Publications by Jean-François Molinari

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Explicit dynamic approach for unbounded domains in frictional contact with Rate and State laws

Jean-François Molinari, Roozbeh Rezakhani

The paper explores the ability of an explicit time integration procedure to simulate the dynamics of shear rupture between unbounded elastic blocks on frictional interface, modeled with the finite element method. The behaviour of the interface is governed ...

ELSEVIER2020

Data-driven numerical site response

Jean-François Molinari, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez, Sacha Zenon Wattel

Prediction of ground motion triggered by earthquakes is a prime concern for both the seismology community and geotechnical earthquake engineering one. The subfield occupied with such a problem is termed site response analysis (SRA), its one-dimensional fla ...

2022

Understanding the mechanisms of adhesive wear for heterogeneous materials through atomistic simulations

Jean-François Molinari, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez, Sacha Zenon Wattel

When two rough surfaces slide against each other, two main behaviors can be observed at the asperity level: A ductile behavior where the asperities tend to smooth out or a brittle behavior where the asperities detach and form debris. Recently, a critical l ...

2022

Direct Visualization of Single Ions in the Stern Layer of Calcite

Jean-François Molinari, Francesco Stellacci, Kislon Voitchovsky, Peter Spijker, Maria Ricci

Calcite is among the most abundant minerals on earth and plays a central role in many environmental and geochemical processes. Here we used amplitude modulation atomic force microscopy (AFM) operated in a particular regime to visualize single ions close to ...

American Chemical Society2013

Impact of internal crystalline boundaries on lattice thermal conductivity: Importance of boundary structure and spacing

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Ramin Aghababaei

The low thermal conductivity of nano-crystalline materials is commonly explained via diffusive scattering of phonons by internal boundaries. In this study, we have quantitatively studied phononcrystalline boundaries scattering and its effect on the overall ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2014

Predicting variability in the dynamic failure strength of brittle materials considering pre-existing flaws

Jean-François Molinari

We perform two-dimensional dynamic fracture simulations of a specimen in biaxial tension, incorporating various distributions of pre-existing microcracks. The simulations consider the spatial distribution of flaws while modeling the discrete failure proces ...

Elsevier2011

On-the-fly clustering for exascale molecular dynamics simulations

Jean-François Molinari

Computational resources have experienced exponential growth in the last decades enabling the simulation of complex physical problems at the cost of a massive increase in data storage. This is especially true for N-body simulations now reaching billions or ...

2025

Variational phase-field continuum model uncovers adhesive wear mechanisms in asperity junctions

Jean-François Molinari, Sylvain Collet

Wear is well known for causing material loss in a sliding interface. Available macroscopic approaches are bound to empirical fitting parameters, which range several orders of magnitude. Major advances in tribology have recently been achieved via Molecular ...

2020

On the debris-level origins of adhesive wear

Jean-François Molinari, Ramin Aghababaei

Every contacting surface inevitably experiences wear. Predicting the exact amount of material loss due to wear relies on empirical data and cannot be obtained from any physical model. Here, we analyze and quantify wear at the most fundamental level, i.e., ...

Natl Acad Sciences2017

A meso-mechanical model for concrete under dynamic tensile and compressive loading

Jean-François Molinari, Leonardo Snozzi, Fabrice Gatuingt

We present a computational model, which combines interface debonding and frictional contact, in order to investigate the response of concrete specimens subjected to dynamic tensile and compressive loading. Concrete is modeled using a meso-mechanical approa ...

Springer Verlag2012

A concurrent atomistic and continuum coupling method with applications to thermo-mechanical problems

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Srinivasa Babu Ramisetti

We present a novel method to couple molecular dynamics with finite elements at finite temperatures using spatial filters. The mismatch in the dispersion relations between continuum and atomistic models leads, at finite temperature, to unwanted mesh vibrati ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Stick-slip phenomena and Schallamach waves captured using reversible cohesive elements

Jean-François Molinari, Thibault Didier Roch

Reversibility is of paramount importance in the correct representation of surface peeling in various physical settings, ranging from motility in nature, to gripping devices in robotic applications, and even to sliding of tectonic plates. Modeling the detac ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Crack front waves: A 3D dynamic response to a local perturbation of tensile and shear cracks

Jean-François Molinari, Fabian Barras, Damien Spielmann

Crack front waves are long-lived perturbations propagating along the crack front. They are triggered by heterogeneities on the crack plane, as for instance tough asperities, which disturb the crack front shape. Crack front waves are thought to leave a trac ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Finite element modeling of dynamic frictional rupture with rate and state friction

Jean-François Molinari, Fabian Barras, Roozbeh Rezakhani

Numerous laboratory experiments have demonstrated the dependence of the friction coefficient on the interfacial slip rate and the contact history, a behavior generically called rate and state friction. Although numerical models have been widely used for an ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Adhesive wear with a coarse-grained discrete element model

Jean-François Molinari, Son-Jonathan Pham-Ba

The use of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations has led to promising results to unravel the atomistic origins of adhesive wear, and in particular for the onset of wear at nanoscale surface asperities. However, MD simulations come with a high computational c ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Three-dimensional stress state during dynamic shear rupture propagation along frictional interfaces in elastic plates

Jean-François Molinari, Roozbeh Rezakhani

The state of stress in plates, where one geometric dimensions is much smaller than the others, is often assumed to be of plane stress. This assumption is justified by the fact that the out-of-plane stress components are zero on the free-surfaces of a plate ...

ELSEVIER2022

A parameter-free mechanistic model of the adhesive wear process of rough surfaces in sliding contact

Jean-François Molinari, Tobias Brink, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot

In order to develop predictive wear laws, relevant material parameters and their influence on the wear rate need to be identified. Despite decades of research, there is no agreement on the mathematical form of wear equations and even the simplest models, s ...

2021

Damage cluster distributions in numerical concrete at the mesoscale

Jean-François Molinari, Okan Yilmaz

We investigate the size distribution of damage clusters in concrete under uniaxial tension loading conditions. Using the finite-element method, the concrete is modeled at the mesoscale by a random distribution of elastic spherical aggregates within an elas ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Dry sliding contact between rough surfaces at the atomistic scale

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Peter Spijker

Although, a lot is known about the factors contributing to friction, a complete physical understanding of the origins of friction is still lacking. At the macroscale several laws have long since described the relation between load (Amontons, Coulomb), appa ...

Springer US2011

cRacklet: a spectral boundary integral method library for interfacial rupture simulation

Jean-François Molinari, Fabian Barras, Thibault Didier Roch

The study of dynamically propagating rupture along interfaces is of prime importance in various fields and system sizes, including tribology (nm to m), engineering (mm to m) and geophysics (m to km) (Armstrong-Hélouvry et al., 1994; Ben-Zion, 2008; Vanossi ...

2022