Materials Engineering and Metallurgy

Materials and Metallurgy Engineering (ID2M)

The research carried out by the Materials Engineering and Metallurgy team (ID2M) focuses on the development and characterization of materials at the chemical, structural and mechanical levels, as well as their behavioral analysis in real-life situations, at different scales (atomic, nanoscopic, microscopic, mesoscopic, macroscopic) in close relation to applications.

The team currently comprises 8 researchers and teacher-researchers, plus 15 non-permanent staff (PhD students, post-docs and ATERs). Team members are based at two sites (Lombarderie and Chantrerie). Under a partnership agreement, one team member works half-time at IMN and the other half-time atUniversité Gustave Eiffel. Research within the team is divided into two themes directly related to structural materials:

Metallic materials
Natural materials and the environment

The team’s research focuses on the design and development of materials and the study of their properties from an academic perspective with a view to industrial applications. The aim is to find ways of improving the properties of materials by modifying their elaboration processes and induced microstructures. This research is based on a fundamental understanding of the evolution of materials, fine-tuned experimental methods and the development of models and numerical simulations.

Team news

Discover all ID2M publications on the HAL national archive.

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Main themes

1. Metallic materials

2. Natural materials and the environment

Cross-team themes

– Modelling

– Chalcogen materials

Areas of expertise and tools

Structural and physico-chemical characterization of materials

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM-ES/BSE, EDX, WDX, EBSD, heated traction plate)
Micro-fluorescence X
Transmission electron microscopy (BF-TEM, HRTEM, STEM-HAADF, STEM-EDX, (STEM-)EELS, SAED, electron precession, tomography, ASTAR phase mapping)
Light microscopy (Mozaic and 3D reconstruction)
High-speed IR camera
High-speed camera
X-ray powder diffraction, structural resolution
Solid State NMR

Mechanical characterization of materials

Traction-compression-bending (-196°C to 1100°C) + extensometry
Fatigue (up to 1200°C)
Constant stress creep
Automatic microhardening
Charpy impact tests

Materials studied

Metals and alloys
Ceramics
Natural materials

Different shapes of materials

Massifs
Finely divided (powders)

Ongoing research projects (ANR, PEPR, Europe…)

Projects

Teaching

In addition to their research activities, the ID2M team’s teacher-researchers are heavily involved in training, teaching courses in various bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs. They are also responsible for teaching in several courses at Nantes University and the Université Gustave Eiffel.

Training

Collaborations

Regional: GeM (Nantes), LS2N (Nantes), RMES (Nantes), Université Gustave Eiffel – ex IFSTTAR (Nantes), CEISAM (Nantes).

National: Lab. Georges Friedel (St Etienne), IRDL (Lorient), ICMMO (Orsay), CiNaM (Marseille), Chimie de Paris-Paris Tech, ISCR-CMet (Rennes), ISTERRE Université de Grenoble, LiENSs La Rochelle, UCCS (Lille), IC2MP (Poitiers), CRISMAT (Caen), LPS (Orsay).

International: ETS (Montreal, Canada), Lancaster University (UK), University of Nevada (Las Vegas), Université de Sherbrooke (Canada), University of Balamand (Lebanon), Tyndall Institute (Ireland), Technical University of Crete (Greece), Future Industries Institute/ University of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia), Hokkaido University (Japan), Oxford University (UK).

The team also has numerous industrial collaborations as part of research projects.