Marielle Debeurre

ESR 13:
Marielle Debeurre

joined the THREAD project in June 2020 (read her welcome message)

My name is Marielle Debeurre and I was born in Phoenix, Arizona, USA in a bi-cultural French-American family. I studied Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University and Barrett, the Honors College, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in 2019 and a Master’s degree in 2020. Although I spent the majority of my childhood education studying liberal arts and humanities, I have always had a strong interest in science and mathematics in particular. Given my background, engineering was difficult for me to learn, but as I continued to study it, I grew more engrossed in understanding how the world works and in providing solutions to the world’s problems. During my years at ASU, I held three engineering internship positions in data science, programming, aerospace engineering and systems engineering. I specialized in control systems and robotics during my Master’s studies and oversaw the undergraduate controls laboratory.

Although I originally planned for a career in aerospace engineering, I began graduate research as a Master’s student. My research focused on wearable robotic systems for human gait rehabilitation, with a specialization in developing control algorithms and experimental design optimization. I cultivated a passion for research and, coupled with my love of teaching, decided to pursue a PhD to broaden my background further. I always knew I wanted to complete my PhD studies in Europe and my industry and research experiences seemed a perfect fit for THREAD, which was recommended to me by the head of graduate studies in my engineering school at ASU. I am excited for the opportunity to collaborate with other researchers from around the world and with European industry partners, and I look forward to the many accomplishments that are surely in store for the partners and ESRs of project THREAD.

Marielle Debeurre, June 2020


Host Institution
École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (France)
Supervisor

Description

The ESR will investigate the nonlinear dynamics of slender beams in large rotation nonlinear dynamics. New modelling strategies will be based on the coupling of quaternions (for rotation parametrisation) / finite elements (for discretisation) / asymptotic numerical method (for continuation) and the harmonic balance method (to get periodic solutions). Then, reduced order modelling (nonlinear normal mode concept) will be used to reduce the dynamics and obtain accurate numerical solutions. Targeted industrial applications will be nonlinear vibration absorbers, for which the stiffness of the absorber will be realised by prestressed beams. The numerical part of the work will be implemented in an open source software package based on the MANLAB solver.

Expected Results

Firstly, original and efficient numerical strategies for the nonlinear dynamics of beams in the frequency domain will be available at the end of the ESR PhD. Secondly, the special concept of nonlinear modes will be applied for the first time to those problems and tested to reduce the dynamics and also give physical insights in the phenomena

Secondments

planned at Valeo (industrial partner, Part 1, Part 2)

associated with the Industrial Challenges

IC 8 Automotive engineering II
IC 9 Software development

Publications

PhD thesis

Marielle Debeurre (2023): Nonlinear dynamics of highly flexible slender beams : efficient numerical strategies in the frequency domain. Hautes Écoles Sorbonne Arts et Métiers Université (HESAM University, France), see link

Articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals

  • Marielle Debeurre, Aurélien Grolet, Olivier Thomas (2024): Quaternion-based finite element computation of nonlinear modes and frequency responses of geometrically exact beam structures in three dimensions; Multibody System Dynamics, published online; DOI: 10.1007/s11044-024-09999-9, see also link
  • Marielle Debeurre, Simon Benacchio, Aurélien Grolet, Clément Grenat, Christophe Giraud-Audine, Olivier Thomas (2024): Phase resonance testing of highly flexible structures: measurement of conservative nonlinear modes and nonlinear damping identification; Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 215, 111423; DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2024.111423, see also link
  • Marielle Debeurre, Aurélien Grolet, Olivier Thomas (2023): Extreme nonlinear dynamics of cantilever beams: effect of gravity and slenderness on the nonlinear modes; Nonlinear Dynamics 111, 12787–12815; DOI: 10.1007/s11071-023-08637-x, see also link
  • Marielle Debeurre, Aurélien Grolet, Bruno Cochelin, Olivier Thomas (2023): Finite element computation of nonlinear modes and frequency response of geometrically exact beam structures; Journal of Sound and Vibration 548, 117534; DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2022.117534, see also link

Publications in conference proceedings

  • Marielle Debeurre, Aurélien Grolet, Pierre-Olivier Mattei, Bruno Cochelin, Olivier Thomas (2023): Nonlinear Modes of Cantilever Beams at Extreme Amplitudes: Numerical Computation and Experiments. In: Matthew R.W. Brake, Ludovic Renson, Robert J. Kuether, Paolo Tiso (eds.): Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series, Springer, Cham, pp. 245–248; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04086-3_35, see also link