Jean-Pierre Giroud
Jean-Pierre Giroud (* 1938 ) is a French civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ), known as a pioneer of geosynthetics.
Giroud studied civil engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris (diploma in 1961) and at the University of Grenoble , where he received his doctorate in soil mechanics in 1963, obtained his licentiate in 1964 and received his doctorate again in 1974. From 1963 to 1965 he did his military service as a lieutenant in the French Air Force. He was assistant professor from 1965 and from 1971 professor in Grenoble and from 1976 to 1978 deputy director of the Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires de Géologie et Mécanique. He also advised the regional government of the Grenoble district on geotechnical issues (landslides, rockfalls). 1977/78 he was a professor at the École Nationale des Trauvaux Publiques in Lyon . In 1978 he gave up his professorship and headed the geotextile and geomembrane department at Woodward-Clyde Consultants. In 1983 he was one of the founders, board members and technical director of Geosyntec Consultants. In 2001 he retired there (but remained Chairman Emeritus for life) and worked as an independent consultant in his company JP Giroud Consultants.
He has been involved in research and development in the field of geosynthetics since 1969. He is responsible for the terms geotextile and geomembrane. In 1970 he built the first dam that was reinforced with geotextiles. He developed many of the test procedures, quality control procedures, and design procedures for geosynthetics in use today.
In 1994 he was the co-founder and editor of Geosynthetics International and from 1984 to 1994 he was the editor of Geotextiles and Geomembranes, which he co-founded in 1984. In 1982 he organized the second International Conference on Geotextiles and in 1984 the International Conference on Geomembranes. He twice chaired the Geosynthetics Committee of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering .
In 2008 he gave the Terzaghi Lecture and in 2005 the Terzaghi Lecture in Vienna ( Geosynthetics engineering: successes, failures and lessons learned ). From 1983 to 1986 he was Vice President and 1986 to 1990 President of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), of which he has been an honorary member since 2002 and of which he received the IGS Award in 1994. From 1983 to 1989 he chaired the Technical Committee for Geotextiles and Geosynthetics of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). In 1983 he received the President's Award from the International Fabrics Association International (IFAI).
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest.
Fonts
- Design of Geomembrane Applications , Geosynthetics International, special issue,
- Control of liquid migration using geosynthetic liner systems , Geosynthetics International, special issue
- Liquid collection systems , Geosynthetics International, special issue
- Geosynthetic Design Examples , Wiley 1997
- Geosynthetics and Geomembranes , Industrial Fabrics Association International, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1985
- with JF Beech, A. Khatami Geosynthetics Bibliography , 2 volumes, Industrial Fabrics Association International, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1993/94 (over 10,000 references)
- Tassement et stabilité des fondations superficielles , Press Universitaire de Grenoble 1975
- Tables pour le calcul des fondations , Paris, Dunod 1972
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Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Giroud, Jean-Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French civil engineer (geotechnical engineering) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |