Vladislav Yastrebov

Keywords

Awards & distinctions

2023 2023 Jean Mandel Prize
2018 CNRS Bronze Medal
2012 EDF Thesis Prize - Academy of Technologies
2011 CSMA Thesis Award

Team

SIMS - Simulation des Matériaux et des Structures

Biography

Vladislav Yastrebov is a researcher specializing in contact mechanics, tribology, and numerical modeling of interfaces. His work focuses on the analysis of multiscale phenomena in surface-surface interactions, particularly in mechanical contact, friction, lubrication, and thermal or electrical conductivity. He has contributed to the development of advanced numerical methods, such as the finite element method and spectral methods, to study complex problems such as intermittent plastic deformation, fluid flow at narrow interfaces, and the characterization of rough surfaces. His research also incorporates innovative approaches combining materials physics, solid mechanics, and multiphysics simulations, with applications in a variety of fields, ranging from industrial materials to geophysical systems. His expertise includes modeling rough contacts, analyzing scale effects, and experimentally validating theoretical models.

Publication(s)

2026
Modeling in tribology: Recent advances, applications, and open questions DOI : 10.1016/j.triboint.2025.111326
2025
Electrical and Thermal Conductivity of Complex-Shaped Contact Spots; [Conductivité électrique et thermique des tâches de contact de forme complexe] DOI : 10.5802/crmeca.266
2025
A time-discontinuous elasto-plasticity formalism to simulate instantaneous plastic flow bursts DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2024.113171
2025
The Surface-Topography Challenge: A Multi-Laboratory Benchmark Study to Advance the Characterization of Topography DOI : 10.1007/s11249-025-02014-y
2024
Numerical methods in micromechanical contact DOI : 10.1002/9781394340507.ch3
2022
Corrigendum to “The role of the roughness spectral breadth in elastic contact of rough surfaces”(Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2017) 107 (469–493), (S0022509617303010), (10.1016/j.jmps.2017.07.016)) DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2020.104269
2022
Wave propagation through an elastically asymmetric architected material; [La propagation des ondes à travers des milieux élastiquement asymétriques] DOI : 10.5802/CRMECA.100
2021
Computational framework for monolithic coupling for thin fluid flow in contact interfaces DOI : 10.1016/j.cma.2021.113738
2020
Modelling capsizing icebergs in the open ocean DOI : 10.1093/gji/ggaa353
2019
Monitoring Greenland ice sheet buoyancy-driven calving discharge using glacial earthquakes DOI : 10.1017/aog.2019.7
2019
The Elastic Contact of Rough Spheres Investigated Using a Deterministic Multi-Asperity Model DOI : 10.1142/S1756973718410020
2018
Numerical Modeling of Iceberg Capsizing Responsible for Glacial Earthquakes DOI : 10.1029/2018JF004768
2018
Modeling and simulation in tribology across scales: An overview DOI : 10.1016/j.triboint.2018.02.005
2018
Fluid flow across a wavy channel brought in contact DOI : 10.1016/j.triboint.2018.05.005
2018
Trapped fluid in contact interface DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2018.06.016
2017
Multiscale modeling of cemented tungsten carbide in hard rock drilling DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2017.08.034
2017
The role of the roughness spectral breadth in elastic contact of rough surfaces DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2017.07.016
2017
Simulation of ductile to brittle transition from slant ductile crack in drop weight tear tests
2017
A micromechanical constitutive modeling of WC hardmetals using finite-element and uniform field models DOI : 10.1016/j.mechmat.2016.11.007
2017
On the accurate computation of the true contact-area in mechanical contact of random rough surfaces DOI : 10.1016/j.triboint.2017.04.023
2017
Modeling Creeping Flow through a Closed Crack with a Self-Affine Geometry and an Extension to Permeability of Cracked Media DOI : 10.1061/9780784480779.154
2017
Wear of cemented tungsten carbide percussive drill–bit inserts: Laboratory and field study DOI : 10.1016/j.wear.2017.05.010
2016
The second Sandia Fracture Challenge: predictions of ductile failure under quasi-static and moderate-rate dynamic loading DOI : 10.1007/s10704-016-0089-7
2016
Sliding Without Slipping under Coulomb Friction: Opening Waves and Inversion of Frictional Force DOI : 10.1007/s11249-016-0650-6
2015
Three-level multi-scale modeling of electrical contacts sensitivity study and experimental validation DOI : 10.1109/HOLM.2015.7355130
2015
From infinitesimal to full contact between rough surfaces: Evolution of the contact area DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2014.09.019
2014
The contact of elastic regular wavy surfaces revisited DOI : 10.1007/s11249-014-0395-z
2014
The role of phase interface energy in martensitic transformations: A lattice Monte-Carlo simulation DOI : 10.1016/j.mechrescom.2013.11.006
2014
The existence of a critical length scale in regularised friction DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2013.10.007
2013
A constrained-optimization methodology for the detection phase in contact mechanics simulations DOI : 10.1002/nme.4561
2013
Crystal plasticity analysis of cylindrical indentation on a Ni-base single crystal superalloy DOI : 10.1016/j.ijplas.2013.05.004
2013
Numerical Methods in Contact Mechanics DOI : 10.1002/9781118647974
2012
The mechanics of materials in contact problems
2012
Contact between representative rough surfaces DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.035601
2012
On the propagation of slip fronts at frictional interfaces DOI : 10.1007/s11249-012-9920-0
2011
Finite element analysis of the contact between rough surfaces
2011
Rough surface contact analysis by means of the Finite Element Method and of a new reduced model DOI : 10.1016/j.crme.2011.05.006
2011
A local contact detection technique for very large contact and self-contact problems: Sequential and parallel implementations DOI : 10.1007/978-3-642-22167-5_13

Teaching

Mechanics of Continuous Media

Lecturer

In-person instruction is structured around plenary sessions in lecture halls and tutorial sessions in smaller classes (PC) with fewer students. Independent work consists (in addition to the engine disassembly/reassembly activity mentioned above) of studies conducted individually or in small groups: work based on course materials (handouts, textbook), and solving two problems selected from an extensive list of highly varied problems (as mentioned above; see details below).

ATHENS - MP06 - Nonlinear Computational Mechanics

Lecturer

Basic Material Models: Material modeling, including rheology, plasticity criteria, incremental theory of plasticity, 3D plastic flow, and basic hardening rules. Identification procedures, inverse problems. Advanced constitutive equations: cyclic and complex loading, damage models, models for thermomechanical loading, foams and cellular systems, hyperelasticity, polymeric materials. Finite element formulation: basic introduction to the method for thermal and mechanical applications. Newton’s method, element assembly, tangent matrix. Integration of constitutive equations, implicit algorithms. Nonlinear geometric and contact analysis, stabilization methods. Stability problems. Localization processes. Mesh adaptation. Coupled problems (thermal-metallurgical-mechanical interactions).

PhD supervision

2026 Modeling of lubricant entrainment in cold rolling: a multi-scale and multi-physics thermo-mechanical study SHARMA Kartik
2024 Fast Boundary Element Method for Finite Geometry Problems in Contact Mechanics BOYE Yahya
2022 Shape optimization using the level-set CutFEM method and application to the design of mechanical characterization specimens EL BACHARI Amina
2020 Conductivity of contact interfaces: a multi-scale study BEGUIN Paul
2015 Study of the mechanical reliability of metal wire-bonded chips for textile applications in demanding environments LETHIECQ Robin
2015 Mechano-fluidic coupling for contact and friction at small and large scales SHVARTS Andrei
2015 An extension of the mortar method for application to contacts and mesh coupling AKULA Basava Raju