Mechanics

The main objectives of the Mechanics Department are to understand and control interactions at interfaces and microstructural evolutions in order to improve the integrity and functionality of mechanical, thermal and energy systems.

The originality of the department lies in the complexity of the physical phenomena studied by considering "severe conditions" (fast dynamics, turbulence, heat transfers, ...) and phenomena at interfaces.

The department's research work naturally finds its applications in the transportation, Human Mobility and Disability sector, particularly through the predictions of the behavior of living materials in interaction with the environment. This research is attached to the structuring projects CISIT, ELSAT2020 and RITMEA, but also to the CNRS Research Federation n°3733 "Transports Terrestres & Mobilité", piloted by the LAMIH.

The department has a great experimental potential backed by numerous platforms and develops transverse projects with the other departments of the laboratory. It benefits from several schemes supported by the INSIS :

• Joint laboratory SWIT'LAB " Science for Wheelset Innovative Technology" inaugurated on June 20, 2018 in connection with Professor Eli Saùl Puchi-Cabrera's Chair of Excellence on the topic of improving the performance of railway rolling elements, structural lightening and process-product innovation,
• Federative platform CONTRAERO dedicated to flow control inaugurated on September 13, 2017.

Research group SURFTOPO (Topography of Surfaces) n°2077 created on January 1, 2020 aiming to compare and develop common methodologies for data acquisition, processing and interpretation of surface topography.