Author: Frederic Lebon

Jacques Besson is Research Director at the CNRS, France, where he conducts research into damage and fracture modeling of metallic materials. Frédéric Lebon is Professor of Solid Mechanics at Aix-Marseille University and the Mechanics and Acoustics Laboratory (LMA), France. Eric Lorentz is a senior expert at EDF R&D, France, where he conducts studies on damage modeling, applied to the performance of power generation structures.