Francisco zárate
Associate Research Professor
Numerical Methods for Engineering Calculation and Design
Pere Virgili Health Research Institute
Spain
Biography
Francisco Zárate is an Associate Research Professor at CIMNE, and Associated Lecturer at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) , where he teaches Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis undergraduate courses (1997-present) and several courses at the master degree (1999-present).He is the head of the online version of the Master on Numerical Methods in Engineering of the UPC.Civil Engineer by the University of Guanajuato, México (1986), and the Technical University of Catalonia (2004); M.Sc.in Numerical Methods (1991) and PhD in Structural Analysis (1996) by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).
Research Interest
Plates,Fracture Mechanics,Stochastic Analysis
Publications
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Labra C, Rojek J, Oñate E, Zarate F. Advances in discrete element modelling of underground excavations. Acta Geotechnica. 2008 Dec 1;3(4):317-22.
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Oñate E, Zarate F, Flores F. A simple triangular element for thick and thin plate and shell analysis. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 1994 Aug 15;37(15):2569-82.
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Onate E, Zárate F. Rotation-free triangular plate and shell elements. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 2000 Jan 10;47(1-3):557-603.
