Acronym: LAMEF

Status:  Ministry sponsored Starter, Research Group - JE 101 

Affiliation: Arts and Craft Engineering High school, secondary affiliation to Ubx1 

Director: Jean-Luc LATAILLADE, Professor 

Address: Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts & Métiers (ENSAM) 
Esplanade des Arts & Métiers, 33405 TALENCE Cedex 

Telephone: 33 (0) 5 56 84 53 91  Fax : 33 (0) 5 56 84 5366
E-mail: m-dumon@lamef.bordeaux.ensam.fr
 


PARTNERSHIPS  

 REGIONAL INDUSTRIES :  
Aerospatiale - Dassault-Aviation - SEP - Smurfit  

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES :  
 Schlumberger - IBM - Ugine - Sollac - Péchiney  
Renault - PSA - GIAT - St Gobain - Elf  

 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OTHER THAN UNIVERSITIES :   
CEA (CESTA, B3, CEN) - CNRS (GDR 972) - IFREMER -  
DRET/ETCA : CEG - CREA - DCN  

STAFF 
8 Permanent scientists 
Research personnel teaching at ENSAM : 6 
Research personnel teaching at Ubx1 : 2 
Guest professor (average) : 1 

15 Students 
PhD students : 8-10 
Master students : 4-5 

 6 Technical and administrative personnel  
Technicians : 3, Administrative : 2,
Maintenance and hygiene service : 1 

RESEARCH TOPICS  
 Endurance of materials and vulnerability of structures :   
 Fatigue of metallic alloys and welded joints  through uniaxial and multiaxial loadings  
 Fatigue criteria, relations structures/properties  
 Damage of heterogeneous materials in severe conditions 
* Impact behaviour of advanced materials and numerical simulation 

POST-GRADUATE COURSES 
DEA in Mechanics 
DESS Composites 
MASTERS : Advanced materials, Testing in aeronautics

 

MAIN EQUIPMENT  
- Shock devices (Hopkinson bars, inertia force wheel)  
- Falling weights (from a few kJ to 20 MJ) 
- Resonant fatigue testing machines (plane or rotating bending) 
- Biaxial fatigue testing machines  
(bending-torsion, tension-tension, tension-compression)  
- Vibrophore 100 kN  
- Hydraulic pulsator 300 kN 
- Bruël and Kjaer shakers and associated electronics 
(Signal treatment/Fourrier analysis) 
- Conventional tests machines (5 kN, 200 kN, 300 kN) 
- Multi-channels extensometric systems (to 40 channels) 
- Numerical platform, workstations (LS DYNA 3D, PLEXUS, ZEBULON, ABAQUS) 
- SEM (scanning electronic microscopy) and image processing associated  
- Medium speed video camera  
- High speed cameras 
- Mechanical workshop

EXPERTISE : SECTORS CONCERNED BY APPLICATIONS   
 Engineering in experimental sett up. 

Measurements and characterization : 
- Measurements in mechanics (statics, vibrations) 
 - Fatigue 
- Impact behaviour 
- Modal analysis 
- Spectrometry in mechanics 

Numerical simulation : 
- Measurements and optimization in laminates 
- Behaviour of damaged materials 
- High speed dynamics 
 - Numerical homogeneization  

Analysis : 
 -X-ray 
- SEM (Scanning electronic microscopy) 
- Image processing 
- Optical microscopy 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 
The LAMEF is considered as a " pôle d'excellence "  (a center of excellency) by the French DRET
(Direction of Research, Studies and Techniques) in the field of fatigue.
It participates in numerous european programs : BRITE EURAM, SOCRATES, TEMPUS, COMETT
High Schools Conference (Cooperation with UK, Poland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Israël and Russia) ;
and also in  a national program : INTER-REGIONS program : Aquitaine/Spain. 

KEY-WORDS  
- Rheology of solids 
- Damage of materials 
- Vulnerability of structures 
- Severe environment conditions
- Fatigue, load life stability, endurance 
- Impact 
- Shock resistance 
- Reliability 
- Life prediction 
- Integrity 
 -Failure mechanisms