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Jean Benoit LECAM

University of Rennes, France

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Jean-Benoît Le Cam, University Professor at the Rennes Institute of Technology, is renowned for his work on polymers, which he carries out with his team at the Rennes Institute of Physics. He specialises in the study of the thermomechanical behaviour and durability of elastomers. He heads the ELAST-D3 laboratory (Continental - University of Rennes - CNRS), which aims to develop new approaches to the science of elastomer materials for the decarbonisation of mobility. This result shows that partnership research/promotion and scientific excellence are not mutually exclusive, quite the contrary.

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Recent advances in the experimental thermomechanics of elastomers. How to deal with large deformations?

University of Tours, France

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Stéphane MÉO was born in 1972 near Lyon, France. He obtained his baccalaureate in mathematics in 1990 and was admitted to the preparatory class (mathematics option) for the scientific high school. After these three years, he then integrated the ESIM (Mechanical School of Marseille, renamed now Centrale Méditerranée) where he graduated in 1996 as a mechanical engineer. In the same years, he also completed a Master in Modelling and Mechanics at the University of Aix-Marseille. In 2000, he obtained his PhD (under the supervision of Professors Débordes and Boukamel) in Mechanics (Thermoviscoelastic models in large strain for elastomers) from the University of Aix-Marseille. In 2012, he obtained his HDR (French post-doctoral degree allowing its holder to supervise doctoral students and also the last degree to apply for functions of professor). He worked as Associate Professor in ENSIB (Mechanical School of Bourges, one year in 2001), in ESIM (2 years 2001-2002). In 2003, he was offered a position as Lecturer at the University of Tours (Polytechnic Engineering School / Department of Mechanics), where he became Professor in 2014. In 2018, he initiated (with Professors Bailly and Blond) the creation of the Mechanics Laboratory, of which he was initially deputy director and is now director (since 2021). His research activities are mainly focused on the characterization and mechanical modeling of elastomers.

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Mechanics of Elastomers: Constitutive Laws in Large Deformations Dialogues:

Experiments, Modeling, and Simulation. Examples and Parameter Identification

UCLouvain, Belgique

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Issam is a tenured full professor ("professeur ordinaire") at Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), a M.S. ("D.E.A.") in Applied Mechanics from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) and a M.S. ("ingénieur principal") in Civil Engineering from Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis (Tunisia).  Issam was also a post-doc at University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of a book and more than 80 scientific papers, the advisor of several Ph.D. theses and the principal investigator of a number of funded research projects. He is regularly invited to give talks at various conferences and teach graduate-level courses in different countries. Issam’s expertise is on nonlinear mechanics of solid materials and structures, computational mechanics of materials and multi-scale modeling of heterogeneous materials in a broad sense (e.g., composites with a polymer matrix reinforced with short, long or continuous fibers). Issam’s professional experience is both in academia and industry. Indeed, he has consulted for several companies and was a member of technical staff at Centric Engineering Systems in Palo Alto, California.  In May 2003, Issam co-founded e-Xstream engineering with Dr. Roger Assaker and assumed the position of Director of R&D. The company develops the Digimat software suite for multi-scale modeling of composite materials and structures. In September 2012, it was acquired by MSC Software, which is now part of Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence Division.

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Advanced course in homogenization

 Giuseppe SACCOMANDI

Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy

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Giuseppe Saccomandi is full Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria of the University of Perugia. He was educated at the University of Perugia. He has held positions at the University of Roma La Sapienza and the University of Perugia, University of Lecce. He has held visiting appointments at University Paris VI (1991), University of Virginia (1999, 2001), French CNRS (2005, 2006) and Univeristy of Aix-Marseille (2012). His research interests are in rational mechanics (mechanics of continua and nonlinear elasticity) and applied mathematics (molecular biology and bi omechanics first), in which fields he has authored or co-authored four invited book chapters, over 160 publications in refereed archival journals, seven chapters in books, a textbook and numerous Conference Proceedings papers.  Saccomandi is a member of the Gruppo Nazionale di Fisica Matematica of Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica and the International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (ISIMM). He also coordinated three courses at the International Center for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) of Udine and three mini-workshops at Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. He is contributing editor for the International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics and in the editorial boards of Int. J. of Engineering Science, Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Advance in Mechanics and Mathematics, Frontiers in Materials. He has served as guest editor for for Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, IMA J. of Applied Math and Acta Applicandae Mathematica. He was national coordinator of a PRIN 2004 and a PRIN 2009 project.

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What is really significant about looking for a mathematical model of nonlinear elasticity?

Oscar LOPEZ-PAMIES

University of Illinois, USA

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Oscar Lopez-Pamies is the Colonel Harry F. & Frankie M. Lovell Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which he joined in 2011. He received his B.A. degree in Mathematics and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2001 and 2002, and his Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania and Ecole Polytechnique (France) in 2006. His research focuses on the development of mathematical theories and associated numerical methods to describe, explain, and predict the mechanical and physical behavior, stability, and failure of solids. He is the recipient of a number of academic honors, including the Young Scientist Prize from the European Mechanics Society in 2009, the NSF CAREER award in 2011, the Journal of Applied Mechanics award in 2014, and the Young Investigator Medal from the Society of Engineering Science in 2017.

Course Title & Abstract : Modelling the Mechanics & Physics of Elastomeric Composites from the Bottom Up

Noureddine DAMIL

Centrale Casablanca, Morocco

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Noureddine Damil has been a professor at Ecole Centrale Casablanca (ECC) since 2020. He previously held the position of Professor of Higher Education in the Physics Department of the Ben M'sik Faculty of Sciences at Hassan II University in Casablanca from September 1984 to August 2023. In 1984, he obtained a doctorate from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, on the subject of cellular buckling of thin structures. In June 1990 he defended a doctoral thesis entitled  entitled de la théorie de la bifurcation au calcul des structures at Hassan II University. He is a founding member of the LIMAT Engineering and Materials Laboratory and the LCSM Scientific LCSM, which he directed in 1995. He was Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science Faculty of Science between 2005 and 2010 and Vice-President of Hassan II University in Casablan ca between 2011 and 2019. He was also Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Revue de Mécanique Appliquée et President of the Moroccan Society of Mechanical Sciences and organiser of international international conferences. He has carried out several research projects. This research work focuses on theoretical and numerical methods for instabilities in solids, buckling, folding and on the other hand on the development of numerical algorithms for non-linear problems, Asymptotic Methods Méthodes Asymptotiques Numériques (MAN). He has supervised 26 doctoral theses and is the author of more than 110 publications in international journals.

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Numerical solutions for non-linear mechanics using the Asymptotic Numerical Method (ANM)

Stéphane LEJEUNES

CNRS, France

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Dr. Stéphane Lejeunes is an accomplished research engineer at CNRS and part-time lecturer at Centrale Marseille, specializing in advanced modeling and numerical simulation of elastomers. With a PhD and habilitation from Aix-Marseille University, he brings deep expertise in finite-strain mechanics, non-linear viscoelasticity, and multiphysics couplings. His research spans finite element and isogeometric analysis, often targeting thermo-chemo-mechanical behavior in elastomers and their durability under complex loadings. At LMA CNRS, he has held various leadership roles, co-heading the Materials and Structures group and participating in several scientific committees. Dr. Lejeunes has extensive experience as a reviewer for renowned journals and national funding agencies and has supervised numerous PhD and master’s theses, contributing significantly to both academia and industry applications in material science.

Course title : Advanced Course in Numerical Modeling of Multiphysics Phenomena in Soft Materials

Claude STOLZ, CNRS, France.
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Claude Stolz's research focuses on the evolution of non-linear mechanical systems (plasticity, fracture, damage) and the homogenisation of heterogeneous media. Claude Stolz has taught at several Grandes Ecoles and universities, as well as at graduate and postgraduate level in France and abroad. He has also worked as a consultant for major French industries such as Dassault-Aviation and PSA. Claude Stolz, Director of Research at the CNRS, was awarded the Académie des Sciences' thematic and quadrennial prize (2004): Henri de Parville, Arthur du Fay and Emilie Hamel.

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Thermodynamical approach of wear contact