Olivier Coussy
Olivier Coussy (born November 3, 1953 in Marseille , † January 15, 2010 in Vanves near Paris ) was a French engineering scientist, known for research on the mechanics and physics of porous media.
Coussy was the son of an engineer. He graduated from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1975 and received his doctorate in 1978 from the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie) with the second part of the French doctorate in 1985 (Doctorat d'État). He was a scientist at the Laboratoire Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, most recently as director of the Institut Navier and the research group Navier at the University of Paris-East . He was a professor at the École des Ponts and taught at the École polytechnique and the University of Marne-la-Vallée. At the École des Ponts, he set up a course in materials science for sustainable construction . He died of a heart attack.
He researched in various areas of applied mechanics such as wave dynamics and dynamics of buildings, load-bearing methods before he turned to the mechanics of porous media (poromechanics), in which he had an international leading role. He developed an overarching theory of porous media that combined thermodynamics and continuum mechanics, presented in his monographs 1995 and 2004. The latter takes into account extensions of his theory to partially saturated media and chemically reactive media and other physical-chemical processes that cause deformations (shrinkage, swelling, etc.). He was a consultant for various construction companies, geotechnical companies, in the oil and gas industry and in the field of nuclear waste disposal.
He was a Knight of the Ordre de la Mérite (2000), received the Maurice A. Biot Medal (2003), the Plumley Prize (1999) of the French Academy of Sciences and in 1985 the Jean Mandel Prize of the French Society of Mechanics.
He was married and had a daughter.
Fonts
- Mechanics of Porous Continua, Wiley 1995 (French original: Mécanique des Milieux Poreux, Editions Technip 1991)
- Poromechanics, Wiley 2004
- with Franz-Josef Ulm : Mechanics and Durability of Solids I, Prentice-Hall 2002
- Mechanics and Physics of Porous Solids, Wiley 2010
Web link
Individual evidence
- ^ A French UR (Unité de Recherche) between the Ecole des Ponts, the Laboratoire Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and the CNRS
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coussy, Olivier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd November 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 2010 |
| Place of death | Vanves near Paris |