MASTERS' THESES (Earthquake Engg): Recent submissions

  • SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS WITH MOMENT RELEASE CONSTRAINT IN GARHWAL KUMAUN HIMALAYAS 
    Kumar, Rahul (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    The Kumaun - Garhwal Himalaya is located in the most seismic active zone of Himalayan that exhibits many moderate to large size earthquake. To minimising the effect of Earthquake and destruction of important structures ...
  • EFFECT OF FRP WRAPPING ON STRENGTH AND DUCTILITY PARAMETER OF RC MEMBERS SUBJECTED TO AXIAL AND LATERAL LOADS 
    De, Subhajit (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Lessons learnt from past & most recent earthquakes, continuously call for the seismic strengthening of the structures. As a matter of fact, the number of lives & economic losses claimed by a disaster like earthquake isn’t ...
  • GENERATION OF SHAKE MAPS 
    Verma, Ashish Kumar (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    The purpose of a Shake map is to provide rapid estimate of strong ground shaking which provides emergency response organizations useful information in case of a damaging earthquake. This report investigates the existing ...
  • SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF COUPLED SHEAR WALL BUILDINGS WITH REPLACEABLE ENERGY DISSIPATION DEVICES 
    Kumar, Nartu Manoj (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Performance of a structure in an earthquake is governed by its capacity to dissipate energy. In mid- to high-rise buildings, coupled shear walls act as efficient lateral load resisting and energy dissipation. Coupling ...
  • EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF EFFECT OF OVERLAY OF FRP ON THE PERFORMANCE OF RC SLAB 
    Joshi, Ritesh R (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Reinforced concrete members become vulnerable to damage due to incorrect design, past earthquake damages, ageing, corrosion etc. Such members need strengthening to enhance their capacity. The current study is about ...
  • CONTROLLED DEMOLITION OF STRUCTURES 
    Boro, Nihir Khungur (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Controlled demolition of structures is the process of tearing down/bringing down or breaking apart a structure after its useful life period or partly damaged uninhabitable structure with the help of some equipment in a ...
  • SEISMICITY OF WESTERN HIMALAYA 
    Kumar, Rohit (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Himalaya is the one of the youngest mountain belt having active tectonic discontinuities, complex geological setup, and zones of variable seismic density. The western part of Himalaya faced catastrophe due to great Kangra ...
  • BASIN EFFECTS ON SURFACE WAVE AMPLIFICATION 
    Aswal, Sheetal (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    For the simulation of Rayleigh wave, fourth order staggered grid wave FD program was used for both the homogeneous and basin models (Narayan and Kumar, 2014). The Gabor wavelet was used for the source excitation. The ...
  • A comprehensive experimental study of bonding behaviour of new and old concrete using high performance materials 
    Kumar, Anil (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    The most of the buildings that were designed according to the earlier codes sometimes may not satisfy the requirements of the present seismic codes making them to the prone to the earthquake. This may cause the partial ...
  • SEISMIC ASSESSMENT OF BRIDGES ON THE BASIS OF IS: 1893 (Part 3) 
    Rao, Balla Taraka Malleswara (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Seismic assessment of bridges is very important to know the structural deficiencies in the existing bridges. In the recent past earthquakes, structural deficiencies in many of the existing bridges have been observed, ...
  • SEISMIC BEARING CAPACITY OF STRIP FOOTING ON REINFORCED SOIL SUBJECTED TO ECCENTRIC INCLINED LOAD 
    Yadav, Abhimanyu (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Due to the increase in population, demand for construction increases and the use of poor soils becomes absolutely necessary. Settlement and soil bearing capacity play an important role in the design of foundation. ...
  • SEISMIC SLOPE STABILITY FOR LANDSLIDES 
    Bhaduri, Aniruddha (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Landslides are one of the major contributors of natural hazards due to ground failure. It occurs due to failure of a slope. Triggering mechanisms like excessive rainfall, earthquake or some man made activities (like ...
  • EXPERT SYSTEM FOR SEISMIC RESISTANT ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF ELEVATED WATER TANK. 
    Prabhatkar, J. Phani (1999)
    Artificial intelligence has two important applications in the field of Engineering analysis and design. They are expert systems and Neural Networks. Expert systems are computer programs that emulate the behaviour of a human ...
  • PARAMETRIC STUDIES OF SEISMIC GROUND RESPONSE USING NONLINEAR ANALYSIS 
    Jain, Manish (2001)
    One part of the dynamic analysis is determination of spatial/temporal distribution of seismic ground response along the boundaries chosen for the system that include the structure and the surrounding medium. Seismic ground ...
  • SITE CHARACTERISATION BY SASW METHOD 
    Reddy, P. Hari Hara Kumara (1999)
    Spectral Analysis of Surface Waves (SASW) is a new seismic method with a potential of being a tool for aiding the geotechnical research in many directions. The technique is an addition to the repertoire of non destructive ...
  • SEISMIC CODE ANALYSIS OF ASYMMETRIC BUILDING WITHOUT LOCATING CENTRES OF RIGIDITY 
    Sharma, Rattan Kumar (2000)
    The most building codes state that the lateral earthquake force at each story level of an asymmetric-plan building should be applied eccentrically from their centres of rigidity [6]. So to implement such procedures, it is ...
  • APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS FOR BLAST LOADING ON STRUCTURES 
    Venkateswarlu, N. (2000)
    In dealing with problems in analysis and design of civil engineering systems, we need to carryout rigorous and complex calculations. At present, with the help of computers, various emerging analytical tools are coming up ...
  • EFFECT OF THE COUPLING OF MOTION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF MACHINE FOUNDATION 
    Sharma, Krishna Nandan (1999)
    Machine foundations, subjected to dynamic loading vibrate in different modes. Sometimes, these different modes of vibration are coupled either due to an error in placing of the machine on the foundation or due to interactions ...
  • APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN SEISMIC SOIL SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS 
    Varma, Gade Subrahmanya (1999)
    The advent of digital computers has seen the emergence of analytical tools in analysis and design of Civil Engineering systems, which earlier seemed too complex or rigorous. At this stage Artificial Intelligence techniques ...
  • STRUCTURAL ECONOMICS OF EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT DESIGN OF RC BUILDING 
    T. V., Prashant (2004)
    The RC building, analyzed and designed to resist the conventional loads, i.e., gravity loads and imposed load possesses adequate strength and stiffness to resist the vertical loads. Such building will not suffer damage as ...