Institut National des Sciences Appliques
Laboratoire de Génie Mécanique de Toulouse
General Information
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées
- Public school of engineering
- Created in 1963
- Belongs to a net of 5 institutes (Lyon, Rennes, Rouen and Strasbourg)
- Educate and graduate engineers + develop research activities
- 8 departments and et 2 centres for education 10 specialities
- 11 research laboratories
- 500 Students graduated per year in Toulouse
Laboratoire de Génie Mécanique de Toulouse
Nearly 33 Permanent, 5 temporary, 30 PhD
3 Schools:
Université Paul Sabatier
IUT GM
INSA
5 Teams
Optimal design of structures / assemblies
Modelling and control in fluid power
Composite materials (elaboration and properties)
Production
Composite structures
System approach in mechanical design
System approach in mechanical design
- Team
1 professors + 1 assistant Pr 2006, 5 PhD, nearly 5 master students per year
- Performance
- very good knowledge of aerospace needs
- durable and varied relationships (Airbus, Messier, Hurel, Goodrich, Latécoere,
Turboméca, Microturbo, …)
- actions at different levels: research, consulting, expertise, initial and continuing
education
- international links, academic and industry: 4 international conferences created at INSA
(1998, 2001, 2002, 2004) …+ 2007, participation to major international conferences
(invited, chairman, author)
- linking science and technology to develop multi-domain / multi-scale design methodologies for system oriented design
mechanics (solids and fluids) / control / electronics, informatics, electrotechnology
modeling / simulation / identification / control
preliminary design methodologies
Role in DRESS
WP 400 (WP411 leader)
preliminary design / mechanical architecture: multi domain mechanics, control, thermics…
modeling and simulation of power transmission
upper level mechanical specification for detail design
WP 600 (WP620 contributor)
testing specification and testbench design: electrohydraulic loading systems
WP 700 (WP710 and 720 contributor)
result analysis
parameters identification
comparison simulation/experiments