M. Akram ALHUSSEIN

Activités d'Enseignement / Teaching Activities

Mécanique des matériaux / Mechanics of materials

• Résistance des matériaux / Strength of materials
• Endommagement, fatigue et mécanique de la rupture / Damage, fatigue and fracture mechanics

Matériaux métalliques / Metallic materials

Caractérisation des matériaux / characterization of materials

Unités d'enseignements / Teaching units

• Formation d'ingénieurs Matériaux et Mécanique / Mechanical and Material Engineering (MM)
• Formation Licence professionnelle “Conception et processus de mise en forme des matériaux” / Professional training "High Performance Materials and Processes - Design and material forming”

Tutorat : Tuteur pédagogique de 10 d'apprentis par an / Supervisor of 10 students per year.

Activités de Recherche / Research Activities

Développement des couches minces protectives et multifonctionnelles / Development of protective and multifunctional thin films

•         Development of new hydrogen barrier coatings

•         Elastic behavior of thin films

•         Advanced functional hard coatings

•         Thin films for biomedical applications

•         Duplex treatment of bulk materials and coatings

•         Development of protective and durable coatings deposited by hybrid technologies

•         Multi-functional architectured coatings combining anti-corrosion and antifouling properties.

Mécanique des matériaux / Mechanics of materials

•         Tribocorrosion and mechanical behavior of additive manufactured parts

•         Hydrogen embrittlement

Qualifié en 28^e, 33^e et 60^e section CNU.

Direction des thèses / Supervision of PhD students 

Mr Mohamed Fares Slim, Defense date: November 29, 2018.
Mrs Caroline Villardi De Oliveira, Defense date: December 12, 2019.
Mr Elia Zgheib, Defense date: December 1, 2020.
Mr Elias Kaady, Defense date: January 26, 2023.
Mrs Ahlam Belgroune, Defense date: July 11, 2023.
Mrs Héléna Khoury-Moussa, Defense date: October 3, 2023.
Mr Issam Lakhdar, Expected defense date: 2024
Mr Mahmoud Naim, Expected defense date: 2024
Mrs Ilhem Elgargouri, Expected defense date: 2024/2025.
Mrs Rim Sarieddine, Expected defense date: 2024/2025.
Mr Mouhcine Tetouani, Start date: October 2023.

Titres et diplômes / Titles and degrees

• 2010: Doctorat en mécanique des matériaux / PhD in Mechanics of materials, University of Lorraine.
• 2006: Master recherche M2 MMSP Mécanique, Matériaux, Structures, Procédés / Master M2 in Mechanic, Materials, Structures and Processes, ENIM-ENSAM-University of Lorraine.
• 2003: Diplôme d’ingénieur en Génie Mécanique, Conception et production / Bachelor (Master) degree in Mechanical Engineering, University of Aleppo.

Expérience professionnelle / Professional Experience

· Depuis septembre 2012 : Enseignant-Chercheur Contractuel Professeur Associé / Associate Professor at the University of Technology of Troyes, LASMIS Research team.

· 07/2011-06/2012 Chercheur contractuel en Mécanique des matériaux / Post-doc Researcher, Roberval lab, University of Technology of Compiègne - Sorbonne University.

· 02/2010-06/2011 Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche (ATER) / Assistant Professor, LUSAC lab, Higher School of Engineers of University of Caen, Cherbourg city (ESIX).

Scientific production

• More than 65 papers

• 13 conference papers

• More than 40 conferences

Key Publications

• I. Lakdhar, A. Alhussein, J. Capelle, J. Creus, Al-Ti-W alloys deposited by magnetron sputtering: Effective barrier to prevent steel hydrogen embrittlement, Applied Surface Science Vol. 567 (2021) 150786.

• L. Aissani, M. Fellah, A. Belgroune, A. Obrosov, M.A. Samad, A. Alhussein, Effect of O2 flow rate on the structure, wettability and tribo-mechanical behaviour of Zr-ON thin films, Surfaces and Interfaces 26 (2021) 101441.

• A. Alhussein, S. Achache, R. Deturche, S. Rtimi, Architectured Cu-TNTZ bilayered coatings showing bacterial inactivation under indoor light and controllable copper release: Effect of the microstructure on copper diffusion, Coatings 10(6) 2020.

• C. Villardi de Oliveira, A. Alhussein, J. Creus, F. Schuster, M.L. Schlegel, D. Zhili, C. Jiménez, F. Sanchette, Bifunctional TiO₂/AlZr thin films on steel substrate combining corrosion resistance and photocatalytic properties, Coatings 9(9), 2019.

• M.F. Slim, A. Alhussein, E. Zgheib, M. François, Determination of single-crystal elasticity constants of a phase in a multiphased thin film using impulse excitation technique, X-ray diffraction and micro-mechanical modeling, Acta materialia 175 (2019) 348 – 360.

Responsabilités / Responsibilities

• Membre du conseil de l'UR LASMIS / Member of the LASMIS Research Unit board
• Membre du comité stratégique d'information / Member of the Strategic Information Committee​​​ at the University
• International Responsible for the Materials and Mechanical engineering branch (2021-2023)
• Head of the professional training program “High Performance Materials and Processes - Design and Material Forming”.
• Gestion du laboratoire de caractérisations mécaniques des matériaux / Management of the materials and mechanical characterizations lab.
• Responsable de MA13N et MM11 / Responsible for many teaching units
• Responsable d’hygiène et sécurité / Responsible for Health and Safety at the UTT site in Nogent city (March 2012 - December 2015)