Roger Frank, professor at the École des Ponts ParisTech and research director at the Navier research unit's "Geotechnics" team (CERMES), and Pierre Pouget, of the Clermont-Ferrand Ponts et Chaussées regional laboratory, have received the George-Stephenson medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in the United Kingdom for their article "Experimental pile subjected to long duration thrusts owing to a moving slope" published in the journal Géotechnique. The prize, one of the ICE's top three awards, rewards the second-best contribution among the scientific articles published in 2008 in all the civil engineering journals managed by the ICE and its publication subsidiary ( Thomas Tel Ford ).
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