AYADI Abderrahmane

Academic Background:

• Engineering preparatory classes in Maths and Physics at the Engineering Preparatory Institute of Sfax, Tunisia, in 2009.
• Engineering degree in Materials Engineering from the National Engineering School of Sfax, in 2012.
• Ph.D. in Mechanics, Energetics, and Materials from the University of Lille 1, in 2016.

• Experimental and numerical mechanics for manufacturing processes of thermoplastics and thermoplastic matrix composites.

Key technological themes of interest:

• Meld-lines in the injection moulding of short fiber-reinforced thermoplastics.
• Porcess-induced microsctucture/properties in the injection moulding of short fiber-reinforced thermoplastics.
• Microstructure characterization of thermoplastic matrix composites.
• Porosity quantification during thermocompression of thermoplastic matrix composites.
• Thermoforming of thin thermoplastic sheets.
• In-operando instrumentation of thermoforming processes.

Expertise:

• Image-based microstructure characterization (2D, 3D, …)
• In situ imaging during mechanical testing.
• In operando imaging techniques for thermal and kinematic (DIC, stereo-DIC) field data collection.
• Materials Characterization and Property Determination
• Inverse Identification Methods (Matlab-Abaqus Based)
• Experimental Data-Driven Finite Element Model Updating (FEMU)