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

174 documents

  • Rébecca Bonnaire, Jérôme Molimard, Paul Calmels, Reynald Convert. Simulation of a low back pain treatment using a generic finite element model. 19th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, ESB 2013, Aug 2013, Patras, Greece. pp.S- 31.3. ⟨hal-00875216⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, Laurent Navarro. Uncertainty on gringe projection technique: A Monte-Carlo-based approach. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2013, 51 (7), pp.840-847. ⟨10.1016/j.optlaseng.2013.01.023⟩. ⟨hal-00834909⟩
  • Daniel Zymelka, Sébastien Saunier, Dominique Goeuriot, Jérôme Molimard. Densification and thermal gradient evolution of alumina during microwave sintering at 2.45 GHz. Ceramics International, 2013, 39 (3), pp.3269-3277. ⟨10.1016/j.ceramint.2012.10.015⟩. ⟨hal-00835466⟩
  • Baptiste Pierrat, Jérôme Molimard, Laurent Navarro, Stéphane Avril, Paul Calmels. Evaluation of the mechanical efficiency of knee braces: A combined experimental-numerical approach. 19th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, ESB 2013, Aug 2013, Patras, Greece. pp.S- 55.2. ⟨hal-00875150⟩
  • Sam L Evans, Gaetan L Boyer, Jerome L Molimard, Hassan Zahouani. IDENTIFICATION OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF HUMAN SKIN IN VIVO. 11th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Apr 2013, Salt Lake City, United States. ⟨hal-01406391⟩
  • Rébecca Bonnaire, Jérôme Molimard, Paul Calmels, Reynald Convert. Biomechanical caracterisation of lumbar belt by full-field techniques: Preliminary results. PhotoMechanics 2013, May 2013, Montpellier, France. ⟨hal-00842833⟩
  • Christian Gogu, W. Yin, Raphael T. Haftka, Peter G. Ifju, Jérôme Molimard, et al.. Bayesian Identification of Elastic Constants in Multi-Directional Laminate from Moiré Interferometry Displacement Fields. Experimental Mechanics, 2013, 53 (4), pp.629-635. ⟨10.1007/s11340-012-9671-8⟩. ⟨emse-00728776⟩
  • Baptiste Pierrat, Jérôme Molimard, Paul Calmels, Laurent Navarro, Stéphane Avril, et al.. Efficiency of knee braces: A biomechanical approach based on computational modeling.. ESDA 2012 ( ASME 2012 11th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis), Jul 2012, Nantes, France. pp.ESDA2012-82451. ⟨hal-00778268⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard, Yves Surrel. Grid Method, Moiré and Deflectometry. Grediac, Michel and Hild, François. Full-Field Measurements and Identification in Solid Mechanics, Wiley, 2012. ⟨hal-01080734⟩
  • Aaron Romo, Stéphane Avril, Pierre Badel, Jérôme Molimard, Ambroise Duprey, et al.. Mechanical characterization of the thoracic ascending aortae. IRCOBI (International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury), Sep 2012, France. IRC 12-72 pp. 638-649. ⟨hal-00778322⟩