Contact

Civil Engineering Department, School of Engineering, University of Santiago.

Av. Ecuador 3659, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile

Tel: +(562) 27182803

erick.saavedra@usach.cl


 
 

Academic Experience
 

Name of institution:

  • SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, WALES - UNITED KINGDOM

Address and contact details:

Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, United Kingdom.

http://www.swansea.ac.uk

Telephone: + (44) 01792 205678

 

Dates:

From September 2007 to February 2013 

 

Occupation or possition held:

Research Officer - From July 2011 to February 2013 

Research Assistant - From June 2010 to June 2011

Demonstrator - From September 2007 to July 2009       

 

Main activities and responsibilities:

  1. Research Officer in the project: "Optimisation of Multi-scale Structures with Applications to Morphing Aircraft", funded by the European Research Council.
  2. Development of new bio-inspired composites by means of multi-scales finite element techniques.
  3. Investigation of new morphing skins for aerospace structures
  4. Research in the modelling of the mechanical response of carbon nanotubes by means of hyperelastic constitutive models. Study of tensile and post-buckling response of single wall carbon nanotubes under axial loading.
  5. Presentations in international conferences .
  6. Demonstrator in the Civil Engineering Department for the following lectures (in brackets, the name of the lecturer in charge of it):
    • Surveying EG - 125 (Dr. Antonio Orlando)
    • Finite elements EG - 323 (Professor Djordje Peric)
    • Civil Laboratory III - Structure Mechanics EG - 228 (Professor Y T Feng)
    • Concrete Design EG - 163 (Dr. Antonio Gil)
    • Civil Engineering Design Practice EGA - 304 (Mr. Ken Rogers)
    • Steel Design EG - 224 (Dr. Benjamin Lau)

 

 

Name of institution:

  • SANTIAGO UNIVERSITY, CHILE

Address and contact details:

Civil Engineering Department

Av. Ecuador 3659, Santiago, Chile

http://www.oocc.usach.cl/portada.php

Telephone: + (562) 718 00 00

 

Dates:

From March 2004 to present

 

Occupation or possition held:

Full-time lecturer   - From September 2005 to present

Part-time lecturer  - From March 2004 to August 2005

 

Main activities and responsibilities:  
  1. From March 2006 to June 2007: Principal researcher in a DICYT project: "Proposicion de un Modelo Numerico-Experimental para la Prediccion del Comportamiento Estructural de Conexiones en Madera Laminada con Pernos y Barras de Acero Mediante el Metodo de Elementos Finitos". Planning and execution of experimental tests on wood samples and FE simulations.
  2. From January 2006 to June 2007: Structural engineer in charge of the design of the new building for the Civil Engineering Department, University of Santiago, Chile.
  3. From September 2005 to June 2007: Full time lecturer. Lectures: Solid Mechanics II and Introduction to Structural Design.
  4. From March 2004 to August 2005: Part time lecturer. Lecture: Solid Mechanics II.

 

Name of institution:

  • INACAP, CHILE

Address and contact details:

Construction Department, Renca

Bravo de Saravia 2980

http://www.inacap.cl/tportalvp/?t=39

Telephone: + (562) 800 20 25 20

 

Dates:

March 2003 - December 2003

 

Occupation or possition held:

Part-time lecturer  

 

Main activities and responsibilities:

  1. Part time lecturer. Lectures: Physics and mathematics for engineers.

Name of institution:

  • MAYOR UNIVERSITY

Address and contact details:

School of Architecture

Americo Vespucio Sur 357, Las Condes, Santiago

Chile

Telephone: + (562) 600 328 1000

 

Dates:

March 2002 - December 2002

 

Occupation or possition held:

Part-time lecturer  

 

Main activities and responsibilities:

  1. Part time lecturer. Lecture: Applied mathematics for architectures.

Name of institution:

  • SANTIAGO UNIVERSITY, CHILE

Address and contact details:

Civil Engineering Department

Av. Ecuador 3659, Santiago, Chile

http://www.oocc.usach.cl/portada.php

Telephone: + (562) 718 00 00

 

Dates:

July 2000 - November 2001

 

Occupation or possition held:

Junior researcher  

 

Main activities and responsibilities:

  1. Participates as a research junior analyst in a FONDECYT project: "Investigacion del Comportamiento Micro-Mecanico de Fractura Fragil-Ductil en Acero Estructural Chileno y Soldadura".  Characterisation of Chilean structural steel A37-24ES by means of experimental tests under a wide range of temperatures, from -196C to 300C. Execution of tensile tests and Charpy impact tests. Finite elements simulations.