• A substantial rise in the area and population affected by dryness in South Asia under 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5C warmer worlds 

  Aadhar, Saran; Mishra, Vimal (IOP Publishing, 2019-09)

  Millions of people in South Asia face water scarcity every year. Previous studies based on the multi-model ensemble mean reported a decline in dryness (the ratio of potential evapotranspiration and precipitation) in South ...
• A synthesis of hourly and daily precipitation extremes in different climatic regions 

  Barbero, Renaud; Fowler, Hayley J.; Blenkinsop, Stephen; Westra, Seth; Mishra, Vimal (Elsevier, 2019-12)

  Climatological features of observed annual maximum hourly precipitation have not been documented systematically compared to those on daily timescales due to observational limitations. Drawing from a quality-controlled ...
• Does ERA‐5 outperform other reanalysis products for hydrologic applications in India? 

  Mahto, Shanti Shwarup; Mishra, Vimal (American Geophysical Union, 2019-08)

  Global reanalysis products are extensively used for hydrologic applications in sparse data regions. ERA?5, among the new?era reanalysis products, has been significantly improved for horizontal and vertical resolutions and ...
• Effect of loading conditions and stress history on cyclic behavior of Kutch soil 

  Hussain, Majid; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor & Francis, 2019-06)

  Cyclic behavior of cohesionless soils at cyclic strains and frequencies resembling strong ground motion is highly non-linear. Recent developments in numerical analysis tools for the non-linear dynamic response of soils ...
• Effect of microstructure on stress�strain and pore-pressure response of sabarmati sand under the influence of mica 

  Seethalakshmi, P.; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor & Francis, 2019-06)

  Micaceous soil is believed to be detrimental for civil engineering constructions due to the effect of high compressibility, low compacted density and low shear strength. Individual mica particle has numerous intact mica ...
• Effect of crushing on stress�strain and pore pressure behavior of micaceous Kutch soil under monotonic compression and repeated loading�unloading conditions 

  Sachan, Ajanta; Seethalakshmi, P.; Mishra, Manas C. (Springer, 2019-05)

  Mica particles are flaky and layered in nature with relatively low hardness as compared to quartz particles. Micaceous soil with more than 10% mica is generally not recommended for pavements due to low compactability and ...
• Increased flood risk in Indian sub-continent under the warming climate 

  Ali, Haider; Modi, Parth; Mishra, Vimal (Elsevier, 2019-09)

  Millions of people in Indian sub-continent are affected by floods, which have increased during the past decades and likely to increase further in response to warming climate. However, changes in the frequency of floods and ...
• Dynamic characteristics of natural kutch sandy soils 

  Hussain, Majid; Sachan, Ajanta (Elsevier, 2019-10)

  Kutch region has experienced widespread liquefaction and related damage during a series of past earthquakes; however, cyclic behavior of sandy soils of the region is yet to be explored. The current study is focused on the ...
• Potential limits of capacitive deionization and membrane capacitive deionization for water electrolysis 

  Sharma, Ketki (Taylor and Francis, 2019-05)

  Water electrolysis can hinder the operation of capacitive deionization (CDI) and membrane CDI (MCDI). This study is aimed at investigating the overpotential limits of CDI and MCDI (OP-MCDI) for water electrolysis and ...
• Experimental studies on effect of load repetition on dynamic characteristics of saturated Ahmedabad cohesive soil 

  Pandya, Saloni; Sachan, Ajanta (Springer, 2019-06)

  The present study investigates the hysteresis response, stiffness degradation/cyclic softening and energy dissipation features of Ahmedabad cohesive soil. Saturated specimens of Ahmedabad cohesive soil were reconstituted ...
• Dynamic behaviour of Kutch soils under cyclic triaxial and cyclic simple shear testing conditions 

  Hussain, Majid; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor and Francis, 2019-04)

  The dynamic behaviour of soils from Kutch (seismically active region of Gujarat, India) was explored under cyclic triaxial (CTX) and cyclic simple shear (CSS) testing conditions. Under both the CTX and CSS conditions, the ...
• A cyclic backbone curve for shear-critical reinforced concrete walls 

  Epackachi, Siamak; Sharma, Nikhil; Whittaker, Andrew; Hamburger, Ronald O.; Hortacsu, Ayse (ASCE, 2019-04)

  Backbone curves are used in seismic design standards as the basis for developing component models for nonlinear static and dynamic analysis. Herein, data from 240 tests of rectangular, barbell, and flanged shear-critical ...
• Decline in surface urban heat island intensity in India during heatwaves 

  Kumar, Rahul; Mishra, Vimal (OPI Science, 2019-04)

  Heatwaves cause human mortality around the world and are projected to rise in the future. Despite the influence of urban heat island (UHI) on heatwaves, the role of UHI on heatwave intensification in urban areas in India ...
• Prediction of reservoir storage anomalies in India 

  Tiwari, Amar Deep; Mishra, Vimal (Wiley, 2019-02)

  Reservoirs provide water for irrigation and hydropower and protect downstream regions from flooding. Reservoir storage is affected by drought, which hampers the ability to provide water for irrigation and hydropower. Despite ...
• Studying the peak discharge through a planar dam breach 

  Kaurav, Rajkumari; Mohapatra, Pranab K. (merican Society of Civil Engineers, 2019-06)

  Studying the flow through a dam breach is important because it is characterized by a great deal of uncertainty and can be associated with loss of lives and properties. In the present study, planar dam breach erosion due ...
• Distributed plasticity model for analysis of steel structures subjected to fire using the direct stiffness method 

  Ravi Prakash, P.; Srivastava, Gaurav (Elsevier, 2019-04)

  This article develops a temperature-dependent distributed plasticity model in a direct stiffness method (DSM) based formulation for coupled nonlinear thermo-mechanical analysis of steel space frames. The developed framework ...
• Dynamic behaviour of micaceous sand with varying mica content and its association with compactability, compressibility and monotonic shear response 

  Seethalakshmi, P.; Sachan, Ajanta (Taylor & Francis, 2019-03)

  The recently proposed, KAZE image feature detection and description algorithm (Alcantarilla et al. in Proceedings of the British machine vision conference. LNCS, vol 7577, no 6, pp 13.1–13.11, 2013) offers significantly ...
• Aggregation behavior of inorganic 2D nanomaterials beyond graphene: insights from molecular simulations and modified DLVO theory 

  Mohona, Tashfia M.; Gupta, Anusha; Masud, Arvid; Chien, Szu-Chia; Lin, Li-Chiang; Nalam, Prathima C.; Aich, Nirupam (American Chemical Society, 2019-03)

  We report the comparative aggregation behavior of three emerging inorganic 2D nanomaterials (NMs): MoS2, WS2, and h-BN in aquatic media. Their aqueous dispersions were subjected to aggregation under varying concentrations ...
• On Conditional Simulation of Spatially Varying Rotational Ground Motion 

  Rodda, Gopala Krishna; Basu, Dhiman (Taylor & Francis, 2019-02)

  Authors elsewhere reported two frameworks for conditional simulation of spatially varying translational ground motion, namely, (i) cross-spectral density (CSD) based framework and (ii) auto-spectral density (ASD) based ...
• Reply of authors to: Discussion on Double wedge model for computing seismic sliding displacements of cantilever retaining walls by R. Conti and N.Cusano 

  Jadhav, Prajakta R.; Prashant, Amit (Elsevier, 2019-02)

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