Itasca Chile SpA

Catalina Álvarez

Senior Geomechanics Consultant

Chile
Itasca Chile SpA

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Areas of Expertise

Geomechanical

Consulting Services

Civil Engineering

Catalina Álvarez

Senior Geomechanics Consultant

Dr. Álvarez has broad experience in numerical modeling projects related to underground mine design and subsidence. Her expertise includes slope stability analysis involving the calibration of time dependent (creep) material properties, a broad range of civil engineering projects (e.g., dynamic stability analyses of tailings dams, water reservoirs and waste dumps in highly active seismic areas), and in fully coupled thermal-stress 3D analysis of several RCC dams.

Education

M.B.A. (Finance), 2002
University of New York (E.S.C.E.M)/ Prague

Ph. D., Physics, 1996
University of Waterloo, Canada

M. Sc., Physics, 1990
University of Chile, FCFM, Chile

B. Sc., Physics, 1988
University of Chile, FCFM, Chile

Publications

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