François Nicot

Civil and Structural Engineering · 2005–2012

A researcher in the Science corpus: 10 papers; trusts 7 researchers and is trusted by 2 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Civil and Structural Engineering — 26 citations into it; #4,027 of 6,160 by trust here, #2,464 by citations
• Mechanics of Materials — 16 citations into it; #4,466 of 6,291 by trust here, #3,346 by citations
• Computational Mechanics — 13 citations into it; #6,570 of 10,001 by trust here, #3,463 by citations
• Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law — 13 citations into it; #2,360 of 2,821 by trust here, #1,640 by citations
• Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality — 6 citations into it

Whom François Nicot trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Félix Darve
2. J. Kozicki
3. Stefan Luding
4. Antoinette Tordesillas
5. Frederic Victor Donze
6. L. Rothenburg
7. N. P. Kruyt
8. Sebastien Hentz

Who trusts François Nicot overall

1. Félix Darve
2. L. Sibille
3. Ali Daouadji
4. Giuseppe Buscarnera

Papers from François Nicot's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers François Nicot trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Identification and Validation of a Discrete Element Model for Concrete
2. Suction Stress Characteristic Curve for Unsaturated Soil
3. Capillary Bridges between Two Spherical Bodies
4. Principle of Effective Stress
5. Effective stress concept in unsaturated soils: Clarification and validation of a unified framework
6. Incorporating rolling resistance and contact anisotropy in micromechanical models of granular media
7. Micro¿macro transition for anisotropic, frictional granular packings
8. Critical state and evolution of coordination number in simulated granular materials
9. 3D lattice type fracture model for concrete
10. Numerical simulation of drained triaxial test using 3D discrete element modeling

Their papers

• Failure in rate-independent granular materials as a bifurcation toward a dynamic regime (2012) — 76 citations
• Diffuse failure in geomaterials: Experiments, theory and modelling (2011) — 117 citations
• Micromechanics of granular materials with capillary effects (2009) — 178 citations
• On the capillary stress tensor in wet granular materials (2009) — 175 citations
• Bifurcation in granular materials: An attempt for a unified framework (2009) — 56 citations
• Bifurcations in granular media: macro- and micro-mechanics approaches (2007) — 72 citations
• A micro-mechanical investigation of bifurcation in granular materials (2007) — 94 citations
• Micro-mechanical investigation of material instability in granular assemblies (2006) — 67 citations
• Modelling a geo-composite cell using discrete analysis (2005) — 72 citations
• A multi-scale approach to granular materials (2005) — 153 citations