Jean-Pierre Giroud

Jean-Pierre Giroud (born March 13, 1938) is a French geotechnical engineer and a pioneer of geosynthetics.

Giroud has developed a number of detailed design methods used in geosynthetics engineering with more than 47 years of experience. Some of the design methods are liner leakage evaluation, drainage systems, leachate collection and leakage detection layers, liner system stability, reinforcement of liners and soil layers overlying voids, geomembrane stress and strain analysis, evaluation of geomembrane properties, connections between geomembranes and rigid structures, geomembrane uplift by wind and so on.

Biography[]

Giroud got his Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering from Ecole Centrale de Paris. He has been president of the International Geosynthetic Society and director of the Geotextiles and Geomembranes Group of Woodward Consultants (1978-1983). He was the co-founder, former Chairman of the Board, and Chairman Emeritus of GeoSyntec Consultants (1983-2001) and past Chairman (two terms) of the Technical Committee on Geosynthetics of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). He is also co-founder and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the two main technical journals in the field of geosynthetics engineering, Geotextiles and Geomembranes (1984-1994) and Geosynthetics International (1994-present). Giroud was the keynote lecturer at 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 8th International Conferences on Geosynthetics (1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, and 2006). Giroud is now an independent consultant since 2001.^[1]

Awards[]

• Elected to the US National Academy of Engineering (2009) "for pioneering research in geosynthetics engineering and its practical application in civil/geotechnical engineering".^[2]

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