LMA - Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique

Pierre SUQUET

Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
HDR, Emérite

Contact :

Email is the best way to reach me : suquet[at]lma[dot]cnrs-mrs[dot]fr

You can also try :

- Snail mail : LMA. CNRS. 4 Impasse Nikola Tesla. CS 40006. 13453 Marseille Cedex 13. France.
- secretary : Annie FORNACCIARI

Research Interests :

Theoretical Solid Mechanics, Plasticity, Homogenization, Micromechanics.

- Effective properties of nonlinear composites : bounds and estimates, interplay between elasticity and viscoplasticity.
- Computational Method based on FFT for composites with complex microstructure.
- Model reduction. Nonuniform Transformation Field Analysis.
- Ductile fracture : voided materials and microstructure evolution.
- Polycrystalline plasticity.

Short Biography

- 1954 : Born in Jallieu (38)
- 1973-1976 Ecole Normale Supérieure. Agrégation in Mathematics (1975). Master in Theoretical Mechanics (1976)
- 1978 : PhD. Paris 6.
- 1982 : Habilitation (Thèse d’Etat). Paris 6.
- 1983-1988 : Professor. Montpellier.
- 1988 -> present : Senior researcher CNRS.
- 1984 - 1996 : Part time Associate Professor Ecole Polytechnique.
- 1993-2000 : Director of the Mechanics and Acoustics Laboratory (Marseilles).
- 2000-2001 : Clarke-Millikan Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology.
- 2001-2008 : Part time Full Professor at Ecole Polytechnique.
- 2004 : Elected Full member of the French Academy of Sciences.
- 2006 : Koiter Medal of ASME
- 2014 : Secretary General of EUROMECH

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