Detail

The core facility

Fluids Mechanics, Materials, Biomechanics, Conception and Simulation

Scientifical Manager Nicolas BOURDET
Technical Manager Philippe SCHMITT

UMR 7357 - ICUBE / Laboratoire des sciences de l'ingénieur, de l'informatique et de l'imagerie
CNRS, ENGEES, INSA, UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG

Website of the core facility

Campus centre : Esplanade
Distribuée

Service delivery
- to the academic community
- to the socio-economic world

Collaborations of research
- with the academic community
- to the socio-economic world

Affiliated institution of administrative supervision

CNRS
ENGEES
INSA
UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG

To offer the means (pilots, devices, software, expertise, digital simulation and models) in order to define the inert or biological solid structures and fluids paths to better understand the physical phenomena, including the model calibration and validation.

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Expertises

Scientific expertise

Deformation / damage / breakage
Numerical cranio-cervical trauma and shock / impact / crash
3D simulation of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids
Transfer of materials in aquatic environments
Durability of civil engineering materials and structures Innovative materials & systems for comfort in the building

Technical expertise

Assessment of motorcycle, cyclist and equestrian helmets
Experimental evaluation of the cranio-cervical system
Characterization of the behavior of materials
Design-calibration of sensors
Diagnosis of sanitation networks
Characterization of the properties / quality of water
Prototyping and 3D printing
Characterization of composites and granular materials and insulating walls

Resources

Main equipments

Crash Dummy + headforms + sensors
High speed camera
Machines de traction / compression / fatigue / DMA
SHPB (Hopkinson's bars + data acquisition system)
Drop test device for composite characterization
Charpy impact machine
500 HPC (High Performance Computing) for the simulation of fluid mechanics
Urban flood pilot
Flow bench
Flow loop
Phantom Miro high Speed Camera
Particle Image Velocimetry (measure plane velocity fields)
Temperature measurement by LIF (Laser Induced Fluorescence)
Oven for MVS
Radiometers
Microscope / Sterioscope
CNC milling machine / Traditional lathes and milling machines + tools
Temperature-regulated dynamic / fatigue loading test device on T / C composites. Non-contact measuring device
Thermo-regulated dynamic / fatigue triaxial loading test device on granular materials, concrete. Small deformation measuring device
Settling tanks
X-ray fluorescence analyzer
Vertical flow filters
Ultrasonic transducers
X-Ray metal analyzer

Software resources / Data bases

Numerical simulation calculation codes (LSDYNA, FLUENT, ABAQUS, OpenFoam) Data acquisition software (Labview), programming (Matlab, Python, R)
Device for measuring the exchange coefficients of the insulating walls
Object 30 Prime 3D printer - Statasxs
Speedy Fexx 300 - Totec (Laser Cutter)

Other kinds of resources

Finite element model of the human body or parts of the human body, more particularly of the head-neck system: SUFEHNM (Strasbourg University Finite Element Head Neck Model)

Examples of service delivery

Analysis of mechanical test results - Expertise and Report
Rigid body simulation of the victim's kinematics
Numerical simulation of cranio-brain and cervical trauma
Experimental analysis of a head trauma
Mechanical study of a complex system
Materials mechanics study report