In semi-urban setting where availability of land can afford construction of low-rise buildings, confined masonry may compete with other alternatives of seismic resilient system provided well-articulated design standards ...

We evaluated the anthropogenic forcing and exceedance probability of arsenic vulnerability in the Quaternary Alluviums of the Mid-Gangetic Plain through the coupled application of hydrogeochemical analyses, inverse modelling, ...

The Kosi River is a major cause of floods in Bihar. The Kosi River that emerges from Himalayas dissipates its energy on the plains in India leading to flood inundation in a large area during the monsoon (June to September) ...

The earthquake problem needs to be attacked from different directions and one important means to achieve seismic safety is to propagate building typologies that are inherently better against earthquakes. The confined masonry ...

This paper reports a novel approach for underwater measurement of mobile bottom surface by using an inexpensive 3-D depth sensor – Kinect. The sensor is tested in controlled conditions for surface profiling of rigid objects ...

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 ...

Modern Performance-Based Design (PBD) approach for seismic analysis of building structures is based on the evaluation of nonlinear response to earthquake-induced demand and assessment of performance based on the lateral ...

An important task in designing a truss structure is to determine the initial configuration of the truss. In the absence of an efficient optimization technique, the selection of initial geometry is based on a trial and error ...

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 ...