Armando Aguilar is a Postdoctoral Researcher Conacyt-BSC in the CASE Department. He is mainly interested in earthquake engineering, seismic risk, seismic hazard and seismic vulnerability. 

He has been a professor of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico (https://www.uv.mx/personal/armaguilar/).

Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering – National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Master’s Degree in Engineering (Structures) – National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

PhD Degree in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamic – Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).

SOFTWARE

• 2017
  • Seismograms Analyzer-e. Software para facilitar el procesado de registros sísmicos, con base de datos incluida de sismos representativos.
  • Viga-beam-e. Software educativo para el análisis de vigas isostáticas. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313903708_Viga-beam-e

-Software for computing seismic hazard - CRISIS

• 2015
  • Ordaz, M., F. Martinelli, F., Aguilar, A., Arboleda, J., Meletti, C., D'Amico, V. (2015). CRISIS2015. Program for computing seismic hazard. Last accessed: 2017/02/02 https://sites.google.com/site/codecrisis2015/

Publicaciones

• 2017
  • Aguilar Meléndez, A., Ordaz Schroeder, M. G., De la Puente, J., González Rocha, S. N., Rodriguez Lozoya, H. E., Córdova Ceballos, A., ... & Campos Rios, A. (2017). Development and Validation of Software CRISIS to Perform Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment with Emphasis on the Recent CRISIS2015. Computación y Sistemas, 21(1).
  • Armando Aguilar-Meléndez, Lluis G. Pujades, Josep de la Puente, Alex H. Barbat, Mario G. Ordaz S., Sergio Natan González-Rocha, Carlos M. Welsh-Rodríguez, Héctor Rodríguez-Loyola, Nieves Lantada, Luis Ibarra, Alejandro García-Elias, Amelia Campos Rios (In press). Probabilistic assessment of seismic risk of dwelling buildings of Barcelona, and examples of possible uses of the seismic risk results to increase the resilience of the city”. Capítulo de libro 1. Urban resilience for risk and adaptation governance. Lessons from the practices, Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Domínguez-Reyes, T., Rodríguez-Lozoya, H. E., Cabrera-Sandoval, M., Sanchez-Sanchez, E., Aguilar-Meléndez, A., Rodríguez-Leyva, H. E., Campos-Rios, A. (2017) Site response in a representative region of Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, and a comparison between spectra from real records and spectra from normative. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 93: , 113-120. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0267726116305735
  • Héctor E. Rodríguez-Lozoya, Tonatiuh Domínguez R., Luis Quintanar Robles, Armando Aguilar Meléndez, Héctor E. Rodríguez-Leyva, Wenseslao Plata Rocha and Fernando García Páez. (2017). Attenuation of Coda Waves in the Central Region of the Gulf of California, México. Geofísica Internacional (2017) 56-2: 137-145
  • González Rocha, S. N., Juárez Pérez, F., Aguilar Meléndez, A., Salas, A. C., Calderón Ramón, C., Escalante Martínez, J. E., & Baldasano Recio, J. M. (2017). Planet Boundary Layer Parameterization in Weather Research and Forecasting (WRFv3. 5): Assessment of Performance in High Spatial Resolution Simulations in Complex Topography of Mexico. Computación y Sistemas, 21(1).
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• 2016
• H. E. Rodríguez, T. Domínguez, C. I. Huerta, A. Aguilar, E. Sánchez, M. Cabrera, J. Tejeda y E. Bojorquez. Comparación de Espectros de Sitio Específico Obtenidos a Partir de Sismos Reales y Mediante la Aplicación de la Normativa MOC-CFE2008 para la Ciudad de Colima, México. Revista Internacional Desastres Naturales, Accidentes e Infraestructura Civil, 15(1):25-40. (Link archivo publicación: http://academic.uprm.edu/laccei/index.php/RIDNAIC/article/viewFile/436/413
• 2015
• A. Aguilar, Pujades, L. G., Barbat, A., Ordaz, M. G., Lantada, N. Estimación del Peligro Sísmico de Barcelona y su Aplicación en la Determinación del Riesgo Sísmico de la Ciudad. Capitulo 3. Libro: Mora, I. Coordinador, Metodologías aplicadas a las Ciencias de la Tierra. ISBN: 978-607-9091-49-1. (Link archivo publicación)

He is member of the Mexican Society of Earthquake Engineering (SMIS)

He has been professor of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Veracruz (UV) in Mexico.

Participation as a reviewer