DLSU Faculty and students at ASEP CASTED2022

DLSU faculty and students participated in the 3rd International Conference on Concrete and Steel Technology, Engineering and Design (CASTED2022) held at Novotel Hotel, Quezon City and Zoom on May 19-21, 2022. 

Technical paper presentations from the students and faculty were presented:

• Numerical investigation of the infilled-induced shear column effect on RC frames - Garret Sia (BSMS) as presentor with co-authors: Dr. Andres Oreta and Dr. Rodolfo Mendoza, Jr,

Garret Sia as presentor

• HPDE plastics in concrete and its resistance against sulfate attacks - Richard De Jesus (Asst. Prof) as presentor with student co-authors

Richard De Jesus as presentor

• Simplified probable maximum loss model from generated correlates seismic damaged ratio using Poisson log-normal distribution - Samantha Jarder (MSCE Grad) as presentor with co-authors: Dr. Lessandro Garciano (DLSU)  and Osamu Maruyama (TCU)

Dr. Garciano as moderator and co-presentor

• Performance assessment of code-based buildings using the new SAM PH atlas - Joaquin Miguel Ramos (BSCE) as presentor with co-authors: Dr. Rodolfo Mendoza Jr., Kenneth Toral and Lenie Luceno

CE Faculty who served as session moderators were Profesors:  Dr. Andres Winston Oreta and Dr. Lessandro Garciano and part time faculty: Dr. Rodolfo Mendoza, Jr., Engr, Adam Abinales and Engr. Erick Sison.

Dr. Oreta as moderator in a keynote session

Garret Sia and co-authors: Dr. Oreta and Dr. Mendoza

Dr. Rodolfo Mendoza, Jr. serves as the chair the of CASTED2022 Technical Committee with Dr. Andres Oreta as the vice-chair.  Dr. Garciano, Dr. Bernardo Lejano, Engr. Abinales served as members of the Technical Committee.

CASTED2022 Tech Comm Virtual Meeting via Zoom

 (Top: Dr. Lejano, Dr. Guades, Dr. Quinay. Bottom: Engr. Abinales, Dr. Mendoza and Dr. Oreta)

CE Faculty at RCND2019 - Malaysia

Philippine Representatives at the RCND2019

DLSU CE Department and CESDR Disaster Resilient Unit members, Dr. Andres Oreta, Dr. Maricel Paringit and Dr. Erica Uy were selected by the AUN/SEED-Net served as paper presentors and session chairs at  the 7th Regional Conference on Natural Disaster (RCND 2019) held at Zenith Hotel, Putrajaya, Malaysia on November 25-26, 2019. 

The following papers were presented:

• Assessing the Safety, Sustainability & Accessibility (SSA) of Public Buildings for Disaster Evacuation - by Andres Winston Oreta. Co-authors: A.M. Arandia, J.A. Sy, and M.A. Valdez III

• Characterization of Cebu Province Municipalities using PSHA and GIS by Erica Elice Uy

• Determining the Social Vulnerability through GIS Hazard Susceptability Mapping by Maria Cecilia Paringit

The CE Faculty also served as session chairs: (a) Dr.Paringit - Session on DRM and DRR, (b) Dr. Oreta - Session on Flood Management and (c) Dr. Uy - Session on Environmental Science.

DLSU PhD students Michael Almeida (Mentor: Dr. Oreta) and Stephen John Clemente (Mentor: Dr. Ongpeng) also presented papers.

Welcome Dinner of the RCND2019

Dr. Oreta, Dr. Paringit and Dr. Uy also had a meeting with the director and staff of the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Center (DPPC) of MJIIT, UTM on Nov. 25, 2019 to explore collaborative activities specifically a forum between DPPC and CESDR is proposed to be held on March 18, 2020. 

ChiChi20 International Conference 2019

Dr. Garciano and Dr. Oreta at the ChiChi20 International Conference 2019

DLSU professors, Dr. Andres Oreta and Dr. Lessandro Garciano (CE Dept. chair) and professional lecturers, Adam Abinales and Erick Sison attended the International Conference in Commemoration of 20th Anniversary of the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake at Taipei, Taiwan held on September 15-19, 2019. 

Prof. Oreta and Engr. Abinales were invited to give talks in parallel sessions of the conference. Prof. Oreta delivered a paper co-authored with Engr. Adrian Frederick Sy on "Development of a Brief Code-Based Seismic Diagnostic Tool for Existing RC Buildings Considering Vertical Irregularities" on Sept. 18. Engr. Abinales, on the other hand gave a talk on "The Project SAM: Development of Probabilistic Seismic Ground Motion Hazard Map for the Entire Philippines" on Sept 16.

Dr. Oreta at the Conference Hall

Engr. Abinales delivers a talk on Project SAM

Prof. Garciano also presented a paper co-authored with Abraham Matthew S. Carandang and Osamu Maruyama in one parallel session where he also served as session chair on "Quantifying a Resilience Index of a Water Distribution Network (WDN) using an Optimal Restoration Strategy" on Sept 18.

The Philippine delegation in the conference are mostly officers and members of the Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines, Inc. (ASEP). ASEP has a strong cooperative relationship with Taiwan's National Center for Research in Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) especially in organizing international conferences. NCREE has supported ASEP varioous conferences including the ASIA Conference in Earthquake Engineering (ACEE) and in the coming SHAKE International Conference this November 14-16, 2019.

ASEP members at the Venue: Howard Civil Service International House

ASEP members at Taipei 101

CE Faculty at DRSD2019 - AIT

DLSU GCOE Faculty and CESDR DRU Members inside the wind tunnel of AIT-Thamassat University

 CE Faculty members, Dr. Andres Oreta, Dr. Renan Tanhueco and Dr. Marla Redillas attended and presented papers the International Symposium on Disaster Resilience & Sustainable Development (DRSD2019) hed on March 7-8, 2019 at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Read related article at CESDR DRU blog.

Dr. Tanhueco presented a paper on "Developing teaching and learning modules for a disaster readiness and risk reduction subject. Ths paper is co-authored by a team of DLSU faculty who developed the DR&RR modules for the senior high school students.

Dr. Oreta presented the paper on "Identifying research interventions on resilience building using the ten essentials for “making cities resilient” global campaign."  This paper is co-authored by members of the URCO RPW on Building Resilient Cities & Communities.

Dr. Redillas presented her paper co-authored with students on "Investigation on the potential of LID in urban land uses in the Philippines."

The CE Faculty represented the DLSU CESDR Disaster Resilience Unit and joining them as presentors were Dr. Mutuc (IE Dept) and Dr. Lawrence Materum (ECE Dept).

CESDR DRU Presentors

After the symposium, the team had a lab tour of the Wind Tunnel of AIT and Thamassat University.  The research staff of AIT Consulting facilitated the tour.

Briefing about the wind Tunnel at AIT Consulting Office

3D-printed models tested at the wind tunnel

3D-Printned models on display at the AIT-Consulting Office

Oreta at PSCJ2018-Hiroshima & 7ACEE-Bangkok

Dr. Andres Winston C. Oreta, professor in civil engineering at DLSU presented papers at the 4th Philippine Studies Conference in Japan (PSCJ-2018) held on Nov. 17-18, 2018 at Hiroshima University, Japan and at the 7th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering (7ACEE) held on Nov. 22-24, 2018 at Bangkok, Thailand.

The 4th Philippine Studies Conference in Japan (PSCJ) with the theme, "Three Decades of the Post-EDSA Philippines: Continuity, Discontinuity and Emergence" highlights panel and individual presentations on broad range of topics from academics, practitioners and students doing research about the Philippines. In the session on Disaster, Resilience and Governance, Dr. Oreta presented a paper with his co-author, Ms. Anjela Mae Era, graduate student at DLSU School of Economics and a senior project officer of the Local Government Academy, Department of Interior and Local Government on "Identifying the strengthening interventions for resilience building: an assessment of selected Philippine local government units through the "Making Cities Resilient" global campaign." PSCJ is held every four years in Japan and is organized by the International Council for Philippine Studies Conference (ICOPHIL).

The 7th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering held at Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit, Bangkok, Thailand with the theme on "Seismic Resilience for Safer Cities and Infrastructures" was organized by the Asian Institute of Technology and Chulalongkorn University in cooperation with the founding organization of the ACEE, the Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines, Inc. (ASEP).
Dr. Oreta presented the paper co-authored with Engr. Adrian Dy (BSMS graduate of DLSU) on "Perfromance of RC Buildings with Vertical Setback Irregularity using Push-Over Analysis." Dr. Oreta, a member of the 7ACEE International Scientific Committee, also served as session chair in one of the parallel sessions on Performance-Based Seismic Design and Evaluation of Structures.

DLSU faculty and grad student at IABSE Conference at KL, Malaysia

Dr. Oreta (leftmost) and Engr. Guevarra (rightmost) with Filipino delegates, Reignard Tan (a resident at Norway) and Jani Cunanan (ASEP Director) at the IABSE Spring Conference 2018

Prof. Andres Winston Oreta of the CE Department and chair of the Philippine Group of the International Association for Bridge & Structural Engineering (IABSE) presented the paper co-authored with Nikko Villanueva and Maejan Cuartero entitled, "Strength Properties and MIcroscopic Observations of Concrete with Plastic Wastes as Partial Aggregate Substitute" at the IABSE Spring Conference - Kuala Lumpur held on April 25-27, 2018. The theme of the conference is Ëngineering the Developing World."  MSCE graduate student, Kenneth Guevarra presented the paper with Dr. Jason Ongpeng (DLSU) and Sohichi Hirose (TIT), "Air-Coupled Nonlinear Ultrasonic Test for RC Beams."

Engr. Guevarra preparing for his presentation

Dr. Oreta joined the technical tour on the Merdeka PNB 118 which will become the tallest building in Malaysia on its completion on 2019.

DLSU CIV Department organized PRISMH Workshop to promote safe schools

The DLSU Civil Engineering Department organized the PRISMH Workshop on Multi-Hazard Resilience Assessment for School Infrastructure last Feb. 12-3, 2018 at the Henry Sy Sr. Hall (4^th Floor). PRISMH which means “Philippine Resilience of Schools against Multi Hazard” is a project under the Newton Fund International Links Grant with the University of College London as the UK partner university.  The PRISMH project, for the case of the Philippines, is funded by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).  The PRISMH team from DLSU was led by Assoc. Prof. Lessandro Garciano (lead investigator) and members – Prof. Andres Oreta and Engr. Richard De Jesus. The UCL team in this workshop was led by Dr. Carmine Galasso.

Prof. Oreta presented a lecture on “Making Schools Resilient to Disasters”, while Dr. Garciano delivered a lecture on “Earthquake, Wind and Flood Hazard Assessment in the Philippines.”

The UCL partners delivered lectures on the following topics: “Overview of Earthquake, Wind & Flood Vulnerability Assessment by UCL Professor, Dr. Galasso; “Understanding Structural Deficiencies and Shortcomings of Existing Buildings through Data Collection by UCL Lecturer A. Nassirpour.

The UCL researchers composed of A. Nassirpour, M. Bertolini, and A. Vecere also gave practical sessions and lectures on the ff topics:

-Seismic Analysis of Structures using Numerical Software;

-Fragility Assessment of Structures using Numerical Software

-Data Collection via SCOSSO App;

-Walk-through the Road of Seismic Performance Assessment (thru Static Pushover Analysis);

-Structural Response Analysis via SeimoStruct;

-Structural Performance Assessment via N2 Method;

- Non-Structural Vulnerability & Methodology for Casualty Estimation

About 60 participants which comprised of DRRM officers and civil engineers from DepEd all over the country, CE professors and researchers from various universities, structural engineers of ASEP, and graduate students from DLSU attended the workshop.

The lecturers and participants of the PRISMH Workshop

   

Dr. Garciano moderates the open forum

Dr. Galasso of UCL

Dr. Arash Nassirpour conducts practical sessions

GCOE Dean Jonathan Dungca and Dr. Garciano with UCL researchers

The PRISMH research project aims to develop an advanced resilience assessment framework for school infrastructure subjected to multiple natural hazards in the Philippines. In particular, the project addresses risk from seismic, wind and flood hazards. The project investigates the effectiveness of buildings’ retrofit measures and social preparedness measures as means of preventing casualties, reducing economic losses and maintaining functionality of the school infrastructure and its role within the community in the event of natural disasters. Experts from University College London (UCL) EPICentre, UCL IRDR, De La Salle University and Xavier University collaborate together in different aspects of this project. The PRISMH project is funded by the British Council and Philippines’s Commission on Higher Education (CHED).