Jean-Benoit LE CAM
Professor
University of Rennes 1
Institute of Physics
Allée Jean Perrin
Campus de Beaulieu
France
35042 RENNES
Biographical Sketch: After several years as a research engineer in the Total group, Prof. Jean-Benoît Le Cam received his PhD from Ecole Centrale de Nantes in 2005 and has since worked on fatigue damage and fracture mechanisms in elastomers. In 2006, he joined the academic staff of the French Institute of Advanced Mechanics (IFMA) as an Assistant Professor, where he worked on imaging techniques to study mechanics of elastomers. In 2010, he was appointed director of the Structures and Mechanics of Materials departement at IFMA. In this period, he has extended his research field to quantitative calorimetry in mechanics of elastomers. In 2011, he joined the Institute of Physics at University of Rennes (UR) as a Professor in order to create the Quantitative Imaging Group on mechanics of elastomers. Today, he holds the Cooper Standard Chair in mechanics of elastomers at UR and manages the Research Laboratory (LC-DRIME) in Imaging, Mechanics and Elastomers, common to Cooper Standard, UR and the National Center for Scientific Research. His industrial partners belong to various sectors of engineering: automotive (Michelin), oil pumping (PCM) and anti-vibration systems (Cooper Standard), to name a few.
Papers:
The Effect of Strain-Induced Crystallization on the Thermomechanical Behaviour of Rubbers