Dr. Briac Lanfant
Dr. Briac Lanfant
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Research profile Additive Manufacturing
Lagerplatz 22
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
- Senior research Associate/Lecturer
- Institute of Product Development and Production Technologies
Focus
- Metallic and ceramic materials
- Production Process (Additive Manufacturing, Injection Molding, powder metallurgy)
Teaching
- Additive Manufacturing: Material, Processes, Quality Management, Cost Calculation
- Smart Production: Design Office, Industrialisation, Lean Production
- Sustainability in Production System: Introduction to Resources Management
Professional development teaching
- CAS Additive Fertigung
- CAS Industry 4.0 – from idea to implementation
- WBK Additive Fertigung (3D-Druck)
Experience
- Material Engineer
Rolex, Biel
04 / 2020 - 11 / 2022 - Material Scientist
Empa, Thun
04 / 2015 - 12 / 2019 - Materiale and Chemistry, PhD
CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France
10 / 2011 - 09 / 2014
Education and Continuing education
Education
- PhD / Material and Chemistry
CEA/LEDNA, Gif-sur-Yvette, Frankreich
10 / 2011 - 10 / 2014 - Master / Ceramic materials
Université de Limoges, France
09 / 2010 - 09 / 2011 - Material Engineer / Material science
Material Ingenieur, ENSIL, Limoges, France
09 / 2008 - 09 / 2011
Network
Membership of networks
Projects
- Ultra Silent Gears / Team member / ongoing
- Development of a displacement-insensitive bevel gearing system generated through additive manufacturing / Deputy project leader / ongoing
- Supplementary training in additive manufacturing processes at the Mechatronics School in Winterthur / Team member / completed
- Robot Process Automation for securing and expanding the market and increasing efficiency / Team member / completed
- Fairbicycle - Steel mountain bike crankset / Project leader / completed
- 3D-Master for a Digitized Manufacturing Platform / Team member / completed
- Additive Manufactured Gears of Case-Hardened Steel / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
Lanfant, B. et al. (2025) 'Process development and quality monitoring of additively manufactured 1.6657 case hardening steel for gear applications', Forschung im Ingenieurwesen, 89(141). doi: 10.1007/s10010-025-00901-3.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
Lanfant, B. et al. (2025) '3D-master-based method for optimizing the cost calculation of PBF-LB/M manufactured parts', in BHM Berg- und Hüttenmännische Monatshefte. Springer, pp. 158–171. doi: 10.1007/s00501-025-01563-y.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Lanfant, B. et al. (2024) '3D-master-based method for optimizing the cost calculation of PBF-LB/M manufactured parts', in Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference (MAMC), Aachen, Germany, 17-19 September 2024.
- Lanfant, B. (2024) 'Energiedichte : wo stehen wir jetzt', in Angewandte Forschung & Entwicklung in der additiven Fertigung, Winterthur, Schweiz, 12. September 2024.
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
- Additive Manufacturing of Magnetostrictive Fe–Co Alloys K.Nakajima, M.Leparoux, H.Kurita, B.Lanfant, D.Cui, M.Watanabe, T.Sato, F.Narita materials 2022
- Additive Manufacturing of Ti-Nb Dissimilar Metals by Laser Metal Deposition D.Cui, B.Lanfant, M.Leparoux, S.Fabre Industrializing Additive Manufacturing. AMPA 2020
- Effects of helium irradiation on fine grained β-SiC synthesized by Spark Plasma Sintering S. Gavarini, J. Baillet, N. Millard-Pinard, V. Garnier, C. Peaucelle , X. Jaurand, C. Bernard, R. Rapegno, S. Cardinal, C. Dalverny, B. Lanfant, Y. Leconte Journal of the European Ceramic Society 2020
- Fabrication of Metal Matrix Composite by Laser Metal Deposition: a new process approach by Direct Dry Injection of Nanopowders B.Lanfant, F.Bär, A. Mohanta, M.Leparoux Materials 2019
- Induction Plasma Synthesis of Graphene Nano-flakes with In Situ Investigation of Ar–H2 –CH4 Plasma by Optical Emission Spectroscopy A.Mohanta, B.Lanfant, M. Leparoux Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing 2019
- Mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of nanostructured SiC / carbon nanotubes composites B. Lanfant, Y. Leconte, N.Debski, G. Bonnefont, M.Pinault, M. Mayne-L’Hermite, A.Habert, Y. Jorand, V. Garnier, G. Fantozzi, S. Le Gallet, F. Bernard Ceramics International, 2018
- Surface damage on polycrystalline β-SiC by xenon ion irradiation at high fluence J.Baillet, S.Gavarrini, N.Millard-Pinard, V Garnier, C.Peaucelle, X. Jaurand, A.Duranti, C. Bernard, R.Rapegno, S.Cardinal, L.Escobar Sawa, T. De Echave, B.Lanfant, Y, Leconte, Journal of Nuclear Materials 2018
- Methane dissociation process in inductively coupled Ar/H2/CH4 plasma for graphene nano-flakes production A.Mohanta, B.Lanfant, M. Asfaha, M.Leparoux Applied Physics Letters, 2017
- Optical emission spectroscopic study of Ar/H2/CH4 plasma during the production of graphene nano-flakes by induction plasma synthesis A.Mohanta, B.Lanfant, M. Asfaha, M.Leparoux Journal of physics: Conference Series, 2017
- Effects of carbon and oxygen on the spark plasma sintering additive-free densification and on the mechanical properties of nanostructured SiC ceramics B.Lanfant, Y.Leconte, G.Bonnefont, V.Garnier , Y.Jorand, S.Le Gallet, M.Pinault, N.Herlin-Boime, F. Bernard, G.Fantozzi Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 2015
- A thorough FT-IR spectroscopy study on micrometric silicon oxide films deposited by atmospheric pressure microwave plasma torch - Highlighted Paper of EPJ (December 2011)- X.Landreau, B.Lanfant, T.Merle, C.Dublanche-Tixier, P.Tristant The European Physical Journal D, 2012
- Ordering of SiOxHyCz islands deposited by atmospheric pressure microwave plasma torch on Si(100) substrates patterned by nanoindentation X.Landreau, B.Lanfant, T.Merle, E.Laborde, C.Dublanche-Tixier, P.Tristant The European Physical Journal D, 2011