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ETS/HES Engineer ENAC IIC LMS

Gilbert Gruaz office(s): GCB0384 GCD0399 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 32337,33963 Publications • Alive participation to numerous publications in Soils Mechanics at the LMS • Alive participation at the practice part of the tasks concerning the thesis job of numerous aspirant at the Ph.D. title at the LMS MISSION • Soils mechanics consulting • Responsible of the soils lab tests • Co-responsible of Quality System in LMS+R • Member of the Board of Directors of the Soil and the Rock Mechanics Laboratories of the EPFL TEACHING ACTIVITIES • Lecturer of Technology and Soil Mechanics in the 5th and 7th semester at the Heig-vd - Forming in use - for students Engineers HES in Civil engineering at the evening school of Yverdon-les-Bains BIOGRAPHY • Laboratory employed in physical type "C" at the EPUL from 1967 to 1970 • Technical school at Lausanne in civil engineering from 1971 to 1975 • Certificate: - Laboratory employed in physical type "C" in 1970 at Lausanne • Diploma: - Engineer ETS in civil engineering in 1975 at Lausanne • Qualification as Engineer SIA in civil engineering at the time of admittance examination at REG A, successful in November 1995 at Lausanne. (The registration at REG A, is in agreement as a qualification degree EPF) Late activity: As Laboratory employed in physical type "C": • Two months to Nestle at Orbe in the laboratory of LINOR • Height months in the laboratory of applied physical (Mister Professor Mooser) As Engineer ETS: • Stowage of a tests laboratory at Delémont for the agency of Bonnard & Gardel Council Engineering SA at Lausanne Professional experience abroad: As Engineer ETS + Engineer REG A: • Assemblage, installation and stowage of a triaxial apparatus and teaching and coaching it use at the ancillary in the laboratory at the National Polytechnic School of Yaoundé in Cameroon for the agency of CSD Council Engineering SA at the Mont-sur-Lausanne (Two interventions in 92 and 93) • Complete assemblage, installation and stowage of a tests laboratory in Soils Mechanics at Vientiane in Laos, whether installation and the start up of all the new equipment and miscellaneous apparatus as well as the training of academic and non-academic staff dedicated to the various laboratories, and the preparation of testing procedures for student training. (Two interventions in 97 whether three month) Miscellaneous • Active member in various committees and commissions at the EPFL such as: - Committee of sports of the staff EPFL (President) - Association of the staff EPFL, APC (Vice-president) - Committee of University sports CUS (Member) - Group of forming and training the apprentices - Group creation of places of life at the Learning Center MAIN PUBLICATIONS • Influence of suction on the Mechanical Behavior of Unsaturated Sandy Silt, Geiser, Laloui, Vulliet, Gruaz, Publications at the first international conference on the unsaturated soils at Paris in 1995, on the influence of suction on the Mechanical Behavior of Unsaturated Sandy Silt