The European Ceramic Society

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France

Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes

Research and education on technical ceramics

Director : Prof. Jean DENAPE

Email : jean.denape@enit.fr

Phone : +33 5 62 44 27 16

Address : 47, avenue d’Azereix, BP1629 65016 Tarbes cedex

Website : www.enit.fr/lgp

Research topics :

  • Tribology of structural ceramics :  friction and wear measurements under various operating conditions (speed, load, temperature, environment), characterization of wear mechanisms and interface dynamics (debris behaviour and accommodation flows), tribo-actived structural changes of ceramics pairs including alumina, zirconia, silicon carbide, tungsten carbide, diamond, amorphous carbon, C-SiC composites, ceramic coatings.

Contact information :

Dr Karl DELBIE

Tel  :  +33 5 62 44 27 24

karl.delbie@enit.fr

  • Local mechanical properties of thin ceramics layers and coatings :  experimental determination of multi-scale hardness, local Young modulus, crack threshold on thin layers for MEMS, aluminum oxide and hydroxyapatite coatings for biomedical applications.

Contact information :

Pr. Joël ALEXIS (IMF team)

Tel :  +33 5 62 44 27 23

joel.alexis@enit.fr

  • Bonding of ceramic :  polymer junctions between structural ceramics as silicon carbide, aluminium nitride and alumina. Surface treatments of ceramics. Experimental determination of chemical functions suitable for enhancing adherence. Conception and processing of new adherence tests adapted to adhesively bonding ceramic assemblies. Predictive laws of mechanical behaviour during use life of assemblies.

Contact information :

Pr. Valérie NASSIET (IMF team)

Tel. +33 5 62 44 29 30

valerie.nassiet@enit.fr

  • Mechanical modeling of ceramic structures and assemblies :  thermo-mechanical characterization and modeling of multi material assemblies, reliability of ceramic parts and ceramic assemblies, numerical simulation and computer aided design.

Contact information :

Pr. Olivier DALVERNY (M2SP team)

Tel. +33 5 62 44 27 29

olivier.dalverny@enit.fr

 

Exceptional facilities :

  • Tribometers (rotating, fretting, high temperature up to 900°C, vacuum conditions), micro and nano-indentation, microscratch tests, micro-tensile tests in SEM, adhesion tests.
  • Mechanical finite element code (Abaqus, Catia V5, Patran…).

Latest news

2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!

In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2025 International Symposium on Green Processing for Advanced Ceramics (IGPAC 2025), organised by the Ceramic Society of Japan, from 5th to 9th October 2025 in Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan.

Jul 22, 2025
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 31st August 2025!

Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of October 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st August 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before November 2025.

Jul 22, 2025

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