Overview
Research Group webpage can be found here.
My research aims to understand the structural response of structural components and systems subjected to complex loading and to provide practical solutions for their assessment and design. Of particular interest are emerging construction technologies with the potential to lead the industry towards the sustainability and resilience paradigms such as massive engineered timber, motion-control devices and low-cost sensing technologies.
Guest Lectures
On the infuence of ground-motion parameters on the structural response of steel structures (in Spanish), Concytec, Cienciactiva, UNSA, Peru, 2017
Challenges in the seismic design and assessment of massive timber buildings, Concytec, Cienciactiva, UNSA, Peru, 2017
Seismic behaviour of timber-mortar-cane walls for social housing in Central America, Newton Fund - SRAMSEBS-16, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas Hidalgo, Mexico, 2016
Experimental response of Cross-Laminated-Timber (CLT) walls under cyclic loading, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile, 2016
Low-cost, high-rise and self-similar, studies in structural engineering, Universidad Nacional de San Agustin, Peru, 2016
Seismic assessment of steel buildings with alternative framing systems under bi-directional loading, University of Bristol, UK, 2015
Seismic behaviour of cane, timber and mortar panels for low-cost housing in developing countries, ICE, UK, 2015
Modelling: Simplicity, Uncertainty and Complexity - Keynote Lecture at the Latin American Conference on Civil Engineering (in Spanish), Catholic University of Saint Mary, Peru, 2014
Modelling the contribution of secondary frames to the mitigation of collapse in steel buildings subjected to extreme loads - OpenSees@Bristol, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, 2014
Rigid-plastic models for the seismic design and assessment of steel structures, ROSE School, IUSS, University of Pavia, Italy, 2008