Dr. Fabrice BARBE
Professor at INSA Rouen Normandie, France
Groupe de Physique des Matériaux, CNRS UMR 6634
STUDIES
• 2013 : Habilitation to Supervise Research, HSR Thesis of Université Rouen Normandie
“Conséquences mécaniques des transformations de phase et plasticité cristalline”
• 2002 : Associate Professor at INSA Rouen Normandie, Engineering Mechanics Department
• 2001-02 : Post-doctoral fellow at Université Rennes 1, GMCM, UMR CNRS 6626
Milieux granulaires secs non-cohésifs monodisperses en cisaillement et compaction
• 2000 : PhD of Mines Paristech, Centre des Matériaux P. M. Fourt, UMR CNRS 7633
Supervision : G. Cailletaud et S. Forest.
“Etude numérique de la plasticité d’agrégats polycristallins”
• 1996 : MSc « Solides, Structures et Systèmes Mécaniques », Université P. M. Curie, Paris 6
Supervision : P. Pilvin.
“Modélisation du comportement du Zr − α par une approche polycristalline : simulations, essais”
• 1994-95 : Bachelor and 1st year Master degree in Mechanics, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan/UPMC Paris 6
PEDAGOGICAL , ADMINISTRATIVE AND SCIENTIFIC RESPONSABILITIES
• 2014-2017 + 2024-now: Head of the Engineering Mechanics Department of INSA Rouen Normandie (80 MSc graduates per year, member of the executive board of INSA, co-funder of the Industrial Engineering program for apprentices, coordinator of internal investment programs for over 600kEUR)
• 2017-2019: Head of the Mechanics of Materials research team (5 faculties, 6-12 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows) in the laboratory Groupe de Physique des Matériaux (∼ 120 members)
• 2020-now: Coordinator of the Mechanics of Materials MSc program at INSA Rouen Normandie
• 2023-now: Coordinator of the 1st year of the Engineering Mechanics program at INSA Rouen Normandie
• 2022-now: Academic supervisor for students mobilities in the Engng. Mech. Dept INSA, incoming and outcoming students
• Coordinator and teacher for 6 courses in Solid Mechanics (5 MSc, 1 BSc)
• 2018: Co-funder of the Additive Manufacturing platform at INSA Rouen Normandie
• 2003-now: Co-supervision of 13 PhD students (2 under progress), 10 MSc, 2 post-doc
• Elected member of the Scientific Council (2006-10) and Studies Council (2011-14) of INSA Rouen
RESEARCH PROJECTS
In charge of different scientific projects:
• High Performance Computing at CINES and CRIHAN: 2006-2011, coordinator
• Exploratory project of CNRS: 2014, 10kE, coordinator
• Mixed European-regional projects:
* CIEMME 2015-2018, 320 kE, coordinator
* SUPERMEN 2015-2018, 100kE, scientific leader
* SCAMPI 2017-2018, 100 kE, scientific leader
• Regional projects:
* PFAN-1 2018-2021, 320 kE, coordinator
* TACTICS 2022-2023, 115kE, coordinator
* PFAN-Polymère 2023-2026, 595 kE, coordinator
• Labex projects:
* Bio-Inspired lattices, 2022, 5kE, coordinator
* ATEMBILS, 2023, 18kE, coordinator
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS
• Peer-reviewed articles in international journals: 41 ; international book chapters: 7
• International conferences: 75 ; National Conferences: 25 ; Invited conferences and seminars: 16
My teachings are integrated in the following formations of INSA Rouen Normandie (French public Engineering School):
• Engineering Mechanics (Mech)
• Industrial Engineering (Indus)
• MSc « system design » (MSD)
I am in charge of the following courses:
• BSc Mech: Computational approach of structure mechanics (Finite elements analyses based on a software package)
• MSc 1 Mech+MSD: Numerical methods for engineers (Finite differences, Finite elements, Non linear problems)
• MSc 1 Mech+MSD: Variational methods (Variational formulation, functional analysis and results, Sobolev spaces)
• MSc 1 Indus: Computational mechanics of structures (generalized software based approach of the design of systems)
• MSc 2 Mech+MSD: Microstructure based mechanics of materials (Mean-field / full-field modelling, polycrystal plasticity)
• MSc 2 Mech: Additive manufacturing (Process-microstructure-properties relationships)
• MSc 2 Indus: Additive Manufacturing (A transverse project dedicated to light-weight materials with cellular architecture: design, simulation, manufacturing, mechanical testing)
Collective responsabilities for teaching:
• Head of the Engineering Mechanics Department from 2014 to 2017 (in charge of three formations, 240 students and apprentices at BSc and MSc levels, 80 MSc graduates per year)
• Founder of the Polymer Additive Manufacturing platform of the Mechanics Department of INSA Rouen
• Coordinator of the Mechanics of Materials MSc program at INSA Rouen
• Academic supervisor for students mobilities in the Engineering Mechanics Department INSA
• Coordinator of the 1st year of the Engineering Mechanics program at INSA Rouen Normandie
