EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING: Recent submissions

  • TOPOGRAPHY EFFECTS ON THE GROUND MOTION CHARACTERISTICS 
    Tiwari, Vishvendra (IIT ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    Surface topography consists of series of hills and valleys in the Himalayan region. These topographical features modify the seismic response of ground and play a crucial role in the design of life-line structures like dams, ...
  • LOCAL SITE EFFECTS ON EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING 
    Taneja, Aarti (IIT ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    Earthquake Early Warning System (EEW) is a standout amongst the most helpful instruments to effectively reduce seismic risk. EEW approaches have just been created around the world. The issues of improving the accuracy and ...
  • TIME DEPENDENT SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS 
    Agarwal, Akanksha (IIT ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    The use of deterministic seismic approach is not so prevalent nowadays .in recent years we consider the probabilistic seismic hazard analysis. It takes into account the uncertainties regarding time, space and magnitude. ...
  • “RESERVOIR INDUCED SEISMICITY DUE TO TEHRI DAM” 
    Khan, Ali Ahmad (IIT ROORKEE, 2017-05)
    Reservoir Induced Seismicity (RIS) refers to earthquakes that are triggered or induced as a result of artificial filling of reservoirs. As of today over 100 cases of reservoir induced seismicity have been registered ...
  • TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATIONS OF b-VALUE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS 
    Sharma, Aman (IIT ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    Entire region of the Himalaya‟s arc is one of the most seismically active regions of the world. This is evident through the large number of earthquakes occurred in this belt.Earthquake data for the period from 1897-2015 ...
  • VIBRATION CHARACTERISTIC OF RC BEAM WITH AND WITHOUT VISCOELASTIC DAMPER 
    Asis, Bonthu S S V S (IIT ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    Viscoelastic damping material is one of the basic type of damping materials came to knowledge in the midst of the nineteenth century. An extensive study has been done since then in studying the properties of the material ...
  • “SCENARIO OF EARTHQUAKE AND SEISMIC HAZZARD ASSESSMENT OF KANGRA REGION” 
    Budruke, Vishwajeet J (IIT ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    This report contains the estimation of the ground motion in terms of peak ground acceleration for the Kangra earthquake of 1905. The estimation of PGA is done by two methods for the same earthquake primarily by D.S.H.A. ...
  • EARTH PRESSURE AND SEISMIC DESIGN OF RETAINING WALLS 
    Kumar, Suresh (IIT ROORKEE, 2018-06)
    his dissertation described study into earth retaining cantilever walls with relief shelves behaviour under seismic conditions, using numerical modelling technique. The effects of provision of relief shelves on lateral earth ...
  • MULTISCALE MODELLING OF MASONRY STRUCTURES 
    Bhattacharjee, Devayan (IIT ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    Unreinforced masonry (URM) is one of the primogenital and most broadly used building material in the history of menfolk. There is a large number of URM buildings in the Indian subcontinent, most of which have not been ...
  • SCALING RELATION OF SEISMIC WAVE ENERGY IN TERMS OF MAGNITUDE, DISTANCE AND SITE CONDITION 
    Virmani, Dheeraj (IIT ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    As any earthquake occurs, a large amount of energy is released due to tectonic movement but as it is not the same when distributed in far distance areas, only a fraction of that part reaches to the considered location. So ...
  • PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT 
    Kumar, Dhirendra (IIT ROORKEE, 2018-05)
    The seismic hazard assessment is concerned with the estimation of strong-motion parameters at a site for the purpose of seismic safety assessment. It involves estimation of the earthquake related phenomena such as ground ...
  • 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, ...