Arts et Métiers Safran announce the launch of the CESAME Chair, dedicated to the development of innovative processes in aeronautics. This strategic partnership between academia and industry aims to push the boundaries of metal additive manufacturing to optimize the performance and durability of materials.
A partnership of excellence for aeronautical innovation
Arts et Métiers Safran are combining their expertise to design advanced technological solutions that meet the challenges of aeronautics. Through the CESAME Chair, they aim to promote and develop metal additive manufacturing solutions that guarantee gains in performance and material durability.
Additive manufacturing opens up unparalleled opportunities for improving performance and reducing weight, and challenges the academic world. Performance optimization requires complete mastery of the value chain, from understanding the physical processes involved in the manufacturing process to mastering and modeling the behavior of these new-generation materials and structures, " says Nicolas Saintier, professor at the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Bordeaux-Talence, head of the Dumas department at I2M and the CESAME Chair .
Through this collaboration, Arts et Métiers the Bordeaux Institute of Mechanics and Engineering (I2M / Arts et Métiers, University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, INRAE), is providing its scientific expertise and the laboratory's capacity for innovation in the fields of processes, materials, mechanical behavior, and durability under service conditions, both digitally and experimentally. For its part, Safran brings in-depth knowledge of the market, industrial needs, and current and future technical challenges. This chair capitalizes on the experience Safran has gained with the Safran Additive Manufacturing Campus, a center of excellence entirely dedicated to additive manufacturing located in Le Haillan.
Ambitious research areas and promising outcomes
The CESAME Chair focuses on six key areas of research that will enable full mastery and understanding of all the physical processes involved in additive manufacturing:
- Laser-matter interaction and its consequences on microstructures
- Experimental and numerical process thermodynamics
- Multi-material processes
- The links between microstructure and mechanical behavior
- Surface and volume effects
- Architectural materials
The expected results for this new Chair are manifold. The CESAME Chair includes significant scientific and technological advances in process control and the performance of materials obtained through additive manufacturing, but also contributes to training a new generation of engineers capable of meeting the technical and environmental challenges of the aeronautics industry of the future.
" This collaboration should enable us to make significant progress in process control, particularly powder bed additive manufacturing, allowing us to move towards the development and production of increasingly complex parts while ensuring complete flight safety, " says Luc Namer, Head of Technology at Safran Additive Manufacturing Campus.
Looking ahead, the applications of the Chair's work are part of an environment of increased international competitiveness, positioning Arts et Métiers Safran Additive Manufacturing Campus at the forefront of process innovation for aeronautics. The CESAME Chair is thus establishing itself as a catalyst for innovation and a strategic lever for a sustainable and high-performance aeronautics industry.
