Projects

Project #INSTINCT (2023-2026)

Project #CASHMERE (2022-2025)

#INSTINCT is a Young Researcher's project (Jeunes Chercheuses et Jeunes Chercheurs) funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). Topic: In situ micromechanical investigation of solids under extreme conditions. PI: S. Kalacska, Grant No. ANR-22-CE08-0012-01

This is a collaborative project between Mines St. Etienne, University of Manchester and external industrial partners on the corrosion and weakening of maraging stainless steels by hydrogen.

Collaborators:

G. Kermouche, F. Christien (LGF Mines St. Etienne)
M. Fivel (SIMAP Grenoble)

Y. Charles, S. Queyreau (LSPM Paris)

P.D. Ispánovity (ELTE Budapest)

Publications:

Irreversible evolution of dislocation pile-ups during cyclic microcantilever bending (Materials & Design, 2024)
Strain rate sensitivity of a Cu/Al2O3 multi-layered thin film (Surface and Coatings Technology, 2025)
Micromechanics reveal strain rate dependent transition between dislocation mechanisms in a dual phase high entropy alloy (Acta Materialia, 2025)
Extending mechanical size effect range of thin film metallic glasses by nanoengineering their atomic and nanostructure (Acta Materialia, 2025)

Main Collaborators:

F. Christien, S. Kalacska (LGF, Mines St. Etienne)

Z. Obadia (Airbus)

D. Bechet (Auber & Duval)

Publications:

Investigation of quasi-cleavage in a hydrogen charged maraging stainless steel (Corrosion Science 2023)

Project #CASCADE (2023)

The aim of the project is to highlight the differences in physical properties at the microscopic scale thanks to the sonification (transposition of the high frequencies produced in the audible domain) of the elastic waves created during the compression of materials.