• Chemistry - Materials
  • Complex systems and software engineering
  • Energy, Ecology, Environment

Laboratoire Mécanique des Sols, Structures et Matériaux (MSSMat)

Research unit

Description

MSSMat studies the mechanical and dynamic properties of materials, from their modelling to their characterization. The applications of this research range from construction (ground dynamics ...) to biomedicine (porous media...) depending on the considered materials.

Contacts

  • Mrs Veronique AUBIN

Innovation themes

Map and access

Avenue Joliot Curie
91192 GIF-SUR-YVETTE

Our research areas

Expertises

- geomaterials
- sysmic engineering
- multiscale approach
- dynamic behavior of soils
- porous media
- nano-materials

Applications sectors

  • Aeronautics / Aerospace

Total number of employees

Total number of employees : 84
Number of researchers : 19
Number of doctoral students : 39

Equipment(s) open to collaboration

Academics and industry:
- optical microscopy
- tube furnaces
- three roll mill
- differential thermogravimetry-calorimetry with simultaneous scanning
- mechanical dynamical viscoanalyzer or analyzer
- electron microscope (SEM et TEM)
- near-field scanning microscope
- RX diffraction
- nano-indenter MTS XP
- access to the calculation mesocenter
...
http://www.mssmat.ecp.fr/mssmat/moyens

Keywords

Our results

Valuation offer

Software : GEFDYN (Geomechanics), MISS (parasismic engineering), OOFE (dynamic analysis of structures), MULTIFIL

Projects examples

- ANR VEDA, BELLE PLAINE, SEISMULATOR, work with many GDR and GIS
http://www.mssmat.ecp.fr/cms/lang/fr/mssmat/mssmat_en_bref/collaborations_et_partenariats

Industrial and scientific relations

Scientific collaborations

Technische Universität Wien (Austria) Université de Louvain et Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), École Polytechnique de Montréal et University of British Columbia (Canada), Institute of metal research Shenyang/Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Physics/Chinese Academy of Science, Northwest University, Beijing University of Science & Technology et Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (China), Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), BarcelonaTech (Spain), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria (IItaly), Saitama University (Japan), Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa et Universidade do Minho (Portugal), Czech Technical University de Prague (Czech Republic), Perm State Pedagogical University (Russia), Tishreen University in Latakia (Syria), Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte (Tunisia), Institute for Computational Engineering and Science (Texas University, TX), Ames Lab (Iowa State University,IA), University of Illinois (Urbana-Champain, IL), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-Caltech, Pasadena, CA) et Columbia University (New York, NY) (U.S.A.), Universidad Central de Venezuela (Venezuela)

Private collaborations

- collaboration with several companies

Ecosystem

Establishments of affiliation