Quantitative strain and slope evaluation on a double lap joint tensile test using ESPSI. Speckles, from grains to flowers, Sep 2006, Nîmes, France. pp.63412R.1-63412R.6. ⟨hal-00293360⟩
  • M. Demirel, Laurent Robert, Jérôme Molimard, Jean-José Orteu, Alain Vautrin. Simulation par la méthode des matrices de transfert de l'effet de la biréfringence dans un capteur à réseau de Bragg fibré. 25èmes Journées Nationales d'Optique Guidée (JNOG), 2006, Metz, France. pp.324-326. ⟨hal-00294474⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, Michel Querry, Philippe Vergne, I. Krupka, M. Hartl. Calculation of pressure distribution in EHD point contacts from experimentally determinated film thickness. Tribology International, 2005, 38 (4), pp.391-401. ⟨10.1016/j.triboint.2003.11.011⟩. ⟨hal-00143011⟩
  • Marco Gigliotti, F. Jacquemin, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin. Transition Saddle-Cylinder Shape of Thin Unsymmetric [0/90] Square Plates under Hygrothermal Loads: Fringe Projection Method and Variational Approach. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2005, 3-4, pp.217-222. ⟨10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.3-4.217⟩. ⟨hal-00294703⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, Rodolphe Le Riche, Alain Vautrin, J. R. Lee. Identification of the Four Orthotropic Plate Stiffnesses Using a Single Open-hole Tensile Test. Experimental Mechanics, 2005, 45 (5), pp.404-411. ⟨10.1007/BF02427987⟩. ⟨hal-00409735⟩
  • Marco Gigliotti, Frédéric Jacquemin, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin. Transition saddle-cylinder shape of thin unsymmetric [0/90] square plates under hygrothermal loads: fringe projection method and variational approach. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2005, 3-4, pp.217-222. ⟨10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.3-4.217⟩. ⟨hal-01009069⟩
  • J. Molimard, K. Derrien, K. Triconnet, Y. Surrel, D. Baptiste. Détermination des champs de déformations par Moiré interférométrique dans les constituants d'un matériau composite. Instrumentation, Mesure, Métrologie, 2004, pp. ⟨hal-00114054⟩