Jairo A. Paredes

Brief Bio:

Jairo A. Paredes received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia; his master in Civil Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia; and his doctoral degree in Computational Mechanics at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain. Currently, he works as an associate professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales branch.

His research interest are nonlinear analysis of structures, damage constitutive models for brittle materials, finite element analysis of historic structures, brick arch bridges, among others.

Theses and degrees:

• [2013] Jairo A. Paredes. Modelización numérica del comportamiento constitutivo del daño local y global y su correlación con la evolución de las frecuencias naturales en estructuras de hormigón reforzado. Adviser: Dr. Sergio Oller Martínez and Dr. Alex H. Barbat. Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain, 2013. Ph.D. thesis in Computational Mechanics.

• [1999] Jairo A. Paredes. Susceptibilidad de una grava bituminosa a ser compactada variando el porcentaje de finos y el grado de trituración. Master in Civil Engineering. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 1999.

• [1997] Bachelor in Civil Engineering. Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia, 1997.

Teaching:

• 4080025: Soil Mechanics (Actual).

• 4100611: Solid Mechanics (Actual).

• 4101644: Structural Analysis by Finite Elements (Past).

Publications:

Articles:

• [2011] Jairo A. Paredes, Alex H. Barbat and Sergio Oller. A compression-tension concrete damage model, applied to a wind turbine reinforced concrete tower. Engineering Structures, 33(12):3559-3569, 2011. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2011.07.020

• [2009] Yesid Mauricio Ospina, Jairo Andrés Paredes López and Jorge Alberto Galindo Díaz. Comportamiento de un puente histórico de arco de albañilería ante cargas dinámicas (translated title: Behaviour of a historical masonry arch bridge subject to dynamic loads). Ingeniería e Investigación, 29(3):115--120, 2009.

Conference Proceedings:

• [2013] J.A. Paredes.

• A new tension-compression damage model applied to modeling the ferrocement thin walls under cyclic loads. In 12th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM12). Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

• [2013] J.A. Paredes.

• Experimental and numerical non-lineal analysis of ferrocement thin walls under lateral load. In 17th International Conference on Composite Structures (ICCS17). Porto, Portugal.

• [2012] J.A. Paredes. A tool for the identification of low r.c. structural damage levels. In 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on computational Mechanics. São Paulo, Brazil, 2012.

• [2010] A.H. Barbat, J.A. Paredes and S. Oller. A New Damage Model for Structures Subjected to Cyclic Loads. In 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics. Australia, 2010.

• [2008] J.A. Galindo, J.A. Paredes, A.M. Muñoz and Y.M. Ospina. Brick Arch Bridges in the High Cauca Region of Colombia: a Forgotten Construction Tradition. In 6th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Construction. Editors: Dina D'Ayala y Enrico Fodde. Assembly Rooms, Bath, UK; July 2-4, 2008.

• [2007] J.A. Paredes, J.A. Galindo and D.F. Mora. Brick arch bridges in the High Cauca region of Colombia (1718-1919). In 5th International Conference on Arch Bridges. Universidad de Minho, Portugal, 2007.