Last November, I received the great news from Universidad San Francisco de Quito that I got tenured after a "concurso de merecimientos y oposicion". Not only did I receive my tenure, which in Ecuador can come at the Associate Professor…
My coauthors and myself recently published a paper in Engineering Structures, titled "Extended Strip Model for slabs subjected to load combinations". You can download this paper free of access charges until July 1, 2017 via this link.The abstract of the…
In the latest issue of the ACI Structural Journal, my collaborators and myself have published a paper titled "Extended Strip Model for Reinforced Concrete Slabs under Concentrated Loads." This paper introduces the plastic design model for reinforced concrete slabs under…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
I recently presented a paper at the annual meeting of TRB, the Transportation Research Board. The abstract of the paper is as follows: The bridges built during the development of the Dutch road network after the Second World War are…
I recently gave a presentation to the ACI Student Chapter of Universidad San Francisco de Quito. They asked me to tell something accessible about doing experiments, so I decided to chronicle my journey to the work that I am currently…
We recently published a paper titled "Transverse load redistribution and effective shear width in reinforced concrete slabs" in the journal Heron. Heron is a free, open access journal, managed and organized by volunteers of Delft University of Technology and TNO.The…
Recently, at the fib symposium 2016 in Cape Town, I presented a paper that I co-authored with a junior colleague, who wrote his first paper. Here is the abstract of the paper: As the bridge stock in The Netherlands and…
I recently presented a paper at the 2016 fib symposium in Cape Town on the shear capacity of the Ruytenschildt Bridge. The abstract of the paper is as follows: In August 2014, the Ruytenschildt Bridge, a reinforced concrete solid slab…
Today, I am hosting Jephtah Lorch as a guest author. A former CEO, Jephtah Lorch managed technology companies, led growth, expansions and turnarounds. His work with people, scientists and engineers stressed creativity, originality and the need for constant growth and…
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