A feasible technical solution of the seismic isolation system for
multi-storey brick masonry buildings is presented in the Thesis
Solution is based on the previous achievements in the area of base
isolation technology, ...
Strong ground motion data is the primary input for earthquake response analysis
and design of structures, equipments and other life line systems. The best description
of strong earthquakes is provided by accelerographs ...
Earthquake protection by base isolation of buildings has attracted
considerable attention in recent years. The main concept here is to
isolate the structures from ground instead of the conventional
techniques of ...
This thesis presents a comprehensive material model which is capable
of simulating the in-plane behaviour of masonry from elastic range to
final failure for any angle of bed joint orientation. The final element
model ...
This thesis aims to study the salient features of large-sized ferrocement tanks
subjected to static and dynamic loads and to investigate their suitability and economy
over r.c. tanks. These tanks featuring undulated wall ...
Plain land in hills is scare and therefore sloping land is being increasingly used for
buildings. Economic development of hilly areas, have a marked effect on the buildings in
terms of style, material and method of ...
With increasing load, a structure undergoes increasing deformation. Beyond a critical
or peak load level, structure's inability to take any more loads causes failure. Failure can be
distributed or localized. In general, ...
Ferrocement is a composite material in which rich cement sand mortar is reinforced
with layers of continuous and small diameter steel wire meshes. The confidence in the
material has been building up with time resulting ...
In recent years analysis of axisymmetric structures, such as hyperbolic cooling
towers, chimneys, reactor containment shells, etc., subjected to dynamic or
seismic loading has attracted considerable attention, specially ...
The dynamic stiffness properties of soils must be determined for the purpose of
analyzing machine foundations and substructures subjected to earthquakes. The
significant advances in mathematical techniques for analyzing ...
Study of seismic wave attenuation in high frequency range (1 to 30 Hz) has
emerged as one of the promising field for indepth understanding of the
seismotectonic characteristics in a region. The knowledge of seismic ...
The brick and stone masonry buildings have proved to be the most vulnerable to
earthquake forces and have suffered maximum damage. There is a lot of research
conducted in the development of earthquake resistant and ...
Ductile reinforced earth (R.E.) capable of taking compression and
tension is ideal for use in geotechnical earthquake engineering. This
investigation attempts to understand its behaviour in (earthen) embankments
during ...
Earthquakes generate seismic waves that are manifested as ground motion being
recorded by instruments deployed in the field. The ground motion records at near source
region, also known as strong ground motion, are of ...
Man has been exposed to the hardships of earthquakes since the ancient times
and due to impossibility to avoid them, he has learnt how to protect himself by
improving his construction methods. Broadly speaking, there are ...
The impact of an aircraft, missiles and explosions has been drawing attention of the
engineers all over the world after the first World War. Nuclear containment shells in many
countries are pre-stressed concrete shells ...
In Nuclear Power Plants, the equipments located on various floors of Reactor Building are
designed for floor motions. Inclusion of soil-structure interaction modifies the response of the
structure as well as the response ...
Thefinite element formulation for computingthe dynamic response of transient problems
in structural dynamics has been studied. Conventionally, the solution of time dependent
problems hasinvolved discretisation of ...
The study presented herein, aims at investigation of out-of-plane behaviour of
unreinforced masonry infill panels in frame buildings. In the present study, the focus
has been on the out-of-plane action due to inertia ...
Prestressed concrete sections are economical compared to reinforced concrete and hence, have a wide use
in bridges, nuclear containment structures, buildings and other structures. Reliability of these structures
mainly ...