Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot

Short Bio:

Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot received a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and it was during this period that, with Prof. Z.P. Bažant, the non-local damage theory was coined, bridging the gap between continuum mechanics and fracture mechanics in solid materials. Appointed as a full professor at the age of 31, his research activities further dealt with physical aspects of fracture and later on durability mechanics, combining damage mechanics with chemistry of cement. Starting in 2004, he focused research interest on the permeation properties of concrete and rocks undergoing mechanical loads, with applications to waste storage, safety of nuclear vessels, and hydraulic fracture for unconventional hydrocarbon production. His ERC advanced grant (2008) has been at the cornerstone of his research group at Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, dedicated to hydro-mechanics of porous materials, including lattice approaches for failure, analytical models for estimating multi-phase fluid flow properties in rocks and coupled adsorption and swelling phenomena in micro-porous materials.\\r\\nGilles Pijaudier-Cabot authored 99 papers in international journals (4700 citations, h = 33). He received the bronze medal from CNRS in 1991 and the Jean Mandel prize of the French association of mechanics in 1992. In 1996, he was elected at the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) as a junior member and he is a senior member of IUF since 2012.