Professor, Institute Mines-Telecom
Mines ParisTech, Centre de Mise en Forme des Matériaux (CEMEF), UMR CNRS 7635, Sophia Antipolis, France
o Civil Engineer of Ecole des Mines de Paris (now Mines ParisTech), 1982
o R&D Engineer in steel industry, Usinor group (now ArcelorMittal): 1983-1984
o Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 1988: Finite element simulation of superplastic sheet forming of titanium alloys
o Professor, co-responsible of the Major "Materials Science & Engineering" at Mines-ParisTech, since 2007
o Deputy Head of the Department "Mechanics and Materials" at Mines-ParisTech, since 2016
Research background
· Advisor of 35 Ph.D. theses (+ 9 ongoing ones), 60 publications in international journals with reviewing committee; 34 invited conferences and keynotes; Co-author of 2 books
· Main research topics
Recent and ongoing research projects
· Numerical modeling of WAAM additive manufacturing of metals
· Concurrent FEM analysis of fluid flow and stress-strain analysis in casting processes
· Identification of metal behavior at very high temperature near fusion
· Study of parasite crystallization after casting single crystal parts
· Numerical modeling of SLM additive manufacturing for metallic alloys
· Numerical modeling of SLM additive manufacturing applied to ceramics materials
· FEM modelling of transport of equiaxed crystals during solidification of steel ingots
· FEM modelling of SPS (Spark Plasma Sintering)
· Numerical modelling of hot tearing and macrosegregation induced by solid deformation
Main recent publications
· Zhang S, Guillemot G, Gandin C-A, Bellet M, A partitioned two-step solution algorithm for concurrent fluid flow and stress-strain numerical simulation in solidification processes, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 356 (2019) 294-324
· Moniz L, Chen Q, Guillemot G, Bellet M, Gandin C-A, Colin C, Bartout J-D, Berger M-H, Additive manufacturing of an oxide ceramic by laser beam melting – Comparison between finite element simulation and experimental results, J. Materials Processing Technology 270 (2019) 106-117
· Zhang Y, Chen Q, Guillemot G, Gandin C-A, Bellet M, Numerical modelling of fluid and solid thermomechanics in additive manufacturing by powder bed fusion: continuum and level set formulation applied to track and part scale simulations, C. R. Mecanique 346 (2018) 1055-1071
· Chen Q, Guillemot G, Gandin C-A, Bellet M, Numerical modelling of the impact of energy distribution and Marangoni surface tension on track shape in selective laser melting of ceramic material, Additive Manufacturing 21 (2018) 713-723
· Nguyen T-T-M, Gandin C-A, Combeau H, Založnik M, Bellet M, Finite element multi-scale modelling of chemical segregation in steel solidification taking into account the transport of equiaxed grains, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 49 (2018) 1725-1748
· Zhang Y, Guillemot G, Bernacki M, Bellet M, Macroscopic thermal finite element modeling of additive metal manufacturing by selective laser melting process, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 331 (2018) 514-535
· Martins D, Grumbach F, Simoulin A, Sallot P, Mocellin K, Bellet M, Estournès C, Spark plasma sintering of a commercial TiAl 48-2-2 powder: densification and creep analysis, Materials Science & Engineering A 711 (2018) 313-316
· Chen Q, Guillemot G, Gandin C-A, Bellet M, Three-dimensional finite element thermomechanical modeling of additive manufacturing by selective laser melting for ceramic materials, Additive Manufacturing 16 (2017) 124-137
· Martins D, Grumbach F, Manière C, Sallot P, Mocellin K, Bellet M, Estournès C, In-situ creep law determination for modeling Spark Plasma Sintering of TiAl 48-2-2 powder, Intermetallics 86 (2017) 147-155
· Koshikawa T, Bellet M, Gandin C-A, Yamamura H, Bobadilla M, Experimental study and two-phase numerical modelling of macrosegregation induced by solid deformation during punch pressing of solidifying steel ingots, Acta Materialia 124 (2017) 513-527
· Koshikawa T, Bellet M, Gandin C-A, Yamamura H, Bobadilla M, Study of hot tearing during steel solidification through ingot punching test and its numerical simulation, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 47 (2016) 4053-4067
· Bellet M, Qiu G, Carpreau J-M, Comparison of two hot tearing criteria in numerical modelling of arc welding of stainless steel AISI 321, Journal of Materials Processing Technology 230 (2016) 143-152
· Saad A, Gandin C-A, Bellet M, Shevchenko N, Eckert S, Simulation of channel segregation during directional solidification of In-75 wt pct Ga. Qualitative comparison with in situ observations, Metall Mater Trans A 46, 11 (2015) 4886-4897
· Saad A, Gandin C-A, Bellet M, Temperature-based energy solver coupled with tabulated thermodynamic properties - Application to the prediction of macrosegregation in multicomponent alloys, Comput Mater Sci 99 (2015) 221-231
· Desmaison O, Bellet M, Guillemot G, A level set approach for the simulation of the multipass hybrid laser/GMA welding process, Computational Materials Science 91 (2014) 240-250
· Bellet M, Hamide M, Direct modeling of material deposit and identification of energy transfer in gas metal arc welding, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow 23, 8 (2013) 1340-1355
· Carozzani T, Gandin C-A, Digonnet H, Bellet M, Zaidat K, Fautrelle Y, Direct simulation of a solidification benchmark experiment, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 44, 2 (2013) 873-887
· Mondalek P, Silva L, Bellet M, A Numerical Model for Powder Densification by SPS Technique, Advanced Engineering Materials 13, 7 (2011) 587-593
· Zhang C, Bellet M, Bobadilla M, Shen H, Liu B, Inverse finite element modelling and identification of constitutive parameters of UHS steel based on Gleeble tensile tests at high temperature, Inverse Problems in Science and Eng. 19, 4 (2011) 485-508
Scientific expertise
· Member of editorial board of journals: Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering; Int. J. of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
· Member of scientific committee of conferences: MCWASP (co-chair in 2006), NUMIFORM, STEELSIM, ECCC, CSSCR, ICOMP.
· Member of scientific societies: Institute of Physics (IOP) London; Association Française de Mécanique (AFM); Groupe Français de Mécanique des Matériaux (MECAMAT); European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH); Computational Structural Mechanics Association (CSMA)
· Expert at French National Research Agency (ANR), at Austrian Research Agency, and for Norvegian and Austrian Research Ministries
· Member of 45 committees for Ph.D. degree in other Universities (among which 5 abroad) and "Habilitation à diriger des recherches"
Cooperation with foreign universities/institutions
· 3-months as visiting Professor at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1998 by Prof. Michel Rappaz. Collaboration on the book M. Rappaz, M. Bellet, M. Deville, Numerical Modeling in Materials Science and Engineering, Springer, 2003
· Prof. Brian G Thomas, University of Illinois. Two book chapters co-authored: M. Bellet, B.G. Thomas, Solidification macroprocesses (Thermal - Mechanical modeling of stress, distorsion and hot tearing), in Materials Processing Handbook, Chapter 27, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis (2007) and B.G. Thomas, M. Bellet, Modeling of stress, distortions and hot tearing, in ASM Handbook Vol. 15: Casting, ASM International (2008)
· Profs Houfa Shen and Baicheng Liu, University of Tsing Hua, Beijing (2007-2009) on the characterization of steel mechanical behaviour at high temperature and in the semi-solid state. Two-year stay of a Chinese PhD student in Cemef:Changli Zhang.
Updated January 2020