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Pierre Delage publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pierre Delage sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 242 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Pierre Delage D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pierre Delage sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Pierre Delage is affiliated with École des Ponts ParisTech in France and specializes in engineering with a focus on civil and structural engineering. Their research encompasses a number of subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, environmental engineering, geophysics, and mechanics of materials.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, notably soil and unsaturated flow, planetary science and exploration, groundwater flow and contamination studies, clay minerals and soil interactions, geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics, rock mechanics and modeling, as well as grouting, rheology, and soil mechanics.

Frequent publication venues for Pierre Delage include:

  • E3S Web of Conferences
  • Géotechnique
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Acta Geotechnica
  • Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Pierre Delage are:

  • Macroscopic effects of nano and microscopic phenomena in clayey soils and clay rocks, 2020, Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment
  • Constraints on the shallow elastic and anelastic structure of Mars from InSight seismic data, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Subsurface Structure at the InSight Landing Site From Compliance Measurements by Seismic and Meteorological Experiments, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Discussion on the separation of macropores and micropores in a compacted expansive clay, 2020, Géotechnique Letters
  • The InSight HP3 Penetrator (Mole) on Mars: Soil Properties Derived from the Penetration Attempts and Related Activities, 2022, PubMed

Co-authors with whom Pierre Delage frequently collaborates include Philippe Lognonné, W. B. Banerdt, V. Ansan, Christos Vrettos, and Tilman Spohn. These collaborations have contributed to publications that explore both terrestrial soil mechanics and planetary science perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Yielding and plastic behaviour of an unsaturated compacted silt

    Y. J. Cui;P. Delage

  • Study of the structure of a sensitive Champlain clay and of its evolution during consolidation

    Pierre Delage;Guy Lefebvre

  • The relationship between suction and swelling properties in a heavily compacted unsaturated clay

    P Delage;M.D Howat;Y.J Cui

  • Microstructure of a compacted silt

    Pierre Delage;Martine Audiguier;Yu-Jun Cui;Michael D Howat

  • Ageing effects in a compacted bentonite: a microstructure approach

    P. Delage;D. Marcial;Y. J. Cui;X. Ruiz

  • On the thermal consolidation of Boom clay

    Pierre Delage;Nabil Sultan;Yu Jun Cui

  • Temperature effects on the volume change behaviour of Boom clay

    N Sultan;P Delage;Y.J Cui

  • A thermomechanical model for saturated clays

    Yu Jun Cui;Nabil Sultan;Pierre Delage

  • Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

    Pierre Delage;J. Desrues;Roger Frank;A. Puech

  • SEIS: Insight’s Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure of Mars

    P. Lognonné;W. B. Banerdt;D. Giardini;W. T. Pike

  • Constraints on the shallow elastic and anelastic structure of Mars from InSight seismic data

    Philippe Lognonné;Philippe Lognonné;W. B. Banerdt;W. T. Pike;Domenico Giardini

  • Experimental study on the swelling behaviour of bentonite/claystone mixture

    Qiong Wang;Anh Minh Tang;Yu-Jun Cui;Pierre Delage

  • A model for the volume change behavior of heavily compacted swelling clays

    Y.J Cui;M Yahia-Aissa;P Delage

  • The effects of technological voids on the hydro-mechanical behaviour of compacted bentonite-sand mixture

    Qiong Wang;Anh Minh Tang;Yu-Jun Cui;Yu-Jun Cui;Pierre Delage

  • Determining the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of a compacted sand-bentonite mixture under constant-volume and free-swell conditions

    Yu-Jun Cui;Anh Minh Tang;Cyril Loiseau;Pierre Delage

  • On the high stress compression of bentonites

    Duilio Marcial;Pierre Delage;Yu Jun Cui

  • Clays in radioactive waste disposal

    Pierre Delage;Yu-Jun Cui;Anh Minh Tang

  • The water retention properties of a natural unsaturated loess from northern France

    José Munoz-Castelblanco;Jean-Michel Pereira;Pierre Delage;Yu-Jun Cui

  • Influence de la lyophilisation sur la structure d'une argile sensible du Quebec

    P. Delage;F. M. Pellerin

  • MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF UNSATURATED SOILS: UNDERSTANDING THE BEHAVIOUR OF UNSATURATED SOILS REQUIRES RELIABLE CONCEPTUAL MODELS

    P Delage;Jim Graham

Frequent Co-Authors

Yu-Jun Cui
Yu-Jun Cui École des Ponts ParisTech
Anh Minh Tang
Anh Minh Tang École des Ponts ParisTech
Jean Sulem
Jean Sulem École des Ponts ParisTech
Michel Bornert
Michel Bornert École des Ponts ParisTech
Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun
Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun Max Planck Society
Philippe Lognonné
Philippe Lognonné Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Nicholas A Teanby
Nicholas A Teanby University of Bristol
Nabil Sultan
Nabil Sultan French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Naomi Murdoch
Naomi Murdoch National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space
Daniel Schertzer
Daniel Schertzer École des Ponts ParisTech

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