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

  • Baptiste Pierrat, Jérôme Molimard, Paul Calmels, Laurent Navarro, Stéphane Avril. L'évaluation mécanique des orthèses du genou : modélisation par éléments finis. Données préliminaires.. 27ème Congrès de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation de la SOFMER, Oct 2012, Toulouse, France. ⟨hal-00778269⟩
  • Peng Wang, Sylvain Drapier, Jérôme Molimard, Alain Vautrin, Jean-Christophe Minni. Numerical and experimental analyses of resin infusion manufacturing processes of composite materials. Journal of Composite Materials, 2012, 46 (13), pp.1617-1631. ⟨10.1177/0021998311421990⟩. ⟨hal-00736359⟩
  • Baptiste Pierrat, Jérôme Molimard, Paul Calmels, Laurent Navarro, Stéphane Avril. Efficiency and comfort of knee braces: A parametric study based on computational modelling. 10th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Apr 2012, Berlin, Germany. ⟨hal-00777915⟩
  • Baptiste Pierrat, Jérôme Molimard, Paul Calmels, Laurent Navarro, Stéphane Avril. Experimental analysis of skin sliding on the knee joint using orthosis device.. ICEM 15 (International Conference on Experimental Mechanics), Jul 2012, Porto, Portugal. ⟨hal-00778265⟩
  • Peng Wang, Jérôme Molimard, Sylvain Drapier, Alain Vautrin, Jean-Christophe Minni. Monitoring the resin infusion manufacturing process under industrial environment using distributed sensors. Journal of Composite Materials, 2012, 46 (6), pp.691-706. ⟨10.1177/0021998311410479⟩. ⟨hal-00688460⟩
  • Daniel Zymelka, Sébastien Saunier, Jérôme Molimard. Contactless Monitoring of Shrinkage and Temperature Distribution during Hybrid Microwave Sintering. Advanced Engineering Materials, 2011, 13 (9), pp.901-905. ⟨10.1002/adem.201000354⟩. ⟨hal-00851285⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard. Implementation of the direct evaluation of strains using a phase analysis code for random patterns. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2011, 49 (9-10), pp.1194-1200. ⟨10.1016/j.optlaseng.2011.04.016⟩. ⟨hal-00851263⟩
  • Christian Gogu, Weiqi Yin, Raphael Haftka, Peter Ifju, Jérôme Molimard, et al.. Approche bayesienne pour gérer les incertitudes dans l'identification à partir de mesures de champ. CFM 2011 - 20ème Congrès Français de Mécanique, Aug 2011, Besançon, France. ⟨hal-03421313⟩
  • Jérôme Molimard. Implementation of the direct evaluation of strains using a phase analysis code for random patterns. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2011, 49 (9), pp.1194-1200. ⟨10.1016/j.optlaseng.2011.04.016⟩. ⟨hal-00620854⟩
  • Wajdi Dandach, Jérôme Molimard, Pascal Picart. Direct strain and slope measurement using 2D DSPSI Title. Advanced Materials Research, 2011, 324, pp.384-387. ⟨10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.324.384⟩. ⟨hal-00626063⟩