Luis Fernando Verduzco-Martinez

• Master in Science
• PhD Student at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Optimization of reinforcing bar (rebar) design represents a preponderant factor in reducing material usage and wastes for reinforced concrete (RC) structures. The assessment of constructability of such rebar designs is crucial to improve their practicality and reduce construction costs, which makes the problem multi-objective (MO). However, when ap...

The present work exposes the development of a new methodological and algorithmic scheme to design optimally Reinforced Concrete (RC) structural frames under seismic actions, based on structural performance. Such methodological scheme is based on a new computational paradigm in which the design of reinforcement is integrated in the structural analys...

It is presented the development and implementation of a new computed aided learning MatLab Toolbox for the design of reinforced concrete structures named as CALRECOD for their abbreviation Computer Aided Learning of Reinforced Concrete Design. Such development emerges as the result of a series of research works in the Autonomous University of Quere...

The present work exposes the design of optimization procedures both with the "Particle Swarm Optimization" (PSO) algorithm and the "Genetic Algorithm" (GA) for the design of reinforced concrete frames, making comparisons in cost, weight of the structure and predicted damage. The optimization procedures are built up using the "Idealized Smeared Rein...

The present work aims to define formally the method termed as ``Idealized Smeared Reinforcement'' (ISR) for optimization in the design of reinforcing steel in concrete structures, its boundaries, background and potentials. Such method has been extensively used implicitly in many different studies of reinforced concrete structures related with optim...

Constructability-based optimization design of reinforcing bar (rebar) in concrete structures (RC) has been attracting attention in recent years when aiming towards industrialized sustainable construction. This paradigm enables it to more effectively link the practicality of reinforced concrete designs and their associated material usage and constru...

El presente proyecto expone el desarrollo de un nuevo esquema metodológico y algorítmico para diseñar óptimamente marcos y estructuras de concreto reforzado basado en desempeño ante acciones sísmicas, bajo un nuevo paradigma numérico computacional en el que se integra el diseño del acero de refuerzo en el análisis estructural mismo para un mejor co...

The present work presents the application of the ISR analogy (Idealized Smeared Reinforcement) for the optimization of reinforced concrete frames, focusing fully on the reinforcement of its elements. A disclosure of the ISR analogy applied to different concrete structural elements is developed in order to build different rebar optimization formulat...

Is presented hereby a computational method through the creation of an optimization software for the design of reinforcing steel for any type of structural elements which may be considered as columns, pillars, pilots or foundation dies, subjected to flexo-compression mechanic stresses for rectangular and circular cross section elements with the supp...

Is presented hereby the creation of an optimization software for a the design of reinforcing steel for any type of structural elements which may be considered as columns, pillars, pilots or foundation dies, subjected to flexo-compression mechanic stresses for rectangular and circular cross section elements with the support of computational numeric...