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Orlando Cundumi Sanchez
E_mail:[email protected],[email protected]
Curriculum Vitae

Education

Civil Engineering
Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia
Structural Engineering Specialization
Major: Structural Engineering
Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia
Master of Science in Civil Engineering
Major: Structural Engineering
University of Puerto Rico, December 2002
Ph.D in Civil Engineering
Major: Structural Engineering
University of Puerto Rico, November 2005

Employment Record

- Director and Professor, Caribbean University
-Cajiao y Solarte & Asociados Ltda, Cali-Colombia, Structural Engineering Assistant
- Municipality of Palmira, Valle-Colombia
- Structural Engineering Consultant
Palmira, Colombia

Research and Teaching Experience

- University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Graduate Research Assistant
May 2002 - Present
- Lecture Department of Civil Engineering, University of Puerto Rico
Instructor for the undergraduate course in fortran
Instructor for the undergraduate course in Dynamic of Structures
Instructor for the undergraduate course in Mechanical of Structures
- Assistant for the undergraduate course on Reinforced Concrete
- Assistant for the graduate course on Advanced Reinforced Concrete
- University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Synthetic earthquake generation using the program SIMQKE.
- University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Dynamic analysis and numeric simulations of the three-dimensional seismic response
of the building-rail-counterweight coupled system of elevator.
- University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Studies of energy dissipation systems for passive and semi-active vibration control
of civil structures

Research Interests

- Dynamic analysis of secondary element
- Passive and Semi-Active vibration control
- Non linear analysis of structures
- Soils dynamics
- Earthquake engineering

Selected Publications

- Applications of Synthetic Earthquakes Accelerograms in Ground Response Analysis.
Luis A. Montejo, Orlando Cundumi S. and Luis E. Suarez
Sigma Xi, VIII Poster Day, April 2003
- Simulacion Numerica de la Respuesta Sismica del Sistema Tridimensional Acoplado
Edificio-Rieles-Contrapeso de un Ascensor.
Orlando Cundumi S. and Luis E. Suarez
Revista Internacional de Desastres Naturales, Accidentes e Infraestructura civil,
Vol. 3, Numero 1-Mayo 2003.
- Analisis Dinamico del sistema Edificio-Riel-Contrapeso.
Orlando Cundumi S. and Luis E. Suarez.
Congreso Internacional de Ingenieria Sismica, Medellin-Colombia, Noviembre 2003
- Seismic Response Reduction Using a Variable Damping Device and Semi-Active
Control
Orlando Cundumi S. and Luis E. Suarez
Third LACCEI International Latin American and Caribbean Conference for
Engineering and Technology (LACCEI 2005), 8-10 June 2005, Cartagena-Colombia.

Affiliation

Eartquake Engineering Research Institute-EERI, Student Member

Computer Skills

Sap 2000 V8 Nonlinear
Etabs V8 Nonlinear
Cosmos
Mathcad
Visual Analysis
SHAKE2000
Matlab
Autocad