PREED: Dynamic Testing Resources and Expertise Platform

The Dynamic Testing Resources and Expertise Platform (PREED), formed by merging the Dynamic Testing Resource Centre (CRED) and the High Pulsed Power platform (HPP), brings together facilities dedicated to experimentation in the field of material and structural dynamics. The loading facilities are highly varied and make it possible to test materials from low to very high strain rates, under uniaxial loading as well as complex and multiaxial loading. All tests are instrumented with cameras, which may be high-speed, high-resolution or thermal, and whose images are processed by analysis algorithms (DIC in particular). Research carried out within PREED is generally conducted in partnership with industry.

List of equipment

 

Experimental characterisation of the strain-rate dependence of materials using data-driven identification

 

PhD thesis: A. Vinel, supervisors: Réthoré, Seghir

Experimental testing of masonry structures subjected to extreme loads

 

PhD thesis: A. Morsel, supervisors: Stefanou, Kotronis, Racineux

Sealance Chair

 

The Sealence industrial chair aims to develop a unified formulation for compressible and incompressible elastomeric materials. Specific equipment has been developed, in particular to measure the compressibility of elastomers.


Heads: E. Verron, M. Coret,
Postdoctoral researchers: H. Madeira and I. Pivdiablyk,
PhD students: A. Bouchet and K. Saleh,
Assistant: A. Levesque

Experimental facilities for your industrial and academic studies

These facilities are dedicated to:

  • Dynamic and quasi-static characterisation of the mechanical behaviour of materials
  • Study of target impacts by various projectiles (elastomer ball, metal part, ice) at more than 300 m/s
  • Structural crash testing

All activities follow an ISO 9001-type quality process.

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