Jean Salençon is a French physicist born on November 13, 1940. He is a member of the

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and the

French Academy of Technologies The National Academy of Technologies of France (''Académie des technologies'') is a learned society, founded in 2000, with an emphasis on technology, and the newest of French academies. In 2007 it acquired the status of ''établissement public'', ...

Biography

An engineer with degrees from the

École Polytechnique (, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...

(X1959) and the

École nationale des ponts et chaussées École nationale des ponts et chaussées (; ; abbr. ENPC), also nicknamed Ponts (), formerly known as École des Ponts ParisTech (), is a grande école in the field of science, engineering and technology, of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, a ...

(1964), a

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(

Université Pierre et Marie Curie Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...

, 1969), Jean Salençon was a professor at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées from 1977 to 1998 and a professor at the École polytechnique from 1982 to 2005. He has also taught at several prestigious schools and universities in France and abroad. He was non-resident Rector of CISM (Udine) from 2004 to 2012 and a member of several university or industrial scientific councils in France and abroad and of the Board of Directors of the

Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers The (; ; abbr. CNAM) is an AMBA-accredited French ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement''. It is a member of the '' Conférence des Grandes écoles'', which is an equivalent to the Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in th ...

(CNAM) from 2005 to 2011. A member of the Academy of Sciences since 1988, he was its president in 2009 and 2010 and, as such, chaired the Institut de France in 2009. Jean Salençon is an honorary general engineer in the field of

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and was a founding member of the Academy of Technology.

Scientific work

Jean Salençon's research work concerns the mechanics of continuous media, the calculation of structures and civil engineering structures, and the irreversible behaviour of solid materials for industrial applications. He was particularly interested in the irreversible behaviour of materials (

plasticity Plasticity may refer to: Science * Plasticity (physics), in engineering and physics, the propensity of a solid material to undergo permanent deformation under load * Behavioral plasticity, change in an organism's behavior in response to exposur ...

viscoelasticity In materials science and continuum mechanics, viscoelasticity is the property of materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic characteristics when undergoing deformation. Viscous materials, like water, resist both shear flow and strain lin ...

and their industrial applications. He is the author of the theory of computation at breakSalençon, J., Yield Design, London, UK; Hoboken, NJ, ISTE – Wiley, 2013 which he implemented for the first global computation of the bearing capacity of surface foundations on homogeneous or heterogeneous

isotropic In physics and geometry, isotropy () is uniformity in all orientations. Precise definitions depend on the subject area. Exceptions, or inequalities, are frequently indicated by the prefix ' or ', hence '' anisotropy''. ''Anisotropy'' is also ...

soils or

anisotropic Anisotropy () is the structural property of non-uniformity in different directions, as opposed to isotropy. An anisotropic object or pattern has properties that differ according to direction of measurement. For example, many materials exhibit ver ...

soils and also for stability analyses of earth and

reinforced soil Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE or reinforced soil) is soil constructed with artificial reinforcing. It can be used for retaining walls, bridge abutments, seawalls, and dikes. Although the basic principles of MSE have been used throughout his ...

structures. In the case of foundations or structures subjected to seismic loads, the method is used for "pseudo-static" analyses. He also developed this theory in the probabilistic framework both from the point of view of material strength and stress and showed that it is the theoretical basis for ultimate limit state design (ULSD), which is incorporated in some current design regulations.

Honours and awards

He is a member of the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Technology, the Istituto Lombardo, Milan (foreign member), the Academia das Ciéncias de Lisboa (foreign member), the

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(honorary member), the

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, the

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

Institute for advanced study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Ein ...

(Senior Fellow), the Montpellier Academy of Sciences and Letters (correspondent). He is Commandeur of the Ordre de la

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, Commandeur of the Palmes Académqiues and Officier of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Salencon, Jean 1940 births French physicists Members of the French Academy of Sciences École Polytechnique alumni Academic staff of École Polytechnique Living people Members of the French Academy of Technologies École des Ponts ParisTech alumni Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni