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Derek Rodríguez Pacheco, Research Fellow, Ph.D.
Derek graduated as a civil engineer from the Universidad de Costa Rica, with emphasis in structural, environmental and soil engineering. He worked for more than 4 years as a licensed civil engineer in Costa Rica on project management and structural design, analysis and inspection, as well as seismic retrofit, of a big variety of projects across Latin America, including residential/commercial buildings, industrial facilities, airport and maritime port complexes and environmental structures. He graduated from the MEEES Program with a master’s degree on Earthquake Engineering. Since then, he has been involved in the development of analysis software for structures under extreme loading conditions, and more recently he has started to work in the field of non‐structural components. Nowadays he is a researcher and PhD candidate at the IUSS program of Understanding and Managing Extremes (UME), were his current research aims to develop a standardized methodology for the quantification of seismic performance factors for non‐structural elements.
Ph.D. Research
A framework for Quantifying Seismic Performance Factors for Non-Structural Elements.
Publications
Refereed journal publications (published, in press or accepted)
Perrone, D., Rodriguez, D., Filiatrault, A., Brunesi, E., Beiter, C., Piccinin, R. 2022. “A Framework for the Quantification of Non-Structural Seismic Performance Factors,” Journal of Earthquake Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1080/13632469.2021.1991516.
Rodriguez, D., Perrone, D., Filiatrault, A. 2022. “Seismic Demand on Non-Structural Elements for Quantifying Seismic Performance Factors,” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 52(4): 1016-1039.
Rodriguez D., Perrone D., Filiatrault, A., Brunesi E. 2021. “A probabilistic strong floor motion duration model for seismic performance assessment of non-structural building elements”, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 00 (00), 1-19.
Rodriguez D., Brunesi E., Nascimbene, R. 2020. "Fragility and sensitivity analysis of steel frames with bolted-angle connections under progressive collapse", Engineering Structures, 228(1).
Papers in conference proceedings
Rodriguez, D., Perrone, D., Filiatrault, A., Brunesi, E. [2022] “Absolute Acceleration Floor Response Spectra for Inelastic Buildings: Quantification of Amplitude Capping and Period Lengthening,” Fifth International Workshop on the Seismic Performance of Non-Structural Elements (SPONSE), Palo Alto, California, USA.
Rodriguez, D., Perrone, D., Filiatrault, A., Brunesi, E. [2022] “A multivariate regression model for strong floor motion duration,” 12th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Salt Lake City, USA.
Rodríguez, D., Filiatrault, A. and Perrone, D. 2020. “A Framework for Quantifying Seismic Performance Factors for Non-Structural Elements,” 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 17WCEE, Sendai, Japan, Paper N° C000109, 12 p.
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