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CEE Faculty Profile
Chloé Arson
Assistant Professor
Affinity Group: Geosystems Engineering
| Office: | Mason |
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| Swing Space: | IPST Building, room 338; 500 10th Street NW, Atlanta, GA 303 |
| Address: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Phone: | (404)-385-0143 |
| Email: | chloe.arson@ce.gatech.edu |
| Web: | http://arson.ce.gatech.edu |
Biography
Dr. Arson holds two M.Sc. degrees from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC, France): one in Civil Engineering ("diplôme d'ingénieur des Ponts"), and one in Soil and Rock Mechanics and Environmental Geomechanics (in partnership with Ecole Centrale Paris and Paris VI University). She earned her Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering at ENPC in 2009 and got two awards for her thesis entitled "Theoretical and Numerical Modeling of Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Damage in Unsaturated Porous Media". Her Ph.D. project aimed to study the Excavation Damaged Zone around nuclear waste disposals and was funded by EURATOM, the European Atomic Energy Community. Between 2009 and 2012, Dr. Arson worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University, where she taught "Mechanics of Materials", "Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering" and "Theory of Finite Element Analysis". She joined the Geosystems Group at GeorgiaTech in August 2012.
Dr. Arson's research focuses on the modeling of damage in porous media (including rock, cement-based materials and dentin) and granular materials (such as ballast). Her work combines phenomenological and micro-mechanical modeling, numerical simulations and programming. The main applications are deep geological storage (nuclear waste disposals, carbon dioxide sequestration, high-pressure gas storage), shallow geothermal systems, hydraulic fracturing, ground improvement by jet-grouting, scour and erosion, ballast particle crushing and tooth reparation.
