Projects
LAMSI’s projects fall under a variety of industrial sectors, from medical to transportation to sports, to name only a few. Our Researchers have shown a particular interest in shape memory alloys, a material with unprecedented potential.
Additive Manufacturing (AM) of refractory alloys
Period: 2021-2024
Granting programs: ERA-NET, Prima Québec, CRSNG
Organizations: PyroGenesis (Canada), Progresja & INM (Poland)
Collaborator: Mathieu Picard (Université de Sherbrooke)
Team member: Aurore Leclercq, Xavier Bellavance et Thibault Mouret
Lattice-based SMA structures for medicine
Period: 2020-2025
Granting program: CRSNG (DEC)
Organization: ÉTS
Team member: Anatolie Timercan and Donatien Campion
Development of 3D-printed metal foams for turbine combustors
Period: 2020-2024
Granting program: R&D contract
Organization: Siemens
Collaborator: Marlène SanJosé
Team member: Julien Sirois
Clean-fuel efficient rimrotor architecture microturbogenerator
Period: 2020-2025
Granting programs: CRIAQ, INNOV-R
Organizations: UdeS, Poly, ÉTS, Exonetic
Collaborators: Picard, Moreau, Rancourt, Veilleux, Brouillette (UdeS), Savard (Poly), Poirier (CDCQ)
Team member: Aurore Leclercq and Thibault Mouret
Lattice structures manufactured by laser powder bed fusion for protective equipment in contact sports
Period: 2023-2027
Granting program: MITACS
Organization: BAUER Hockey
Team member: William Turnier-Trottier and Antoine Collin
Non-destructive control of metallic parts manufactured by laser powder bed fusion
Period: 2023-2025
Granting program: MITACS
Organization: P&WC
Team member: Salah Brika
Defect detection using elastic registration of meshes in the X-ray projection domain
Period: 2022-2024
Granting programs: PRIMA, CRSNG (Alliance)
Organizations: ORS, P&WC
Collaborator: François Guibault (Polytechnique Montréal)
Virtual reality museum for rare artefacts
Period: 2024-2025
Granting program: MITACS
Organizations: McGill, COMET, ÉTS
Collaborators: Natalie Reznikov (McGill), Richard Fraser (MAMN, McGill), Piché (COMET)
Team member: Salah Brika
Model to teach tube feeding and taking blood samples on avian patients
Granting program: Projets d'innovation liées aux technologies numériques
Organizations: UdeM
Collaborators: Claire Grosset (UdeM), Natalie Reznikov (McGill)
Achievements 2015-2023
The laboratory has successfully completed a number of projects in collaboration with various well-respected organizations, including Rio Tinto, PWC, 3M, Héroux Devtek and Bauer. The following is an overview of the variety of projects that we have executed.
Powder rheology for AM/PM/MIM
Period: 2017-2021
Granting programs: PRIMA, NSERC
Organization: Rio Tinto
Collaborator: Vincent Demers (ÉTS)
Plasma-atomized Ti64 and TiAl powders
Period: 2017-2018
Granting program: NSERC
Organization: PyroGenesis Canada Inc.
Optimization of RTMP steel powders
Period: 2015-2016
Granting program: NSERC
Organization: Rio Tinto
Abrasive flow machining
Period: 2019-2020
Granting program: R&D contract
Organization: ExtrudeHone (USA)
Chemical flow polishing
Period: 2019
Granting program: R&D contract
Organization: Meloche
Detection of processing-induced flaws and damage tolerance design
Period: 2019-2023
Granting program: CRIAQ, CRSNG
Organizations: ORS, PWC, Bell
Team members: Catherine Desrosiers, Étienne Moquin, Erika Herrera, François Guibault, Farida Cheriet (Polytechnique Montréal), Fabrice Bernier (Conseil national de recherches Canada, Boucherville)
New Acoustic Insulation
Period: 2017-2020
Granting program: CRIAQ
Organizations: Mecanum, 3M Canada, ZAL, Hutchinson, Airbus
Team members: Noureddine Atalla (Université de Sherbrooke), Olivier Doutres (ÉTS), Raymond Panneton (Université de Sherbrooke), Tatjana Stechenko (3M Canada)
Post-treatment for IN625
Period: 2017-2019
Granting programs: CRIAQ, NSERC
Organizations: PWC, FusiA, Thermetco, FZ Engineering
Team members: Souheil-Antoine Tahan (ÉTS), Sylvain Turenne (Polytechnique Montréal)
High-fidelity working prototypes
Period: 2017-2019
Granting program: R&D contract
Organization: Keystone Powdered (USA)
AAMI: Aerospace AM Initiative
Period: 2015-2019
Granting programs: CRIAQ, MANU-710
Organizations: Textron, PWC, Fusia, APN
Team members: Carl Blais (Université Laval), Mathieu Brochu (McGill University), Souheil-Antoine Tahan (ÉTS)
Heat treatment and finishing for IN625
Period: 2015-2017
Granting program: CRIAQ
Organizations: PWC, FusiA
Team member: Sylvain Turenne (Polytechnique Montréal)
Computed tomography of AM components
Period: 2016-2017
Granting program: R&D contract
Organization: Héroux Devtek
Performance and manufacturability of personalized femoral plates produced by AM
Period: 2020-2022
Granting programs: Mitacs
Organizations: Pega Médical
Team members: Linh-Aurore Le Bras
Limb and joint sparing in dogs
Period: 2016-2021
Granting programs: PSO Validat, Aligo, Mitacs
Organizations: ALIGO innovation, ÉTS, Université de Montréal and Colorado State University
Team members: Bertrand Lussier (Université de Montréal), Yvan Petit (ÉTS), Bernard Séguin (Colorado State University)
Porous structures for implants
Period: 2014-2020
Granting program: NSERC
Organization: ÉTS
AM of supports for partial dental prostheses
Period: 2016-2017
Granting program: R&D contract
Organizations: 3DRPD (North America)
CAD/CAM for personalized restorative dentistry
Period: 2015
Granting program: NSERC
Organization: V2R Biomédical
AM of sports equipment
Period: 2019-2021
Granting program: Mitacs
Organization: Bauer Hockey