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UMET seminar
Thursday, February 12 2026 10:30 - Grande salle de réunion, Institut Chevreul
Jean-Baptiste Jacob
ESRF
  Imaging Stress Heterogeneity and Grain-Scale Mechanics in Deforming Rocks with Synchrotron High-Energy X-ray Diffraction

Rock deformation and failure are governed by stress and strain heterogeneities that emerge at the grain scale and evolve across length scales, ultimately controlling macroscopic strength and rupture processes. Capturing these internal processes in situ, while a sample is under mechanical loading, remains a major challenge in both geoscience and materials science. High-energy synchrotron-based techniques such as three-dimensional X-ray diffraction (3DXRD) and its scanning variant (scanning-3DXRD) provide a unique route to address this problem by non-destructively probing bulk polycrystalline materials and reconstructing the crystallographic orientation and elastic strain of thousands of individual grains embedded within a three-dimensional volume.
This seminar will present recent methodological developments at the ESRF in 3DXRD and pencil-beam scanning-3DXRD, with a focus on their ability to resolve spatially heterogeneous stress fields and microstructural evolution during deformation. Applications to rock mechanics spans from operando experiments under quasi-static triaxial loading — revealing how stress builds up, localizes, and redistributes prior to failure — to post-mortem investigations of microstructures and heterogeneous residual strain fields in natural and experimentally deformed rocks. By delivering grain-resolved measurements of internal stress in deforming rocks at unprecedented resolution, these emerging approaches open new experimental avenues to explore the microphysical mechanisms governing deformation, rupture, and chemical reactions in rocks and other polycrystalline materials.

Defence
Monday, January 26 2026 14:00 - Amphitheatre Chevreul
Zainab Hareb
UMET-ISP
  Synthèse et caractérisation d'une nouvelle génération d’élastomères thermoplastiques aux propriétés thermomécaniques contrôlées
UMET seminar
Thursday, January 22 2026 10:30 - Grande salle de réunion, Institut Chevreul
Rémy Pierru
Bayerisches Geoinstitut (BGI)
  On the cooling of the Martian magma ocean: Implications for the presence of a basal melt layer at the core–mantle boundary
 
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