1. Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Universidad Privada Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia
2. Professor, Postgraduate Programme in Civil Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (corresponding author: )
3. Researcher, Centre of Applied Mechanics and Computational (CEMACOM), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
4. Professor, Postgraduate Programme in Civil Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil