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Juan Caicedo 
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Juan Caicedo

Assistant Professor
Education

  • D.Sc., Civil Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Aug.2003
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, May 2001
  • B.S. Civil Engineering with emphasis in structures, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, South America, May 1998
Research Interest

Dr. Caicedo’s area of specialization is in Structural Engineering with emphasis in Structural Dynamics. His research interests include both numerical and experimental research in the areas of structural dynamics, model updating, structural health monitoring, earthquake engineering and structural control. Dr. Caicedo is member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, the Society of Experimental Mechanics and the American Society of Engineering Educators.


Selected Publications

Journal Publications


  • D. Giraldo, S. J. Dyke and J. M. Caicedo, "Damage Detection Accommodating Varying Environmental Conditions", International Journal of Structural Health Monitoring, Vol 5, No 2, pp 155-172, 2006.
  • J.M. Caicedo, S.J. Dyke, “Experimental Validation of Structural Health Monitoring for Flexible Bridge Structures”, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Vol. 12, pp. 425-443, 2005.
  • J.M. Caicedo, S.J. Dyke, and E.A. Johnson, “NExT and ERA for Phase I of the
  • IASCE-ASCE Benchmark Problem: Simulated Data,” Journal of Engineering Mechanics: Special Issue on the Structural Health Monitoring Analytical Benchmark Problem, ASCE, Vol. 130, No. 1, January 2004.
  • S.J. Dyke, J.M. Caicedo, G. Turan, L.A. Bergman, and S. Hague, “Phase I Benchmark Control Problem for Seismic Response of Cable-Stayed Bridges,” Journal of Structural Engineering: Special Issue on Semi-active Control, ASCE, Vol. 129, No. 7, July 2003.
  • J.M. Caicedo, S.J. Dyke, S.J. Moon, L.A. Bergman, G. Turan and S. Hague, “Phase II Benchmark Control Problem for Seismic Response of Cable-Stayed Bridges,” Journal of Structural Control: Special Issue on the Cable-Stayed Bridge Seismic Benchmark Control Problem, Vol. 10, Nos. 3 - 4, pp. 137-168, 2003.

Conference Publications


  • Zarate, B. and Caicedo, J. M., “Computation of the likelihood of a Finite Element Model”, Proceedings of the 26th IMAC conference, Orlando, FL, February 4-7, 2008. Caicedo, J. M., Flora, J., Pierce, C., Nichols, A., Graf, W. and Timmerman, B., “Introducing the Environments for Fostering Effective Critical Thinking (EFFECTs)”, Proceedings of the 26th IMAC conference, Orlando, FL, Februrary 4-7, 2008.
  • Caicedo, J. M., Catbas, N., Gul, M., and Zaurin, R. (2007). "Phase I of the Benchmark Problem for Bridge Health monitoring: Numerical Data." 18th Engineering Mechanics Division Conference (EMD2007), Blacksburg, Virginia.
  • Zarate, B. A., and Caicedo, J. M. (2007). "Cable Modeling Comparison in Cable-Stayed Bridges." 18th Engineering Mechanics Division Conference (EMD2007), Blacksburg, Virginia.
  • B. Zarate, J. M. Caicedo and A. K. Dutta, “Model Updating of a Cable-Stayed Bridge using MGA”, Proceedings of the 25th IMAC conference, Orlando, FL, February 19-22, 2007.
  • J.M. Caicedo, A.K. Dutta and B. Zarate, “System Identification and Model Updating of the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge”, Proceedings of the 4th World Conference in Structural Control and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, July 11-13, 2006.











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