Ce travail de thèse s’est déroulé dans le cadre du projet de nanolanceur à propulsion hybride PERSEUS du CNES. La performance de ce concept est influencée par l’allègement de la structure du lanceur. La voie de développement qui a été choisie est de supprimer le liner du réservoir composite cryogénique. Elle repose sur trois exigences fonctionnelles : la compatibilité du matériau composite avec l’oxygène liquide (LOX), l’étanchéité du réservoir, et la résistance aux sollicitations thermomécaniques.L’étude de la compatibilité LOX des matériaux composites met en évidence l’importance du transfert de chaleur au sein du composite et plus précisément de la conductivité thermique des fibres. Ce résultat théorique est conforté par l’expérimentation.Le verrou scientifique principal du travail de thèse concerne l'influence de l’endommagement du composite sur la perméabilité de ce dernier. La conception de dispositifs expérimentaux a permis de déterminer l’évolution des endommagements (fissuration transverse, micro-délaminage, ouverture de fissure) et celle de la perméabilité. Un modèle complet de prévision de la perméabilité d’une paroi composite sollicitée thermo-mécaniquement est proposé. Il s’articule autour d’un modèle d’endommagement à l’échelle du pli, d’un modèle de prédiction de l'ouverture des fissures, et d’un modèle d’écoulement en milieu poreux. La pertinence du modèle développé est testée à travers la réalisation d’un démonstrateur technologique sans liner et d’une campagne d’essais d’endommagement et de mesure de perméabilité. / This thesis deals with hybrid propulsion launcher systems studied by the CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales). The performance of the launcher implies its lightening and in this work, the use of a cryogenic composite linerless tank is evaluated. Three functional requirements must be satisfied: the compatibility between the composite material and the liquid oxygen (LOX), the tank gas-tightness and the strength under pressure.The LOX compatibility of composite materials implies high thermal conductivity of the composite, and consequently of the fiber reinforcement. This theoretical result is confirmed by experiments.The main scientific challenge concerns the damage influence on the composite permeability. Specific experimental devices allow determining the damage evolution (transverse cracking, delamination, opening crack) and the composite permeability. A predictive composite permeability model is applied to a composite wall under thermomechanical load: this model includes a ply-scale damage model, a predictive opening crack model and a model of flow through porous media. The relevance of the model is validated through the realization of a linerless prototype tank and the associated tests which correlate damage and permeability.

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Hautement conservé, de la bactérie jusqu'à l’Homme, la recombinaison homologue est indispensable à la survie de tout organisme vivant. Chez l’humain, la protéine hRad51 (human Rad51) y joue un rôle clé en s’autoassemblant au site de cassure sur les extrémités simple-brin d’une molécule d’ADN endommagée pour former le filament nucléoprotéique. Ce filament est capable à lui seul d’effectuer la plupart des opérations nécessaires au bon déroulement de la recombinaison homologue; il va permettre la reconnaissance d’homologie, l’appariement des séquences homologues et l’invasion de brins requise pour la synthèse de l’ADN manquant.La recombinaison homologue est un processus complexe impliquant de multiples partenaires. Pour mieux comprendre le rôle du filament nucléoprotéique au sein de la réaction, on se propose d’étudier ce dernier en l’absence de tout partenaire. Plus précisément, on observe le comportement mécanique de filaments hRad51-ADNdb en fonction des conditions chimiques. La formation du filament nucléoprotéique modifie la conformation de l’ADN sur lequel il s’assemble, l’allongeant de 50% et le déroulant de 43% dans le cas d’une molécule double-brin. Les pinces magnétiques sont un outil permettant de contrôler la force et la torsion appliquées à une unique molécule d’ADN double-brin (ADNdb), elles sont donc l’outil idéal pour sonder les propriétés mécaniques de filaments nucléoprotéiques. Le système des pinces magnétiques a été modifié afin de mesurer des paramètres mécaniques précédemment inaccessibles tel que le couple ressenti ou exercé par le filament. Le but de cette thèse a été d’étudier les propriétés mécano-chimiques des filaments nucléoprotéiques tout en essayant de tracer le paysage énergétique qui régit les transitions de ces systèmes. / Highly conserved throughout the species, homologous recombination is crucial to the survival of any living organism. In humans, the hRad51 protein (human Rad51) plays a key role by self-assembling at the break site on the single stranded extremities of damaged DNA molecules thus forming the nucleoprotein filament. This filament is able by itself to accomplish most of the necessary operations of homologous recombination; it allows the homology search, the pairing of the homologous sequences and the strand exchange.Homologous recombination is a complex process involving many partners. In order to better understand the role of the nucleoprotein filament in this process, we propose to study it in the absence of any partners. We will focus on the study of the mechanical properties of hRad51-dsDNA filaments as a function of chemical conditions. The formation of the nucleoprotein filament modifies the conformation of the DNA molecule on which it assembles, stretching it by 50% and unwinding it by 43% in the case of a double stranded DNA. The magnetic tweezers are a tool allowing the control of the force and torsion applied to a single dsDNA molecule; they are therefore the ideal tool to probe the mechanical properties of nucleoprotein filaments. We modified the magnetic tweezers as to allow the measurement of previously inaccessible mechanical parameters such as the torque applied or felt by the filament. The goal of this thesis has been to study the mechano-chemical properties of nucleoprotein filaments while drawing the energy landscape that governs the various transitions of these systems.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(情報学) / 甲第23544号 / 情博第774号 / 新制||情||132(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院情報学研究科先端数理科学専攻 / (主査)准教授 藤原 宏志, 教授 磯 祐介, 教授 田口 智清 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Informatics / Kyoto University / DFAM

The diploma thesis deals with the influence of colouring additives and setting of the process parameters of 3D printing on the mechanical and surface properties of samples made of PLA material. The work describes the process of filament production, as well as the printing of normalized samples on a 3D printer using the additive method Fused Deposition Modeling. The impact of 3 types of colouring additives is evaluated on the basis of tensile test, hardness test and surface analysis. The evaluated quantities are primarily tensile strength, hardness, surface texture, roughness and corrugation. The work also evaluates the influence of the percentage of sample filling, the direction of the fibres of the inner filling and the orientation of the samples in the printing chamber of the 3D printer on the mechanical properties. The results are evaluated on the basis of the tensile test and the evaluated quantities are mainly the tensile strength, the ultimate stress and the modulus of elasticity in traction. The work is completed by evaluating the results and overall recommendations for filament manufacturers and users.

Bacterial pathogens transmitted by the fecal-oral route endure several stresses during survival/growth in host and non-host environments. For foodborne pathogens, understanding the range of phenotypic responses to stressors and the environmental factors that impact survival can provide insights for the development of control measures. For example, the gastrointestinal system presents acidic, osmotic, and cell-envelope stresses and low oxygen levels, but Listeria monocytogenes can withstand these stresses, causing illnesses in humans. Survival/growth characteristics may differ among L. monocytogenes strains under these stressors due to their genetic diversities. Our knowledge of such phenotypic characteristics under bile and salt stresses are inadequate. In this dissertation, variation in growth characteristics was observed among L. monocytogenes strains under bile and osmotic stresses with no evidence of cross-protection, but rather an antagonistic effect was observed with the formation of filaments when pre-exposed to 1% bile and treated with 6% NaCl. This shows that variation in stress adaptability exists among L. monocytogenes strains with the ability to form filaments under these conditions. Similarly, Salmonella survival in soil is dependent on several factors, such as soil, amendment types, moisture, irrigation, and desiccation stress. In this study, the use of HTPP (heat-treated poultry pellets) was investigated as a soil amendment in the survival/growth of Salmonella in soil extracts mimicking runoff events, and in soil cultivated with spinach plants to assess its safety for use for an organic fertilizer. The presence of HTPP in soil increased S. Newport survival with a greater likelihood of its transfer to and survival on spinach plants. Increased microbial loads and rpoS mutant showed decreased growth/survival in soil extracts, however, rpoS was not important for survival in soil under the tested conditions showing possible lack of desiccation stress. These results show that HTPP provided nutrients to the Salmonella for increased growth and survival in soil extracts and soil, respectively, which show that the use of treated BSAAO to soils may still require appropriate mitigation to minimize Salmonella Newport contamination of leafy greens in the pre-harvest environment. Overall, the results in this study increased our understanding of L. monocytogenes and Salmonella phenotypic adaptation to stressful environments.

<div>From its advent in the 1980s until the 2000s, many of the advances in additive manufacturing (AM) technology were primarily focused on the development of various 3D printing techniques. During the 2000s, AM came to a juncture where these processes were well developed and could be used effectively for rapid prototyping purposes; however, the ability to produce functional components that could reliably perform in a given system had not been fully achieved. The primary focus of AM research since this juncture has been to transition AM from a rapid prototyping technique to a legitimate means of mass manufacturing end-use products. In order to make this happen, two significant areas of research needed to be advanced. The first area focused on advancing the limited selection and functionality of the materials being used for AM. The second area focused on the characterization of the end-use products comprised of these new materials.</div><div><br></div><div>The primary goals of the work described in this document are to substantially further the field of the additive manufacturing by developing new functional materials and subsequently characterizing the resultant printed components. The primary focus of the first two chapters (Chapters 2 and 3) is to further characterize an energetic material system comprising of aluminum (Al) particles embedded in a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) binder, which has been shown to be compatible with AM. This material system has the ability to be implemented as a lightweight multifunctional energetic structural material (MESM); however, significant characterization of its structural energetic properties is needed to ensure reliable MESM performance. First, variations of a previously demonstrated Al/PVDF filament were investigated in order to determine the effect of material constituents on the structural energetic properties of the material. Seven different Al/PVDF formulations, with various particle loadings and particle sizes, were considered. The modulus of elasticity and ultimate strength for the seven formulations were obtained via quasi-static tensile testing of 3D printed dogbones. The energetic performance was quantified via burning rate measurements and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of 3D printed samples. Next, variations in the AM process were made and the effect of print direction on the same properties was determined. Once viable MESM performance was quantified, representative structural elements were printed in order to demonstrate the ability to create structural energetic elements. During quasi-static tensile testing, it was observed that aligning the load direction perpendicular to the print direction of the component resulted in inferior mechanical properties. This reduction in mechanical properties can be attributed to the lack of continuity at material interfaces, a well studied phenomena in AM.</div><div><br></div><div>This phenomena is the primary focus of the next two chapters (Chapters 4 and 5), which investigate the polymer healing process as it pertains to fusion-based material extrusion additive manufacturing, also known as fused filament fabrication (FFF). In the context of the FFF process, the extent of the polymer healing, or lack thereof, at the layer interface is known to be thermally driven. Chapter 4 quantifies the relationship between the reduction in mechanical properties and the temperature of the previously deposited layer at the time the subsequent layer is deposited. This relationship gives insight into which parameters should be closely monitored during the FFF process. The following chapter investigates incorporating plasma surface treatment as a means to improve the reduced mechanical properties seen in Chapter 3 and 4. As plasma surface modification can affect various stages of the polymer healing process, a variety of experiments were completed to determine which mechanisms of the plasma treatment were significantly affecting the mechanical properties of the FFF components. The thermal history was analyzed and it was hypothesized that enhanced diffusion at the layer interface was not a significant contributor to, but a rather a detractor from, the improved mechanical properties in this system. A variety of tests investigating how the plasma treatment was affecting the wettability of the surface were performed and all of the tests indicated that the wettability was increased during treatment and was likely the driving mechanism causing the improvement seen in the mechanical properties. These tests give some initial insight into how to successfully pair plasma treatment capabilities with FFF systems and give insights into how that plasma treatment can affect the polymer healing process in FFF applications.</div>

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・論文博士 / 博士(工学) / 乙第13240号 / 論工博第4178号 / 新制||工||1720(附属図書館) / (主査)教授 木本 恒暢, 教授 藤田 静雄, 教授 山田 啓文 / 学位規則第4条第2項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DFAM

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