EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING: Recent submissions

  • EARTHQUAKE INDUCED LANDSLIDE HAZARD ZONATION 
    Rana, Himanshu (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Landslide is very catastrophic natural hazard in the Himalayan region. There are highly destructive effects on environment, wealth, life, and landscape due to landslide. These effects make it necessary to study the landslide ...
  • INVESTIGATIONS ON A GEOSYNTHETIC REINFORCED BEARING LAYER UNDER STATIC AND DYNAMIC LOADING 
    Agarwal, Jyoti (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Reinforced layered soil system is generally used under the foundations, to make the weak soil like soft clay safe and stable and to avoid shear failure and excessive settlements due to static and dynamic loads. Reinforced ...
  • NONLINEAR ANALYSIS OF CONNECTED AND DISCONNECTED SOIL-PILE-RAFT SYSTEM UNDER EARTHQUAKE LOADING 
    Garg, Aman (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    In design of High-rise buildings, the main issue is to transfer the subjected loads to the ground safely. So to prevent probable damages and to reduce the deformation, a proper design of foundation is required. In theses ...
  • SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF RCC BUILDINGS WITH AND WITHOUT MASONRY INFILLS 
    Ray, Someraj (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    The presence of infill in reinforced concrete structure can extremely affect the response of structure under seismic loads. There might be a positive effect due to increase of strength and stiffness but the drawbacks start ...
  • NONLINEAR TIME HISTORY ANALYSIS OF BRIDGES SUB-STRUCTURE FOR MCE EARTHQUAKE 
    Panwar, Mayank (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    From the past earthquakes, it has been observed that if the bridges are not properly analyzed, designed and constructed with required quality, it may lead to great destruction and loss of human lives. It has been proven ...
  • EFFECTS OF HILLS ON SURFACE WAVES 
    Chauhan, Ranu (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    We have studied the effect of topography including ridge and valley on Rayleigh wave characteristics. A fourth order finite difference method is used for simulations. Gabor wavelet is used as a source time function. We ...
  • EVALUATION OF LIQUEFACTION RESISTANCE USING DIFFERENT METHODS 
    Petshali, Mukesh (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Liquefaction is serious threat both to life and property and need to be prepared for in advance. This makes liquefaction assessment compulsory. SPT has been in use traditionally but slow speed and inaccuracy are some of ...
  • 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 ...
  • SEISMIC DESIGN OF EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE CORE PANEL BUILDINGS 
    Sarkar, Avirup (Department of Earthquake Engineering IITR, 2016-05)
    Sandwich composite panel system is an upcoming, modern day construction technology that has many advantages like low-cost, light-weight and better seismic performance. Among the different types of sandwich composite panels, ...