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Curriculum Vitae

Chloé Arson

Associate Professor

Geosystems Engineering
Sustainable Communities

404/385-0143

BIOGRAPHY

2006-2009: Ph.D. studies in the geotechnical group of Navier Laboratory (CERMES), at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC, France). Ph.D. Advisor: Professor B. Gatmiri.
2005-2006: Master of Science in Soil and Rock Mechanics and Environmental Geomechanics, from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC), Ecole Centrale Paris and Paris VI University (P. & M. Curie University).
2002-2006: Civil Engineering degree from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC), leading Engineering school in Europe.
Spring 2003: Three-month research training internship at the Lehrstuhl für Baustatik und Baudynamik in the Rheinish Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen (LBB, RWTH, Aachen, Germany).
2002-2003: Second-year academic degree of philosophy, Paris I University (Diplôme d’Études Universitaires Générales).

Dr. Arson’s expertise is damage and healing rock mechanics, micro-macro modeling of porous media, and computational geomechanics. Arson’s group develops numerical tools to assess the performance and environmental impacts of underground storage and rock fracturing, explain the formation of soil by rock weathering, and design sustainable bio-inspired geotechnical systems.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Poromechanics: damage and healing in rock, homogenization theory applied to reactive porous materials, thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical couplings in porous media, multi-scale fracture propagation
Computational mechanics: material-point level algorithms for constitutive model validation and calibration (MATLAB/Octave); Finite Element Method - FEM (ABAQUS, OOFEM); Cohesive Zone Models (ABAQUS); Extended FEM - XFEM (ABAQUS, OOFEM); Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics - SPH (ABAQUS, ANSYS); Discrete Element Method - DEM (PFC3D); Molecular Dynamics - MD (MAPS); Machine Learning - ML (classification, regression, basic neural networks)
Geomechanical modeling: deep geological storage (nuclear waste disposals, carbon dioxide sequestration, high-pressure gas storage), hydraulic fracturing, scour and erosion, ballast particle crushing
Bio-mechanics and bio-inspiration inspiration: micro-macro modeling of teeth, network dynamics of slime mold, leaf venations and roots, burrowing mechanics

HONORS & AWARDS

Adjunct Courtesy Appointment, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech (current)
Emerging Leaders Program, Georgia Tech Provost Office, 2021-2022
“Future Leaders Program” Membership, ARMA, 2013
“Class of 1969” Teaching Fellowship, Georgia Tech, 2013-2014
ExCEEd Teaching Fellowship, ASCE, 2012 (“Excellence in Civil Engineering Education”).
ENHANCE Fellowship, NSF, 2012 (“Enhance the Career of Female Faculty in Earthquake Engineering Research”)

NSF BRITE Award, 2021. The NSF BRITE (Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering) initiative aims to enable and create opportunities to advance scientific discoveries and new research using a variety of approaches that harness the national talent ecosystem of experienced faculty. Recognizing that a successful faculty research career is neither linear nor continuous, this BRITE solicitation seeks proposals that enable experienced researchers and scholars (tenured or equivalent) to forge new directions or to enter new fields by capitalizing or branching out of their established knowledge domains. Award: $525,070.
Georgia Tech CEE Inter-disciplinary Research Award, 2017
NSF CAREER Award, 2016
Ph.D. Prize, ALERT Geomaterials, 2010 (Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Research and Technology)
Ph.D. Special Prize, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, 2010 (ENPC, France)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

ARTICLES

T. Xu, X. Shen, M. Reed, N. West, K.L. Ferrier, C. Arson, 2022. Anisotropy and microcrack propagation induced by weathering, regional stresses and topographic stresses, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, DOI:10.1029/2022JB024518
C. O’Sullivan, C. Arson, B. Coasne, 2022. A perspective on Darcy’s law across the scales: from physical foundations to particulate mechanics, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0002153
Z. Wu, T. Xu, C. Arson, 2022. Effect of the intermediate principal stress on pre-peak damage in hard rock under true triaxial compression, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/s00603-022-02981-x
S.V. Bokkisa, J. Macedo, A. Petalas, C. Arson, 2022. Assessing flow liquefaction triggering considering fabric anisotropy effects under the ACST framework, Computers and Geotechnics, DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2022.104796
K. Ji, L. Stewart, C. Arson, 2022. Molecular Dynamics analysis of silica/PMMA interface shear behavior, Polymers, DOI: 10.3390/polym14051039

BOOKS

A. Bobet, C. Arson, D. Elsworth, Y. Fang, Z. Feng, Q. Gan, Y. Guglielmi, K. Im, T. Ishibashi, G.l Izadi, A. Modiriasa, P. Nelson, J. Pogacnik, J. Taron, I. Tomac, C. Wang, 2018. Rock Mechanics, in: Geotechnical Fundamentals for Addressing New World Challenges, P. Culligan, A. Whittle and J. Mitchell eds
C. Arson, E. Berns, G. Akrouch, M. Sanchez, J.-L. Briaud, 2013. Chapter: "Heat Propagation around Geothermal Piles and Implications on Energy Balance", in: Energy Book Series - Volume # 1: “Materials and processes for energy: communicating current research and technological developments”, A. Méndez-Vilas ed., Formatex Research Center, ISBN(13): 978-84-939843-7-3, pp.628-635

PROCEEDINGS

J. Ding, F.M. Chester, J.S. Chester, X. Shen, C. Arson, 2022. Grain-boundary processes and semibrittle behavior of salt-rock, SaltMech X, July 6-8, 2022, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
T. Xu, X. Shen, M. Reed, N. West, K.L. Ferrier, C. Arson, 2022. Competition between biotite weathering and regional stresses: answers from homogenization and Finite Element simulation, 56th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 26-29, 2022, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
H. He, C. Arson, 2022. Numerical implementation of a cohesive zone element coupled with continuum damage mechanics volume elements, 56th US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, June 26-29, 2022, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
C. Arson, W. Jin, H. He, 2021. Coupling continuum damage mechanics and discrete fracture models: a geomechanics perspective, 16th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Torino, Italy, May 5-8, 2021 (postponed to 2022). Published in M. Barla et al. (Eds.): IACMAG 2021, LNCE 125, pp. 1–16, 2021, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64514-4-1.
L.F. Patino-Ramirez, C. Arson, 2020. Machine learning algorithms applied to the blowout susceptibility estimation around pressurized cavities in drained soil, IS-Cambridge 2020, 10th international symposium on geotechnical aspects of underground construction in softs ground, 29-30 June 2020, Note: Paper accepted, but conference postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic..

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