The European Ceramic Society

Laboratory sheet

France

MINES-ParisTech-Materials Centre

Equipe Comportement à Haute Température

Director : Dr Vincent MAUREL

Email : vincent.maurel@mines-paristech.fr

Phone : +33 (1) 60 76 30 27

Address : UMR CNRS 6333 Centre des Matériaux 10 Av. Henri-Auguste Desbruères BP 87 91003 Evry cedex

Website : http : //www.mat.mines-paristech.fr/Actualites/Presentation/

Research topics :

  • Characterization and modelling of the mechanical behaviour of ceramics, refractories, ceramic matrix composites and glasses up to 2000°C :  high temperature bending, tension and compression, microstructural observations, fracture mechanisms

Contact information :

Dr Michel BOUSSUGE (HDR)

Tel  :  +33(1) 60 76 30 27

michel.boussuge@mines-paristech.fr

Exceptional facilities :

  • Very high temperatures testing machines (up to 2000°C ) under air or Argon allowing numerous types of loadings.

Financial support programmes :

  • Saint Gobain CREE, Cavaillon, France.
  • Peugeot SA, Vélizy, France.
  • National fundings  :  ANR.

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