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The SMS Center at Mines Saint-Étienne conducts research, academics, and innovation activities focused on the design, processing, characterization, and behavior of materials and structures. It supports industrial transitions by integrating challenges related to material performance, durability, and environmental impact.

Joining the SMS Center means entering a high-level scientific environment at the interface of materials engineering, mechanics, numerical modeling, and ecodesign, in close collaboration with industry.

Students and recent graduates

Are you interested in materials science, structural mechanics, or sustainable engineering?

• Civil Engineering degree program with tracks focused on materials, mechanics, or industrial transitions
• Doctoral and postdoctoral programs
• Research projects, internships in our laboratories

Researchers and Research Professors

You are developing work related to:

• Advanced characterization of materials (metals, polymers, composites, ceramics)
• Mechanical and physicochemical behavior under extreme or multi-scale conditions
• Numerical modeling of materials and structures, or life cycle integration

The SMS Center offers you:

• State-of-the-art scientific equipment, accessible through collaborative projects
• An interdisciplinary research environment rooted in the industrial fabric
• National and European partnerships within major projects

Contact our teams to collaborate on a project or propose a scientific mobility opportunity.

Companies and industrial partners

Do you have an innovation project related to materials or processes?
The SMS Center provides:

• recognized expertise in co-developing materials solutions;
• customized testing and analysis in the laboratory or under real conditions;
• access to technology platforms for prototyping, processing, characterization, accelerated aging, etc.;
• R&D collaborations, CIFRE doctoral programs, or specific services.

Get in touch with our teams to review the collaboration arrangements best suited to your project.

A strong foundation in industrial transitions

The SMS Center is part of a network of academic and industrial collaborations, with key players in the materials, metallurgy, energy, transportation, health, and environmental sectors. It also contributes to several major projects (ANR, PEPR, Horizon Europe, etc.) and industrial chairs.

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