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Jacques Besson

Jacques Besson

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Materials Science

D-Index
60
Citations
11870
World Ranking
7121
National Ranking
193

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
61
Citations
12332
World Ranking
2069
National Ranking
32

Overview

Jacques Besson is affiliated with Mines ParisTech in France and has contributed extensively to engineering and materials science research. Their work primarily focuses on mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, and materials chemistry, with additional interests in metals and alloys and aerospace engineering.

The scientist's research spans multiple topics, including:

  • Metal forming simulation techniques
  • Metallurgy and material forming
  • Fatigue and fracture mechanics
  • Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties of steels
  • Nuclear materials and properties

Besson has published in a variety of journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Engineering Fracture Mechanics
  • International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Fracture
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Several recent papers exemplify the scope of their research:

  • "Effects of local stress, strain, and hydrogen content on hydrogen-related fracture behavior in low-carbon martensitic steel" (2021, Acta Materialia)
  • "Crack initiation and propagation in small-scale yielding using a nonlocal GTN model" (2020, International Journal of Plasticity)
  • "3D in situ study of damage during a 'shear to tension' load path change in an aluminium alloy" (2022, Acta Materialia)
  • "Multi-scale three-dimensional analysis on local arrestability of intergranular crack in high-strength martensitic steel" (2022, Acta Materialia)
  • "Ductile fracture of materials with randomly distributed voids" (2021, International Journal of Fracture)

The scientist collaborates regularly with other researchers, including:

  • Yazid Madi
  • Thilo F. Morgeneyer
  • Akinobu Shibata
  • Sylvia Feld-Payet
  • I. Gutiérrez-Urrutia

Overall, the body of work produced by Jacques Besson contributes to better understanding the mechanical behavior and fracture characteristics of metals and alloys under various conditions, with applications in material forming, fatigue assessment, and microstructural analysis.

Best Publications

  • Continuum Models of Ductile Fracture: A Review

    Jacques Besson

  • Non-Linear Mechanics of Materials

    Jacques Besson;Marc Blétry

  • Plastic potentials for anisotropic porous solids

    Ahmed Amine Benzerga;Jacques Besson

  • Anisotropic ductile fracture: Part I: experiments

    A.A. Benzerga;Jacques Besson;André Pineau

  • A yield function for anisotropic materials Application to aluminum alloys

    Frédéric Bron;Jacques Besson

  • Large scale object-oriented finite element code design

    J. Besson;R. Foerch

  • Mechanisms and modeling of cleavage fracture in simulated heat-affected zone microstructures of a high-strength low alloy steel

    Astrid Lambert-Perlade;Anne-Françoise Gourgues;Jacques Besson;T. Sturel

  • Anisotropic ductile fracture: Part II: theory

    A.A. Benzerga;Jacques Besson;André Pineau

  • Mullins effect and cyclic stress softening of filled elastomers by internal sliding and friction thermodynamics model

    Sabine Cantournet;Rodrigue Desmorat;Jacques Besson

  • Study of the microstructure of the Grade 91 steel after more than 100,000 h of creep exposure at 600 °C

    Clara Panait;Clara Panait;Walter Bendick;A. Fuchsmann;Anne-Françoise Gourgues-Lorenzon

  • Laminar ceramic composites

    T. Chartier;D. Merle;J.L. Besson

  • Modeling of crack growth in round bars and plane strain specimens

    J. Besson;J. Besson;D. Steglich;W. Brocks

  • Ductile to brittle transition of an A508 steel characterized by Charpy impact test: Part I: experimental results

    Benoit Tanguy;Jacques Besson;Roland Piques;André Pineau

  • Plastic and damage behaviour of a high strength X100 pipeline steel: Experiments and modelling

    Benoit Tanguy;Thanh Trung Luu;G. Perrin;André Pineau

  • Coalescence-Controlled Anisotropic Ductile Fracture

    A. A. Benzerga;J. Besson;A. Pineau

  • Ductile to brittle transition of an A508 steel characterized by Charpy impact test: Part II: modeling of the Charpy transition curve

    Benoit Tanguy;Jacques Besson;Roland Piques;André Pineau

  • Object-Oriented Programming Applied to the Finite Element Method Part II. Application to Material Behaviors

    Jacques Besson;Rodolphe Leriche;Ronald Foerch;Georges Cailletaud

  • Modeling of plane strain ductile rupture

    J. Besson;J. Besson;D. Steglich;W. Brocks

  • Yttrium oxynitride glasses: Properties and potential for crystallisation to glass-ceramics

    S. Hampshire;E. Nestor;R. Flynn;J.-L. Besson

  • An extension of the Green and Gurson models to kinematic hardening

    J Besson;C Guillemer-Neel

Frequent Co-Authors

André Pineau
André Pineau Mines ParisTech
Samuel Forest
Samuel Forest Mines ParisTech
A. Amine Benzerga
A. Amine Benzerga Texas A&M University
Georges Cailletaud
Georges Cailletaud Mines ParisTech
Stuart Hampshire
Stuart Hampshire University of Limerick
Jean-Louis Chaboche
Jean-Louis Chaboche Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales
Tanguy Rouxel
Tanguy Rouxel University of Rennes
Ian Sinclair
Ian Sinclair University of Southampton
Marco J. Starink
Marco J. Starink University of Southampton
Akinobu Shibata
Akinobu Shibata Kyoto University

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