Sandrine Thuillier

Sandrine Thuillier is full professor in mechanical engineering since 2009 at Université Bretagne Sud (France). Her research activities are the experimental characterisation of the mechanical behaviour of materials at room and warm temperatures, mainly sheets of aluminium alloys, steels and titanium alloys, and to a lesser extent, elastomers and thermoplastic composites. She also focuses her efforts on material parameter identification by inverse method, as these parameters are an essential input to the numerical models based on elasto-visco-plasticity, anisotropic yield, ductile damage and macroscopic rupture. Finally, she applies her scientific skills to metal forming processes, such as deep drawing, surface defects, bending, twisting and joining by plastic deformation like hemming and cinching.