• DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR OF BATTER PILES AND PILE GROUPS 

  M, Bharathi (IIT ROORKEE, 2019-06)

  Batter piles (also known as inclined or raker piles) are often used for supporting bridges, offshore structures, transmission line towers, etc., where the horizontal load per pile may exceed the capacity of vertical pile. ...
• FINITE-DIFFERENCE MODELLING OF 3D BASIN EFFECTS ON GROUND MOTION CHARACTERISTICS 

  Kamal (IIT ROORKEE, 2015-07)

  The 2D13D basins play a major role in amplification of ground motion level and generation of different seismic phases. The various physical phenomena occurring in a basin during an earthquake are responsible for the ...
• SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSEMENT USING EXTREME VALUE STATISTICS 

  Chhavi (I.I.T Roorkee, 2019-02)

  Seismic Hazard Assessment (SHA) depends on detailed knowledge of physical processes, tectonic set up, comprehensive and qualitative data sets, understanding of internal structure of earth and various mathematical and ...
• SEISMICALLY INDUCED LANDSLIDE HAZARD ANALYSES FOR LOWER INDIAN HIMALAYA 

  Nath, Ritu Raj (I.I.T Roorkee, 2019-06)

  The entire Himalayan arc is recognized as a global hotspot for landslide and seismic events; which may be ascribed to the orogeny processes that had formed the Himalaya. Every year landslides and related natural disaster ...
• SEISMIC EVALUATION OF BLOCK MASONRY INTERLINKED WITH VISCOELASTIC LINK ELEMENTS 

  Goyal, Amit (IIT Roorkee, 2018-09)

  The inter-linked block masonry system with visco-elastic link elements is a new alternative technique for the construction of earthquake resistant low cost unreinforced masonry houses which is originally developed in the ...
• DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF CONTROLLERS FOR MITIGATION OF SEISMIC VIBRATIONS 

  Kumar, Gaurav (IIT Roorkee, 2018-09)

  Seismic vibrations induce additional stresses to the structures, which are harmful to their health. During the last three decades especially, since the introduction and unparalleled improvement of deployable computer ...
• DYNAMIC SITE-CITY INTERACTION ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT 

  Kumar, Neeraj (IIT Roorkee, 2018-09)

  The Site-City-Interaction (SCI) is a complex phenomenon in which closely spaced structures interact with each other as well as with the underlying basin and finally alter the seismic response of both the free field motion ...
• OUTPUT-ONLY SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION USING BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION 

  Kaloni, Smita (IIT Roorkee, 2018-07)

  The increasing complexity of engineering structures has raised the requirement of continuous monitoring for their proper functioning. Structural health monitoring needs reliable response measurements, robust system ...
• TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF GROUND MOTION TIME HISTORY OF MICROEARTHQUAKES 

  Devi, Vaneeta (IIT Roorkee, 2018-08)

  The modernisation of seismic instrumentation has resulted in better quality data with higher resolution inspiring development of newer computational methodologies for enhancing signal characteristics while processing ...
• SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR OF FOUNDATIONS AND BUILDINGS ON SLOPES 

  Raj, Dhiraj (IIT Roorkee, 2018-10)

  During a seismic event, the buildings on slopes are more vulnerable than the buildings on flat ground due to the synergistic effect of ground shaking and slope instability. The topographic amplification, slope instability, ...
• SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR AND RETROFITTING OF URM BUILDINGS 

  C, Shermi (I.I.T Roorkee, 2017-12)

  Earthquakes are natural hazards under which disasters are mainly caused by damage to or collapse of buildings and other man-made structures. The unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings have proved to be the most vulnerable ...
• MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR SNOW, GLACIER TERRAIN AND HAZARD MAPPING 

  Nijhawan, Rahul (I.I.T Roorkee, 2018-05)

  In this thesis, a meta-classi cation ensemble approach is developed to improve the prediction performance of snow covered area. The methodology adopted in this case is based on neural network along with four state-of-the-art ...
• SEISMIC VULNERABILITY OF HILL BUILDINGS 

  Surana, Mitesh (I.I.T Roorkee, 2017-10)

  The structural configurations of buildings in hilly regions are significantly different as compared to flat terrain counterparts, due to topographic constraints. The buildings in hilly regions generally follow the natural ...
• GEOTECHNICAL HAZARD ASSESSMENT OF SOIL SLOPES IN HILLY REGION 

  Marrapu, Balendra Mouli (I.I.T Roorkee, 2017-12)

  Stability assessment of slopes is a very important aspect of geotechnical engineering as slope instabilities in hilly regions in the form of landslides often pose serious threat to build environment. Conventionally, slope ...
• PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR PARAMETERS OF SEISMIC SIGNALS BASED ON ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING 

  Thomas, Sonia (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-02)

  In this thesis, advanced machine learning algorithms are used to develop predictive models for forecasting ground motion parameters. The machine learning algorithms used are extreme learning machines (ELM), support vector ...
• EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETERS AND ATTENUATION CHARACTERISTICS OF ARUNACHAL REGION 

  Kumar, Rohtash (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-04)

  The seismic waves produced by the earthquakes are used to study the structure and composition of the earth’s interior, and the properties of earthquake source. However, to understand how the wave field is radiated from the ...
• DIRECT DISPLACEMENT BASED DESIGN OF BASE ISOLATED RC FRAME BUILDINGS 

  Govardhan (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2013-10)

  Past earthquakes, especially in developing countries, have indicated that major loss of life often occurs due to the collapse of poorly constructed buildings. If the level of seismic demand on these buildings is reduced ...
• VELOCITY STRUCTURE OF THE GARHWAL HIMALAYA FROM INVERSION OF TRAVEL TIME DATA 

  Kanaujia, Jyotima (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-04)

  The knowledge of crustal velocity structure of the seismically active regions at local and regional scale is a key requirement to study the relationship between seismicity and geological structure, and to advance ...
• EFFECT OF NEAR RESPONSE OF BUILDINGS ON HILLSLOPE DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE NEAR-FAULT GROUND MOTION ON DYNAMIC 

  Kumar, Prabhat (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-07)

  The immense damage potential due to the near-fault ground motion (NFGM) has been recognized during the damage investigations associated with the 1971 San Fernando, 1979 Imperial Valley, 1989 Loma Prieta, 1992 Landers, ...
• ASSESSMENT OF SEISMIC HAZARD AND PATTERN RECOGNITION FOR REGION AROUND KANGRA 

  Mridula (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-05)

  This research work was carried out with the following objectives: to identify seismically susceptible areas using Pattern Recognition (PR); segmentation of longer tectonic units using PR and assessment of seismic hazard ...

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