Agustin Perez-Garcia

Universitat Politècnica de València | UPV · Department of Continuous Medium Mechanics and Theory of Structures

Current formulations proposed by Eurocode 8 part 3 for the inelastic deformations of existing reinforced concrete members are assessed separately for wide beams (WB) and conventional deep beams (DB). The current approach, based on a large experimental database of members, predicts larger ultimate chord rotation but lower chord rotation ductility fo...

One of Valencia’s outstanding twentieth-century architects, Joaquín Rieta is well known as the designer of some of the most famous buildings in the city centre of Valencia. But his promising career was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War, when Valencia became one of the most heavily bombed cities in Spain. During this period, Rieta designed a seri...

This website implements the heuristic search algorithm named VTAM (Vast Territories Aerial Mapping). This optimization procedure is based on the classic metaphor of landscape tracking. The Benchmark menu option contains a set of well-known mathematical functions and engineering design cases that are ready to be optimized online by the visitor in or...

The Basic Document, Structural Safety, Steel of the Spanish Technical Building Code provides mathematical expressions to obtain the lateral buckling resistance of hot-rolled steel beams. These expressions include a coefficient, C1, that accounts for variation of the bending moment along the beam. However, this document only provides values for line...

The VTAM arguments file contains information about the parameters that will drive the optimization procedure. This file has a plain text format and must be provided altogether with the file that describes the optimization problem to be submitted to the VTAM web site. Please, check for updates of this document following the link provided in the firs...

Vast Territories Aerial Mapping (VTAM) is a metaheuristic optimization algorithm inspired by the orographic characterization of the landscape. The aerial survey of the territory registers many aspects of the landscape that are useful references to drive the search of optimum configurations of many engineering problems. The goal pursued is to find t...

Aquest llibre adreça el disseny d'estructures d'acer segons els procediments i les provisions establerts al Codi Tècnic de l’Edificació (CTE DB-SE-A) i conté una llarga llista d’exercicis amb resolució detallada que presenten de manera pràctica la aplicació normativa que garanteix la seguretat y la funcionalitat de la majoria de les estructures d'a...

Este documento expone la experiencia de la implantación del grupo en inglés de las asignaturas “Proyectos de Ejecución Estructural” del Máster habilitante y “Cálculo de Estructuras 3” de quinto curso del grado de fundamentos de la Arquitectura en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universitat Politècnica de València. Se trata de un e...

Nowadays, it is totally assumed that the historic city centres must be protected, being conservation, maintenance and enhancement of the existing residential buildings a must to guarantee their preservation, instead of removal and demolition. However, many residential buildings in old city centres do not meet the habitability, sanitation or energy...

A significant part of the European residential building stock is architectural heritage and is protected by law in different grades. Although these dwellings seldom fulfil the current eco-efficiency requirements, listed buildings are exempt from energy regulations requirements. This paper reviews the constructional characteristics common to 588 mul...

Este documento describe las experiencias llevadas a cabo en los dos últimos años para aplicar la metodología de docencia inversa en la asignatura Estructuras III de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universitat Politècnica de València. Se pretende compartir las estrategias desarrolladas para motivar al alumno de quinto curso a invol...

This book addresses the steel structures design according to procedures and provisions set in the Spanish Building Technical Code (CTE DB-SE-A). A large collection of worked examples develop in a practical way the principles and requirements that will provide safety and serviceability to most of the steel structures for buildings. Members under ten...

Italian and Spanish seismic codes prescribe lower behaviour factor (q) for wide-beam reinforced concrete moment resisting frames (WBF) with respect to conventional q factors adopted for deep-beam frames (DBF). Conversely, other relevant seismic codes worldwide, such as Eurocode 8, consider WBF capable of high ductility performances, provided that d...

Current formulations proposed by Eurocode 8 part 3 for the inelastic deformations of existing reinforced concrete members are assessed aimed at finding out whether they are representative of beams with different cross-sectional aspect ratio, in particular for wide beams (WB) contrasted with conventional deep beams (DB). The current approach shows t...

Conceptual maps and Procedures concerning the understanding and use the Design Module of Architrave 2015.

Architrave®, composed of Architrave Design and Architrave Analysis software applications, is a high performance computing environment for the design and analysis of buildings and civil engineering structures. Architrave Design® allows, through a simple and intuitive graphical user interface, to generate and manage structural models by using the Aut...

Excel file to calculate the load forces generated by wind pressure over multi-storey buildings.

Excel file to calculate the load forces generated by earthquakes over multi-storey buildings.

Excel file to solve the preliminary design of pile foundations.

Italian and Spanish seismic codes, conversely to Eurocode 8 and other relevant seismic codes worldwide, consider that wide-beam RC frames (WBF) cannot guarantee high ductility performances, thus they compel to adopt lower behaviour factors (q) than for conventional deep-beam frames (DBF). The reason may be the poorer local ductility of wide beams w...

El conjunto edificado de hormigón armado de Lorca proyectado según NCSE‐02 mostró un comportamiento general satisfactorio frente al terremoto de 2011, ya que se produjeron pocos colapsos globales frente a un evento de aceleración máxima más de tres veces mayor que la de proyecto. Sin embargo, se demuestra –mediante la aplicación de un método analít...

A back analysis aimed at the evaluation of reinforced concrete frame buildings performance during the 2011 Lorca, Spain, earthquake is provided by applying FAST method. This is a simplified approach for the estimation of largescale vulnerability of RC moment resisting frame buildings. It accounts for the structural contribution of non-structural ma...

The aim of this paper is to show the environmental benefits provided by the Multilayer Structural Panels technology when applied to construct low rise residential buildings. This is a holistic approach that takes into account the structural aspects and the environmental issues involved. Conclusions are based on the assessment of a broad set of case...

On May 11, 2011 an earthquake of magnitude 5.1 ( \(M_{w}\) ) struck Murcia region causing nine casualties and damage to buildings and infrastructures. Even if the main characteristics of the event would classify it as a moderate earthquake, the maximum Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) registered (equal to 0.37 g) exceeded significantly local code pro...

En este artículo se evalúa la ecoeficiencia de varios edificios construidos utilizando un sistema de muros de carga multicapa resuelto ‘in situ’ del tipo microhormigón/aislante/microhormigón. Los resultados se contrastan con la ecoeficiencia de esos mismos edificios resueltos con soluciones desacopladas (sistemas de elementos puramente estructurale...

A generalized formulation of FAST vulnerability method for Reinforced Concrete Moment Resisting Frame (RC-MRF) buildings with non-uniform distribution of masonry infills in elevation is presented. This method belongs to the wider family of spectral-based methodologies. It was already proposed for uniformly infilled frames, and then applied to diffe...

This paper describes the characteristics of a new high performance computing application (Architrave v.2011) designed for structural analysis of buildings or civil engineering structures. To check its performance against the well-known and widespread computer programme, SAP2000® v.15, a set of test has been designed for static and dynamic analysis....

A generalized formulation of the FAST vulnerability method for Reinforced Concrete Moment Resisting Frame (RC-MRF) buildings with irregular distribution of infills in elevation is presented. This method, which belongs to the wider family of spectral-based methodologies for the simplified assessment of infilled RC MRF buildings, has been already pro...

This paper describes the characteristics of a new high performance computing application (Architrave v.2011) designed for structural analysis of buildings or civil engineering structures. To check its performance against the well-known and widespread computer programme, SAP2000® v.15, a set of test has been designed for static and dynamic analysis....

On May 11, 2011 an earthquake of magnitude 5.1 (M w) struck Murcia region causing 9 casualties and damage to buildings and infrastructures. Even if the main characteristics of the event would classify it as a moderate earthquake, the maximum PGA registered (equal to 0.37g) exceeded significantly the hazard at the site according to local code provis...

This paper describes the development of a high throughput and reliable Cloud Service to perform on-demand structural analysis over the Windows Azure-based Cloud infrastructure provided by the EC VENUS-C project. All the simulations in the Cloud are governed by Architrave®, an advanced software environment for the design, 3D linear static and dynami...

The European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credit definition takes into account the workload – lectures, experiences and study activities – the students need for achieving the learning outcomes. The spreading use of portable personal computers among university students, the availability of wireless internet connection on campus, the developments on...

Non-structural building parts are taken in account to analyse spatial structures against horizontal dynamic forces as wind and specially earthquake. The behaviour of several models, including many of the building parts usually not considered as structure, has been compared against those composed only by proper structural elements. Non-structural el...

For centuries, architects and engineers have been searching the most efficient structural arrangements for their projects. Some of them have founded their proposals on the principle of biomimesis. The aim of their approach was to check how useful were 'for structural purposes' some geometrical patterns displayed by Nature on organic or inorganic bo...

For improving the quality and efficiency of their teaching activities, in 1993 the team of professors in charge of the subject Estructuras I at the Faculty of Architecture of Valencia have incorporated a set of innovative experiences on their teaching methods. As a result, some didactic and evaluation tools have been developed. All of them are base...