Honors and Awards
- IASSAR Early Achievement Research Award, The International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability, 2022
- Society of Engineering Science Young Investigator Medal, 2019
- EMI Leonardo da Vinci Award, ASCE, 2017
- Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 2015
Books
Z. P. Bažant, J.-L. Le, and M. Salviato (2021). Quasibrittle Fracture Mechanics: A First Course, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K. (336 pages)
Z. P. Bažant and J.-L. Le (2017). Probabilistic Mechanics of Quasibrittle Structures: Strength, Lifetime, and Size Effect, Cambridge University Press, U.K.
Selected Publications
A. Gorgogianni, J. Eliáš, and J.-L. Le (2022) "Mesh objective stochastic simulations of quasibrittle fracture," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 159, 104745.
A. Gorgogianni, J. Eliáš, and J.-L. Le (2020). “Mechanism-based energy regularization in computation modeling of quasibrittle fracture,” Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, 87(9), 091003.
A. Tripathi, S. Mantell, and J.-L. Le (2019). “A morphology based constitutive model for high density polyethylene,” Mechanics of Materials, 137, [103091]. doi: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2019.103091
Z. Xu, R. Ballarini, and J.-L. Le (2019.) “A renewal weakest-link model of strength distribution of polycrystalline silicon MEMS structures,” Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, 86(8), [081005]. doi: 10.1115/1.4043440
Z. Xu and J.-L. Le (2018). “On power-law tail distribution of strength statistics of brittle and quasibrittle structures,” Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 197, 80-91. doi: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2018.04.009
J.-L. Le, J. Eliáš, A. Gorgogianni, J. Vievering, and J. Kveton (2018). “Rate-dependent scaling of dynamic tensile strength of quasibrittle structures,” Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME, 85(2), [021003]. doi: 10.1115/1.4038496
Z. Xu and J.-L. Le (2017). “A first passage model for probabilistic failure of polycrystalline silicon MEMS structures,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 99, 225–241. doi: 10.1016/j.jmps.2016.11.007