Main topics:
Condensed Matter Physics, Dislocations, Physics of plastic deformation and rupture, Geophysics, Glaciology, Physics of non linear systems.
2016
Application of the theory of dynamical systems to climatic issues.
(see ref 16 hereafter)
2020
SNOW AVALANCHES,
Beliefs, Facts and Science
Oxford University Press
(in press)
Movies on dislocation dynamics using in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy:
Movies available on http://www.numodis.fr/tridis/TEM/index.html
Main topics and publications selection:
1- Dislocation Mobility and Plasticity of Body-Centred Cubic Metals at Low Temperatures (experimental & theoretical) (1972-76) (PhD thesis 1976, supervisor Dr. L.P. Kubin, Defence comitee President Prof. J. Friedel)
2- Dislocation Mobility in Semiconductors (experimental & theoretical) (1978-1992)
3- Mechanical properties of Aluminium alloys (experimental & theoretical) (1983-1996)
4- Creep of Nickel-based superalloys (experimental & theoretical)(1990-1997)
5- Mechanical properties of Iron-Chromium alloys and austeno-ferritic alloys (experimental & theoretical)(1988-1995)
6- Ductile-brittle transition (theoretical)(1992)
7- Stress anomalies and plastic instabilities in intermetallic alloys (theoretical) (1993-2005)
8- Particular mechanical response of nanostructured materials (theoretical)(1997-2002)
9- Physics of snow avalanche release (theoretical)(from 1999)
10- Creep instabilities of granular materials (theoretical) (from 2000)
11- Scale invariance of snow avalanche size distributions (theoretical) (from 2000)
12- Dislocation avalanches in crystals and criticality (from 2002) (theoretical)
13- Creep of ice (theoretical) (from 2004)
14- Andrade creep and Hall Petch law revisited in terms of critical dynamics(2006-2009)
15- Stress gradients and recrystallisation (theoretical) (2011)
16- Weather instabilities as a warning sign for a nearby climatic tipping point (F.Louchet 2016)