Phd Position In Mechanical Engineering / Biomechanics / Metamodelling

14 Sep 2023

Job Information

Organisation/Company

Université Gustave Eiffel

Department

LBMC

Research Field

Engineering » Mechanical engineering

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

France

Application Deadline

15 Oct 2023 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

35

Offer Starting Date

15 Nov 2023

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Towards a more equitable protection of vehicle occupants: combining human body models and metamodeling techniques to improve safety.

The final goal of the research is to create a method to help develop safety systems that protect everyone in a vehicle accounting for their their differences. The approach will use a combination of mechanical simulation (finite element and human body models) and metamodelling / machine learning techniques.

More details are provided below.

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Keywords : Biomechanics, Finite element modelling and simulation, Metamodeling, Machine learning

Dates: position open until filled. Duration: 3 years

Background: Continuous improvements of the protection systems inside vehicles (seat belts, airbags, seats) have contributed to the reduction of the number of fatalities and injuries due to road accidents. Future improvements may come from more robust, inclusive and equitable protection systems. An idea is to simulate the diversity of occupants (sex, age, height, weight, postures adopted) and crash conditions (severity, frequency), formulate an objective function and then to optimize the system across all conditions.

State-of-the-art human body models that can be morphed and positioned to represent the human diversity are expected to play a role in that vision. However, using HBMs and adding new parameters to the design, optimization and assessment processes would substantially increase the computational costs.

Methods often labelled under the broad categories of metamodeling or machine learning can be used to tackle such issues. Examples include interpolation on surface responses, kriging models, model order reduction, or transfer learning, etc.

Objectives: the overall objective will be to evaluate and if needed adapt methods to reduce computing costs to the case of the design and optimization of occupant protection systems based on simulations with HBM. The study will be broken into different scenarios of increasing complexity and associated methods will be identified. Potential benefits of the methods will be quantified, both in terms of safety and computational cost. The thesis will include short stays at both industry partners (Autoliv, Gothenburg, Sweden, and LAB PSA Renault, Nanterre, France) to help formulate the problem and transfer the results.

For more:See pdf for more a detailed description, illustration, scientific references, etc.

Requirements

Research Field

Engineering » Mechanical engineering

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Profile of the candidate:

mechanical engineering, a strong interest for numerical methods, finite element simulation and research.

Simple programming skills (e.g. Python).

Communication and writing skills in English are required.

French speaking candidates are welcomed but it is not required to speak French for this topic.

Skills Acquired:

experience with metamodeling methods (used in many fields),

finite element modeling and simulation (Ls-Dyna), biomechanics, safety,

experience of international collaborative research between academic and industry.

Languages

ENGLISH

Level

Excellent

Additional Information

Selection process

Send resume, transcript (grades) and an explanation about your interest for this topic by email.

Website for additional job details

https: // lbmc.univ-gustave- eiffel.fr/fileadmin/redaction/LBMC/Documents/Theses20…

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Univ Eiffel

Country

France

State/Province

Rhône

City

Bron Cedex, France

Postal Code

69500

Street

Univ Eiffel - LBMC, 25 avenue F. Mitterrand

Geofield

Where to apply

E-mail

[email protected]

Contact

State/Province

Rhône

City

Bron

Street

25 avenue F. Mitterrand

Postal Code

69675

E-Mail

[email protected]

Phone

+33472142371

STATUS: EXPIRED