SUMO group – Clément Ader Institute

SUMO is French an abbreviation of the ICA Group “Surface, Usinage (Machining), Matériaux (Materials) and Outillages (Tools)”.

The group researches deal with :

Machining & Mechanical Forming or Casting process
3-Axial and 5 Axial machining, Fabrication strategy, Forging, High temperature Rolling die-casing, SPF, Advanced Forming (Single point, Strato-conception), RT and High temperature Stamping and Sheet Metal Forming.
Tools and Tooling and Micro tooling Machining and materials forming at room and in particular high temperature

The scientific goals of group deal with:

Representative Element of: Surfaces, Sub-Surfaces, Interfaces
Virgin and Themomechanical treated and engineered surfaces coated, TBC, laser cladding nitrided
Monolithic Materials, Multi-Materials, FGM, multi-components,multilayer, Composites, Polymer/Metallic, Ceramics, refractory, Assembled materials
Loading and Damage under Fatigue, Wear, Friction, Tribology, “Fretting fatigue”, “Crash test”
Modelling & Numerical simulations of process and thermo-mechanicalbehaviour and damage, constitutive laws, life and residual life estimations, damage tolerance, fracture mechanics, spalling, uni-axial and multi-axial cracking (heat checking).

The group is organised in 3 Scientifics axes and different trans-axial or groups scientific and technical poles such as Titanium, Fatigue, etc…