GEOTECHNICAL FACULTY / RESEARCH POSITION

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gmontalva@udec.cl

or

pcendoya@udec.cl







                                                                    Gonzalo Montalva Alvarado

 

Education 

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Washington State University, 2010. (Dissertation)

M.Sc., Civil Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2004.

Thesis: Dynamic Earth Preassures Acting on Buried Structures.

Civil Engineer Degree (Structural Mayor), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2004.

B.S. Civil Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2000.






Research Interests

  • Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

  • Stochastic Analysis

  • Geostatistics

  • Site Response.

  • Experimental and Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering

  • Applied Mining Geotechnical Engineering

  • Soil-Structure Interaction

  • Research (my publications and projects)

  • Some Geotech Pictures

 

Links:

Latest Earthquakes in the World

GeoPhoto Album

GeoEngineer Web Page

Ground-Motion Attenuation Models (NGA)

United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and Research (USUCGER)

J. Carlos Santamarina's web page (recommended!!)

FREE BOOKS!!


Matlab

My intention here is post some tools that I find useful while playing with Matlab.

-spectra is a function to compute elastic response spectra from given ground motions. It should run reasonably fast, if you find a faster one please let me know. Note that the function computes acceleration response spectrum, not pseudo-acceleration. It's a p-file (so it does not have help), for help please use hspectra

I have also developed a user friendly application to conduct site response analyzes, I need to include the effects of uncertainties in soil parameters which have great effect on the results. I will post it here when I finish this process.

Personal

 




Gonzalo Montalva Alvarado, MSc., Ph.D.
Universidad de Concepción.
gmontalva@udec.cl
+56-41-220-4446





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