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====== Pierre JORIS ======

===== Education =====

**M.Sc.Eng., 2014 - Physics Engineering, Université de Liège, Belgium** \\
Master Thesis: //Comparison of constitutive models of
composite materials in Metafor and Abaqus.// \\
Supervisor: [[http://www.ulg.ac.be/cms/j_5871/repertoires?uid=U026455|Prof. J-P. Ponthot]].\\

===== Positions =====

**2014 - 2016** : PhD Candidate (FNRS grant), University of Liège, Belgium. \\ Supervisor: [[http://www.ulg.ac.be/cms/j_5871/repertoires?uid=U026455|Prof. J-P. Ponthot]].

**2014** : Visiting Research Associate, Queen's Belfast University, Northern Ireland. \\ Supervisor: [[http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/brian-falzon(d78c9de6-9bd7-4aea-a2ae-0e3c65ed53ab).html|Prof. B.G. Falzon]].

===== Research activities =====

**PhD** : Adaptive numerical simulation of damage and fracture in solid mechanics. Coupling h-adaptivity and Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian formulation.

**Keywords** : Computational Mechanics, Finite Elements Method (FEM), Large Deformation, Automatic Remeshing, Adaptive Mesh Refinement, Data Transfer, Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Formulation (ALE), Metal Forming, Forging, Friction Stir Welding (FSW), Composite Materials.

** Short Description** : The goal of my PhD is to improve the modelling of damage and fracture in complex materials under large deformation using the in-house nonlinear Finite Element software Metafor. The strategy adopted consists in developing an automatic h-adaptive mesh refinement algorithm called “fission-fusion”, where elements can be split or merged when needed. This algorithm will then be combined with the already operational erosion algorithm and Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian formulation, and with a multiscale finite element squared approach currently under development.

===== Automatic Remeshing Procedure and Applications =====

The first objective in the completion of my PhD was to establish a fully automatic remeshing procedure which could be used to simulate a wide variety of mechanical processes where mesh distortion are significant. 

** Forging **

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