standard amplitude- and frequency-scaleable time history

is this at all possible?  just a thought.

APEC-WW in Shanghai, China

Today is Day 1 of the 4th Workshop on Regional Harmonization of Wind Loading and Wind Environmental Specifications in Asia-Pacific Economies (APEC-WW). I presented our country paper/report entitled "Wind Loading in the Philippines: Recent Developments in 2006-2007."

PICE Regional Conferences - Region I/CAR West (Ilocos), Region IV (Southern Tagalog), Region V (Bicol)

I made presentations on 'Typhoon Engineering' at regional conferences of the PICE around Luzon.

4th CECAR in Taipei, Taiwan

The 4th CECAR (Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region) was held in Taipei, Taiwan from June 25-28, 2007. Yours truly was co-author and presentor of two papers on wind speeds (wind hazards) and typhoon engineering:

PICE 2007 Mid-Year in Davao

I presented a paper entitled "Historical review of wind speed maps in the Philippines for various purposes: toward further development and use as wind hazard maps under the PICE-DMAPS program" (co-authors: B.M. Pacheco, N.E. Rosaria, L.E.O. Garciano). The idea was to present to a Philippine (civil engineering) audience a similar paper that I was to present at the later 4th CECAR (Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region) in Taiwan 10 days after to an Asia-Pacific audience (East Asia, Australia, USA).

ASEP 2007 International Convention in Manila

A paper entitled "Consideration of dynamic wind effects in the structural design and evaluation of truss-type structures typically damaged during recent typhoons" was presented at the 12th ASEP International Convention (12AIC) held in Manila, Philippines on March 15 and 16, 2007. Following are the details:

ASEP Forum on Billboards

We had an extended abstract and presentation at this forum.

Graduate Thesis: Consideration of Dynamic Wind Effects in the Design and Evaluation of Trussed Towers According to the NSCP-01

Finally, my M.S. Thesis has been fully accepted.  The full text can be viewed/downloaded from this link: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-NxRIz9HeFOZDM1OTBiMTAtY2IzMy00NGE2LTlmZDMtMzFiOGEzZWYzY2Uw&hl=en_GB

Codes from other countries use the term "lattice towers" instead of "trussed towers." Transmission towers and antenna towers are examples of trussed towers.

Highlights of the thesis include:

0. The main hypothesis of the study is that dynamic wind effects could not be neglected for trussed towers; for example typical trussed towers in the Philippines have aspect ratios around 7, and meanwhile the NSCP-01 requires that dynamic wind effects should be considered for structures with aspect ratios greater than 4.

PICE 2006 National in Iloilo

I submitted and presented a paper entitled "Dynamic wind loading of trussed towers: proposed new supplementary material to the NSCP-01" at the PICE National Convention in Iloilo on November 16 to 18, 2006, based on the main findings of my thesis (see above post).

APEC-WW in New Delhi, India 2006

The Philippines once again sent a delegate to the 3rd APEC-WW held in New Delhi, India on Nov. 2-3, 2006. Some details of the country report are as follows:

Current Research Interests

My research for my M.S. Civil Engineering, Major in Structural Engineering thesis is on quick structural evaluation of free-standing broadcast towers in the Philippines, in consideration of resonant wind effects and change in basic wind speeds.

I also have interest in dynamic response and mitigation, typhoon and earthquake engineering, full-scale measurements, structural investigation, structural design optimization, and computational methods (CFD, FEM).