• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

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