Gérard Gary receives the John Rinehart Award for his work in mechanics

Gérard Gary was awarded the John Rinehart Prize at the DYMAT 2024 conference held at ETH Zürich. He is a specialist in the dynamic behavior of materials and structures, and has acquired unique expertise in the design of dynamic experiments using Hopkinson bars in particular, as well as in the interpretation of measurements using simple, robust mathematical models based on the analysis of wave propagation in these bars. 

As a researcher at the LMS, he developed and improved a set of Hopkinson bars, which enable the study of materials' behavior when deformed at high speed, in compression or under traction.

Gérard Gary has also been involved in many industrial partnerships on the dynamic response of structures under compression and has worked on a wide range of materials (metals, wood, composites, concrete, cork, metallic glass, rocks, foams).

About the award:

The John Rinehart Award was established to recognize outstanding effort and creative work in the science and technology of dynamic processes in materials and related applications. Since 2009, the prize has been awarded by DYMAT, a European association for research into the dynamic behavior of materials and their applications.

For more information: https://dymat.org/#award

*LMS: a joint research unit CNRS, École Polytechnique-Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France