Description
Date: March 3, 2021, 21.00 UTC. Webinar
Estimated Time: 1 hour
Language: Spanish
Summary of the lecture
Steel is a widely used material in bridge construction. In this seminar, Dr. Edgar Tapia Hernández will analyse the behaviour of bridges in the face of overload, undermining, wind and seismic demands in Latin America.
In addition, different myths about the behaviour of steel bridges, their conservation, rehabilitation and sustainability will be discussed. To do this, the design demands that must be considered for the analysis and design of steel bridges of short span (simply supported with a span of up to 42 meters) will be studied.
This conference is developed in Spanish and is a joint initiative of worldsteel / steeluniversity, Alacero, ArcelorMittal, Gerdau and Ternium.
Speaker Introduction
Edgar Tapia Hernández
Edgar Tapia Hernández is a professor, researcher and PhD in structural engineering. He has published more than 70 research articles related to structural engineering in conferences, indexed journals and technical reports. He has been director of more than 25 undergraduate and graduate theses in structural engineering.
Dr. Tapia Hernández is co-author of four books related to the analysis and design of structures. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California in San Diego, United States, and has done research stays at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada.
He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) in Mexico, a member of the Comité Técnico del Instituto Mexicano de la Construcción en Acero (IMCA), a member of the Comité Técnico de Seguridad Estructural del Instituto de Infraestructura Educativa (INIFED), a member of Technical Committees of Steel Structures and non-linear Analysis of the Sociedad Mexicana de Ingeniería Estructural (SMIE), and coordinator of the Diplomado de Análisis No Lineal de la Sociedad Mexicana de Ingeniería Estructural (SMIE), among other activities.
Course Content
Course includes
- 1 Lesson
- Steel Applications
