Dr. Noel Flores is a Senior Consultant with Engineering Systems Inc. (ESi). He has expertise in structural engineering, applied mechanics, and construction materials including wood, masonry, mass timber, steel, and reinforced concrete.
Dr. Flores performs scientific investigations related to construction defects, failure of structural elements and components, and failure of components within building envelopes. Dr. Flores also specializes in damage assessment, repair and rehabilitation design of damaged structures, structural analysis and design, and building code research and analysis. Dr. Flores has worked across several sectors including residential structures, commercial structures, large-scale heavy civil infrastructure, and military structures. Dr. Flores also works on matters involving code compliance and accidents and incidents in the built environment.
Dr. Flores has experience in the design and implementation of experimental test programs including the development of test designs and custom test fixtures, instrumentation including digital image correlation, data acquisition, and testing. An additional area of specialty includes the mechanics of structures under impact where Dr. Flores has utilized experimental methods, finite element analysis, and other numerical methods to simulate impulsive, blast-like loading on structural materials.
Prior to joining ESi, Dr. Flores conducted research including numerical modeling and experimental testing related to blast effects on cross-laminated timber (CLT) with the Stewart Research Group at Georgia Tech. Additionally, Dr. Flores has performed structural engineering for large scale heavy civil projects including repair design for the Rondout West Branch Tunnel Bypass and City Tunnel No. 3 in New York City, and canal infrastructure, spillways and gates, and seawalls in South Florida.
Dr. Flores is fluent in Spanish
Areas of Expertise
Publications
- Design of an Impulsive Center-Point Testing System with Realistic Boundary Conditions, 6th International Conference on Protective Structures, July 2023
- Experimental Methods for Understanding the Performance of Impulsively Loaded Cross-Laminate Timber Panels, Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 2022
- Behavior and Damage Characterization of Impulsively Loaded Cross-Laminated Timber Panels, Applied Sciences 12, December 2022
- Towards an SDOF Model for Predicting Blast Performance of Cross-Laminated Timber, Structures Under Shock and Impact 2018 Conference Proceedings, January 2018