16.10.2019

Durante los días 9, 10 y 11 de octubre, se desarrolló en la ciudad de Sevilla (España) el "International Conference on Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations", organizado por el prestigioso Wessex Institute de Reino Unido. La conferencia reunió a académicos e investigadores BIM de todo el mundo, para analizar y presentar diversos avances e innovaciones en el uso y aplicación de BIM en las áreas de diseño, construcción y operación.

El académico Felipe Muñoz La Rivera presentó la conferencia denominada "Using BIM for the assessment of the seismic performance of educational buildings", investigación conjunta con los académicos Juan Carlos Vielma y Rodrigo F. Herrera, junto a investigadores de la UCLA (Venezuela).

El resumen de la investigación detalla: "The importance of carrying out seismic vulnerability studies of existing buildings is currently globally understood, especially for those buildings that have been designed according to old versions of codes and that, due to their use, concentrate large numbers of people, such as school and university buildings, whose collapse could lead to a large number of injured and deceased, as well as considerable economic losses. The progress of the study of seismic vulnerability has allowed the formulation of new assessment methodologies, which take into account not only the behaviour of the structural and non-structural elements, but also the components that, due to their importance and cost, can represent an investment that in some cases becomes greater than the cost of the whole building. To carry out this more specific type of study, it is necessary to use tools that allow estimating, locating and properly characterizing the components, which has been a problem that has not yet been solved, due to the inability to maintain together all the components in a single model of a building. This paper presents the results of a research in which BIM procedures have been combined to overcome these deficiencies, successfully implementing it in the assessment of the seismic vulnerability of a set of university buildings which have been built in the middle of 1970's and 2000's, improving the quality of the information necessary to perform the numerical simulations and the consequent quantification of the damage that allowed obtaining the required repair costs, under the scenario of the occurrence of a maximum probable earthquake".

Respecto a su participación, el académico señala: "Es interesante participar en estos eventos, ya que es posible conocer en que están en el resto del mundo y cuáles son los desafíos que debemos ponernos hacia el futuro. Es muy gratificante, además, darse cuenta que las investigaciones en BIM que llevamos en la escuela están a la par de los colegas internacionales, lo que nos permite llegar a nuestros alumnos con conocimiento fresco, actualizado y en desarrollo".

Por Valentina Rojo

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