1989 – First paper in “Comptes rendus de l’académie des sciences” (principle)
1990 – PhD thesis of Michel GRÉDIAC (thin anisotropic plates, including experiments)
1994 – First collaboration between F. Pierron and M. Grédiac (anisotropic in-plane properties, shear)
1996 – 98: First application in dynamics (vibration of thin plates, exp. & num.)
1998 – 2000: Series of work on in-plane elastic stiffnesses of composites (exp. & num.)
2001: first attempt at a non-linear law (anisotropic)
2002 – 04: Significant progress on virtual fields selection in elasticity (special virtual fields, minimization of noise effects),
first collaborations with E. Toussaint and S. Avril
2003: First application in vibration with damping (thin plates)