Academic Group
Sustainable Development Goals
Research interests
• Seismic hazard
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Earthquake vulnerability
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Seismic risk
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Disaster risk
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Extended systems and simulation
Profile
Doctor Hugon Juárez García dedicates part-time to research and part-time to teaching at the Autonomous Metropolitan University, like all full-time professors.
His production includes publications on structural engineering, seismic engineering, and natural disaster management. He has participated in a book chapter and has more than 50 articles published in magazines and congresses related to structural, seismic, and disaster management engineering.
After the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, he participated in the evaluation of damaged buildings in Mexico City. With these experiences, he participated in developing a simplified evaluation method and a three-level methodology, which served to evaluate a large number of damaged buildings after the 1985 earthquake. The intensities map that was generated from this work had an impact on the seismic zoning of Mexico City.
Since then, he has continued working on research related to danger, vulnerability, and multi-risk; Interdependencies concepts between infrastructure systems; Evaluation and simulation of infrastructure systems during essential events (earthquake, tsunami, hurricanes, etc.); Evaluation of the seismic behavior of existing structures (approximate methods of evaluation rapid evaluation); Evaluation of non -structural component behavior (experimental and analytical methods); post-seismic evaluation and damage recognition; and design of concrete and masonry structures.
He participated with other UAM professors in assessing the seismic resistant capacity of some buildings of the Federal Electricity Commission. In addition to a study of seismic vulnerability of Mexico for a company specialized in risk in the US. In Canada, he participated in a multi-risk analysis of the city of Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
He has worked as a full-time professor at the Azcapotzalco Campus of UAM from 1986 to date. He has taught courses in civil engineering careers and architecture, both at a degree and postgraduate level. He has alumnus graduates of bachelor's and postgraduate. The courses that are usually imparted are: in the Bachelor of Civil Engineering (static, matrix analysis, seismic engineering, buildings, particular issues of civil engineering) and in the postgraduate degree of structural engineering (advanced programming applied to structural engineering, non-linear structural analysis, Select seismic engineering issues) of the Azcapotzalco Campus.
He has directed more than 30-degree terminal projects and seven master's thesis. He directed the master's thesis of Eliana Inca Cabrera at the UAM that won the 2014 Prize for the best master's thesis in Basic Sciences and Engineering.
Participate regularly, presenting works, in the Congresses of Structural Engineering and Seismic Engineering in Mexico, America, and Europe. He has shown around 30 works at congresses and ten conferences in other universities in Mexico, China, Ecuador, and Canada.
Candidate for National Researcher for the SNI, from 1992 to 1995. Recognition to the Desirable Profile Promep 2004-2007; Postgraduate Scholarship of Excellence 2006-2008 and Desirable Profile PROMEP 2011-2014.
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