Facilities

The activities are based on three main areas of expertise:

  • Material behavior, taking into account specific couplings (thermal, moisture-related, chemical, etc.), with long-standing expertise in organic-matrix composites

  • Physical and numerical modeling

  • Experimental characterization, including the development of original experimental devices.

The originality of the activities carried out by the MAT'ECO team lies mainly in the innovative experimental techniques and tools developed, as well as in the theoretical approaches used to characterize and model the complex behaviors exhibited by these bio-based materials and hydrogen-storage materials under severe environmental conditions.

Testing and analysis

 
  • Creep
  • Static testing (tension, compression, bending, torsion, fracture toughness…)
  • Fatigue testing (uniaxial and multiaxial testing machines)
  • Fibre/matrix interface testing
  • Single fibre testing
  • Environmental conditioning/ageing
  • Optical strain field measurement
  • Dilatometry
  • DMA, TMA, DSC, TGA, EDX…

Numerical tools

 

  • Modelling the mechanical behaviour of composite materials & Structures
    In-house behaviour laws
    Commercial software (ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA, COMSOL)
  • Parameters identification
    In-house software
     

Non Destructive Testing

 

  • Infrared thermography
  • Vibration & damping analysis
  • Acoustic emission
     

Composite manufacturing

 

  • Thermocompression / Film stacking
  • Injection
  • Filament winding (sub-contracting MaHyTec)

Health monitoring

 

  • Commercial and in-house sensors
  • Commercial and in-house data acquisition and clustering software
  • Acoustic emission
     

Experimental testing under di-hydrogen facilities

 

  • High-pressure chamber
  • Permeation Bench
  • Pression-Composition-Temperature
  • Custom observation or mechanical test benches
     

 

To learn more, please visit the AMETISTE platform: https://platforms.femto-st.fr/AMETISTE/fr