Jeremy Bleyer

Jeremy Bleyer

Researcher at Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées, Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique

Jeremy Bleyer

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About

I am a researcher in solid and structural mechanics from Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC). I work in Laboratoire Navier, in the Architected Materials and Structures team.

I am also an Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique in the Mechanical Engineering department.

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Research

My research work aims to develop advanced mechanical models and innovative numerical simulation tools for the study of material and structural failure. To achieve this, I draw from a broad spectrum of disciplines, including applied mathematics (convex analysis and optimization in particular), theoretical and computational mechanics. While a significant portion of my work is at a relatively fundamental methodological level, I also pay special attention to their application in the field of engineering, particularly in civil engineering. In this context, my work aims to address two important societal challenges: sustainable construction and risk management.

Keywords: nonlinear mechanics, convex optimization, structural failure, shape and topology optimization, brittle fracture, phase-field models

You can find further details in Research.

Open science projects

FEniCS

I am strongly involved in the FEniCS users community. I provide regular help on the users forum and I maintain an online book called Numerical tours of Computational Mechanics using FEniCS, containing educational demos oriented towards solid and structural mechanics applications with FEniCS.

MFront

I am also contributing to the MFront project, a code generator dedicated to material knowledge, developed at CEA. I have been involved in the MFrontGenericInterfaceSupport project, by developing in particular an interface between MFront and FEniCS.

These developments are now included in the dolfinx_materials project.

MEALOR II

I have been a core member of the MEALOR II Summer school. At this occasion, we wrote a collective open-access book, MEALOR II : Damage Mechanics and Local Approach to Fracture.

The book covers the physics and mechanics of brittle and ductile fracture under monotonic loading, presenting theoretical, numerical, and experimental aspects as well as the latest applications and research developments of the local approach to fracture

Teaching

at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech

I am in charge of the following courses:

  • Finite-element method for civil engineering, 3rd year civil engineering cycle
  • Damage Mechanics, Master 2, Sorbonne Université/Ecole des Ponts ParisTech/Institut Polytechnique de Paris, jointly with Kim Pham
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I am also involved in the Academic Board for the Executive Master in Digital Twins for Infrastructures & Cities. In 2023, I was Acting Scientific Director of the program. I am now in charge of the Master’s Conference Cycle. For more details, see our Youtube Channel.

at Ecole Polytechnique

I am an Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique in the Mechanical Engineering department. I am currently teaching in the following courses:

  • MEC430: Structural Mechanics, coordinated by Basile Audoly
  • MEC431: Solid Mechanics, coordinated by Patrick Le Tallec

You can find further details in Teaching.