EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...