My name is Darwing Camacho. I am a Civil Engineer with four years of experience. I graduated from U.R.U. (Maracaibo, Venezuela). While I was studying, I got good knowledge in the structural area. Although I work with different kind of projects such as sanitary, drainage and roads, I really love the structural analysis, for that reason I develop my final project related with structure. The project was focus with vertical vessels; I developed a spreadsheet to calculate all the structural elements of vertical vessels such as plates, pedestrian and footing. The intention of this project was to create a tool that could replace modeling software, because of their prices. The scope of the project was reach; however, we got different results from the calculation with the spreadsheet and the software (SAP2000).
During my academic experience, I also have the opportunity to develop a four story building as a final project of the subject “Structural Project”. In this case, we evaluated the seismic design, generating the building spectrum according its characteristics such as type of structure, location, type of material and type of foundation ground. We also evaluate the wind condition; however, the most important evaluation was seismic because the structure was in concrete, so the weight of the structure generated a higher base shear. The structure was presented using conventional concrete frames, designing the steel with the condition for special moment frames.
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