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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?

Stéphane MEO

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

Issam DOGHRI

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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Mean-field homogenization of composite materials: from linear to nonlinear models

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 held the position of Professor of Higher Education (PES grade D) in the Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences Ben M’sik at Hassan II University of Casablanca from September 1984 to August 2023.

In 1984, he earned a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris 6, focusing on cellular buckling of thin-walled structures. In June 1990, he defended his State Doctorate (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, UDR) at Hassan II University, titled "From Bifurcation Theory to Structural Computation." He is a founding member of the LIMAT (Engineering and Materials Laboratory) and the LCSM (Scientific Computing in Mechanics Laboratory), which he led in 1995.

He served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Sciences from 2005 to 2010, Vice-President of Hassan II University of Mohammedia from 2011 to 2014, and Vice-President of Hassan II University of Casablanca from 2011 to 2019.

He was also Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, President of the Moroccan Society of Mechanical Sciences, and organizer of international conferences. He has reviewed numerous research works.

His research focuses on theoretical and numerical methods for solid instabilities (buckling and wrinkling) and the development of numerical algorithms for nonlinear problems (Asymptotic Numerical Methods, ANM). He is currently working on micro-macro modeling of polymers through micromechanical approaches. He has supervised around thirty PhD theses and authored more than 110 publications in international journals. As of February 2, 2025, his Scopus impact metrics include 100 publications, 2316 citations, and an h-index of 28.

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

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