Juan Carlos Mosquera

Juan Carlos Mosquera
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | UPM · Departamento de Mecánica de Medios Continuos y Teoría de Estructuras

PhD Civil Engineer

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January 2000 - present
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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Publications (86)
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The growing interest in groundwater as a sustainable resource for water supply regulation is noteworthy. Just as surface reservoirs in many countries are primarily designed to manage seasonal fluctuations throughout the year, aquifers possess significant reserves, making them particularly well suited for interannual regulation, especially during dr...
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Earthquakes often entail alterations in the groundwater flow regime, in the phreatic level, surges and losses of springs, and the discharge in brooks. A variety of theoretical approaches attempt to elucidate the post-earthquake effects on spring discharge. This study adopts a conceptual approach, primarily presenting diverse methods to estimate wat...
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Desde su constitución en diciembre de 2019, la Oficina de Aprendizaje-Servicio (ApS) de la UPM se ha dedicado a promover y difundir la metodología ApS en el ámbito de las enseñanzas de nuestra universidad. Nuestra misión es trabajar en colaboración con entidades externas a la UPM para abordar las demandas y necesidades sociales, utilizando los cono...
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Earthquakes often entail alterations in the groundwater flow regime, in the phreatic level, in the surge and loss of springs, and discharge in brooks and springs. As for the latter, there are diverse feasible mechanisms, so there is a variety of theoretical approaches to elucidate the post-earthquake effects on spring discharge. This study adopts a...
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Resumen-En este trabajo se presentan algunas experiencias de aula invertida realizadas en el contexto de asignaturas relacionadas con el análisis estructural en grados de Ingeniería Civil y de Ingeniería Mecánica. Las experiencias realizadas persiguen reducir el tiempo de aula dedicado a la mera transmisión de información e incrementar el tiempo de...
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La universidad puede contribuir al bienestar y mejora de condiciones de vida de comunidades desfavorecidas en países en desarrollo, mejorando los procesos constructivos y ayudando a capacitar a sus habitantes mediante enfoques sostenibles y participativos en pro de hábitats adecuados. Esta realización, ejecutada por una alianza entre equipos de la...
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Assessing the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings is an essential task for the management of earthquake disasters. For this purpose, the seismic behaviour of buildings is usually determined under the assumption of isolated conditions, although aggregate structures are one of the most common typologies found in urban centres. This study aims...
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Engineering projects and designs need accurate predictions of the structural response to a variety of loads and actions. Computer models have become valuable tools ranging from very complex simulation tools to simplified ones. These seek a target: a trade-off between the high computational skills required to perform sophisticated computer analyses...
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This region had not undergone a major earthquake for more than 200 years, so the level of preparedness was less than in the western country, more used to dealing with tremors. The resistant infrastructure in South Turkey and especially Syria is patchy, so saving lives relies mainly on quick response. The undergoing damage explorations and analyses...
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The 1884 Andalusia Earthquake, with an estimated magnitude between 6.2 and 6.7, is one of the most destructive events that shook the Iberian Peninsula, causing around 1200 casualties. According to paleoseismology studies and intensity maps, the earthquake source relates to the normal Ventas de Zafarraya Fault (Granada, Spain). Diverse studies regis...
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ISBN: 9788419299383 ISBN ebook: 9788419299390
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The 1884 Andalusia Earthquake, with an estimated Magnitude between 6.2 and 6.7, is one of the most destructive events that shook the Iberian Peninsula, causing around 1200 casualties. Ac-cording to paleoseismology studies and intensity maps, the earthquake source relates to the nor-mal Ventas de Zafarraya Fault (Granada, Spain). Diverse studies reg...
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The intensity and damage potential of earthquakes are linked to the speed at which rupture propagates along sliding crustal faults. Most earthquakes are sub-Rayleigh, with ruptures that are slower than the surface Rayleigh waves. In supershear earthquakes, ruptures are faster than the shear waves, leading to sharp pressure concentrations and larger...
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University rankings have emerged in recent years as the preferred indicator to compare somehow the quality of higher education institutions and underline the tough competition for attracting resources and students, not to mention their impact on the media. The figures from these rankings show that research has become one of the main assets of the u...
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Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) can boost sustainable development by providing a green energy supply, although they usually require the hydraulic stimulation of the reservoir to increase fluid flow and energy efficiency due to the low rock permeability at the required depths. The injection of fluids for hydraulic stimulation implies several risks...
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The 1884 Andalusia Earthquake, with an estimated Magnitude between 6.2 and 6.7, is one of the most destructive events that shook the Iberian Peninsula, causing around 1200 casualties. Ac-cording to both paleoseismology studies and intensity maps, the earthquake source relates to the normal Ventas de Zafarraya Fault (Granada, Spain). Diverse hydrolo...
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There are significant levels of concern about both the safety assessment and financial evaluation of the whole hydropower system, especially at early project stages. In addition, there is a variety of reliable and accurate methods for analysis, design, and optimization of steel pressure liners in hydropower plants. Several countries have developed...
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The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has highlighted two key outcomes for students of all accredited engineering programs: the ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences and the capacity to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies. Likewise, in recent years, written...
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The classroom closure during the first semester of 2020 entailed decisive changes in higher education. Universities have become more digital in both the availability of e-resources and pervasive devices and how students communicate with lecturers and classmates. Learners adapted their study habits with a growing role of self-paced, internet-based s...
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El aprendizaje de la Resistencia de Materiales conlleva cambios en la capacitación y adquisición de competencias esenciales sobre ciertos contenidos tecnológicos que son decisivos en diversas ramas de la ingeniería. Se han intensificado los conceptos preliminares o prerrequisitos, que los discentes del EEES deben dominar, para poder aprender y asim...
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As a consequence of the global health emergency in early 2020, universities had to tackle a sudden shift in their teaching–learning strategies so that the preset competences could be fulfilled. This study presents the learning outcomes of the implemented tasks, student experiences, and feedback, as well as some reflections from the instructors with...
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As a consequence of the global sanitary crisis in early 2020, universities had to tackle with a sudden shift in their teaching-learning strategies so that the preset competences could be fulfilled. This study presents the learning outcomes of the tasks implemented, student experiences and feedback, as well as some reflections from the instructors w...
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Understanding the risk associated with anthropogenic earthquakes is essential in the development and management of engineering processes and hydraulic infrastructure that may alter pore pressures and stresses at depth. The possibility of earthquakes triggered by reservoir impoundment, ocean tides, and hydrological events at the Earth surface (hydro...
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Geothermal energy has emerged as an alternative to ensure a green energy supply while tackling climate change. Geothermal systems extract the heat stored in the Earth’s crust by warming up water, but the low rock permeability at exploitation depths may require the hydraulic stimulation of the rock fracture network. Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)...
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Fault reactivation induced by pore pressure changes involves complex frictional phenomena because effective normal stresses vary in space and time due to fluid flow and rock deformation. The impact of time‐varying normal stresses on fault friction has been characterized in stress‐step laboratory experiments and modeled through extended rate‐and‐sta...
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Earthquake ruptures in poroelastic media involve complex phenomena which stem from stick-slip frictional instabilities and hydromechanical couplings. Understanding inertia effects that control the rupture of induced earthquakes demands numerical simulations that couple fault poromechanics and rock poroelasticity including inertia. We analyze the ef...
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Esta segunda edición se presenta como referencia complementaria práctica para que estudiantes de Ingeniería puedan consolidar los conocimientos aplicados al cálculo de vigas hiperestáticas. Sus comentarios a la primera edición y a sus necesidades de aprendizaje han motivado la inclusión de nuevo contenido. Los objetivos que se persiguen con esta o...
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Modeling injection-induced earthquakes requires coupling porous media flow, rock mechanics, and fault friction. Highly nonlinear laboratory-derived constitutive laws for fault friction pose a major challenge for computational models that couple flow and geomechanics. We present a finite element formulation to simulate injection-induced earthquake s...
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• We have developed a fully-coupled geomechanical model to study the potential of hydrocarbon production and wastewater injection to cause the sequence of earthquakes observed in 2013 in the area near Azle, Texas. • We have identified the two main failure mechanisms associated with subsidence due to production from the Barnett Shale formation and f...
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We study the nucleation of earthquakes induced by the injection of fluid near a fault embedded in a poroelastic medium. We characterize the drivers to the onset of fault slip. We identify two main nucleation patterns, an accelerating and an expanding pattern, and characterize the scaling of the critical nucleation length. Lastly, we scale the criti...
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Earthquake ruptures in poroelastic media involve a suite of complex phenomena arising from stick-slip frictional instabilities and thermo-hydromechanical couplings. In this study we propose a fully implicit, time-adaptive, and monolithically coupled finite element model to simulate dynamic earthquake sequences in poroviscoelastic media. We consider...
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Esta obra se presenta como referencia básica para que los usuarios puedan conocer, entender y aplicar los conocimientos esenciales de la elasticidad lineal que se imparten en diversos cursos fundamentales de los grados de Ingeniería. Los objetivos que se persiguen con este libro son: • Conocer los conceptos fundamentales de la elasticidad lineal: t...
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The paramount role of pore fluid pressure during earthquake nucleation and dynamic rupture deserves further comprehension. Earthquake ruptures in poroelastic media encompass complex phenomena, including stick-slip frictional instabilities, thermal processes and hydromechanical couplings. A numerical simulation that couples fault poromechanics, rock...
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Recent observations have shown that changes in pore pressure due to the injection of fluids into underground formations may induce potentially damaging earthquakes or increase the sensitivity of injection sites to remote triggering. The basic mechanisms behind injection-induced seismicity are: (1) the increase of pore pressure reduces the effective...
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We study the nucleation of earthquakes induced by the injection of fluid near a fault embedded in a poroelastic medium. • We characterize the drivers to the onset of fault slip. • We identify the nucleation styles. • Lastly, we scale the critical nucleation length and test the applicability of the classical scaling relationships.
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Undergraduate students are digital natives, so well prepared for the use of ICT; this is why we consider appropriate offering adequate computer-based tools to be used as supplementary material for their learning. A self-assessment instrument may help students to detect early some shortcomings or weaknesses in their knowledge on fundamentals and pri...
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Hydraulic fracture trajectories in rocks and other materials are highly affected by spatial heterogeneity in their mechanical properties. Understanding the complexity and structure of fluid-driven fractures and their deviation from the predictions of homogenized theories is a practical problem in engineering and geoscience. We conduct a Monte Carlo...
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The construction system based on cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels is developing fast in recent years after its initial design in the 90s. The good behavior of the system to fire and seismic actions is facilitating its penetration in the building market for small and medium height buildings. CLT-based structural systems present good ductility and...
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Changes in pore pressure due to the injection or extraction of fluids from underground formations may induce potentially damaging earthquakes and/or increase the sensitivity of injection sites to remote triggering. The basic mechanism behind injection-induced seismicity is a change in effective stress that weakens a preexisting fault. The seismic p...
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Phase-field formulations have recently emerged as promising tools to model brittle fracture. Based on the variational approach to fracture, these models aim at overcoming some of the computational challenges found in simulating complex fracture patterns and their evolution due to external or internal loads. Since most applications and validation ex...
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• Changes in pore pressure due to the injection of extraction of fluids from underground formations may induce earthquakes or increase the sensitivity of injection site to remote triggering. • We have developed a numerical framework with fault frictional contact described by the Dieterich-Ruina rate-and-state dependent constitutive law. • Our model...
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El análisis de estructuras de barras articuladas en sus nudos supone la iniciación del alumno de ingeniería en el cálculo de estructuras complejas, asimilables a muchos casos reales empleados en la práctica profesional. Si bien el análisis de este tipo de estructuras no resulta particularmente complejo, suele suceder que en otros libros donde se ab...
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The increasing addition of CLT wood panels as a sustainable building material for high-rise constructions requires an indepth study of its behavior in the face of accidental seismic actions. Current research is focusing on the analysis of the response of connections to monotonous and cyclic loads, as these joints actively provide strength, rigidity...
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The availability of tools for safety evaluation of a pressure liner is a relevant issue in both structural and hydraulic engineering. Parametric studies for assessing the stability of stiffened steel liners in hydroelectric pressure tunnels, as well as practical design guidelines, are presented in this paper. First, a review of the design methods f...
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The availability of tools for safety evaluation of a pressure liner is a relevant issue in both structural and hydraulic engineering. A suitable design of a steel liner may involve a significant reduction in the investment cost of a hydropower plant and may also ensure its future integrity, avoiding prolonged stoppages in the operation stage. First...
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This paper presents a project for providing the students of Structural Engineering with the flexibility to learn outside classroom schedules. The goal is a framework for adaptive E-learning based on a repository of open educational courseware with a set of basic Structural Engineering concepts and fundamentals. These are paramount for students to e...
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There are significant levels of concern about the relevance and the difficulty of learning some issues on Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis. Most students of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis in Civil Engineering usually point out some key learning aspects as especially difficult for acquiring specific skills. These key concep...
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The recent interest in technology-supported collaborative learning in higher education represents a confluence of trends: the development of new tools to support collaboration, the emergence of constructivist-based approaches to teaching and learning and the need to create more powerful and engaging learning environments. The goal of the collaborat...
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The recent interest in technology-supported collaborative learning in higher education represents a confluence of trends: the development of new tools to support collaboration, the emergence of constructivist-based approaches to teaching and learning and the need to create more powerful and engaging learning environments. The goal of the collaborat...
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A practical method to achieve the minimum weight design of 2D steel frames, built with European standard I-shaped crosssections, is hereby presented. The optimization methodology consists of an incremental iterative technique. It is based on the addition of lacking material by successive increasing of the size of the most stressed member. Second-or...
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The availability of tools for safety evaluation of a pressure liner is a relevant issue in both structural and hydraulic engineering. A numerical procedure for assessing the stability of a stiffened steel liner in a hydroelectric pressure tunnel is presented in this paper. First, a review of some analysis methods for steel liners is outlined. Relev...
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The project arises from the need to develop improved teaching methodologies in field of the mechanics of continuous media. The objective is to offer the student a learning process to acquire the necessary theoretical knowledge, cognitive skills and the responsibility and autonomy to professional development in this area. Traditionally the teaching...
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Los objetivos de esta obra son: a. Que el alumnado aplique los principios esenciales de la Resistencia de Materiales a la resolución de líneas de influencia en vigas, pórticos y arcos. b. Que el alumnado conozca el teorema de reciprocidad y sus aplicaciones ágiles y sencillas para el conocimiento de la respuesta de algunas estructuras. Se trata co...
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A numerical method of simulation the response of a submarine pipeline during launching and pull-in operations is presented in this work. These operations involve severe geometric nonlinear effects due to large displacements. Also, buckling phenomena may eventually arise. Both hydrodynamic forces and fluid-structure interaction make this problem to...
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A nonlinear analysis of an elastic tube subjected to gravity forces and buoyancy pressure is carried out. An update lagrangian formulation is used. The structural analysis efficiency in terms of computer time and accuracy, has been improved when load stiffness matrices have been introduced. In this way the follower forces characteristics such as th...
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p. 489-508 A nonlinear analysis of an elastic tube subjected to gravity forces and buoyancy pressure is carried out. An update lagrangian formulation is used. The structural analysis efficiency in terms of computer time and accuracy, has been improved when load stiffness matrices have been introduced. In this way the follower forces characteristics...
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The optimal design of a column subjected to compression forces is studied. Different support conditions are considered for the column. Also, a point load at the top section, self weight and uniformly distributed vertical loading may be included in the analysis. The beam is assumed immersed in an elastic Winkler-type soil. Conservative loading has b...
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The SAIDA decision-support system was developed by the Spanish Ministry of the Environment to provide assistance to decision-makers during flood situations. SAIDA has been tentatively implemented in two test basins: Jucar and Guadalhorce, and the Ministry is currently planning to have it implemented in all major Spanish basins in a few years' time....
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Dam operation during floods is a major concern, especially if a large population is at risk in downstream areas. During a flood event, the decision-maker has to compare the highly uncertain risk of dam overtopping versus almost certain damages in down- stream areas due to spilled flows. The quantification of the risk of dam overtopping is a difficu...
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En este artículo se pretende sintetizar el estado actual del conocimiento acerca de la influencia del agua embalsada en la respuesta sísmica de las presas bóveda. En primer lugar se destacan los rasgos fundamentales del fenómeno vibratorio en la masa de agua. Posteriormente se describen sus efectos sobre el comportamiento sísmico de la presa.