Laboratory for Auscultation, Modelling and Experimentation of Transport Infrastructures
Transport and civil engineering infrastructures
Institution
Université Gustave Eiffel
French university dedicated to sustainable cities and territories, born in 2020 from the merger of IFSTTAR and the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.
Parent department
Département MAST
Materials and Structures — bringing together 7 laboratories specialised in applied research on materials, structures and civil engineering infrastructures.
Laboratory · Nantes
LAMES
The reference laboratory for the study of infrastructure durability: from design to management.
Mission
More durable and resilient infrastructures
LAMES develops cutting-edge research on transport infrastructures, combining large-scale experimentation, advanced instrumentation and numerical modelling. The goal: to improve the durability, performance and resilience of transport and civil engineering infrastructures.
With equipment unique in France — including the FABAC machines and the fatigue carousel — the laboratory can simulate years of traffic in just a few months, producing essential data for infrastructure design and maintenance.
Research themes
Location
Nantes Campus
Université Gustave Eiffel — Allée des Ponts et Chaussées, Route de Bouaye, Bouguenais (44). The laboratory benefits from the scientific environment of the Nantes campus, which also hosts the GPEM, MIT and SMC laboratories.
IFSTTAR Heritage
A tradition of applied research
LAMES carries on the expertise of the French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR), integrated into UGE in 2020. Its equipment is the result of more than 30 years of research.
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Parent department
LAMES within the MAST department
The Materials and Structures (MAST) department of Université Gustave Eiffel brings together seven complementary laboratories around durability, ecological transition and innovation for transport, energy and building infrastructures.
As a laboratory on the Nantes campus, LAMES contributes to MAST's missions on transport infrastructures, in close collaboration with the MIT and GPEM laboratories.
Visit the MAST websiteThe 6 laboratories of the MAST department — Université Gustave Eiffel