Jean-François Molinari
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Biography
Professor J.F. Molinari is the director of the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory (http://lsms.epfl.ch) at EPFL, Switzerland. He holds an appointment in the Civil Engineering institute, which he directed from 2013 to 2017, and a joint appointment in the Materials Science institute. He started his tenure at EPFL in 2007, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2012. He is currently an elected member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation in Division 2 (Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences), and co editor in chief of the journal Mechanics of Materials.J.F. Molinari graduated from Caltech, USA, in 2001, with a M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics. He held professorships in several countries besides Switzerland, including the United States with a position in Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University (2000-2006), and France at Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan in Mechanics (2005-2007), as well as a Teaching Associate position at the Ecole Polytechnique de Paris (2006-2009).
The work conducted by Prof. Molinari and his collaborators takes place at the frontier between traditional disciplines and covers several length scales from atomistic to macroscopic scales. Over the years, Professor Molinari and his group have been developing novel multiscale approaches for a seamless coupling across scales. The activities of the laboratory span the domains of damage mechanics of materials and structures, nano- and microstructural mechanical properties, and tribology.
TEACHING
Prof. Molinari is involved in teaching at EPFL at the Bachelor, Master and Doctoral levels.In the Fall semester, he is teaching "Continuum Mechanics" (BA 3), and "Selected Topics in Mechanics of Solids and Structures" (MAS 1 3, OPT), which includes an introduction to Wave Dynamics and to Fracture Mechanics.
In the Spring semester, Prof. Molinari is teaching "Finite-Element Method" (BA 6).
Publications
Infoscience publications
Presentations
3D Geomechanical Modelling of CO2 Storage with Focus on Fault Stability
MEGA Seminar , EPFL, Switzerland, 2024-03-21.3D Geomechanical Modelling of CO2 Storage with Focus on Fault Stability
Poroelasticity Minisimposium, Geopolis, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-5 March 2024.3D Geomechanical Modelling of a Potential CO2 Storage Site with focus on Fault Stability
AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 11-15.Richness and complexity of slip events at a frictional interface
STAMS 2023 - Mechanics across the scales, Toledo, Spain, October 3-6, 2023.Richness and complexity of slip events at a frictional interface
Modelling complexity in mechanics conference, Alghero, Italy, September 25-29, 2023.Boundary distance impact on third-body evolution using adaptive FEM-DEM bridging coupling
EDCE Research day, EPFL, September 14, 2023.Modeling of rough contact interfaces with trapped compressive liquid pockets
XVII International Conference on Computational Plasticity, COMPLAS 2023, Barcelona, Spain, September 5-7, 2023.Mesh d-refinement An efficient data-driven computational framework
XVII International Conference on Computational Plasticity, COMPLAS 2023, Barcelona, Spain, September 2023.Adaptive FEM-DEM bridging coupling
USNCCM, Albuquerque, USA, July 23-27, 2023.From contact mechanics to wear
CCMX tribology and surfaces interactions summer school, Visp, Switzerland, July 3-7, 2023.Richness and complexity of slip events at a frictional interface
Jean-Mandel Symposium, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, June 29, 2023.Dynamic fragmentation using phase-field modeling of fracture
Seventh International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures (CFRAC 2023), Prague, Czech Republic, 21-23 June 2023.Data-driven finite-thickness cohesive elements for frictional interfaces
ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference (YIC23), Porto, Portugal, 19-21 June 2023.A fully-coupled highly-parallelized geomechanical simulator for assessing induced seismicity
SIAM GS 23, Bergen, Norway, June 19-22, 2023.Numerical modelling of dynamic crack branching instabilities
CECAM Workshop: 3D cracks and crack stability, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 14-16, 2023.Modeling friction and wear across scales
Materials IQ Workshop, Hightech Zentrum, Aargau, Swizterland, May 23, 2023.Richness and complexity of slip events at a frictional interface
Physics Workshop: Interaction Disorder and Elasticity, Les Houches, France, April 3-7, 2023.Richness and complexity of slip events at a frictional interface
ERC TECTONIC-FEAR online seminar , France, March 20, 2023.DEM crack propagation using a FEM-DEM bridging coupling
EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 23–28, 2023.Richness and complexity of slip events at a frictional interface
CEA DAM departmental seminar, Bruyères le Châtel, France, December 20, 2022.Numerical Scheme for the Large-scale Geomechanical Simulations of CO2-storage
Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2022, Lausanne, Switzerland, Novembre 18-20, 2022.FEM/DEM coupling of gouge rock material
Congrès Français de Mécanique (CFM 2022), Nantes, France, August 29 - September 2, 2022.Etude du comportement tribologique du silicium et de la silice
Departmental seminar at Rolex, Geneva, Switzerland, May 10, 2022.Numerical modeling of adhesive wear across scales
Material Strength and Durability Symposium , Zürich, Switzerland, May 19-20, 2022.Rough surfaces and interactions between micro contacts
7th World Tribology Congress, Mark Robbins memorial session, Lyon, France, July 10-15, 2022.Interactions élastiques entre aspérités de contact et usure adhesive
Congrès français de mécanique (CFM 2022), Nantes, France, Aug 29-Sep 2, 2022.Akantu: an open-source finite-element software for dynamic fragmentation simulations
GDR MecaWave Workshop Fragmentation dynamique pour les solides, Marseille, France, November 24-25, 2022.Friction and wear in light of elastic interactions between micro contacts
SwissMech Seminar ETHZ/EPFL, Online seminar, February 17, 2022.Friction and wear in light of elastic interactions between micro contacts
ARCNL Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography Colloquium, online seminar, February 9, 2022.Emergence of statistical complexity on homogeneous frictional fault
Summer School on Earthquake Mechanics and Aseismic Slip, Zurich, Switzerland, July 18-21, 2022.Coupling Finite Element and Spectral Boundary Integral Method to model complex dynamic rupture problems
11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), Galway, Ireland, July 4-8, 2022.FEM-DEM bridging-zone coupling methods
Society of Engineering Science Annual Technical Meeting, Texas, USA, October 16-19, 2022.Data-Driven Rate-Dependent Material Response
11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), Galway, Ireland, July 4-8, 2022.Data-Driven Rate-Dependent Material Response
Contact Mechanics International Symposium (CMIS 2022), Chexbres, Switzerland, May 23-25, 2022.Data-driven 1D site response
IUTAM Symposium on Data-driven mechanics, Paris, France, October 26-28, 2022.Understanding the mechanisms of adhesive wear for heterogeneous materials through molecular dynamics simulations
Congrès Français de Mécanique (CFM 2022), Nantes, France, 29 Août-2 Septembre, 2022.Data-Driven C-Refinement A proof-of-concept
IUTAM Symposium on Data-driven mechanics, Paris, France, October 26-28, 2022.FEM/DEM coupling of gouge rock material
VII International Conference on Particle-Based Methods (PARTICLES 2021), Hamburg, Germany, October 4-5, 2021.Numerical modelling of ASR mechanics
Webinar "Alkali-Silica Reaction - a Multidisciplinary Approach", online, Septembre 9, 2021.Multi-scale model of a dam affected by alkali-silica reaction
16th International Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Applications (COMPLAS 2021), Barcelona, Spain, September 7-10, 2021.Velocity-Driven Frictional Sliding: Coarsening and Steady-State Pulses
AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA & Online Everywhere, December 13-17, 2021.Heterogeneous Dynamic Fracture: Amplitude Scaling of Crack Front Deformations
25th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2020+1), Virtual, August 22-27, 2021.Adhesive wear with a coarse-grained discrete element model
VII International Conference on Particle-Based Methods (PARTICLES 2021), Hamburg, Germany, October 4-5, 2021.Understanding the mechanisms of adhesive wear for heterogeneous materials through MD simulations
VII International Conference on Particle-Based Methods (PARTICLES 2021), Hambourg, Germany, Octobre 4-5, 2021.Elastic interactions between micro contacts
ViVaMa T Vienna Virtual Materials Tribology Workshop, Vienna, Austria, December 3, 2020.Toward a mechanistic understanding of adhesive wear
LMS Seminars, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris Saclay, France, November 26, 2020.Toward a mechanistic understanding of adhesive wear
Mechanical Engineering Institute Seminar, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, November 17, 2020.Revisiting Archard's wear model: a dialog between scales
STLE Tribology Frontiers Conference, virtual, November 9-12, 2020.Meso-scale modelling of ASR in concrete: effect of viscoelasticity
2020-06-16. 16th International Conference on Alkali Aggregate Reaction in Concrete, Lisboa, LNEC, Portugal, June 16-18, 2020.Two-dimensional granular shear model
Micro-scale Cracking of Concrete due to the Alkali-Silica Reaction
SWICCOMAS 3rd General Assembly, Zurich, Switzerland, 2020-02-07.Crack front deformation during dynamic heterogeneous fracture
SWICCOMAS 3rd General Assembly, Zürich, Switzerland, February 7, 2020.Adhesive wear of rough surfaces and interaction of micro-contacts
SWICCOMAS 3rd General Assembly, Zürich, Switzerland, February 7, 2020.A mechanistic understanding of adhesive wear
CECAM Molecular mechanisms of tribochemistry and lubrication workhop, Lausanne, Suisse, January 27-29, 2020.Surface roughness evolution in atomistic simulations of adhesive wear: from asperity collision to three-body configuration
Modeling tribology: friction and fracture across scales - CECAM-EPFL 2020, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2019, January 28–30.Understanding the dynamics of frictional rupture front with fracture mechanics
Seminar for the Physics of Complex Systems Laboratory, Lausanne, Suisse.Tribology across scales (invited seminar)
ASML, Veldhoven, Netherlands, November 6, 2019.Tribology from the nano to the mesoscale (invited keynote)
GDR Workshop on Computational Tribology, ENSAM Bordeaux, France, October 10, 2019.Tribology across scales (invited keynote)
10th anniversary Novelis R&D center, Sierre, Switzerland, September 6th, 2019.Experiments-based multi-scale modeling of the alkali-silica reaction in concrete
FraMCoS-X : Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures, Bayonne, France, 23-26 Jun 2019.Emergence of self-affine roughness during adhesive wear (invited keynote speaker)
Earthflows workshop, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, June 19-20, 2019.Interplay between Process Zone and Material Heterogeneities for Dynamic Cracks
VI International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures (CFRAC 2019), Braunschweig, Germany, 12 - 14 June 2019.Is friction fracture? When, where and how? (invited keynote speaker)
CECAM workshop, Tel Aviv, Israël, May 20-23, 2019.The origin of stress drops in frictional rupture (invited speaker)
MACH Conference, Annapolis, USA, April 3-5, 2019.Adhesive wear mechanisms in the presence of weak interfaces
DPG Spring Meeting 2019, Regensburg, Germany, 2019.Adhesive wear mechanisms in the presence of weak interfaces
CECAM workshop – Modeling tribology: friction and fracture across scales, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2019-01.On the supershear transition in heterogeneous media
Numerical Modeling of Earthquake Motions: Waves and Ruptures, Smolenice Castle near Bratislava, Slovakia, June 30 - July 4 2019.Contact élastoplastique : équations intégrales accélérées par une approche Fourier
CSMA 14ème Colloque National en Calcul des Structures, Giens, France, May 13-17, 2019.Contact élastoplastique : équations intégrales accélérées par une approche Fourier
2019. CSMA 14ème Colloque National en Calcul des Structures, Giens, France, May 13-17, 2019.Dynamic fracture in heterogeneous media
CECAM Workshop; Modeling tribology: friction and fracture across scales, Lausanne, CECAM-HQ, January 28, 2019 - January 30, 2019.Fourier-accelerated volume integral method for elastoplastic contact
CECAM Workshop; Modeling tribology: friction and fracture across scales, Lausanne, CECAM-HQ, January 28, 2019 - January 30, 2019.Finite element simulation of nucleation and propagation of dynamic shear ruptures on frictional interfaces
Debris formation in adhesive wear with multi-asperity interactions
MSE 2018 - Materials Science and Engineering, Darmstadt, Germany, 2018-09.Emergence of self-affine roughness during dry sliding: insights from atomistic simulations (Keynote)
International Joint Workshop on Slow Earthquakes 2018, Fukuoka, Japan, September 21-23, 2018, September 21-23, 2018.Modeling adhesive wear of complex surfaces on multiple scales
45th Leeds–Lyon Symposium on Tribology, Leeds, UK, 2018-09.Boundary Element Method formulation of Normal and Tangential Contact with Coulomb Friction
Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology: Smart Tribology Systems, Leeds, England, September 4, 2018 - September 7, 2018.Origins of adhesive wear (Plenary Talk)
41st Solid Mechanics Conference, Warsaw, Poland, August 27-31, 2018.Coupled Atomistics and Discrete Dislocations in 3d (CADD-3d)
13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIII), New-York, July 22-27, 2018.Shock waves produced by the interaction of dynamic crack with heterogeneities
13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIII), New York, New York, United States of America, 22-27 July 2018.Evolution of roughness during dry sliding: insights from atomistic and mesoscale models (Plenary Talk)
10th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Bologny, Italy, July 2-6, 2018.An FFT-based Numerical Method for Elasto-Plastic Contact
6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Glagow, UK., 11-15 June 2018.Friction and wear across scales (Plenary Talk)
Contact Mechanics International Symposium, Sanctuary of Oropa, Biella, Italy, May 16-18, 2018.Dynamic crack propagation in heterogeneous materials (Plenary Talk)
Mach Conference, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, April 4-8, 2018.Origins of adhesive wear (Invited Talk and Chair of minisymposium)
16th European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Nantes, France, March 26-28, 2018.Emergence of self-affine surfaces under adhesive three-body wear conditions
Emergence of surface and interface structure from friction, fracture and deformation, CECAM-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 24-27 July 2018.Surface roughness evolution in atomistic simulations of adhesive wear: from asperity collision to three-body configuration.
Science of Wear Workshop, Beijing, China, 16-20 September 2018.Fractal surfaces in adhesive wear processes
6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Glasgow, UK, 11–15 June 2018.Continuum versus discrete approach in modeling of wear processes
6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Glagow, UK., 11-15 June 2018.Coupled Atomistics and Discrete Dislocations in 3d(CADD-3d)
14th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Montreal, Canada, 2017.The role of hardness in the surface roughness evolution during adhesive wear processes
2017. International Conference on Computational Contact Mechanics 2017, Lecce, Italy, July 5-7, 2017.On the dynamic perturbation of crack front by micro-scale material heterogeneities
5th International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures (CFRAC), Nantes, France.Round table on multiscale modeling (Invited keynote)
Lorentz Center workshop on: Micro/nanoscale models for tribology, Lorentz Center, University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands, January 30-February 3, 2017.3D coupled dislocation dynamics in nano- and micro-scales
Seminar Talk at KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, January, 9, 2017.Critical length scale predicts adhesive wear mechanisms (invited opening keynote9
International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Symposium on Dynamic Instabilities In solids, Madrid, Spain, May 17-20, 2016.Achard got it right: insights from a cohesive model (invited workshop)
CECAM Workshop, he flow of amorphous solids: from atomistic simulations to Earth Science applications, Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France, June 15-17, 2016.Critical length scale predicts transition in adhesive wear mechanisms (invited keynote)
Symposium on Tribology: mechanics, physics and chemistry of solid-solid and solid-liquid interfaces, 8th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM), Dijon, France, October 10-14, 2016.Round table discussion on multiscale modeling (invited keynote)
Workshop: Dynamics of Frictional Interfaces, Weitzman Institute of Science, Rehoboth, Israel, November 28-30, 2016.Critical length scale controls adhesive wear mechanics (Invited keynote)
Weizman Institute of Science, Rehoboth, Israel, November 28-30, 2016.Atomistic modeling of wear procecces (invited keynote)
Lorentz Center workshop on: Micro/nanoscale models for Tribology, Lorentz Center, University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands, January 30-February 3, 2017.Dynamic fragmentation of britle materials, insights from a numerical model (invited seminar)
Seminar European Research Center, St Gobain, Cavaillon, France, FeBruary16, 2016.Research
Keywords
Computational Science and EngineeringHigh-Performance Computing
Multiscale Methods
Mechanics of Materials
Structural Mechanics
Damage Mechanics
Tribology
A detailed sypnosis can be read at lsms.epfl.ch
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Civil Engineering
PhD Students
Alavi Parissasadat, Bilotto Jacopo, Durussel Shad Ali, Ferry Roxane Mathilde Suzanne, Ghesquière-Diérickx Thibault Antoine Marie Joseph, Wattel Sacha Zenon,Past EPFL PhD Students
Barras Fabian , Blatny Lars Kristoffer Uhlen , Cho Jaehyun , Cuba Ramos Aurelia Isabel , Frérot Lucas Henri Galilée , Gallyamov Emil , Junge Till , Kammer David Simon , Levy Sarah , Milanese Enrico , Orellana Espinoza Luis Felipe , Pham-Ba Son-Jonathan , Pundir Mohit , Ramisetti Srinivasa Babu , Roch Thibault Didier , Shahim Kamal , Snozzi Leonardo , Taheri Mousavi Seyedeh Mohadeseh , Vocialta Marco , Voisin--Leprince Manon Eugénie , Yilmaz Okan ,Courses
CCMX Tribology and Surfaces Interactions
This course is intended to give to the participants (graduates, researchers and industrial professionals) a solid background in tribology and surface interactions. It covers the fundamentals concepts of tribology including surfaces, contact mechanics, friction, lubrication and wear.