Jean Salençon#
| Membership Number: | 4412 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2016 Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong
- 2014 - 2016 Visiting Distinguished Professor, City University of Hong Kong
- 2011 - 2014 Chair Professor-at-large, City University, Hong Kong
- 2009 - 2010 President of the Académie des sciences
- 2008 - 2015 Member of the International Advisory Board of the UANL (Monterrey, Mexico)
- 2004 - 2012 Rector of the CISM (Udine, Italy)
- 2000 - 2004 Member of the Bureau IUTAM
- 1982 - 2005 Professor in Mechanics at the École polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
- 1980-1985 Head of the Department of Mechanical and material sciences, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Paris, France
- 1977 - 1998 Professor, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Paris, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Probabilistic approach of the yield design theory
- Stability analysis of earthworks
- Yield design methods in the case of anisotropic soils
- Shallow foundations under inclined and eccentric or seismic loads
- Continuum mechanics
- Ultimate limit state design
- Structure analysis
- Soil mechanics
- Yield design methods in the case of anisotropic soils
- Yield design theory
- Composite materials and reinforced earth structures
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Member-at-Large of IUTAM’s General Assembly
- 2013 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science (Hungary)
- 2013 Honorary Member of the EUROMECH Society
- 2012 Foreign Member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (Portugal)
- 2012 Corresponding member of the Académie des sciences et lettres de Montpellier (France)
- 2007 Member (Emeritus) of the Académie des technologies (France)
- 1991 Foreign Member of the Istituto Lombardo (Milan, Italy)
- 1990 Trevithick Prize, awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers (London), 1990
- 1988 Member of the Académie des sciences (France)
- 1978 Montyon Prize, awarded by the Académie des sciences, (Paris), 1978
