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Alexandre Sac--Morane
PhD student under the supervision of Hadrien Rattez (UCLouvain, Belgium) and Manolis Veveakis (Duke University, North Carolina, USA).

ORCID : 0009-0008-5454-8107
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Contact me at alexandre.sac-morane@uclouvain.be

Projects

  • PFDEM

    Phase-Field Discrete Element Modelisation applied to granular material.

  • PF

    Phase-Field description.

  • DEM

    Discrete Element Modelisation.

  • DIC

    Digital Image Correlation.

Publications

  • Alexandre Sac-Morane, Hadrien Rattez, Manolis Veveakis. (xxxx). Stress state evolution of a cemented granular material subjected to bond dissolution by Discrete Element Modeling. ?. ?.
  • Alexandre Sac-Morane, Manolis Veveakis, Hadrien Rattez. (2024). A Phase-Field Discrete Element Method to study chemo-mechanical coupling in granular materials. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 10.1016/j.cma.2024.116900.
  • Alexandre Sac-Morane, Manolis Veveakis, Hadrien Rattez. (2024). Frictional weakening of a granular sheared layer due to viscous rolling revealed by Discrete Element Modeling. Granular Matter. 10.1007/s10035-024-01407-5.
  • Hadrien Rattez, Yaozhong Shi, Alexandre Sac--Morane, Timothée Klaeyle, Bolesław Mielniczuk, Manolis Veveakis. (2020). Effect of grain size distribution on the shear band thickness evolution in sand. Géotechnique. 10.1680/jgeot.20.P.120.
  • Alessandro Stocchi, Cédric Giry, Irmela Zentner, Emmanuelle Nayman, Sophie Capdevielle, et al.. Méthodologie pour l’actualisation de la magnitude d’un séisme historique. 10ème Colloque National AFPS 2019, Sep 2019, Strasbourg, France. ffhal-02512020

Experience

    September 2021 - Nowadays Duke University, Durham, NC, USA & UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
    PhD under the supervision of Manolis Veveakis & Hadrien Rattez
    Influence of chemo-mechanical couplings in granular materials
    March 2021 - July 2021 UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
    Master Internship under the supervision of Hadrien Rattez
    Discrete Element Modelization on a shear rock test
    May 2019 - July 2019 Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
    Master Internship under the supervision of Manolis Veveakis and Hadrien Rattez
    DIC during triaxial test on soil sample
    July 2018 - August 2018 Ingerop, Paris, France
    Licence Internship
    Update a prices database and development of Excel sheet to design roofs to the shear phenomeon

Education

    September 2021 - Nowadays Duke University, Durham, NC, USA & UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
    PhD under the supervision of Manolis Veveakis & Hadrien Rattez
    September 2020 - September 2021 Université Grenoble Alpes, Saint-Martin-d'hères, France
    Master Geomechanics, Civil Enginnering and Risks
    September 2018 - September 2020 Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Cachan, France
    Master of Civil Enginnering
    September 2017 - September 2018 Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Cachan, France
    3rd year of Enginnering License
    September 2015 - September 2017 Lycée Déodat de Séverac, Toulouse, France
    Highly selective classes to prepare for the competitive exams of French schools, Option Physics and Technologies