Mechanical engineering

The main objectives of the Mechanics department are to understand and control interactions at interfaces and microstructural developments with a view to improving the integrity and functionality of mechanical, thermal and energy systems.

The department's originality 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 transport, Human Mobility and Disability sectors, notably through predictions of the behavior of living materials in interaction with the environment. This research is attached to the CISIT, ELSAT2020 and RITMEA structuring projects, but also to the CNRS Research Federation n°3733 "Transports Terrestres & Mobilité", led by LAMIH.

The department has great experimental potential backed by numerous platforms and is developing cross-disciplinary projects with the laboratory's other departments. It benefits from several schemes supported by the INSIS :

• Joint laboratory SWIT'LAB "Science for Wheelset Innovative Technology" inaugurated on June 20, 2018 in conjunction with Professor Eli Saùl Puchi-Cabrera's Chair of Excellence on the theme of improving the performance of railway running gear, lightening structures and process-product innovation,
• Federative platform CONTRAERO dedicated to flow control inaugurated on September 13, 2017.
• SURFTOPO (Surface Topography) research group n°2077 created on January 1, 2020 aimed at comparing and developing common methodologies for data acquisition, processing and interpretation of surface topography.