Lab
People
Edgardo Olate Sanzana
Ph.D. Candidate
edgardo.olate@ing.uchile.cl
Former students
| Name | Graduated in | Worked on |
|---|---|---|
| Nicolás Muñoz Guamán M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) | 2025 | Finite and virtual element methods, computational solid mechanics. Master's Thesis: “Desarrollo de Plataforma Web para la Simulación de Problemas de Mecánica de Sólidos Lineales Estáticos en Dos Dimensiones Utilizando el Método de Elementos Finitos y El Método de Elementos Virtuales” |
| Rodrigo Silva Valenzuela Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) | 2025 | Particle and virtual element methods, computational solid mechanics. Doctoral Thesis: “Desarrollo de un Método de Integración Nodal para Problemas en Mecánica de Sólidos Lineal y No Lineal Basado en la Descomposición del Elemento Virtual” |
| Bruno Rebolledo Gutiérrez M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) | 2022 | Meshfree and virtual element methods, computational solid mechanics. Master's Thesis: “Desarrollo de un método de integración nodal en mallas tetraédricas utilizando la descomposición del elemento virtual” |
| Sebastián Luza Vega M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering), B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) | 2022 | Polygonal mesh generation, virtual element method, computational solid mechanics. Master's Thesis: “Desarrollo de una plataforma interactiva de mallado y remallado de mallas poligonales para su uso en un esquema de integración nodal basado en el método del elemento virtual” |
| Catalina Álvarez Inostroza M.Sc., B.Sc. (Computer Sciences), B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) | 2018 | Polyhedral and virtual element methods, computational solid mechanics, mesh generation. Master's Thesis: “Virtual element method for linear elasticity problems in modifiable meshes” |
| Philip Kobrich Echavarri B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) | 2017 | Meshfree methods. Final engineering report: “Esquema numérico de proyección nodal para la placa de Reissner-Mindlin utilizando métodos sin malla” |
| Rubén Torres Verdugo B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) | 2016 | Meshfree methods, computational solid mechanics. Final engineering report: “Paralelización de algoritmo numérico para resolución de problemas en mecánica de sólidos” |
| Camila Velásquez Salinas B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) | 2015 | Isogeometric analysis, computational structural mechanics. Final engineering report: “Cálculo numérico de los modos de vibración en un panel compuesto tipo panal de abeja mediante análisis isogeométrico” |
Visiting researchers & professors
| Name | Visited in | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Edoardo Artioli Visiting Professor | 2018 | Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Ingegneria "Enzo Ferrari", Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy. |
| Natarajan Sukumar Visiting Professor | 2014 | Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA. |
| Christian J. Cyron Visiting Researcher | 2013 | Professor, Institute of Continuum and Materials Mechanics, Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany. |
| Jack S. Hale Visiting Researcher | 2012 | Research Associate, Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, Research Unit in Engineering Science, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. |
| Dimitrios Sfyris Visiting Researcher | 2012 | Principal Researcher, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece. |
Collaborators
- Edoardo Artioli, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
- Stéphane P.A. Bordas, Professor, Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, Research Unit in Engineering Science, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
- Roger Bustamante, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
- Christian J. Cyron, Professor, Institute of Continuum and Materials Mechanics, Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany.
- Jack S. Hale, Research Associate, Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, Research Unit in Engineering Science, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
- Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
- Viviana Meruane, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
- Sundararajan Natarajan, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India.
- K. R. Rajagopal, Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA.
- Alessandro Russo, Professor, Department of Mathematics and its Applications, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
- Dimitrios Sfyris, Principal Researcher, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece.
- N. Sukumar, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA.