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Tribology & Materials

The "Tribology & Materials" topic is dedicated to the study of materials damage under loading. Damage can occur at the core of a given component (plasticity, fracture, fatigue) or at its surface (friction, wear, cracking and other tribological aspects).

The loading conditions can be severe (pressure, speed, temperature, humidity) in case of both dynamic and static loading. The studied materials are of numerous types: metals, composite materials (organic or metallic matrix), ceramics, elastomers or polymers.

Fatigue is a recurring matter in the research conducted by the Tribology & Materials team. It is a principle that consists in the accumulation of damage under dynamic stress which can result in the destruction of a given component at its core (volume fatigue) or at its surface (surface fatigue, involved in fretting-fatigue or micro-spalling). The study of these phenomena requires modelling work, as well as experimental work using original devices developed in the laboratory.

The study of micro-geometry is a means to put the materials properties at the centre of the high tribological performance of components that are in contact with each other. The research effort focuses on understanding the phenomena induced locally by the specific features of any component’s surface. One specific attribute of functional surfaces is their roughness, with altitude variations of the order of a micrometre, which by nature results in discontinued and stochastic contact between two components. Differences in nature and properties between the materials used at the surface of a component and at its core should also be taken into account, as well as differences between components in contact with each other.

Finally, damage analysis enables to enhance these researches, in order to relate damage to the micro-structures of different scales that can be observed with a given material. Damage can be induced by several types of loadings of mechanical (tension, torsion, bending, shock, crash-test, etc.) or thermal nature (welding for example). The development of manufacturing processes primarily based on powder metallurgy will complete this project. Those processes will enable to optimise material properties and take environmental considerations into account by using residual materials (metal chips or elastomers) in the composition of subsequently created alloys.

 

 

Keywords                                    

Tribology, , damage, fatigue, fretting, micro-geometry, mixed lubrication, materials, polymer matrix composites, metallic matrix composites, recycling.

 

Team members

 

Doctoral candidates

Konstantinos NIKOLAKOPOULOS, Amal BECHIKH, Rémi PIEGARD, Oumeyama HAMLAOUI, Bouthania EL AOUD, Mathieu ARROUZÉ.

 

 

Head of the team

Tony Da Silva Botelho

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Recent publications

Analysis of surface integrity of intermetallic composite based on titanium-aluminum machined by laser cutting (lire)
Optics and Laser Technology Elsevier 2023 161 pp. 109187
A XFEM-CZM Based Methodology for Finite Strain Ductile Fracture (lire)
CFRAC - The Seventh International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures 2023
Updated-Lagrangian XFEM formulation for ductile fracture in the finite strain framework (lire)
ICF15 -15th International Conference on Fracture 2023
An Investigation to Achieve Good Surface Integrity in Wire Electrical Discharge Machining of Ti-6242 Super Alloy (lire)
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance Springer Verlag/ASM International 2023
Assessing Cast Aluminum Alloys with Computed Tomography Defect Metrics: A Gurson Porous Plasticity Approach (lire)
Metals MDPI 2023 13 pp. 752
Classification of Different Recycled Rubber-Epoxy Composite Based on their Hardness Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) with Comparison Machine Learning Algorithms (lire)
MDPI 2023
3D nonlinear XFEM-CZM based methodology for ductile fracture (lire)
ESIS European Structural Integrity Society Technical Meeting on Numerical Methods 2023
Analysis of the microstructural features of phase transformation during hardening processes of 3 martensitic stainless steels (lire)
Metallurgical Research & Technology EDP Sciences 2023 120 pp. 117
Experimental Analysis of Surface Roughness in the Cutting Process of Sugar Palm Fiber Reinforced Unsaturated Polyester Composites with Laser Beam and Abrasive Water Jet Cutting Technologies, Journal of Applied SCience and ENgineering progress10.14416/j.asep.2022.11.001 (lire)
Applied Science and Engineering Progress Academic Enhancement Department King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok 2022
Experimental Investigation on Dimensional Stability and Cutting Quality in Cutting Process of Sugar Palm Fiber Reinforced Unsaturated Polyester Composites with Laser Beam and Abrasive Water Jet Cutting Technologies, Fibers and Polymers Springer 2022 (lire)
Fibers and Polymers 2022
Recent Developments in Cassava (Manihot esculenta) Based Biocomposites and Their Potential Industrial Applications: A Comprehensive Review (lire)
Materials MDPI 2022 15 pp. 6992
Current Progress in Biopolymer-Based Bionanocomposites and Hybrid Materials (lire)
Polymers MDPI 2022 14 pp. 3479
Approche couplant XFEM et zone cohésive pour la modélisation numérique 3D de la rupture ductile (lire)
CFM2022 - Congrès Français de Mécanique 2022
A Review on Analysis of Reinforced Recycled Rubber Composites (lire)
Journal of Composites Science MDPI 2022 6 pp. 225
Additive Manufacturing of Polymer–Fiber Composites (lire)
Materials MDPI 2022 15 pp. 5337
Updated-Lagrangian XFEM Formulation for Ductile Fracture at Large Strain (lire)
WCCM- APCOM 2022, 15th World Congress in Computational Mechanics - 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics 2022
Updated Lagrangian XFEM Approach for Finite Strain Ductile Fracture (lire)
11th European Solid Mechanics Conference 2022
Traitement numérique tridimensionnel de la rupture ductile progressive par une méthode XFEM cohésive (lire)
15e colloque national en calcul des structures 2022
3D cohesive XFEM-based unified methodology for ductile fracture in finite strain (lire)
EMMC18 - 18th European Mechanics of Materials Conference 2022
Effect of dry abrasion treatments on composite surface quality and bonded joints shear strength (lire)
International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives Elsevier 2022 113 pp. 103058
Effect of the Glass Fiber Content of a Polybutylene Terephthalate Reinforced Composite Structure on Physical and Mechanical Characteristics (lire)
Polymers MDPI 2022 14 pp. 17
Biodegradable Magnetic Molecularly Imprinted Anticancer Drug Carrier for the Targeted Delivery of Docetaxel (lire)
ACS Omega ACS Publications 2022 7 pp. 28516 - 28524
Analysis of the microstructural features of phase transformation during hardening processes of 3 martensitic stainless steels (lire)
Metallurgical Research & Technology EDP Sciences 2022
Toughening Mechanism Analysis of Recycled Rubber-Based Composites Reinforced with Glass Bubbles, Glass Fibers and Alumina Fibers (lire)
Polymers MDPI 2021 13 pp. 4215
An Investigation To Achieve a Good Surface Integrity in WEDM of Ti-6242 Super Alloy (lire)
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance Springer Verlag/ASM International 2021
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