Publications

Mechanics of materials

Evaluating Damage with Digital Image Correlation: C. Applications to Composite Materials

The present chapter is devoted to the evaluation of damage with digital image correlation (DIC). Applications will focus on composite materials. The latter ones are designed to accommodate microcracks through suited microstructures. As such, they…

François Hild, Jean-Noël Périé, Stéphane Roux

Nano to Macro Scale for Materials and Structures - 2014

Civil Engineering

Toward a general method for structural seismic assessment of cultural heritage: Religious baroque heritage in the upper valleys of French Savoy

Claire Limoge Schraen, Cédric Giry, Frédéric Ragueneau, Cédric Desprez, Maurizio Brocato

HERITAGE 2014 - 4th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development - 2014

Earth Sciences

Experimental evaluation of the fracture toughness on a limestone

Linear Fracture mechanics defines the fracture toughness as an intrinsic material parameter describing the ability of the material to resist to crack propagation. To investigate the effect of the testing method and of the geometry of the samples on…

Gisèle Suhett Helmer, Jean Sulem, Siavash Ghabezloo, Jérémy Rohmer, François Hild

ISRM European Symposium - EUROCK 2014 - 2014

Engineering Sciences

Story shear and torsional moment-based pushover procedure for asymmetric-plan buildings using an adaptive capacity spectrum method

Karim Tarbali, Kazem Shakeri

Engineering Structures - 2014

Engineering Sciences

Effect of structural uncertainty on seismic response of steel moment-resisting frames equipped with tuned mass dampers

Karim Tarbali, Fariborz Nateghi-A

International Journal of Steel Structures - 2014

Engineering Sciences

Representative ground-motion ensembles for several major earthquake scenarios in New Zealand

In this paper, representative ground motion ensembles for several major earthquake scenarios in New Zealand are developed. Cases considered include representative ground motions for the occurrence of Alpine, Hope and Porters Pass earthquakes in…

Karim Tarbali, Brendon Bradley

Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering - 2014

Engineering Sciences

Pushover analysis of asymmetric-plan buildings based on distribution of the combined modal story shear and torsional moment

Kazem Shakeri, Karim Tarbali, Mohtasham Mohebbi

Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration - 2014

Mechanics

Quantitative prediction of effective toughness at random heterogeneous interfaces

The propagation of an adhesive crack through an anisotropic heterogeneous interface is considered. Tuning the local toughness distribution function and spatial correlation is numerically shown to induce a transition between weak to strong pinning…

Sylvain Patinet, Damien Vandembroucq, Stéphane Roux

Physical Review Letters - 2014

Géotechnique

Behaviour of a sensitive marine sediment: microstructural investigation

The aim of this study is to characterise along various stress paths the microstructural evolution of a deep-water marine sediment from the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). Results obtained at the macroscopic level have shown that the phenomenological behaviour…

Mahdia Hattab, T. Hammad, J.-M. Fleureau, P.-Y. Hicher

Geotechnique - 2013

Géotechnique

Micro–macro-experimental study of two clayey materials on drying paths

The objective of this research is to provide a better understanding of the relation between the macroscopic and microscopic behaviours of two clayey materials, a kaolinite and a mixture of kaolinite and montmorillonite. At the macroscopic scale, the…

Xin Wei, Mahdia Hattab, Jean-Marie Fleureau, Ruilin Hu

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment - 2013