Durability specialization

The main goal of the  5th year specialization curriculum ‘Durability’ is to train engineers to elaborate and select materials taking into account the notion of sustainable development (function, structure, properties) and of life cycle. Due to acquired skills, the ‘Durability’ engineer can design and dimension structures on a sustainable basis and knows how to identify the key-points concerning the maintenance of complex industrial systems in order to be able to assess the level of risk and to prevent it. He is an expert in the field of material process, design and maintenance for different industrial sectors, i.e. transport, energy production, materials for health, ceramics and glasses industry. He is a valued collaborator for institutions concerned by research, control and safety of industrial facilities and utilities.

Prerequisites

Sound knowledge of Material engineering:

• production and transformation of the different families of materials,
• working properties,
• damaging ways,
• basic tools to characterise and establish models of the behaviour of materials.

Specialization curriculum accessible to students from IMAT, GC and Chemistry departments from Toulouse INP-ENSIACET. Also accessible to students from other universities with some prerequisites in Material Science.

Skills

• To know the different classes of materials and to identify those largely used in the industry, the industrial processes associated and the material properties.
• To know the various damage processes.
• To take into account complex environments (coupling reactivity/microstructure/mechanics).
• To design and dimension structures on a sustainable basis.
• To identify the key-points for the maintenance of complex industrial systems (risk analysis).
• To model and simulate the in service behaviour of material and structures.
• To propose solutions to improve industrial systems and structures.
• To take into account the life cycle of an industrial product (from production to recycling).
• To work in networks and teams.
• To contribute to project management.

Activity sectors

D (Manufacturing industry),

DF (Coking, refined petroleum products and nuclear fuel),

DG (Chemical industry),

DJ (Metallurgy and manufacture of metal products),

DK (Manufacture of machinery and equipment),

DM (Transportation Equipment Manufacturing),

DN 36.4 (Manufacture of sport equipment)

E (Electricity, gas and water supply),

F (Construction),

KA 73 (Research and development).

Pharmaceutical industry