Main Topics :
- Thermomechanical contact problems
- Contact problems in geophysics, with particular attention to fluid-structure interaction
- Chemo-mechanical interactions at material interfaces
- Contact and wear of biological systems, with focus on the role of humidity of in vivo systems
- Modelling of contact in multi-phase granular materials
- Contact problems in energy materials (solid-oxide fuel cells, photovoltaics, etc.)
- Powder compaction
- Contact and fretting fatigue
- Bio-inspired interfaces: characterization and simulation
- Multi-scale modelling of roughness in natural and artificially textured surfaces
- Multiple control, understanding and optimization of surface phenomena (wear, adhesion, lubrication, capillarity, friction, hydrophobicity) in natural and artificial interfaces
- Contact and debonding at material interfaces
- Contact problems in micro- and nano-technologies
- Contact problems in paper tissue or between thin bodies under large displacements
- Contact between thermo-viscoelastic materials