Scipedia: Felipe Acosta's friends

Ismael Pagán-Trinidad

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:40:22 +0200

Luis Godoy

Thu, 04 May 2017 14:45:52 +0200

I completed my Ph.D. at University College London, in England, in 1979, and worked at the University of Cordoba in Argentina, CONICET in Argentina, West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV, USA, and University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

My areas of research interest are analysis and behavior of thin walled structures, with current emphasis on oil storage tanks; computational material science, with emphasis on multiscale analysis of composites and metal alloys; and history of Mechanics.

Luis Suarez

Thu, 08 Jun 2017 01:19:35 +0200

Dr. Luis E. Suárez is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez and the Coordinator of the Structural Engineering Area. He has been involved in research in structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, soil dynamics and random vibrations. He has published 60 papers in refereed journals and 98 conference papers. He has taught graduate courses in Advanced Structural Dynamics, Soil Dynamics, Random Vibrations and Analytical Mechanics in Puerto Rico, USA, Dominican Republic and Argentina. Dr. Suárez graduated at the top of his class in the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, in 1981 with an engineering diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. He received his M.Sc. (1984) and Ph.D. degrees (1986) in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech.

Dr. Suárez has directed the thesis of 76 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students and is currently the advisor of 9 students. He directed projects sponsored by the US Army Research Office, NSF, NASA, the US Army Corps of Engineers, FEMA, and the USGS. He was in the Editorial Board of the Engineering Structures Journal, the Journal of Vibration and Control and Mechanics. He co-founded in 2001 and is the editor of the Revista Internacional de Desastres Naturales, Accidentes e Infraestructura Civil. He published four books in Structural Dynamics, Programming with Matlab and Structural Analysis with SAP2000.

Miguel A. Pando

Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:10:23 +0200

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Ricardo Lopez Rodriguez

Thu, 08 Jun 2017 19:54:57 +0200

Professor, Director of the Civil Infrastructure Research Center, Associate Director for Graduate Studies and Research of Civil Engineering and Surveying Department, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. Obtained Bachelor and Master Degrees in Civil Engineering at UPRM and PhD at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Research interests include behavior of reinforced concrete structures subjected to earthquake loads, mitigation of natural hazards, and resilience of infrastructure. Some sample publications include “Estimating Damage Caused by Natural Hazards for the Insurance Industry in Puerto Rico”, published in revista Dimensión in 2005, “Effect of the Interior Masonry Wall on the Seismic Behavior of Concrete Houses – An Experimental Study” presented in 14^th Earthquake Engineering World Conference Beijing, China, and “Análisis No lineal Estático y Dinámico de Pórticos de Hormigón Armado con Deficiencia en el Hormigón de las Columnas” published in Computational Mechanics Journal in Argentina. Dr. López is member of ACI committee 318H-Seismic Design, and is Secretary of the Earthquake Commission of the College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico.