Choice of master thesis

Only one of many universities gives us a chance to receive a diploma after the end of the course. Of course, it's the UJF in Grenoble. The other option is departure on 10th semester and have a fun all three months, because during the 10th semester there are no exams. I chose the first solution, and I hope it will be a good decision.

As I mentioned we have seven exams since January till the end of February. But before we must choose the project subject which will be provided at the second semester in Grenoble. In the middle of October we received message from our supervisor professor, he sent us information about possibilities of thesis and deadline on the selection of the subject. Deadline is on the first of December. His suggestion was to meet professors and find out more about subjects. Well, never before I consider so seriously my diploma in Grenoble. Surprised by the number of options and high level of offered projects. Here a link to list http://www-meca.ujf-grenoble.fr/master-MEI/mems/spip.php?rubrique35). Firstly, I want to write my thesis from Cracow University of Technology, but finally I cannot find a suitable tutor.

The subject we can divide into three part: experimentally or numerically and the mixed. In our university lab one can find the hi-tech stuff, some of them unique in the Europe and some even in whole world. The approach of numerically thesis is different than in Poland. Here we will get our own PC (or two PCs if we must use Win and Linux at the same time) in the room where we can work on legal software. Moreover, there are a lot of PhD students which are very helpful when you have problems.
We had a few meetings with professor and PhD student who takes care of our diplomas work. My choice is "Analysis of the coupling between creep and damage of concrete" structures. The main issue of this Master training period is first to implement this model in Code_Aster (FE code developed by EDF as an open source code) and then to validate this approach against creep experimental results and finally to retrieve the increase of brittleness after creep with the right size effect evolution. Essentially, I will work in our laboratory and then a few weeks in Clamart. I think it will be a great experience.