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

  • Fanette Chassagne, Frédéric Martin, Pierre Badel, Reynald Convert, Pascal Giraux, et al.. Experimental investigation of pressure applied on the lower leg by elastic compression bandage. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2015, 43 (12), pp.2967-2977. ⟨10.1007/s10439-015-1352-1⟩. ⟨hal-01251853⟩
  • Rébecca Bonnaire, W.-S Han, J Molimard, P Calmels, R Convert. Parametric study of lumber belts in the case of low back pain with effects of patients' specific characteristics. 13th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering (CMBBE 2015) and 2015 Conference on Imaging and Visualization, Sep 2015, Montréal, Canada. ⟨hal-01406487⟩
  • Boris Dousteyssier, Jérôme Molimard, Chafiaa Hamitouche-Djabou, W.S Han, Eric Stindel. Personalized knee modeling for the prediction of biomedical impact of TKA on ligament loading. CMBBE 2015 & Imaging and Visualization, Sep 2015, Montréal, Canada. ⟨hal-01406503⟩
  • Mathieu Taroni, Jérôme Molimard, Thibaut Cachon, Eric Viguier, Claude Carozzo. Robert Jones bandage pressure range assessment using a pressure mapping system and application to band calibration. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2015, Special Issue: French Society of Biomechanics, 18 (Suppl.1), pp.2068-2069. ⟨10.1080/10255842.2015.1069560⟩. ⟨hal-01275932⟩
  • Baptiste Pierrat, Jérôme Molimard, Laurent Navarro, Stéphane Avril, Paul Calmels. Evaluation of the mechanical efficiency of knee braces based on computational modelling. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2015, 18, pp.646-661. ⟨emse-01092883⟩
  • Rébecca Bonnaire, Jérôme Molimard, Woo Suck Han, Paul Calmels. Étude biomécanique du comportement mécanique des ceintures lombaires par méthodes de champ. 22ème Congrès Français de Mécanique, Aug 2015, Lyon, France. ⟨hal-01411586⟩
  • Lucas Tendela, Jérôme Molimard. 3D full-field strain measurements in soft tissues using Digital Volume Correlation. 6th international conference on Optical Measurement Techniques for Structures and Systems 2015, Apr 2015, Anvers, Belgium. ⟨hal-01406510⟩
  • Baptiste Pierrat, Carine Millot, Jérôme Molimard, Laurent Navarro, Paul Calmels, et al.. Characterisation of Knee Brace Migration and Associated Skin Deformation During Flexion by Full-Field Measurements. Experimental Mechanics, 2015, 55 (2), pp.349-360. ⟨10.1007/s11340-014-9947-2⟩. ⟨hal-01138990⟩
  • B. Pierrat, R. Oullion, J. Molimard, L. Navarro, M. Combreas, et al.. Characterisation of in-vivo mechanical action of knee braces regarding their anti-drawer effect. The Knee, 2015, 22 (2), pp.80-87. ⟨10.1016/j.knee.2014.12.001⟩. ⟨hal-01137491⟩
  • Fanny Frauziols, Jérôme Molimard, Laurent Navarro, Pierre Badel, Magalie Viallon, et al.. Prediction of the Biomechanical Effects of Compression Therapy by Finite Element Modeling and Ultrasound Elastography. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2015, 62 (4), pp.1011 - 1019. ⟨10.1109/TBME.2014.2378553⟩. ⟨hal-01139174⟩