We use the weak gravitational lensing effect to study the mass distribution of a
sample of 50 southern Abell
clusters (0.05 < z < 0.3) having LX > 5 × 1044 erg s-1 observed with ESO-VLT
under uniform sky conditions and subarsecond (0.6'') image quality. Their dynamical
equibrium is assesed through comparison of the clusters mass estimates made by weak-lensing,
velocity-dispersions and X-ray techniques. So far, for 24 clusters (Cypriano
et al. 2004),
we find: a) the center of their mass and light distributions are coincident for
77% of the sample; b) the elongations of the fitted mass profiles and of the light
of the cD galaxies generally match with each other; c) although most
of the clusters are found to be in dynamical equilibrium, those with TX ≥ 8 keV
(or σv ≥ 1120 km s-1) are the discordant ones. The preliminary
bright arc statistics for our whole sample (LZLS) suggests the presence of a
cut-off at z ~ 0.07 which is qualitatively consistent with predictions done
in a ΛCDM cosmology (Meneghetti et al. 2003).