Seismic and seismology engineering research group of Particular Technical University of Loja, their acronyms in Spanish is GRISS UTPL (Grupo de Investigación de Ingeniería Sísmica y Sismología de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja), it have as objective understand the dynamic behavior of structures with loads seismic, investigate and propose solutions seismic-resistant and understand the origin of earthquakes and their form of spread.
This group of investigation promotes the education of the users and discussion between their about of the Virtual Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering (VLEE). In this virtual platform you can find tools of analysis, design and simulation of various structural systems. Further this platform have academic sources and a technical blog, when the user could find material reading and research of interesting.
The GRISS has accelerographs that are installed in South Region of Ecuador, this accelerographs allow register the land’s move, identify the seismic demand on structures and monitor the seismic answer of civil buildings. The users could contribute to platform through of developed of new informatics tools, also realize input in the sections: Technical Blog and Academic Sources. All of observations, comments and suggestions of users are welcome.