Research outputs

Here is a list of publications and software I contributed to during my time in academia.

Research software engineer

List of outputs produced when working as a research software engineer at EPFL.

Curate and publish your study with Solidipes
S. Pham-Ba & Guillaume Anciaux
2024 – presented at the Swiss Reproducibility Conference, ETH Zurich

List of publications I worked on during my Ph.D. thesis at EPFL.

Role of minimum adhesive wear particle size in third-body layer properties
S. Pham-Ba & J.-F. Molinari
2023 – Tribology Letters
Selected as Best from STLE’s Research Community (Tribology & Lubrication Technology magazine, Nov. 2023)

Adhesive wear with a coarse-grained discrete element model
S. Pham-Ba & J.-F. Molinari
2022 – Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Adhesive wear regimes on rough surfaces and interaction of micro-contacts
S. Pham-Ba & J.-F. Molinari
2021 – Tribology Letters
Selected as Best from STLE’s Research Community (Tribology & Lubrication Technology magazine, Nov. 2021)

Tamaas: a library for elastic-plastic contact of periodic rough surfaces
L. Frérot, G. Anciaux, V. Rey, S. Pham-Ba, and J.-F. Molinari
2020 – The Journal of Open Source Software

Adhesive wear and interaction of tangentially loaded micro-contacts
S. Pham-Ba, T. Brink, and J.-F. Molinari
2020 – International Journal of Solids and Structures

An optimized material removal process
J.-F. Molinari & S. Pham-Ba
2023 – in Current Trends and Open Problems in Computational Mechanics

Adhesive wear of rough surfaces and interaction of micro-contacts
S. Pham-Ba & J.-F. Molinari
2020 – presented at SWICCOMAS General Assembly, ETH Zurich

Adhesive wear and interaction of tangentially loaded micro-contacts
S. Pham-Ba, T. Brink, and J.-F. Molinari
2019 – presented at ECCOMAS Thematic Conference, "Computational Modeling of Complex Materials across the Scales", Glasgow

Boundary element formulation of normal and tangential contact with Coulomb friction
S. Pham-Ba, L. Frérot, T. Brink, and J.-F. Molinari
2018 – presented at 45th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology, "Smart Tribology Systems", Leeds