Ricardo Taborda

Scientific Publications:

Thesis:

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:

(Comming Soon)

Technical Reports:

Murià-Vila D., Mendoza M. A., Alcocer S. M., Taborda R. y 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. y 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:

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.

Conference Abstracts:

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.

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", AGU Annual Meeting, 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.

Ramírez-Guzmán L., Taborda R., López J., Urbanic J., Bielak J. and O'Hallaron D. (2007), "ShakeOut and its effects in Los Angeles and Oxnard areas", SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, USA, September 8 – 12.

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.

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.

Competitions:

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.

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.

Others:

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.

Non-Scientific Publications:

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