Rodrigue DESMORAT

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Rodrigue DESMORAT

University Professor

Status: Teacher-researcher

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Research activities

 

  • Research topics: Damage, fatigue, failure of materials and structures
  • Industrial partners: Snecma, EDF R&D, Areva_NP, CeTU
  • Book: ‘Engineering Damage Mechanics: Ductile, Creep, Fatigue, and Brittle Failures’, J. Lemaitre and R. Desmorat, Springer, 2005.
  • Collective work: ‘Local Approach to Fracture’, C. Berdin, J. Besson, S. Bugat, R. Desmorat, F. Feyel, S. Forest, E. Lorentz, E. Maire, T. Pardoen, A. Pineau et B. Tanguy, under the supervision of J. Besson, Presses de l'Ecole des Mines, 2004.

Teaching activities

  • Research Master courses ‘Behaviour and damage of materials and structures’ & ‘Damage Mechanics’ (in English)
  • Master M1 course: ‘Behaviour of materials’ (in French)
  • Preparatory courses for the agrégation: ‘Acoustics’ - ‘Thermal Engineering’.

Collective responsibilities

  • Former Director of the Civil Engineering Department (2002-2007)
  • Member of the teaching team of the CNRS MEALOR summer school ‘Mechanics of Damage and Local Approach to Rupture’, Roscoff, 15 days, July 2004.
  • Co-ordinator with E. Papamichos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) and I. Vardoulakis (National Technical Univ. Of Athens, Greece) of the Autumn School ‘2006 ALERT-RJCGC Graduate School, Geomechanical and Structural Issues in Energy Production’, 12-14 October 2006, Aussois, France.
  • Co-organiser with O. Hededal and H. Stang of a DTU-RILEM Ph.D. course entitled ‘Mechanical Modelling of Materials in Civil Engineering’, DTU-Lyngby, Denmark, June 3-10, 2007.
  • Member of the National Paper Selection Committee for the IUTAM World Congress, Adelaide, Australia, 2009.
  • Member of the ENS de Cachan specialist committee (2002-2008)
  • Member of the specialist committee of the Université Versialles Saint Quentin (2005-2008)
  • Member of the LMT Scientific Council
  • Responsible for setting up the Masters programme at ENS Génie Civil (2003).
  • Deputy Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the University Mechanics Association (1999-2001). Member of the Board of the AUM from 1997 to 2001.
  • Reviewed articles for the following journals
  • European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids,
  • Fracture mechanics engineering,
  • Engineering Structures,
  • International Journal of Fracture,
  • International Journal of Solids and Structures,
  • Mechanics of Materials,
  • Comptes Rendus de Mécanique,
  • International Journal of Damage Mechanics, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Mechanics of Materials, Comptes Rendus de Mécanique
  • International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics,
  • European Journal of Finite Elements.
  • Journal of Structural Mechanics and Engineering

Publications