Publications

Engineering Sciences

The Constitutive Relation Error method: a general verification tool

This chapter reviews the Constitutive Relation Error method as a general verification tool which is very suitable to compute strict and effective error bounds for linear and more generally convex Structural Mechanics problems. The review is focused…

Pierre Ladevèze, Ludovic Chamoin

Ludovic Chamoin - 2016

Engineering Sciences

The effect of causal parameter bounds in PSHA-based ground motion selection

Karim Tarbali, Brendon Bradley

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS - 2016

Mechanical engineering

Dynamically controllable force-generating system

Faisal Amlani, Manuel Lombardini, Jonathan Miller

Géotechnique

Drying, cracks and shrinkage evolution of a natural silt intended for a new earth building material. Impact of reinforcement

Series of drying tests are carried out on natural silt intended for the preparation of new raw earth concrete. This technique is different from rammed earth. The study treats the drying of various formulations of the natural silt with and without…

Joanna Eid, Saïd Taibi, Jean Marie Fleureau, Mahdia Hattab

Construction and Building Materials - 2015

Géotechnique

Internal friction angle variation in a kaolin/montmorillonite clay mix and microstructural identification

This paper presents an extensive study of a variable model clayey material, made of mixtures (in different proportions) of two mineralogically different clays. The basic clays are montmorillonite (Greek clay) characterised by a high plasticity, and…

M. Hattab, T. Hammad, J.-M. Fleureau

Geotechnique - 2015

Civil Engineering

Toward an integrated seismic risk assessment for nuclear safety improving current French methodologies through the SINAPS@ research project

The Tohoku earthquake and associated tsunami in March 2011 caused a severe nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, where level 7 (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – INES scale) meltdown at three reactors occurred. The…

Catherine Berge-Thierry, Angkeara Svay, Aurore Laurendeau, Thomas Chartier, Vincent Perron, Cédric Guyonnet-Benaize, Ejona Kishta, Régis Cottereau, Fernando Lopez-Caballero, Fabrice Hollender, Benjamin Richard, Frédéric Ragueneau, François Voldoire, Fabien Banci, Irmela Zentner, Nadim Moussallam, Maria Lancieri, Pierre-Yves Bard, Stéphane Grange, Silvano Erlicher, Panagiotis Kotronis, Alain Le Maoult, Marc Nicolas, Julie Régnier, Fabian Bonilla, Nikolaos Theodoulidis

SMiRT-23, 23rd Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Division II - 2015

Mechanics of materials

On the introduction of a mean stress in kinetic damage evolution laws for fatigue

An evolutive mean value of z is defined for complex loadings. It is shown to be independent from the loading shape and it tends toward the classical mean value zmean for a periodic loading. The proposed definition applies to quantities encountered…

Rodrigue Desmorat, L. Angrand, P. Gaborit, M. Kaminski, C. Rakotoarisoa

International Journal of Fatigue - 2015

Mechanics of materials

Stress triaxiality and Lode angle along surfaces of elastoplastic structures

Expressions for the stress triaxiality and the Lode angle along surfaces of elastoplastic structures are established in case of monotonic loading. The stress triaxiality is shown to be governed by the accumu- lated plastic strain when traction free…

Adrien Darlet, Rodrigue Desmorat

International Journal of Solids and Structures - 2015

Engineering Sciences

Ground motion selection for scenario ruptures using the generalised conditional intensity measure (GCIM) method

Karim Tarbali, Brendon Bradley

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS - 2015

Engineering Sciences

DGA-based approach for optimal design of active mass damper for nonlinear structures considering ground motion effect

Mohtasham Mohebbi, Hamed Rasouli Dabbagh, Solmaz Moradpour, Kazem Shakeri, Karim Tarbali

Smart Materials and Structures - 2015