Roger A. Bustamante Plaza
Full
Professor
Research Interests
My main areas of research are: Nonlinear Elasticity, Nonlinear Rock Mechanics,
Continuum Mechanics and Magneto-Electro-Elasticity. More details can be seen in
Publications and Presentations below
(If there are people interested in doing research with
me as doctorate students, please feel free to send me an email, such that I can
give you information about two possible scholarships you can apply in order to
pursue a doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering at Universidad de Chile.)
Contact Information
Mail Address:
Departamento de Ingenieria Mecanica, Universidad
de Chile, Torre Poniente, Piso 4, Beauchef 851,
Santiago Centro, Santiago, Chile
Email: rogbusta@ing.uchile.cl
Office phone number: (56)-2-29784543
Education
- PhD
(Mathematics), University of Glasgow, 2007
- Thesis title:
Mathematical modelling of non-linear magneto- and electro-active
rubber-like materials
- PhD supervisor:
Raymond Ogden
- Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Tecnica
Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile, 2000
- Thesis title: Aplicacion de la mecanica
de fractura con dos parametros para un recipiente a presion con una grieta eliptica 3D (Application of two parameters in
fracture mechanics to study a 3D elliptic crack in a pressure vessel).
- Supervisors: Fernando Labbe, Juan Donoso
- Ingeniero
Civil Mecanico (Mechanical Engineer), Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria,
2000
- Final project: Modelacion con elementos finitos de los esfuerzos
residuales en uniones soldadas (Finite element modelling of
residual stresses in welded
unions)
- Supervisors: Fernando Labbe, Juan Donoso
Publications
and Presentations Click here
Projects
Fondecyt number
1210002
o Mathematical modelling of the mechanical behaviour of rock and concrete
using implicit constitutive relations and their subclasses
o Dates: April 2021 to March 2024
Fondecyt number 1160030
o On the use of implicit constitutive relations to model the behaviour of
elastic and inelastic deformations in continua: Applications to the
mathematical modelling of rock.
o Dates: April 2016 to March 2020.
Fondecyt number 1120011
o
Study of some new constitutive laws for
elastic bodies
o
Dates: March 2012 to March 2016
Fondecyt number 11085024
o
Mathematical modelling of non-linear
magneto-sensitive elastomers.
o Dates: November 2008 to October 2011
Teaching
·
Mecanica de Solidos (Solid Mechanics ME3204), formerly known as Resistencia de Materiales ME46-A, ME3202 (Strength
of Materials)
·
Mecanica de Medios Continuos ME701 (Continuum Mechanics)
·
Topicos Avanzados en Elasticidad ME720 (Advanced Topics
in Elasticity)
·
Elementos Finitos ME 564 (Finite Element Method)
·
Mecanica Estatica (Mechanics Statics).
·
Metodos Matematicos en Ingenieria
(Applied Mathematics for Engineering)
Short Courses
·
Electro-elasticidad no-lineal: teoria y desafios en modelacion numerica (Nonlinear electroelasticity:
Theory and challenges to numerical modelling). Universidad Politecnica de Madrid 14-28
Mayo 2011.
·
Formulaciones variacionales
en mecanica de solidos (Variational formulations
in solid mechanics). Universidad Politecnica de Madrid 17-25 Mayo
2012.
Other
·
Executive Editor of the International Journal of Engineering Science
(from 2025)
·
Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Engineering Science
(until 2024).
·
Member of the editorial board of Applications in Engineering Science
·
Member of the editorial board of Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Science
·
Member of the scientific committee of the
journal Ingenius
http://revistas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/ingenius/index
·
I was co-organizer of the Minisymposium on Nonlinear Elasticity for the Euromech 2015 Congress
http://www.esmc2015.org/_medien/_content/pdf/RogerBustamante_LuisDorfmann.pdf
·
I was one of the co-editors for a Special
Volume for the IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics in honour of Ray Ogden.
·
I was the main organizer and chair for the
XIV Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics PACAMXIV, which was held from
the 24th to the 28th of March of 2014. I was the editor
of a special volume for Acta Mechanica,
where some of the works presented in the conference were published.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00707-015-1546-5
·
I was co-organizer of the Minisymposium on Nonlinear Elasticity for the Euromech 2012 Congress http://www.esmc2012.tugraz.at/conference-format.html#mini_symposia
·
I have
been peer to peer reviewer for some articles submitted to the following
journals:
o Journal of Elasticity
o International Journal of Solids and Structures
o Journal of Electrostatics
o Acta Mechanica
o Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
o Proceedings of the Royal Society A
o International Journal of Damage Mechanics
o Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
o Mechanics Research Communications
o International Journal of Engineering Sciences
o International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics
o International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied
Mathematics
o The European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics
o Indian Journal of Engineering & Materials Sciences
o Rubber Chemistry and Technology
o The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics
o Meccanica
o Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
o Journal of Applied Physics
o International Journal of Engineering Technologies, IJET
o International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
o BioMedical Engineering OnLine
o Mathematical Reviews
o Mathematical Problems in Engineering
o The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
o Results in Physics
o Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
o Journal of Applied Mechanics
o Composites. Part B Engineering.
o Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering.
o Examples and Couterexamples
o Physica Scripta
o ZAMP
o ZAMM