The Laboratory of Materials and Durability of Constructions

Scientific solutions for sustainable development and eco-responsible management of buildings, civil engineering infrastructure and housing

Centre 1: Innovative multiphase Materials

Formulation de matériaux de construction à performances optimales et à faible impact environnemental.

Centre 2: Reactivity, transfer and coupling for the durability of materials and structures

Study of the evolution of materials and structures in their environment and predicting their behaviour to meet the challenges of environmental protection, safety and security, and maintaining process yields/productivity.

Centre 3: Analysis and monitoring of buildings in their environment

Study of existing buildings: assessment of structural and/or energy performance (deterministic or probabilistic approach), monitoring of performance over time after rehabilitation or repair.

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The Laboratory of Materials and Durability of Constructions (LMDC)

The Laboratory of Materials and Durability of Constructions is a university research laboratory specialising in the science of civil engineering materials and structures. Its supervising bodies are the University of Toulouse III Paul Sabatier and INSA Toulouse. More than 50 university lecturers and researchers carry out their research at LMDC.

The LMDC offers scientific solutions for the sustainable development and eco-responsible management of buildings, civil engineering infrastructures and housing. To this end, it develops innovative materials for civil engineering, improves understanding of the physico-chemical phenomena that can affect the durability of construction materials, and develops methodologies and techniques for the requalification, diagnosis and maintenance of existing structures.

Four departments ensure the smooth operation of research in the laboratory: the mechanical department, the chemistry-microstructure department, the physics department, and the IT and modeling department.

The research themes developed at LMDC include the following key words: Civil Engineering, cement pastes, mortars and concretes, reinforced concrete, self-compacting concrete, ultra-high-performance fibre-reinforced concrete, composite cements, geo-polymers, bio-sourced materials, raw and baked earth, masonry, steel, reinforcement, metakaolin, silica fume, blast furnace slag, fly ash, sunflower, chenevotte, corn refines, experimentation, modeling, thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical behaviour (THCM), durability, thermal comfort, bio-deterioration, non-destructive testing, acoustic emission, radar, waves, constructive theory, deformations, young age, creep shrinkage, strength, ductility, brittleness, fracture mechanics, porosity, density, homogenisation, anisotropy, cracking, chloride diffusion, permeability, flow rates, thermal conductivity, rheology, thixotropy, corrosion, cathodic protection, internal swelling reactions (alkali-granular, internal sulphatic), expansion, leaching, carbonation, loading capacity, damage, hydration, calorimetry, photocatalysis, aggregate-paste interface, transition aureole, image analysis, replica, energy, environment, life cycle, chaos, neural networks, determinism, laws of behaviour…