DOCTORAL THESES (Earthquake Engg): Recent submissions

  • ATERIALS IN RC BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS SUBJECTED TO CYCLIC LOADS 
    Chidambaram, R. Siva (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-02)
    There is a continuous research on the behaviour of joints particularly to increase shear strength. The conventional way to enhance the joint’s shear strength is to provide increased dimension with closely spaced transverse/shear ...
  • SOURCE AND PATH CHARACTERISTICS AROUND BILASPUR REGION OF THE HIMACHAL HIMALAYA 
    Vandana (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-02)
    Observed ground motion due to an earthquake represents the combined effects of three factors: the earthquake source, the path through which the seismic waves propagate, and the characteristics of the local geological ...
  • ANN FOR STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING OF RC BUILDINGS: EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION 
    Ahir, Nitesh (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-07)
    One of engineering requirements after a big earthquake is rehabilitation of damages in structures. Further, these damages can be visible or of invisible nature, and / or sometimes, it is difficult to reach the location ...
  • APPLICATION OF ANN IN STRONG GROUND MOTION PREDICTION 
    Sachdeva, Rajiv (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-12)
    Strong Ground Motion (SGM) record at a particular site during an occurrence of earthquake is a result of complex – non linear combination of many factors. For design of engineering structures for a specified region the ...
  • TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF SEISMIC SIGNALS 
    Kumar, Roshan (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-04)
    Prognosis of seismic signal has always been a great interest for the engineers and seismologists worldwide. Seismic signal represents inelastic response of the ground and structures, which are mainly characterized by the ...
  • SEISMIC EVALUATION AND RETROFIT OF MASONRY BUILDINGS 
    Kadam, Sachin Balasaheb (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-01)
    Unreinforced masonry (URM) is one of the oldest and most widely used construction materials in the history of mankind. Like other parts of the world, there are large numbers of URM buildings in Indian subcontinent, most ...
  • NONLINEAR SEISMIC SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION USING SCALED BOUNDARY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD 
    Ashraf, Syed Nurussyidyn Madani Waheed (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-12)
    Seismic response of the structures supported on soft soil is a complex process involving inertial interaction between structure and its foundation, kinematic interaction between foundation and the surrounding soil and ...
  • SEISMIC MICROZONATION OF AN URBAN HABITAT 
    Srivastava, A. K. (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-06)
    The rapid growth of the world’s population over the past few decades has led to a concentration of peoples, buildings and infrastructure in urban areas. Such urban development in the sedimentary plains has increased their ...
  • SEISMIC ASSESSMENT AND RETROFITTING OF HISTORICAL BRICK MASONRY BUILDINGS 
    Tomar, Anshu (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-08)
    There are large number of historical brick masonry monuments in India which are required to be preserved against various natural hazards, earthquake is the most critical amongst them. Historical masonry structures were ...
  • DETECTION OF EARTHQUAKE INDUCED CHANGES USING DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING 
    Singh, Krishna Kant (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-10)
    Natural Disasters are one of the major threats to life and property and they impose serious threat to the society. Amongst the various natural disasters, earthquakes are one of the most destructive events. Earthquakes are ...
  • UNCERTAINTY IN SITE CHARACTERIZATION USING SURFACE WAVE TECHNIQUE 
    Roy, Narayan (Dept. of Earthquake Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-02)
    Application of surface wave method is being increasingly used in geotechnical site characterization of near surface materials. The dispersion property, which makes the Rayleigh wave velocity frequency dependent is utilized ...
  • SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE OF PERMIAN UPPER BARAKAR SUCCESSION, WEST BOKARO COALFIELD, INDIA : IMPLICATIONS ON PALEOGEOGRAPHY 
    Das, Subarna (Department of Earth Sciences,IITR., 2016)
    High resolution sequence stratigraphic study is conducted for the ~150 m thick tide and wave influenced Upper Barakar succession, West Bokaro Coalfield in order to delineate and reinterpret the possible controls of ...
  • SEDIMENTOLOGICAL STUDY OF PROTEROZOIC SAKNIDHAR FORMATION, LESSER GARHWAL HIMALAYA, UTTARAKHAND, INDIA 
    Sarkar, Moloy (Department of Earth Sciences,IITR., 2016)
    Proterozoic Saknidhar Formation is commonly considered as a transitional facies between the argillaceous Chandpur Formation and arenaceous Nagthat Formation. Stratigraphic position of Saknidhar Formation in the stratigraphic ...
  • WAVELET ANALYSIS OF WELL LOG DATA 
    Raj, Rohit (Department of Earth Sciences,IITR., 2016)
    Well log analysis is conventionally carried out by visual inspection to identify different lithology and formation interfaces. However, in this study a combination of continuous wavelet transform and wavelet entropy is ...
  • SEISMIC PETROPHYSICS AND ROCK PROPERTIES FOR RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION 
    Srivastava, Preetika (Department of Earth Sciences,IITR., 2016)
    This work focuses on the integration of Seismic and petrophysical data and insights drawn out of them for reservoir characterization. The field of study is Bonanza, onshore field, lying in the northern Barmer basin. The ...
  • TOMOGRAPHIC STUDY OF NORTH WEST HIMALAYA USING BODY WAVES 
    Usmani, Areeb (Department of Earth Sciences,IITR., 2016)
    The aim of this project was to estimate the 1D velocity structure of the North West Himalaya and to determine accurate locations of earthquake hypocenters. Four 1D P wave velocity models from previous work of several ...
  • SURFACE WAVE TOMOGRAPHY USING DISPERSION AND INVERSION FOR NORTH-EAST HIMALAYAS 
    Khirwal, Mayank (Department of Earth Sciences,IITR., 2016)
    In this dissertation work, I have made an effort to observe the variation in dispersion curves characteristic of the surface waves using the local earthquake data for five stations i.e. Jorhat, Agartala, Itanagar, Dibrugarh ...
  • SITE EFFECTS USING AMBIENT NOISE FREQUENCY SURVEY IN TEHRI GARHWAL REGION 
    Reja, Abhishek (Department of Earth Sciences,IITR., 2016)
    The Tehri – Garhwal region of Uttarakhand state is of sheer importance primarily in the studies of Seismotectonics. High seismicity, elaborate and dynamic thrust system and Himalayan context have rewarded it with utmost ...
  • WEATHERING STUDY AND CONTROLS OF HYDROLOGY IN AGLAR WATERSHED 
    Chauhan, Ramesh (Department of Earth Sciences,IITR., 2016)
    A geo-electrical imaging survey was conducted at two different slopes in Aglar watershed, for shallow site investigation in order to determine the applicability of 2-D resistivity imaging in studying the weathered profile, ...
  • RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION USING SEISMIC AND WELL LOGS DATA 
    Kumari, Poonam (Department of Earth Sciences,IITR., 2016)
    This study represents the delineation of gas sand reservoirs using seismic data interpretation and well log evaluation in LILY Field (Pseudo Name), Western Offshore Basin, India. The integrated study has incorporated three ...