• 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 ...
• Effect of crushing and strain rate on mechanical behavior of type-F fly ash 

  Gupta, Kanika; Sachan, Ajanta (Springer Verlag, 2018-03)

  Fly ash is a by-product of coal combustion from thermal power plant. It comprises of hollow spherical silt size particles with low specific gravity. The increased use of fly ash in highway/railway embankment construction ...
• Effect of in-plane boundary conditions on elastic buckling behavior of solid and perforated plates 

  Prajapat, Kanta; Ray-Chaudhuri, Samit; Kumar, Ashwini (Elsevier, 2015-05)

  In this work, finite element method is used to obtain elastic buckling loads and mode shapes of plates. The effect of four different in-plane boundary conditions on the elastic buckling load of simply supported plates ...
• Seismic vulnerability assessment of f low-rise reinforced concrete buildings affected by the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake 

  Brzev, Svetlana; Pandey, Bishnu; Maharjan, Dev Kumar; Ventura, Carlos (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 2017-11)

  Low-rise reinforced concrete (RC) frames with brick masonry infill walls up to five stories high have been used for housing construction in Nepal since the late 1980s. Many buildings of this type were damaged and/or collapsed ...
• Dominant control of agriculture and irrigation on urban heat island in India 

  Kumar, Rahul; Mishra, Vimal; Buzan, Jonathan; Kumar, Rohini; Shindell, Huber; Matthew, Drew (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-10)

  As is true in many regions, India experiences surface Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect that is well understood, but the causes of the more recently discovered Urban Cool Island (UCI) effect remain poorly constrained. This ...
• Nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete plane frames exposed to fire using direct stiffness method 

  Prakash, P. Ravi; Srivastava, Gaurav (SAGE Publications, 2017-10)

  This article presents a framework based on the direct stiffness method for nonlinear thermo-mechanical analysis of reinforced concrete plane frames subjected to fire. It accounts for geometric nonlinearity, material ...
• Biomineralization of calcium carbonates and their engineered applications: a review 

  Dhami, Navdeep Kaur; Reddy, M. Sudhakara; Mukherjee, Abhijit (Frontiers Media, 2013-10)

  Microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICCP) is a naturally occurring biological process in which microbes produce inorganic materials as part of their basic metabolic activities. This technology has been ...
• High-resolution near real-time drought monitoring in South Asia 

  Aadhar, Saran; Mishra, Vimal (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-10)

  Drought in South Asia affect food and water security and pose challenges for millions of people. For policy-making, planning, and management of water resources at sub-basin or administrative levels, high-resolution datasets ...
• Apparent translational component for rotational ground motions 

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

  Even though the rotational ground motion may contribute significantly to the response of certain structures, their effects are generally ignored in seismic design, because of non-availability of appropriate instruments for ...
• Intercomparison of regional-scale hydrological models and climate change impacts projected for 12 large river basins worldwide - a synthesis 

  Mishra, Vimal (IOP Publishing, 2017-08)

  An intercomparison of climate change impacts projected by nine regional-scale hydrological models for 12 large river basins on all continents was performed, and sources of uncertainty quantified in the framework of the ...
• Discussion on Array-derived rotational seismic motions: revisited 

  Basu, Dhiman; Constantinou, Michael C.; Whittaker, Andrew S. (Springer, 2017-12)

  A paper entitled “Array-derived rotational seismic motions: revisited” by Castellani (Bull Earthq Eng 15:(3) 813–825, 2017) has reported a generalize framework on array analysis for rotational ground motions. The paper ...
• An integrated framework for nonlinear analysis of plane frames exposed to fire using the direct stiffness method 

  Srivastava, Gaurav; Ravi Prakash, P. (Elsevier, 2017-10)

  A novel coupled framework for analysis of reinforced concrete (RC) and steel planar frames subjected to fire is developed with three-way coupling between heat transfer, mechanical deformations and pore pressure build-up. ...
• Numerical modeling of structural frames with infills subjected to thermal exposure: state-of-the-art review 

  Kumar, Puneet; Srivastava, Gaurav (Emerald, 2017-07)

  Purpose Reinforced concrete structural frames with masonry infills (infill-frames) are commonly used for construction worldwide. While the behavior of such frames has been studied extensively in the context of earthquake ...
• Effect of seismic hazard definition on isolation-system displacements in nuclear power plants 

  Kumar, Manish; Whittaker, Andrew S. (Elsevier, 2017-10)

  The effect of seismic hazard definition on the distribution of isolation-system displacements in a nuclear power plant (NPP) are studied in the paper and recommendations are made for design practice. The NPP is considered ...
• Estimation of small-strain shear modulus of embankment soils before construction using bender elements in compaction test 

  Prashant, Amit; Kotak, Himanshu; Jadhav, Prajakta R. (Springer, 2017-06)

  Design of railway track and highways on embankments with compacted fills often needs the value of small-strain shear modulus of the fill soil to be known before construction. This paper presents a new method of determining ...

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