The Green Engineering and Sustainability of Materials and Structures (VERDUR) Research Unit aims to take into account the interactions between the stages of the life cycle of materials and structures, within a sustainable development and circular economy approach.
Recycling of materials, by-products, and waste: characterization and implementation
Energy optimization
Eco-design approaches
Performance in service, durability, and service life
FIELDS OF APPLICATION
- Buildings and structures
- Infrastructures
- Aeronautics
- Nautical
- Energy
- Recycling
INDUSTRIAL AND ACADEMIC COOPERATIONS
ONGOING PROJECTS
- Project ADEME TATTOO – Valorization of flax co-products for structural composites (2025-2028)
- Project WEAMEC RECYMAR – Reuse and recycling of MRE structures: towards a classification of recycled aggregates (2025-2027)
- Project Carnot MERS CHIMIATA – A new coupled geochemical-micromechanical approach aided by machine learning for low-carbon resistant concrete in marine environments(2024-2027)
- Project Carnot MERS CIRC_ALU – Circularity of the aluminum industry: environmental impact of the deployment of a new process (2025-2026)
- Project ANR Sci-Ty BEACON (2024-2026)
- Project ANR Sci-Ty ECOCIM (2024-2026)
- Research chair EDYCEM III on sustainable concrete (2024-2028)
- Project WEAMEC Inter-Mer – Steel/polymer interfaces exposed to seawater(2024-2026)
- Project ADEME Velella – Reduction of the environmental impact of floating wind energy (2023-2026)
- Project Carnot MERS E-COMENT – Optimal eco-design of ship structural composite parts manufactured by TFP process (2023-2026)
- Chaire Faurecia 3 – Industrial Composites Chair for Automotive Applications (2022-2027)
- Project STOCH 2 – Study platform for hydrogen underground storage and extraction in Pays de la Loire (2022-2026)
- Project Carnot MERS ALGO-DUR – Use of microalgae for the durability of structures in the marine environment (2022-2026)
- Project ADEME France Atlantique (2021-2026)
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