The XIII Chilean Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (ACHISINA) was held in Viña del Mar from October 24 to October 26, 2023. Master and PhD students attended the conference. The research team contributed in 18 papers presented at the conference, inlcuding presentations by PhD students Matias Birrell, Brian Cagua and Fabian Pachano.
The papers “Structural damage diagnosis of wind turbine blades based on machine learning techniques” (co-authored by MSc student Jose Figueroa and Professors Jose Delpiano, Jose Saavedra, and Rodrigo Astroza) and “Linear System Identification and Bayesian Model Updating of the UC San Diego Geisel Library” (with Lin Sun, Professors Joel P. Conte, Michael D. Todd, Jose…
Former MSc student, Felipe Bravo, gave a presentation about our research on structural health monitoring of wind turbines. He received the best presentation award in the category Academia.
On June 27, 2023, we started the 2nd version of the continuing education program “Performance Based Seismic Design”. Professor Jose I. Restrepo, a world-renowned researcherer in the field of seismic analysis and modeling of reinforced concrete structures from the University of California, San Diego, gave the inaugural presentation. In this program, we cover topics related…
The School of Civil Engineering at the Universidad Industrial de Santander, located in Bucaramanga-Colombia, invited professor Astroza for a short-term visit in June 2023. Prof. Astroza gave two presentations: 1) Instrumentation and monitoring of civil structures and 2) Performance based seisimc assessment of bridges. During his 1 week stay, professor Astroza also visited the Pontificia…
A seminar series on seismic design of civil structures was held at the Universidad de los Andes. In the first session, the presentations focused on seismic design and performance based earthquake engineering of building structures. Engineers Ian Watt, Carlos Peña, Freddy Piña and Mario Lafontaine gave talks. The second session was focused on seismic design…
Dr. Jawad Fayaz, Senior Research Lecturer at Teesside University, visited our research group in March-April 2023. Dr. Fayaz taught a course on appplied machine learning in structural and earthquake engineering. Graduate and undergradute students of the group attended the course. In addition, a research collaboration plan between SDEE @ UAndes and research group of Dr.…
The Graduate Program in Structural Engeneering at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Azcapotzalco in Mexico organized the 4º International Symposium in Structural Engieering on January 26 and 27, 2023. Professor Astroza gave the opening Plenary Lecture entitled “Structural Helath Monitoring: Operational and Extreme Loads“. Professor Astroza also gave a short course on January 26, 2023…
The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences celebrated the 2021 graduation ceremony on Thursday December 2, 2021. The degree in Civil Engineering was awarded to the following former students of our group: Francisca Sievers, Fernanda Ordonez, and Margarita Forster. Francisca Sievers also received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, which is given to graduating students who…
World-renowned and leading experts structural engineers Ron Klemencic and Kevin Aswegan gave the inaugural presentation on the Performance Based Seismic Design course @ UANDES. Ron Klemencic (PE, SE, Hon. AIS, NAC, NAE) is the Chairman and CEO of Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA), an award-winning and 185-person, structural and civil engineering firm founded in 1920. He…
The project “Guidelines and recommendations for the seismic analysis of Chilean bridges” finalized in June 2021 and a closing webinar was held on August 17, 2021. The video of the webinar is available below (in Spanish).
The Chilean Association of Seismology and Eathquake Engineering (ACHISINA) organized a series of webinars about seismic wave propagation. Prof. Sergio Ruiz (Associate Professor of Seismology at Universidad de Chile), MSc Ruben Ramon (Structural Engineer at CODELCO), Eng. Fernando Moreira (MSc student at Universidad de Chile), and Prof. Rodrigo Astroza (Assistant Professor at Universidad de los…
The Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Católica de Temuco organized a seminar series including four talks in different fields of engineering. The presenters were Domingo Mery (Professor, Universidad Catolica de Chile), Rolando de la Cruz (Associate Professor, UAI), Rodrigo Carrasco (Associate Professor, UAI) and Rodrigo Astroza (Assistant Professor, UANDES). The presentation of professor Astroza…
The project “Monitoring system for structural damage diagnosis and prognosis of wind turbines” finalized in August 2020 and a closing webinar was held on September 4, 2020. The video of the webinar is available below (in Spanish).
The seminar “Experimental dynamics of civil structures” was organized by the Department of Civil Engineering of the Universidad de Piura, Peru.
The international simposium “Construction, retrofit of srtuctures and earthquake engineeing” was organized by HILTI and the Chilean Cement and Concrete Institute (ICH). Andre Filiatrault, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering of the University of Buffalo, John Silva, Senior Director Codes and Standards at Hilti North America, Tal Fenstein, PhD candidate…
The seminar “Structural monitoring : Modal identification and finite elemento model updating” was organized by the ASCE student chapter of the Escuela Politecnica Nacional of Ecuador.
Structural engineers Carlos Peña, Cristian Urzúa, Miguel Medalla, and Ramón Montecinos talked about the Chilean code NCh. 2369 “Earthquake-resistant design of industrial structures and facilities”. The event, moderated by Prof. Rodrigo Astroza, gathered more than 250 attendees from Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico. In the first presentation, engineers Ramón Montecinos and Carlos Peña gave…
The 38th International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC) was held at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando from February 10 to February 13, 2020. IMAC is organized every year by the Society of Engineering Mechanics (SEM) and is one of the main conferences in the structural dynamics community, including specialists from the aerospace, mechanical, and civil…
The 8th version of the International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES) was held at the Southeast University in Nanjing, China from September 5 to September 8, 2019. EVACES is a premier venue where recent progresses in different aspects of vibration of civil structures (including sensor and testing technologies, instrumentation, isolation…
An interesting talk about different engineering aspects involved in large projects developed by COLDELCO was given by structural engineer Phillipo Correa on July 9, 2019 at the Universidad de los Andes. During the seminar, Phillipo talked to our undergraduate and graduate students about the different processes and structures existing in the large mining projects in…
The Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2019 (EMI 2019) was held on the campus of the California Institute of Technology from June 18 to June 21, 2019. This is a joint conference between the Engineering Mechanics Institute and the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The 2019 EMI conference staid true to its long-standing…
The 12th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering (CCEE) was held at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, from June 17 to June 20, 2019. This is the most important international conference on seismic engineering in Canada and brings together researchers, structural engineers, geotechnical engineers, architects, seismologists and regulatory bodies every four years. Topics included Seismic hazard,…
The WESC 2019 conference was held in Cork from June 17 to June 20, 2019. The Wind Energy Science Conference is a biennial event organized by the European Academy of Wind Energy. Wind Energy scientists and engineers gather at this conference to present their latest findings and discuss the challenges which they have faced with a multi-disciplinary…
Fernando Moyano, Structural Engineer and Civil, Structural, and Architectural Manager at Wood PLC, Chile, gave a seminar to our undergraduate and graduate students on May 31, 2019. His talk focused on the expected skills from junior civil engineers working in mining and metals projects. At the end of the seminar, Nicolas Barrientos (ING18), a former…
The 12th ACHISINA Conference was held at the Universidad Austral campus in Valdivia from April 3 to April 5, 2019. The conference is organized every four by the Chilean Association of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (ACHISINA) and is one of the main conferences in Latin-America on earthquake engineering. In this version of ACHISINA Conference, professor…
The 37th International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC) was held at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando from January 28 to January 31, 2019. IMAC is organized every year by the Society of Engineering Mechanics (SEM) and is one of the main conferences in the structural dynamics community, including specialists from the aerospace, mechanical, and civil…
The international seminar “Seismic performance, analysis, and design of non-structural components in tall buildings” was organized by the Chilean Association on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (ACHISINA) and the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering from the Universidad Católica de Chile. Eduardo Miranda, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Diego Lopez-Garcia,…
The Department of Civil Engineering of the Universidad de Concepcion invited professor Astroza to give the seminar “Structural monitoring: from modal identification to nonlinear finite element model updating”. The talk included the presentation of novel approaches for damage identification and health monitoring of large and complex structural systems subjected to earthquakes. New theoretical developments and…
The paper “Time evolution of the modal parameters of a five-story building using strong motion data” was presented at the 11th U.S. National Conference in Earthquake Engineering (11NCEE), held in Los Angeles, California from June 25 to June 29, 2018. The paper was presented on June 28, in the session Instrumentation, Data Collection, And Seismic…
The paper “Uncertainty quantification of soil dynamics properties via Bayesian model updating” by C.Pajaro, V. Mercado, A.R. Ortiz, and R. Astroza was presented at the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) conference, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus from May 29 to June 1, 2018. The paper was presented on May 31, in the special…
The Universidad de los Andes hosted a seminar to discuss the effects of the Puebla-Morelos Earthquake (M=7.1) that struck Mexico on Tuesday, September 9, 2017. The talks were given by professors Rodrigo Astroza (Universidad de los Andes), Francisco Hernández (Universidad de Chile) , Felipe Ochoa-Cornejo (Universidad de Chile), and César Pastén (Universidad de Chile). The…
Researchers from the Universidad de los Andes and the University of Chile shared the findings of a reconnaissance trip to Mexico following the September 19, 2017 Puebla-Morelos Earthquake. The team spent one week in Mexico and included professor Rodrigo Astroza (Universidad de los Andes) and three professors from the University of Chile (Francisco Hernandez, Felipe…
The 7th edition of the International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (EVACES2017) will be held at the UC San Diego campus in La Jolla, CA (USA) on July 12-14, 2017. EVACES2017 aims to bring together engineers, scientists, researchers, and practitioners to provide a forum to disseminate and discuss latest developments and…