Biography:
1937 in Saigon Vietnam.
Graduate Civil Engineer of Bridges and Roads in 1961 from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées Paris France.
Doctor of Sciences degree in 1964 from the University of Paris France.
Research Engineer at Ecole Polytechnique from 1961-1979 and Research Supervisor at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) since 1980.
Main fields of activity : soil mechanics, earthquake geotechnical engineering, fracture of concrete and rocks, dissipativity and fatigue of engineering materials, sports engineering.
Know-how and experience:
Mechanical behaviour of powders and grains (rigid and deformable particles)
Arching criterion
Structural design
Fields of Consulting work:
Arching
Structural integrity
Non destructive evaluation
Publications:
Luong M.P. : X-ray computed tomography of sugar crystals flow in silo, Powders and Grains 2001, Kishino (ed.), 2001 Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, ISBN 90 2651 826 9, 403-407.
Luong M.P. : Abnormal wall movements of a steel silo caused by paddy rice storage, 4th Intern. Conf. on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, 8-15 March 1998, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Luong M.P. : Wall friction measurement for sugar crystals, Powders and Grains '97, 3rd Intern. Conf. on Micromechanics of Granular Materials, 18-22 May 1997, Durham, North Carolina, USA, Powders & Grains, ed. Behringer & Jenkins, Balkema, 1997, 83-86.
