• Effect of mica content on pore pressure and stress-strain response of micaceous sand using energy dissipation and different failure mechanisms 

  Seethalakshmi, P.; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor and Fancis, 2018-10)

  Mica particles are platy, flexible and resilient in nature having numerous intact mica flakes foliated over each other with low stiffness. Presence of mica among sand particles creates complex geometric arrangements due ...
• Collaborative efforts to investigate emissions from residential and municipal trash burning in India 

  Vreeland, H.; Norris, C.; Shum, L.; Pokuri, J.; Shannon, E.; Raina, Anmol; Tripathi, Ayushman; Borse, Dinesh; Patel, A.; Dixit, P.; Bergin, M. H.; Stoner, B. R. (RTI Press, 2018-09)

  Emissions from trash burning represent an important component of regional air quality, especially in countries such as India where the practice of roadside, residential, and municipal trash burning is highly prevalent. ...
• Corn cob silica as an antibacterial support for silver nanoparticles: efficacy on Escherichia coli and Listeria monocytogenes 

  Shim, Jaehong; Mazumder, Payal; Kumar,Manish (Springer, 2018-09)

  There is great potential to combine bioresource and recycled materials with nanotechnology for industrial and environmental applications. In a novel approach, silver (Ag) nanoparticles (Ag NPs) were imbedded on ...
• Back-of-the-envelope analysis of plan-asymmetric confined masonry buildings for force-based seismic design 

  Basu, Dhiman (Elsevier, 2018-08)

  Location of centers of rigidity (CR) in a confined masonry building is sensitive to the aspect ratio of constituting walls and wall-piers (in case of wall with openings). These centers, generally, do not lie on one vertical ...
• Projected increase in Hydropower production in India under climate change 

  Ali, Syed Azhar; Aadhar, Saran; Shah, Harsh L; Mishra, Vimal (Nature, 2018-08)

  Hydropower is a valuable renewable energy resource in India, which can help in climate change mitigation and meet the increasing energy demands. However, the crucial role of climate change on hydropower production in India ...
• Matric suction, swelling and collapsible characteristics of unsaturated expansive soils 

  Pandya, Saloni; Sachan, Ajanta (2018-07)

  Unsaturated expansive soils are recognized as one of the most problematic soils owing to its swelling-shrinkage characteristics. The presence of such soils in highway/railway embankments, slopes and earthen dam sites ...
• Enhanced fire severity in modern Indian dwellings 

  Khan, Nasar Ahmad; Srivastava, Gaurav (Current Science Association in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences (India), 2018-07)

  The present study focuses on assessment and proba- bilistic characterization of fire load, a key input to performance-based fire design, in office and dormito- ry buildings in India. A survey using ...
• Contemporary distribution and impending mobility of arsenic, copper and zinc in a tropical (Brahmaputra) river bed sediments, Assam, India 

  Borah, Rinkumoni; Taki, Kaling; Gogoi, Anindita; Das, Pallavi; Kumar, Manish (Elsevier, 2018-10)

  The present study develops a correlationship among different phases of metal for developing an understanding of metal distribution and speciation, which is seldom reported in many studies. Also, the study examines the ...
• Increase in sub-daily precipitation extremes in India under 1.5 and 2.0�C warming worlds 

  Ali, Haider; Mishra, Vimal (American Geophysical Union, 2018-07)

  An increase in short duration precipitation extremes pose challenges for stormwater design in rapidly urbanizing India. The recent Paris Agreement aims to limit the global mean temperature (GMT) below 1.5 �C (and possibly ...
• The INTENSE project: using observations and models to understand the past, present and future of sub-daily rainfall extremes 

  Mishra, Vimal (Copernicus Publications, 2018-06)

  Historical in situ sub-daily rainfall observations are essential for the understanding of short-duration rainfall extremes but records are typically not readily accessible and data are often subject to errors and ...
• Strong linkage between precipitation intensity and monsoon season groundwater recharge in India 

  Asoka, Akarsh; Wada, Yoshihide; Fishman, Ram; Mishra, Vimal (American Geophysical Union, 2018-05)

  Groundwater is a lifeline for millions of people in India, which is affected by the year?to?year variability of precipitation amount and characteristics (low and high intensity). Precipitation intensity has been observed ...
• Natural properties of confined masonry buildings � experimental case studies and possible inferences 

  Nema, Harshit; Basu, Dhiman (Inderscience, 2018)

  Construction of faculty housing and student�s hostels in a fully-residential 400-acre academic campus of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) in the State of Gujarat, India is the first large scale confined ...
• Spatial variation and conditional simulation of seismic ground motion 

  Rodda, Gopala Krishna; Basu, Dhiman (Springer Verlag, 2018-05)

  Spatially varying ground motion (SVGM) may have influence on certain civil engineering structures with spatially extended superstructure and/or substructures. Conditional simulation of spatially varying ground motion ...
• Stress distributions and crack growth in riveted lap joints fastening thick steel plates 

  Kafie-Martinez, Jackeline; Keating, Peter B.; Chakra-Varthy, Pranav; Correia, Jos�; de Jesus, Ab�lio (Elsevier�, 2018-05)

  Single shear lap joints have been a common method to fasten steel plates in railroad bridges and can be highly susceptible to fatigue cracking under the cyclic loading bridges experience. To better comprehend the fatigue ...
• Increase in extreme precipitation events under anthropogenic warming in India 

  Mukherjee, Sourav; Aadhar, Saran; Stone, Daithi; Mishra, Vimal (Elsevier, 2018-03)

  India has witnessed some of the most devastating extreme precipitation events, which have affected urban transportation, agriculture, and infrastructure. Despite the profound implications and damage due to extreme precipitation ...
• Effect of successive impact loading on compactability, microstructure, and compressibility behavior of micaceous sand 

  P., Seethalakshmi; Sachan, Ajanta (Springer Verlag, 2018-03)

  Micaceous soils are generally known for their high compressibility, low compactability, and low shear strength behavior. Mica particles are flaky, flexible, and resilient nature with low stiffness and hardness due to ...
• Effect of fire on in-plane and out-of-plane behavior of reinforced concrete frames with and without masonry infills 

  Kumar, Puneet; Srivastava, Gaurav (Elsevier, 2018-04)

  The present study develops a generic three-dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) model to characterize the in-plane and out-of-plane behavior of masonry infill reinforced concrete (RC) frames under fire exposure. The developed ...
• Stress-state dependency of small-strain shear modulus in silty sand and sandy silt of Ganga 

  Prashant, Amit; Bhattacharya, Debayan; Gundlapalli, S. (Thomas Telford, 2018-02)

  This study explores the effect of stress state on small strain modulus (Gmax) in the naturally occurring Ganga sand and silt using bender elements during a series of carefully performed undrained triaxial tests. Unlike the ...
• Coherency model for translational and rotational ground motions 

  Rodda, Gopala Krishna; Basu, Dhiman (Springer, 2018-01)

  Spatial variability of the translational ground motion may influence the seismic design of certain civil engineering structures with spatially extended foundations. Lagged coherency is usually considered to be the best ...
• Variation of collapse potential and stiffness degradation with matric suction of compacted unsaturated cohesive soil 

  Pandya, Saloni; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor & Francis, 2017-11)

  Collapse of soil skeleton due to variation in its loading and boundary conditions impacts the strength and stability of soil in its unsaturated state. The present study is focused on the influence of matric suction on ...

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