====== M3S: Mechanical Modelling of Materials and structures ======

Students attending M3S courses during their final year before graduation focus on solid mechanics.

From September to March all Centrale Marseille engineering school students attend core courses (~120h in management and foreign languages), professional specialty courses (~110h in Conception, Design Office or Research and Development, ...) and extension courses (~400h). More details can be found on [[https://formation.centrale-marseille.fr/en/period-3-professionalizaton|the school page]]. M3S is part of the general "Mechanics" extension course which also covers fluid mechanics and acoustics.

Starting from April, students then realize their end-of-studies internship during 4 to 6 months.

If you have any question, please contact [[emmanuelle.sarrouy@centrale-marseille.fr|Emmanuelle Sarrouy]].

===== M3S Mandatory courses =====

All M3S students will attend the following courses:
  * **Numerical methods in mechanics** [24h]\\ General overview of methods for solid, fluid and acoustics; application on dedicated software such as Comsol.
  * **Waves in mechanics** [24h]\\ Linear and non linear wave propagation in different media.
  * ** Slender structures (beams and plates), dynamics and instabilities** [48h]\\ Beams and plates theory; buckling instability\\ Eigenmodes definition and use (general behavior prediction, computation acceleration, model reduction)\\ Introduction to rotor dynamics, dynamic instabilities and nonlinear vibrations
  * **Material behavior (at small and finite strains)** [48h]\\ Visco-plasticity and damage phenomenon and models\\ Large strains: theory and practice on Abaqus
  * **Software tools in mechanical engineering**\\ FEM: practice on Abaqus\\ Overview of welding and heat treatment simulation using Sysweld

Students also have to work on a **project** which can be related to an industrial need or an academic research (~100h).

===== M3S Optional courses =====

Each student will also chose 4 courses among the following ones:

  * **Composite and laminated materials** [24h]
  * **Fast dynamics and crash** [24]
  * **Civil engineering** [24h]
  * **Fluid-structure interactions** [24h]
  * **Porous media** [24h]
  * **Optimization of structures** [24h]
  * **Fracture, fatigue, yield design and limit analysis** [24h]