Founded in 1992, the Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes (LTDS) specializes in a wide range of engineering fields, from tribology and structural dynamics to bioengineering and perception, materials and processes, and civil engineering.
300
people
4
research teams
+ 3000
publications
3
excellent facilities
- Direction: Jean-Luc LOUBET, director
- Supervision:
- Areas of applications:
- Transport (innovation, recyclable materials, infrastructure...)
- Energy (materials, yields, manufacturing, housing...)
- Health (tissue aging, living materials...)
Research areas
- Tribology, nano-mechanics, physical chemistry
- Nonlinear dynamics, vibroacoustics, metamaterials
- Simulations and modeling of manufacturing processes
- Granular materials and geomaterials
- Biomechanics of living tissue, perception
Main facilities
- Rotating machine dynamics
- Vibroacoustic characterizations
- Tunneling
- Mechanical and thermomechanical testing of materials and structures
- Manufacturing processes
- Living engineering center
- Advanced tribometry and surface characterization platform
- Fretting, fatigue, durability
Partnerships
IVTV
MANUTECH-USD
PHARE
LIA Elyt with Tohoku (Japan)
Institut Carnot Ingenierie@Lyon
Competitive clusters (AXELERA, Techtera, Next Move, Plastipolis, CARA, etc.)
Regional research communities: ARC, CLUSTERS, etc.