Scientific Publications:
Thesis:
Taborda R. (2010),
"Three Dimensional Nonlinear Soil and Site-City Effects in Urban Regions",
Ph.D. Thesis, Advisor: Prof. Jacobo Bielak, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Taborda R. (2003),
"Dynamic response and soil-structure interaction effects of an instrumented building in Acapulco",
M.Eng. Thesis, Advisor: Dr. David Murià-Vila, Graduate School of Engineering, UNAM, Mexico.
Journal Papers:
Bielak J., Karaoglu H. and Taborda R. (2011),
"Memory-efficient displacement-based internal friction for wave propagation simulation", Geophysics,
Accepted for publication.
Taborda R. and Bielak J. (2011),
"Large-scale earthquake simulation — Computational seismology and complex engineering systems", Computing in Science and Engineering 13(4):14–26.
Bielak J., Graves R.W., Olsen K.B., Taborda R., Ramírez-Guzmán L., Day S.M., Ely G.P., Roten D., Jordan T.H., Maechling P.J., Urbanic J. and Juve G. (2009),
"The ShakeOut earthquake Scenario: Verification of three simulation sets",
Geophysical Journal International, 180(1):375–404.
Technical Reports:
Taborda R., López J., Karaoglu H., Urbanic J. and Bielak J. (2010),
"Speeding up finite element wave propagation for large-scale earthquake simulations",
Technical Report CMU-PDL-10-109, Parallel Data Lab, Carnegie Mellon University.
Taborda R. and Bielak J. (2008),
"Three-dimensional modeling of earthquake ground motion in basins, including nonlinear wave propagation in soils",
Final Technical Report, USGS Award 08HQGR0018.
Murià-Vila D., Mendoza M. A., Alcocer S. M., Taborda R. and Pérez R. (2003),
"Shaking table tests of an electric interrupter with an antiseismic device",
Proj. 3523, Institute of Engineering, UNAM, Mexico.
Murià-Vila D., Rodríguez G., Taborda R. and Macías M. (2003),
"Dynamic response of the JAL building during the January 21, 2003 Tecomán earthquake",
Proj. 3516, Institute of Engineering, UNAM, Mexico.
Conference Papers:
Taborda R. and Bielak J. (2011),
"Full 3D integration of site-city effects in regional scale earthquake simulations", Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Structural Dynamics EURODYN 2011, Mini-symposium MS03: Dynamic soil-structure interaction and wave propagation, Leuven, Belgium, July 4–6.
Schlosser S.W., Ryan M.P., Taborda R., López J., O'Hallaron D. and Bielak J. (2008),
"Materialized community ground models for large-scale earthquake simulation",
SC06 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Austin, TX, USA, November 15–21.
Yu H., Tu T., Bielak J., Ghattas O., Lopez J., Ma K-L. O’Hallaron D., Ramirez-Guzman L., Stone N., Taborda R. and Urbanic J. (2006),
"Remote runtime steering of integrated terascale simulation and visualization",
Winner HPC Analytics Challenge — SC06 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,
Tampa, FL, USA, November 11–17.
Murià-Vila D., Taborda R. y Zapata A. (2004),
"Soil-structure interaction effects in two instrumented tall buildings",
XIII World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paper No. 1911, Vancouver, Canada, August 1–6.
Taborda R. and Ordaz M. (2003),
"Procedure to estimate the modal damping values of a system starting from transfer functions",
XIV Mexican National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, November 19–22.
Taborda R., Murià-Vila D., Pérez M. R. and Macías M. A. (2002),
"Soil-structure interaction effects of a building in Acapulco",
XIII Mexican National Conference on Structural Engineering, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, October 30 – November 2.
Murià-Vila D., Taborda R., Macías M.A. and Escobar J.A. (2002),
"Instrumentation of a Tall Building in the City of Acapulco",
VIII Chilean Days on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Valparaiso, Chile, April 24–26.
Poster Presentations:
Taborda R. and Bielak J. (2010),
"Three Dimensional Nonlinear Soil and Site-City Effects in Earthquake Simulations",
Abstract S51A-1923 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California, December 13–17.
Bielak J., Karaoglu H. and Taborda R. (2010),
"Memory-efficient displacement-based internal friction for wave propagation simulation",
Abstract S43B-2078 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California, December 13–17.
Taborda R. and Bielak J. (2010),
"Full 3D nonlinear soil effects in large-scale ground motion simulations",
SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, USA, September 11–15.
Taborda R. and Bielak J. (2010),
"Site-city effects in large-scale 3D earthquake simulations",
SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, USA, September 11–15.
Taborda R., Karaoglu H., Bielak J., Urbanic J., López J. and Ramírez-Guzmán L. (2009),
"Chino Hills — A highly computationally efficient 2 Hz validation exercise",
Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S43A-1977, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 14–18.
Ely G.P., Jordan T., Maechling P., Olsen K.B., Day S.M., Minster J.B., Graves R., Ma S.,
Beroza G.C., Bielak J., Taborda R., Cui Y., Urbanic J., and Callagham S. (2009),
"The Big Ten earthquake scenarios for Southern California",
Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S34A-03, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 14–18.
Taborda R., and Bielak J. (2009),
"Three-dimensional modeling of earthquake ground motion including nonlinear wave propagation in soils",
Seismological Research Letters, Vol. 80, No. 2, p. 320, SSA Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA, USA, April 8–10.
Bielak J., Graves R.W., Olsen K.B., Taborda R., Ramírez-Guzmán L., Day S.M., Ely G.P., Roten D., Jordan T.H., Maechling P.J., Urbanic J. and Juve G. (2008),
"ShakeOut simulations — Verification",
Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S33A-1921, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 15–19.
Taborda R., Ramírez-Guzmán L., López J., Urbanic J., Bielak J. and O'Hallaron D. (2007),
"ShakeOut and its effects in Los Angeles and Oxnard areas",
Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract IN21B-0477, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 10–14.
Taborda R., López J., O'Hallaron D., Tu T. and Bielak J. (2007),
"A review of the current approach to CVM-Etrees",
SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, USA, September 8–12.
Taborda R., Ramírez-Guzmán L., Tu T., López J., Bielak J. and O'Hallaron D. (2006),
"Terashake simulations using Hercules: analysis and comparison",
SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, USA, September 10–13.
Taborda R., Ramírez-Guzmán L., Tu T., Kim E.J., López J., Bielak J., Ghattas O. and O'Hallaron D. (2006),
"Scaling up TeraShake: A 1-Hz Case Study",
Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract S51E-07, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 11–15.
Abstract Presentations:
Bielak J., Chen C.-K., Elgamal A., Fenves G.L., Lu J., Ma K.-L., Petropoulos G., and Taborda R. (2009),
"Toward petascale simulation of urban earthquake impacts",
10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Columbus, OH, USA, July 16–19.
Ramírez-Guzmán L., Contreras M, Taborda R., and Bielak J. (2008),
"Ground motion in the valley of Mexico: Basin effects",
SSA Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, USA, April 16–18.
Others:
Taborda R., Ramírez-Guzmán L. and Bielak J. (2008),
"ShakeOut: Numerical simulations of a Mw 7.8 earthquake in Southern California",
Winner First EERI Annual Graphics Competition — EERI Annual Meeting,
New Orleans, LA, USA, February 6–9.
Taborda R. (2004),
Report drafts series on: Damage identification using discrete wavelet transform, aka: Structural health monitoring by detection of "surprises"
in seismic vibration monitoring data using discrete wavelet transform—application to two RC buildings,
Unpublished Report, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Taborda R. (2004),
"On representing accelerograms by a reduced number of pulses using wavelet transform",
Final Project, Graduate Course CE535a: Earthquake Engineering I, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Taborda R. (2004),
"Structural damage identification using discrete and packet wavelet transforms: An application to the Imperial County Services building",
Final Project, Graduate Course CE535b: Earthquake Engineering II, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Taborda R. (2002),
"Seismic design of RC shear walls: Application to Mexico City of a methodology proposed by J.W. Wallace (1994)",
Final Project, Graduate Course: Behavior and design of concrete structures, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.