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, Rodolphe Le Riche. Application of the Open Hole Tensile Test to the Identification of the in- plane Characteristics of Orthotropic Plates. 2nd International Conference on Composites Testing and Model Identification, Sep 2004, Bristol, United Kingdom. ⟨emse-00691585⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, Rodolphe Le Riche, Alain Vautrin, J.R Lee. Identification of the four orthotropic plate stiffnesses using a single open-hole tensile test. 2004 SEM X International Congress & Exposition on Experimental & Applied Mechanics, Jun 2004, Costa Mesa, United States. pp.24829. ⟨emse-00687052⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, Rodolphe Le Riche. Identification de piézoviscosité en lubrification. Mechanics & Industry, 2003, 4 (6), pp.645-653. ⟨10.1016/j.mecind.2003.09.006⟩. ⟨emse-00686912⟩
  • Marco Gigliotti, Jérôme Molimard, Frédéric Jacquemin, Alain Vautrin. On the nonlinear deformations of thin unsymmetric [0,90] composite plates under hygrothermal loads. Euromech 453 Conference Internal Stresses in Polymer Composite Processing and Service Life, 2003, Saint-Étienne, France. ⟨hal-01008601⟩
  • Isabelle Jubault, J. Molimard, A.A. Lubrecht, J.L. Mansot, Philippe Vergne. In situ pressure and film thickness measurements in rolling/sliding lubricated point contacts. Tribology Letters, 2003, 15 (4), pp.1CDRom. ⟨10.1023/B:TRIL.0000003068.07650.2e⟩. ⟨hal-00454709⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, M. Querry, P. Vergne, M. Hartl, I. Krupka. Inverse evaluation of pressure in elastohydrodynamic point contact.. SEM annual conference, Jun 2002, Milwaukee, United States. ⟨hal-00298495⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, M. Querry, P. Vergne, M. Hartl, I. Krupka, et al.. Differential colorimetry : a tool for the analysis of fluid film lubrication.. Mechanics & Industry, 2002, 3, pp.571-581. ⟨hal-00297582⟩
  • S. Vacher, Jérôme Molimard, H. Gagnaire, Alain Vautrin. Suivi par capteurs à fibres optiques de la fabrication des matériaux composites par le procédé RFI.. 3ème colloque francophone-méthodes et techniques optiques pour l'industrie., Nov 2002, St Aubin de Médoc, France. pp.75. ⟨hal-00299100⟩
  • S. Vacher, Jérôme Molimard, H. Gagnaire, Alain Vautrin. Embedded fiber optic sensors for real time LRI process monitoring.. First european workshop on structural health monitoring., 2002, ENS cachan, France. pp.1126-1133. ⟨hal-00298551⟩
  • J. Molimard, Michel Querry, Philippe Vergne, I. Krupka, M. Hartl. Inverse evaluation of pressure distribution in elastohydrodynamic point contacts. Society of Experimental mechanics Annual Conference, Jun 2002, États-Unis. ⟨hal-00507967⟩