Elodie Donval studied civil engineering and multiscale mechanics at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France), where she graduated in 2020.
From 2020 to 2023, she was a PhD student at the Scientific and Technical Center for Building (CSTB – France) and Navier Lab (France). During her PhD, she studied the strength of natural stone masonry walls at ambient temperature and in fire conditions. To deal with this topic, she proposed a multiscale approach based on thermoelastic and yield design homogenization.
She developed numerical methods, based on convex optimization, for limit analysis and yield design. She also proposed analytical and semi-analytical micromechanics-based approaches to evaluate the strength criterion of a masonry wall. Finally, she designed and conducted experiments to validate the proposed modeling methods.
Since December 2023, Elodie has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her postdoc research topics broaden her field of expertise to include random microstructures and more complex material behavior. In particular, she develops microstructure generation approaches and FFT-based computational homogenization methods to study the behavior of 3D-printed sand cores.