Ricardo Taborda

Assistant Professor

Phone (901) 678-1527 Email rtbrdros@memphis.edu Fax (901) 678-4734 Office 3890 Central Avenue, Memphis, TN 38152 Office Hours Call for Hours

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Education:

Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
M.Sc. in Structural Mechanics, University of Southern California
M.Sc. in Structural Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Universidad EAFIT (Medellin, Colombia)

Research:

 

Areas of Interest:

• Engineering seismology and earthquake engineering
• Physics-based (deterministic) earthquake ground motion simulation
• Computational seismology and forward wave propagation simulation
• Soil-structure and site-city interaction effects
• Site effects on a regional scale
• Integration of earthquake systems simulation