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Matthieu LE SAUX

Associate Professor

Mechanical Sciences Department / Behavior and durability of heterogeneous materials

IRDL Institute

RH5: Material behaviour and durability

Room/desk number: T116

Office phone no. +33 2 98 34 88 64

Contact by email matthieu.le_saux@ensta.fr

ORCID number: 0000-0003-4290-3171

Area(s) of expertise

Teaching missions presentation

Mechanics of solids
Mechanical behaviour and failure of materials
Finite element method
Numerical implementation of behaviour laws

Research missions presentation

Characterisation and modelling of the thermomechanical behaviour and fatigue of organic materials (short or long fibre-reinforced organic matrix composites, polymer foams, etc.)

Most recent publications

Compression-compression fatigue of quasi-isotropic laminates: Failure mechanisms and link between dissipative behavior and fatigue life

Otavio Zimmermann de Almeida, Nicolas Carrère, Matthieu Le Saux, Vincent Le Saux, Gurvan Moreau, Yannick Pannier, Sylvie Castagnet, Yann Marco

International Journal of Fatigue, 2025, 193, pp.108780. ⟨10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2024.108780⟩

Compression-compression fatigue of quasi-isotropic laminates: Failure mechanisms and link between dissipative behavior and fatigue life

Otávio Zimmermann de Almeida, Nicolas Carrere, Matthieu Le Saux, Vincent Le Saux, Gurvan Moreau, Yannick Pannier, Sylvie Castagnet, Yann Marco

International Journal of Fatigue, 2025, 193, pp.108780. ⟨10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2024.108780⟩

Contribution to the study of the response of heterogeneous materials subjected to environmental and mechanical loading

Matthieu Le Saux

Mechanics of materials [physics.class-ph]. Université Bretagne Sud, 2025

The SFIR Test: An Innovative Hydrostatic Compression Test to Characterize the Volumetric Behavior of Polymeric Foams

J. Becker, M. Le Saux, P. Charrier, W. Hervouet, V. Le Saux, L. Maheo, Yann Marco

Experimental Mechanics, 2024, 64 (9), pp.1407-1422. ⟨10.1007/s11340-024-01099-1⟩

The SFIR Test: An Innovative Hydrostatic Compression Test to Characterize the Volumetric Behavior of Polymeric Foams

Justin Becker, Matthieu Le Saux, Pierre Charrier, Wilfried Hervouet, V. Le Saux, Laurent Maheo, Yann Marco

Experimental Mechanics, 2024, ⟨10.1007/s11340-024-01099-1⟩

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