Undrained Seismic Response of Underground Structures

Dr. Sandoval is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Universidad del Valle (Colombia). He holds a Geotechnical technology and a bachelor’s Science degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad del Cauca, in Popayán, Colombia, a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Before becoming a professor, Dr. Sandoval worked over 10 years in practice. He was principal geotechnical engineer at Ingetec S.A. and staff engineer at Estudio de Suelos Ltda., both in Colombia. His main tasks involved dam designs, design of support for rock and soil slopes, design of shallow and heavy foundations, installation of dewatering systems, field exploration and field and laboratory geotechnical testing. Dr. Sandoval’s areas of interest include dynamic soil-structure interaction and underground structures, soil dynamics, constitutive modeling and shear strength of landfills.

Dr. Bobet is the Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University (USA), and former Guest Professor and Visiting Chair Professor of the Innovation Center for Disaster Prevention at the School of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from Technical University of Madrid in Spain and a Doctor of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Bobet has extensive experience in practice. He was senior geotechnical engineer at Euroestudios, consulting engineers, in Spain, for four years, and construction manager at Ferrovial, Spain, also for four years. Dr. Bobet’s areas of interest include rock mechanics, wave propagation through fractured media, soil-structure interaction and underground structures. He is a Fellow of ARMA, the American Rock Mechanics Association.