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

  • Boris Dousteyssier, Jérôme Molimard, Chafiaa Hamitouche-Djabou, Woo-Suck Han, Eric Stindel. Prediction of the modifications due to a therapeutic intervention: application to a total knee joint replacement. ESB 2015 : 21st Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, Jul 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. ⟨hal-01600001⟩
  • Rébecca Bonnaire, M.O Lapointe, Y Roumieu, J M Molimard, P Calmels, et al.. Mechanical characterization of lumbar belts by measuring stress and interface pressure . 29ème congrès de la Société Française de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, May 2014, Marseille, France. ⟨hal-01411268⟩
  • Rébecca Bonnaire, Marion Verhaeghe, Jérôme Molimard, Paul Calmels, Reynald Convert. Mesure de pression d’interface pour l’évaluation des ceintures de soutien lombaire. 29ème congrès de la Société Française de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, May 2014, Marseille, France. ⟨hal-01411258⟩
  • Rébecca Bonnaire, M Verhaeghe, J Molimard, P Calmels, R Convert. EVALUATION OF PRESSURE MAPPING SYSTEM FOR TESTING MEDICAL DEVICES. 16th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, Jul 2014, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-01411275⟩
  • T.T.Q Nguyen, J M Molimard, A M Vautrin, J M Béraud. Failure mode of thermohydroscopically aged composites: case of NC2 © carbon fibre laminates. 16th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics, Jul 2014, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-01406449⟩
  • Rébecca Bonnaire, Marion Verhaeghe, Jérôme Molimard, Paul Calmels, Reynald Convert. Characterization of a pressure measuring system for the evaluation of medical devices. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 2014, 228 (12), pp.1264-1274. ⟨10.1177/0954411914562871⟩. ⟨hal-01137411⟩
  • Fanette Chassagne, Reynald Convert, Jérôme Molimard, Pierre Badel. Combined experimental and numerical approach for the assessment of pressure generated by elastic compression bandage. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2014, 17, pp.166 - 167. ⟨10.1080/10255842.2014.931646⟩. ⟨hal-01405690⟩
  • Baptiste Pierrat, Jérôme Molimard, Laurent Navarro, Stéphane Avril, Paul Calmels. Evaluation of the mechanical efficiency of knee orthoses: a combined experimental-numerical approach. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 2014, 228 (6), pp.533-546. ⟨10.1177/0954411914533944⟩. ⟨hal-01054872⟩
  • Rébecca Bonnaire, Woo Suck Han, Jérôme Molimard, Paul Calmels, Reynald Convert. Biomechanical analysis and modeling of lumbar belt: parametric study. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2014, 17 suppl 1, pp.62 - 63. ⟨10.1080/10255842.2014.931123⟩. ⟨emse-01108661⟩
  • Michel Bornert, Fabrice Brémand, Pascal Doumalin, Jean-Christophe Dupré, Marina Fazzini, et al.. Addendum to: Assessment of Digital Image Correlation Measurement Errors: Methodology and Results [Experimental Mechanics 49(3)]. Experimental Mechanics, 2013, page 1. ⟨10.1007/s11340-012-9704-3⟩. ⟨hal-01133567⟩