Jean-François Bruchon
Team manager
Joined terrasol in 2013

Diplomas:
- PhD in Soil Mechanics, Laboratoire Navier, ENPC, Paris, 2013
- MA in Geotechnics, MSROE, ENPC, Paris, 2010
- Certificate of Aptitude for Teaching Civil Engineering, ENS Cachan, 2009
Scientific community:
- Member of « Comité Français de Mécanique des Roches » (CFMR – French Committee for Rock Mechanics)
Areas of study:
- Geotechnical structure design – Soil-Structure Interaction
- Numerical Modeling of geotechnical structures
- Underground works
- Teaching activities
Publications:
- “Levés géologiques par photogrammétrie : application par le géotechnicien au suivi d’exécution de tunnels” (A. Serieys and J.F. Bruchon) – Solscope Mag n°19, November 2021
- “Modélisations du comportement différé des argilites et dimensionnement des structures : application au chantier 4 du laboratoire de l’Andra à Bure” (J.F. Bruchon, N.E. El Khotri, Y. Delerablée, A. Serieys, S. Burlon, H. Le Bissonnais) – Congrès AFTES, Paris, September 2021
- “Prise en compte des effets différés des roches argileuses sur la conception de tunnels profonds” (V. Ribeiro, J.F. Bruchon and S. Burlon) – JNGG, Lyon, 2020
- Accounting for long term effects for the structural design of deep tunnels in claystones (V. Ribeiro, J.F. Bruchon and S. Burlon) – Proceedings of the 5th International Itasca Symposium, Vienne (Autriche), February 2020
- “Estimation de la surface comprimée des fondations gravitaires annulaires en statique” (JF. Bruchon, C. Borély, F. Cuira and E. Palix) – Journées Nationales de Géotechnique et de Géologie de l’Ingénieur (JNGG), Marne-La-Vallée, June 2018
- “Les excavations en milieu urbain, exemple de confortement de deux fouilles urbaines au Maroc” (T. El Malki, J.F. Bruchon and F. Cuira) – 5ème Congrès Maghrébin en Ingénierie Géotechnique, Marrakech, October 2016
- Full 3D investigation and characterisation of capillary collapse of a loose unsaturated sand using X-ray CT (J. F. Bruchon, J. M. Pereira, M. Vandamme, N. Lenoir, P. Delage and M. Bornert) – Granular Matter, 15(6), 783-800 – 2013
- Experimental and modelling issues in unsaturated soils mechanics: Role of microstructure (J. M. Pereira, J.F. Bruchon, M. Vandamme, N. Lenoir, P. Delage and M. Bornert) – In 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (Vol. 1, pp. 711-717). Schanz, Tom (Ed.) – 2014
- A µCT investigation of the collapse of a loose unsaturated sands specimen: comparison between macroscopic and mesoscopic scale (J. F. Bruchon, M. Vandamme, J.M. Pereira, N. Lenoir, M. Bornert and P. Delage) – In International Symposium on Geomechanics from Micro and Macro (Vol. 2, pp. 1171-1176). Leiden, The Netherlands – 2014
- X-ray microtomography characterisation of the changes in statistical homogeneity of an unsaturated sand during imbibition (J. F. Bruchon, J.M. Pereira, M. Vandamme, N. Lenoir, P. Delage and M. Bornert) – Géotechnique letters, 3(2), 84-88 – 2013
