Bernard Jacob started working at SETRA on the safety of bridges and load codes, then joined the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC) where he led projects on the fatigue of metal bridges under traffic. He has led European and international projects on the weighing of heavy goods vehicles, dynamic interactions between infrastructures and vehicles, the safety and behaviour of heavy goods vehicles, their weights and dimensions (expertise for the European Commission) and was technical director of road operation and safety at LCPC and then transport and infrastructures at IFSTTAR before joining the Research vice-presidency of Gustave Eiffel University.
