Resume

1. Name : Dr. Ashok Kumar 2. Designation: Professor 3. Organisation: Department of Earthquake Engineering, University of Roorkee 4. Date of Birth: July 24, 1951 5. Academic (B.E. degree onwards) Qualifications: SN Degree University/Institution Division/

Equivalent Year Specialization

1 B.E. (Hons.)

BITS, Pilani First 1972 Mechanical Engineering

2 M.E. UOR, Roorkee (now I.I.T. Roorkee)

First with Hons.

1974 Machine Design

3 Ph.D. UOR, Roorkee (now I.I.T. Roorkee)

1993 Earthquake Engineering

6. Professional Experience • Development of computer software using digital signal processing techniques for

processing of strong motion earthquake data. • Search for attributes of Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) System and development

of algorithm for EEW. • Seismic qualification of Electrical Equipment on shake table for design earthquake.

These equipment are subsequently installed at important projects like Nuclear Power Plants after successful testing (about 35 testings/reports).

• Development of software for system identification using test data of shake table tests on the systems.

• Completed 75 consultancy projects from private, public and Government sectors and completed / working on 20 research projects.

• Authored about 80 technical papers published in various Journals and Proceedings of Conferences/ Symposia and about 50 technical reports of department.

7. Teaching • Taught courses on Theory of Vibrations, Solid Mechanics, Instrumentation, Model

analysis, Digital Signal Processing, Numerical Analysis, Computer Programming and Basics of Earthquake Engineering at various undergraduate and post-graduate levels.

• Have lectured as an invited lecturer for various specialist courses for practicing

engineers and scientists. • Co~ordinated specialist courses for engineers and scientists of different organisations

like Nuclear Power Corporation, IMD, DST etc.. 8. Laboratory Developed Developed the Shake Table Laboratory at the Department of Earthquake Engineering, Uiversity of Roorkee. The laboratory consists of a computer controlled servo-hydraulic biaxial shaking platform capable of simulating earthquake motion for testing a model/prototype of upto 20~tonnes. It is a real time system in which the shaking and acquisition of recorded data is done simultaneously. Designed the shaking table and developed the laboratory at an extremely low cost of approximately one million US~Dollars (A turnkey installation to reputed vendors would have costed about five million US~Dollars). 9. Instrument Developed Led a team of 2 Professors, two Readers and two research engineers in the design, development and fabrication of Digital Accelerograph capable of recording strong motion earthquakes in solid state memory. This work involved hardware and software development of a microprocessor based system. The technology of the instrument has been transferrred to industry for commercial production of this instrument. 10. Awards and Posts Held in Important Bodies • Received Khosla award of University of Roorkee for the year 1992 for a research

paper entitled "The Effect of Band limited interpolation of nonuniform Samples on Records of Analog Accelerographs" (authored with Basu,S. and Chandra, B.)

• Honorary Secretary, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology for 1993-95. • Life Member, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology

11. Significant Contributions As given in Annexure I

12. Publications upto September 2012

Refereed Journals

1. Suresh Kumar Walia, Hemant Kumar Vinayak, Ashok Kumar

& Raman Parti (2012) 'Nodal disparity in opposite trusses of a steel bridge: a case study' J Civil Struct Health Monit, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s13349-012-0021-4.

2. Ashok Kumar

3. Arjun, C.R and Ashok Kumar (2011) 'Neural Network Based Estimation of Normalized Response Spectra' ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology, Vol. 48, No. 2-4, paper no. 517, June-Dec. 2011 (In Press).

, Himanshu Mittal, Rajiv Sachdeva and Arjun Kumar (2012) 'Indian Strong Motion Instrumentation Network' Seismological Research Letters; Vol. 83, No. 1, Jan.- Feb. 2012, pp29-36

4. Arjun, C.R. and Ashok Kumar (2011) 'Neural network estimation of duration of strong ground motion using Japanese earthquake records', Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 31, Isuue 7, July 2011, pp866-872

5. S. K. Singh, A. Kumar, G. Suresh, M. Ordaz, J. F. Pacheco, M. L. Sharma, B. K.

Bansal, R. S. Dattatrayam and E. Reinoso (2010) 'Delhi Earthquake of 25 November 2007(Mw 4.1): Implications for Seismic Hazard', Current Science, Vol. 99, No. 7, 10 October 2010

6. Vinayak H. K., Kumar A. , Agarwal P. and Thakkar S.K.(2010) 'Damage

Behaviour Study of an RC Frame Model under Quasi-Static Testing', The Indian Concrete Journal, Vol 84, No. 8, Aug. 2010

7. Vinayak H. K., Kumar A. , Agarwal P. and Thakkar S.K.(2010) 'Neural Network-

Based Damage Detection from Transfer Function Changes', Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Vol.14: No. 5, June 2010, pp771 —787.

8. Arjun, C.R. and Ashok Kumar (2009) Artificial Neural Network Based Estimation

of Peak Ground Acceleration. ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology. Vol 46, No. 1, March 2009, Paper no. 501, pp. 19–28

9. Chris H. Cramer and Ashok Kumar (2003) 2001 Bhuj, India, Earthquake

Engineering Seismoscope Recordings and Eastern North America Ground-Motion Attenuation Relations. Bulletin of Seismological Society of America; Volume 93, Number 3 , June 2003

10. Ashok Kumar, S.K. Thakkar, A. Bharagava, R.N. Dubey, P. Agarwal, S. Basu,

and M. Shrikhande (2003). Records of instrumented buildings and study of structural response of staff quarters building of regional passport office, Ahmedabad for Bhuj earthquake of January 26, 2001. Memoir of Geological Society of India entitled Earthquake Studies in Peninsular India (Memoir no 54); (ISBN 81-85867-54-2); pp 143-174

11. Chandra B, Thakkar, S. K., Basu, S., Kumar A., Shrikhande, M., Das,J., Agrawal,

P. and Bansal, M.K. (2002). Strong Motion Records. Supplement of Earthquake Spectra 2001 Bhuj India Earthquake Reconnaissance Report; Section 2, Vol. 18, July 2002; pp53-66.

12. Chandra,B., Basu, S. , Kumar, A., Shrikhande, M., Das, J.D. and Bansal, M.K., (2001) Strong Motion Studies in Himalayas. . Research Highlights in Earth System Science. Spl. Vol. 2 on ‘Seismicity’ Indian Geological Congress, pp 343-356

13. Shrikhande, M., Das, J.D. , Bansal, M.K. , Kumar, A., Basu, S. and Chandra,B.

(2001) Strong Motion Characteristics of Uttarkashi Earthquake of October 20, 1991 and their Engineering Significance. Research Highlights in Earth System Science. Vol. 2 on ‘Seismicity’ Published by Indian Geological Congress, pp 337-342

14. Kumar, A., Basu, S. and Chandra, B. (1995) BLACS --- A New Correction Scheme

of Analog Accelerograms. PART -- 1: Details of Scheme. Bulletin of Indian Society of Earthquake Techmology, June 1995.

15. Kumar, A., Basu, S and Chandra, B. (1995) BLACS --- A New Correction Scheme

of Analog Accelerograms. PART -- 2: Comparison with other schemes. Bulletin of Indian Society of Earthquake Techmology, June 1995.

16. Chandra, B., Kumar, A. and Bansal, M.K. (1995) A Study of Strong Motion Data

Obtained during Uttarkashi Earthquake of Oct. 20, 1991 from INSMIN Network. Memoir on Uttarkashi Earthquake of Geological Society of India, Memoir no. 30

17. Basu, S., Kumar, A. and Chandra, B. (1994) Noise Cancellation in Records of

Digital Accelerographs through Adaptive Filter. Bulletin of Indian Society of Earthquake Technology; Vol. 31; No. 2; pp 91-115; June. 1994.

18. Kumar, A., Basu, S. and Chandra, B. (1993) Noise Characteristics of a Strong

Motion Accelerograph. Bulletin of Indian Society of Earthquake Technology; Vol. 30; No. 3; pp 101-111; Sept. 1993.

19. Kumar, A., Basu, S. and Chandra, B. (1992) The Effect of Band limited

interpolation of nonuniform Samples on Records of Analog Accelerographs.

Bulletin of Indian Society of Earthquake Technology; Vol. 29; No. 4; pp53--67.

20. Chandra, B. and Kumar, A. (1992) Development of Strong Motion Instruments in

India. Himalayan Seismicity, Memoir no. 23 of Geological Society of India; pp 123-150; 1992.

Conferences, Symposia, Workshops

1. Himanshu Mittal, Ashok Kumar, Arjun Kumar, Estimation of Ground Motion in

Delhi using 7th September 2011 Earthquake, Proceedings 15th World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, September 201, paper no. 0283.

2. Arjun Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Ashok Kumar, S.C.Gupta, A.K. Jindal, Himanshu Mittal Source Parameters of Uttarkashi Earthquake of 21st Sept 2009. Proceedings 15th

World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, September 201, paper no. 0695. 3. Rakhi Bhardwaj, Ashok Kumar, M.L. Sharma Analysis of Tau C and Pd Attributes for Earthquake Early Warning in India. Proceedings 15th World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, September 201, paper no. 0696. 4. Rajiv Sachdeva, Ashok Kumar, M.L. Sharma Estimation of Peak Ground

Acceleration using Artificial Neural Network. Proceedings 15th World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, September 201, paper no. 1847.

5. Rajiv Sachdeva, Ashok Kumar, and M.L.Sharma, Prediction of Average Shear Wave Velocity of a Site Using Strong Ground Motion Records and ANN, Proceedings 14th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Dec. 17- Dec. 19, 2010, IIT Roorkee, Vol I, pp126-137.

6. S. Venugopal, Ashok Kumar and M.L. Sharma, Comparison of Site Specific PGA Using Neural Networks and Regression Models. Proceedings 14th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Dec. 17 - Dec. 19, 2010, Vol I, pp233-252.

7. Rakhi Bhardwaj, Ashok Kumar and M.L. Sharma, An Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Primary Wave Onset for Early Warning System. Proceedings 14th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Dec. 17 - Dec. 19, 2010, Vol. I, pp373-380.

8. Sathe Prashant Dasharath, Ashok Kumar and S.K. Thakkar, Estimation of Governing Parameters of the Structure subjected to Ground Motion Using Transfer Function Approach. Proceedings 14th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Dec. 17 - Dec. 19, 2010, Vol. II, pp751-759.

9. Vinayak, H.K., Ashok Kumar, Thakkar, S.K. and Agarwal, Pankaj, NN Based Damage Detection from Modal Parameter Changes. Proceedings The 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Oct 12 – 17, 2008, Beijing, China, paper no. 05-01-0061

10. Arjun C.R. and Ashok Kumar (2008), ANN Based Prediction of Earthquake

Parameters using K-NET Strong Ground Motion Data. Proceedings Indo- Japan Theme Meeting and Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction – Earthquakes, Landslides and Tsunami, August 28-29, 2008, Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore. Paper no. V-4.

11. Alokendu Bhattacharya, Yogesh Pisal, Ashok Kumar and M. L. Sharma

(2007), Development of Site Specific Response Spectrum for Roorkee Region. Proceedings International Conference on Civil Engineering in the New Millennium : Opportunity and Challenges (CENeM-2007), 11-14 Jan, 2007, Bengal Engg. College, Shibpur, West Bengal

12. Himanshu Mittal, S. Gupta, A. Srivastava, R.N. Dubey and Ashok Kumar

(2006) National Strong Motion Instrumentation Project – An Overview, Proceedings 13th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Dec. 18-20, 2006. pp107-115.

13. Ashok Kumar (2006) Generation of Spectrum Compatible Time History with

Fling. (Keynote presentation) Proceedings 13th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Dec. 18-20, 2006. pp172-178

14. H.R. Wason, A. Sinvhal, D. Shankar, Ashok Kumar and V.H. Joshi (2006)

Ground Deformations Observed due to Great Sumatra Earthquake of December 26, 2004 and Tsunami in and Around Andaman Nicobar Islands. Proceedings 13th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Dec. 18-20, 2006. pp228-237.

15. H.K. Vinayak, Ashok Kumar, S.K. Thakkar, Pankaj Agarwal and M.

Shrikhande (2006) Damage Detection of Structures using Frequency and Mode Shape Changes. Proceedings 13th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Dec. 18-20, 2006. pp878-888

16. Satish Chandra K., Hemant Kumar Vinayak, Ashok Kumar and S.K. Thakkar (2006) Experimental Damage Detection of a Beam Using Experimental Data. Proceedings 13th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Dec. 18-20, 2006. pp909-916

17. J.P. Singh, Ashok Kumar, Pankaj Agarwal and S.K. Thakkar (2006) Ambient

Vibration Testing of a Ten Storied Building in Ahmedabad Gujarat after2001

Bhuj Earthquake. Proceedings 13th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Dec. 18-20, 2006. pp917-924.

18. Ashok Kumar (2006) Software for Generation of Spectrum Compatible Time

History Having Same Phase as of a Given Time History. Proceedings of the 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering; April 18-22, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA. Paper no 172.

19. Ashok Kumar and Hemant Kumar Vinayak (2006) Health Monitoring of

Narnarayan Setu and Saraighat Bridge using Proposed Strong Motion Instrumentation. Proceedings of Workshop on Advances in Bridge Engineering, March 24-25, 2006, pp363-368

20. M. L. Sharma, Hilmar Bungum, Ashok Kumar, Atanu Bhattacharya (2006)

Development of Strong Ground Motion Attenuation Relationship for Spectral Accelerations for the Himalayan Region. Workshop on Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment (under Indo Norwegian Programme of Institutional Cooperation), India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 18-19, 2006

21. Pisal Yogesh and Ashok Kumar (2005) Issues Involved in Generation of

Spectrum Compatible Time History. Paper presented in World Conference on Disaster Mitigation held in IIT Bombay on November 17 to 19, 2005

22. Ashok Kumar (2004) Software for Generation of Spectrum Compatible Time History. Proceedings 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, August 2004. Paper no. 2096

23. Ashok Kumar, Ashish Bhargava, S.K. Thakkar, Pankaj Agarwal and R.N.

Dubey (2002) Response of Passport Building for Spectrum Compatible Time History of Bhuj Earthquake at Anjar. Proceedings 12th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee Dec. 16 to 18, 2002.

24. Ashok Kumar (2002) Generation of Spectrum Compatible Time History

Proceedings 12th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee Dec. 16 to 18, 2002.

25. M. Shrikhande, J.D. Das, Ashok Kumar and S. Basu (2002) Strong Motion

Records from NW Himalayan and NE Indian Regions: A Review. Proceedings 12th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee Dec. 16 to 18, 2002.

26. Manish Shrikhande, Durgesh C. Rai, Ashok Kumar and S. Basu (2002)

Upgradation of Shake Table Facility. Proceedings 12th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee Dec. 16 to 18, 2002

27. Chris H. Cramer, S.N. Bhattacharya and Ashok Kumar (2002) The 2001

Mw7.7 Bhuj, India Earthquake and Eastern North American Ground-Motion

Attenuation Relations: Seismic Hazard Implications . Presented by Chris H. Cramer in the Fall American Geophysical Union held in USA in December 2002.

28. Cramer, C.H, and A. Kumar (2002), The 2001 Gujarat, India Earthquake and

Eastern North America Ground-motion Attenuation and Magnitude-area Relations: Impact on Seismic Hazard (abstract), Seismological Research Letters, v. 73, p. 238. (Presented at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America in April 2002 in USA by C.H. Cramer).

29. Kumar, A., S. Basu, S.K. Thakkar, M. Shrikhande, P. Agarwal, J. Das, and

D.K. Paul (2001). Strong Motion Records of Bhuj Earthquake, International Conference on Seismic Hazard with Particular Reference to Bhuj Earthquake, New Delhi, Oct. 3-5, 2001

30. Shrikhande, M., Basu, S., Kumar, A., Chandra,B., and Das, J.D. (2001)

Analysis of Strong Motion Data of Chamoli Earthquake of March 29, 1999. Proceedings Workshop on Recent Earthquakes of Chamoli and Bhuj, May 24-26, 2001, Roorkee.

31. Kumar, A., Basu, S. and Chandra, B. (2000) Use of Synchronous Noise as Test Signal for Evaluation of Strong Motion Data Processing Schemes. Proceedings 12th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand, Jan.3-Feb. 4, 2000. Paper no. 0931.

32. Shrikhande, M., Das, J., Bansal, M.K., Kumar, A., Basu, S. and Chandra, B.

(1998) Analysis of Strong Motion Records from Dharamshale Earthquake of April 26, 1986. Proceedings 11th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Dec 17-18, 1998; pp281-285.

33. Chandra, B., Basu, S., Kumar, A., Das, J. and Bansal, M.K. (1997) Ground

Motion Characteristics from Strong Motion Instruments during April 26, 1986 Earthquake. Proceedings Workshop on Earthquake Disaster Preparedness, Roorkee Oct. 13-14, 1997

34. Kumar, A., Basu,S. and Chandra,B. (1996) Critical Evaluation of Various

Steps in Processing of Accelerogram. Proceedings 11th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Acapulco, Mexico, June 1996

35. Kumar, A., Basu, S. and Chandra, B. (1996) Problems of Analog

Accelerograph and Details of a Digital Accelerograph. Proceedings Symposium on Earthquake Effects on Structures, Plants and Machinery, New Delhi, Nov. 13-15, 1996

36. Pankaj, Kumar, A. and Basu, S. (1996) On Seismic Testing of Electrical Equipments. Proceedings Symposium on Earthquake Effects on Structures, Plants and Machinery, New Delhi, Nov. 13-15, 1996.

37. Chandra, B., Basu, S., Kumar, A.,Das, J and Bansal, M.K. (1996) Strong

Motion Studies at Department of Earthquake Engineering University of Roorkee. Proceedings of the Workshop on Design Practices in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, University of Roorkee, Sept 26-27, 1996.

38. Pankaj, Kumar, A. and Basu, S. (1995) Seismic Qualification of Equipment – A

Need for Greater Understanding. Proceedings National Conference on Role of Continuing Education in Industrial Restructuring, University of Roorkee, pp157-162, Feb. 1995.

39. Basu, S., Lawania, K.K., Kumar, A. (1994) System Identification of a Circuit

Breaker Pole. Proceedings Tenth Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, University of Roorkee, Vol. 2, pp827-836.

40. Kumar, A., Pankaj and Basu, S. (1994) Effect of Linear Interpolation on

Response Spectra Proceedings Tenth Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, Vol.2, pp869-878, November, 1994.

41. Chandra, B., Kumar, A., Basu, S. and Bansal, M.K. (1994) Strong Motion

Information from Structural Response Recorders during Uttarkashi Earthquake. Proceedings Tenth Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, Vol.1, pp93-104.

42. Pankaj, Kumar, A. and Basu, S. (1994) Interpolation of Design Accelerogram

for Direct Integration Analysis of Concrete Structures. Proceedings of Conference on Computation Mechanics of Concrete Structures, Innsbruk, Austria, March 1994.

43. Basu, S.,Pankaj and Kumar, A. (1992) On the Importance of Band Limited

Excitation in Direct Integration analysis of structures. Proceedings Tenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Madrid, Spain; Vol. 7; pp3779-3785.

44. Kumar, A., Basu, S. and Chandra, B. (1992) Correction of Data Obtained

from Digital Accelerographs. Proceedings Tenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Madrid, Spain; vol. 1; pp187-193.

45. Kumar, A., Gupta, N.C., Basu, S., Bansal, M.K. and Verma, V.K. (1990)

Microprocessor Based Strong Motion Recorder. Proc. 9th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Roorkee, Vol. I, pp 5-109 to 5-116, Dec. 1990.

46. Kumar, A., and Basu, S. (1989) Isolation of Shake Table System. Proceedings Workshop on Base Isolation, New Delhi; June 1989.

47. Kumar, A., Chandra, B., Mathur, S., Basu, S. and Bansal, M.K. (1988) Strong

Motion Data from Bihar Nepal Earthquake of Aug. 21, 1988". Workshop on Bihar Nepal Earthquake, IIT Kanpur; Dec. 1988

48. Kumar, A. and Pankaj (1986) Determination and Effect of Frictional Damping

in Structural Response Recorder. Proc. Eighth Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Roorkee; Vol. I; pp 543-545

49. Arya, A.S., Basu, S., Srivastava, L.S., Bandopadyaya, S., Prajapati, G.I. and

Kumar, A. (1986) Design and Development of a Shake Table System. Proceedings Eighth Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, University of Roorkee, Vol.2, 1986.

50. Kumar, A., Chandrasekaran, A.R. and Chandra, B. (1986) Earthquake

Withstand Test on a Bus Duct. . (1986) Proceedings Eighth Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, University of Roorkee, Vol.1, 1986 pp659-666

51. Kumar, A. , and Upadhyay, S.K.(1985) Network of Strong Motion Instrumnts in

North East India and Cachar Earthquake of Dec, 31, 1984. Second Workshop on Cachar Earthquake and Seismicity of North East India, New Delhi, May 1985.

52. Agarwal, R.C. and Kumar, A. (1984) Seismic Instruments in and around Dams.

Proceedings Workshop on Instrumentation of Dam held at Central Water Commission, New Delhi.

53. Kumar, A. and Upadyaya, S.K. (1984) Indian National Strong Motion

Instrumentation Network. Presented in Workshop on All India Co ordinated Projects on Seismology and Seismo tectonics of Himalayan Region; Dehradun, Dec. 1984.

54. Kumar, A. and Pankaj (1984) On SRR records Considering Effect of Frictional

Damping. Proc. Earthquake Effects on Plants and Equipments , Hyderabad; Dec. 1984; pp 61-64

55. Pratima Rani and Kumar, A. (1981) Control of Seismic Effect on Switch Yard

Equipment. Proceedings 7th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Istanbul, Vol. 8, pp71-79.

56. Srivastava, L.S. and Kumar, A. (1981) Indian National Strong Motion Network

in North East India. Proceedings Symposium on Seismicity and Associated Problems in North East India, March 1981.

57. Pandey, A.D. and Kumar, A. (1981) Seismic Analysis of EH-T-7 Structure. Proceedings Symposium on Earthquake Disaster Mitigation, Roorkee; Vol.1, PP221-227, March 1981

58. Agarwal, R.C., Gupta, S.P. and Kumar, A. (1981) A Preliminary Report on

Pithoragarh Earthquake of July 29, 1980. Proceedings Symposium on Earthquake Disaster Mitigation, Roorkee, March 1981.

Reviews and Notes

1. Ashok Kumar (2011) Seismic Hazard: Fukushima Vs. Jaitapur Indian Nuclear Society News

2. Ashok Kumar (2004) Strong Motion Instrumentation Programme at IIT Roorkee. SCI_TECH; R&D magazine of IIT Roorkee.

3. Ashok Kumar (1980) Review of a Book in Hindi. Bulletin Indian Society of

Earthquake Technology; Vol.. 17; No. 3; Page 42; Sept. 1980.

4. Agarwal, R.C., Ashok Kumar and Basu, S. (1979) Relationship with Earthquake Activity and Geologic Structure in Andaman Nicobar Region; Abstract Earthquake Note; Vol. 50, No.4, Page 48, Dec. 1979.

5. Ashok Kumar and Agarwal, R.C. (1979) Frictional damping in Structural

Response Recorder. Abstract Earthquake Note; Vol. 50, No.4, Dec. 1979.

13. Sponsored Research and Consultancy Projects upto January 2009

Sponsored Research Project SN Title Funding Agency

Duration Amount in Lakhs Rs.

1. Strong Ground Motion Studies and its Applications

Ministry of Earth Science

2011-13 164.79

2. Estimation of site effect and ground motion in Delhi and Mexico City using strong ground motion data and preparation of real time shake map

DST, New Delhi

2008-2011

14.62

3. Design earthquake ground motion using recorded time histories: Estimation using neural network

BRNS, Mumbai 2008-2011 15.87

4. Strong Motion Instrumentation Network in Delhi

DST, New Delhi 2007-2010 45.81

5. National Strong Motion Instrumentation Network

DST, New Delhi 2004-2009 1201.40

6. Indo Norwegian Programme of Institutional Co-operation on Earthquake Engineering

Kingdom of Norway

2003-2005 69.50

7. Installation of Strong Motion Array in Guwahati for Site Characterization & Instrumentation of Multistoreyed Building

DST, New Delhi 2003-2006 96.37 (Funds Received by IIT G)

8. Structural Identification and Health Monitoring of Multistoried Reinforced Concrete Buildings

MHRD, New Delhi

2003-2005 16.00

9. Seismic Studies, upgradation and maintenance of instrumented multistoried buildings

DST, New Delhi 2002 –07 21.20

10. Seismic Design of Soft Storey in Reinforced Concrete Building based on analytical and experimental studies

DST, New Delhi 2002-2005 6.86

11. Attenuation Studies through a Small Window of Garhwal Himalaya through Strong Motion Instrumentation

DST, New Delhi 2000-2004 97.19

12. Strong Motion Studies in Himalayas DST, New Delhi 1997-2004 138.41 13. Structural Response Studies through

Instrumentation of MultiStoreyed Buildings

World Bank/ DST, New Delhi

1996-2002 231.78

14. Upgradation of Shake Table DST, New Delhi 2000-2002 104.26 15. Preparation of Atlas of Strong Motion

Instrumentation DST, New Delhi 1999-2001 6.37

16. Strong Motion Instrumentation of Bihar Region

DST, New Delhi 1996-2000 56.82

17. Development of Digital Accelerograph DST, New Delhi 1989-1992 5.50

18. Indian National Strong Motion Instrumentation Network

DST, New Delhi 1976-1997 ≈ 140.00

Total Amount of Research Projects 2432.75 Lakhs

Sponsored Consultancy Projects

Projects on Strong Motion Instrumentation SN Title Funding Agency Duration Amount in

Lakhs Rs 1. Instrumentation of Multistoried Buildings

in Delhi CPWD, New Delhi 3 Years 9.00

2. Consultancy on configuration of Strong Motion Instruments in Sardar Sarover Dam

Sardar Sarover Nigam, Vadodra

1 year 0.25

3 Testing of Seismological Instruments of Gujarat Engineering Research Institute

GERI, Vadodra One year 11.00

4 Instrumentation, maintenance and Data Processing of Strong Motion Instruments at Pong Dam

Bhakra and Beas Management Board, Talwara

2003-06 8.79

5 Operation of strong motion network around Tehri Region (P-9510(ii))

THDC 6 Years 35.28

6 Operation and training on strong motion Instruments of Chamera Hydro electric Project (P-9518)

Chamera Hydro Electric Project

3 years 1.00

7 Installation, maintenance and processing of records of digital accelerographs at Kaliamobhora Bridge (P-598)

NEF Railways 4 years 12.00

8 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerograph and SRRs for Barauni refinery (P-565)

IOL, Barauni 2 year 0.55

9 Design, fabrication and installation of SRRs at Sardar Sarovar Project (P-530)

Sardar Sarovar Project 2 Years 0.20

10 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs at an experimental building of NBO (P-512)

NBO, Delhi 2 Years 0.90

11 Design, fabrication and installation of SRRs and accelerographs at Salal Project (P-470)

NHPC 3 Years 1.30

12 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs at CGO complex N. Delhi (P-464)

CPWD, New Delhi 3 Years 0.88

13 Design, fabrication and installation of SRRs for MERI, Nasik (P-445(B))

MERI, Nasik 2 Years 0.30

14 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs for Almatti Dam (P-432)

Almatti Dam 3 Years 0.90

15 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs for Tehri (P-409)

Irrgation Department, UP

3 Years 0.25

16 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs for Bhakara Dam (P-391)

BBMB 1 Year 0.10

17 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs and SRRs for Sewa Bhawan, Delhi (P-372)

CPWD, New Delhi 3 Years 0.60

18 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs at Chakra and Savalekha

Chakra and Savalekha Dam Authority

3 Year 0.75

(P-343) 19 Design, fabrication and installation of

SRRs for Salal project (P-331) NHPC 2 Years 0.07

20 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs for Damanganga Project (P-324)

Dam Authority 2 Years 0.50

21 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs at VishnuPrayag Project (P-306)

Irrigation Department, UP

3 Years 0.25

22 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs for BBMB (P-263(a))

BBMB 3 Years 0.50

23 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs for Kalinadi (P-261)

Project Authority 2 Years 0.25

24 Design, fabrication and installation of accelerographs for Ramganga Project

Ramganga Project Authority

3 Years 1.00

86.62

Projects on Shake Table Testing

SN Title

Funding Agency

Duration Amount Lakh of Rs.

1. Seismic Testing of Bus Duct Manufactured by C&S Electric Ltd. Greater NOIDA

C&S Electric Ltd. Greater NOIDA

One Year 4.00

2 Vibration Testing of Transformer for Garibrath coaches of Indian Railways

Vimal Transformer, Moradabad

Three months

0.30

3 Vibration Testing of Transformer for LHB coaches of Indian Railways

Vimal Transformer, Moradabad

Three months

1.00

4 Seismic Testing of Power Pack (P-9907) Vickers, Pune One year 10.00 5 Seismic Testing of Battery Charger (P-

9708) Caldyne, Calcutta One year 7.50

6 Seismic testing of 60 KVA UPS (P-9807) KELTRON, Thiruvananthpuram

One year 7.50

7 Seismic testing of 2X250 KVA UPS (P-9702)

KELTRON, Thiruvananthpuram

One year 7.50

8 Seismic testing of 250 KVA UPS (P-9609) KELTRON One year 7.50 9 Seismic Testing of Reactivity Mechanism

(P-9505) Nuclear Power Corporation, Mumbai

Five years 9.00

10 Seismic Testing of PLC Panel (P-9611) L&T, Mumbai One Year 7.50 11 Seismic Testing of 200 KVA UPS (P-

9608) KELTRON One year 7.50

12 Seismic Testing of Standby Float cum Boost Charger (P-9504)

Amara Raja Power Systems

One year 7.50

13 Seismic Testing of EMTR Panel (P-9603) ECIL, Hyderabad One year 7.50 14 Seismic Test of Batteries & stand (P-9512) Exde Industries Ltd. One year 7.50 15 Seismic Testing of Distribution Board (P-

9504) K. Dhandapani & Co., Madras

One year 7.50

16 Seismic Testing of Single door MCC panel (P-9501)

Siemens Ltd. Thane One year 7.50

17 Seismic Testing of Circuit Breaker (P-9502)

Siemens Ltd, Thane One Year 7.50

18 Seismic Testing of Double Door MCC Siemens Ltd., Thane One Year 7.50

Panel (P-9503) 19 Seismic Testing of 1800 KVA Dry Type

Cast Resin Transformer (P-9402) Vijay Electricals, Hyderabad

One Year 7.50

20 Seismic Testing of 1200 KVA Dry Type Cast Resin Transformer (P-9405)

Vijay Electricals, Hyderabad

One Year 7.50

21 Seismic Testing of Relay Panel (P-9107) GEC Alsthom India Ltd., Madras

One Year 6.00

22 Seismic Testing of MV Switch Board (P-9404)

ABB Ltd. Nashik One Year 7.50

23 Seismic Testing of MV Switch Board (P-9403)

Siemens Ltd., Thane One Year 7.50

24 Seismic Testing of LT ACB (P-9108)

English Electric Company of India, Madras

One Year 6.00

25 Seismic Testing of LT Switch Boards with ACBs and Relay control panel (P-593)

NGEF, Ltd, Bangalore One Year 5.00

26 Seismic Testing of Double Front 8PU-S1 type LT Switch Board (P-585)

Siemens Ltd, Bombay One Year 3.50

27 Seismic Testing of 415V Switchgear Panel and Relay Panel (P-582)

English Electric Company, Madras

One Year 3.50

28 Seismic Testing of Relay Panels type S22 and S23 (P-566)

English Electric Company, Madras

One Year 2.50

29 Seismic Testing of 36KV Outdoor Vacuum Circuit Breaker Type PVN36 (P-544)

BHEL, Bhopal One Year 2.00

30 Seismic Testing of 6.6 KV Switchgear Panel and Relay & Control Panel of DG Set (P-557)

Hindustan Brown Boveri Ltd. Vadodra

One Year 3.50

31 Seismic Testing of Programmable Controller type Simatic S-5-110S (P-559)

Siemens Ltd. One Year 3.50

32 Seismic Testing of 88 and 32 Cells Battery Stands with battery (P-548)

Punjab Power Packs Ltd. Chandigarh

One Year 3.00

33 Seismic Testing of 250 KVA 3 phase UPS module and SOA Panel (P-544)

The National Radio and Electronics Ltd.

One Year 4.00

34 Seismic Testing of Regulation Cubicle (P-526)

BHEL, Bangalore One Year 1.50

35 Seismic Testing of Instrumentation Panel (P-528)

BHEL, Hardwar One Year 1.50

36 Seismic Testing of 245 KV SF6 Circuit Breaker (P-519)

NGEF Ltd. Bangalore One Year 1.50

37 Seismic Testing of 400 KV CT (P-508) BHEL, Bhopal One Year 0.50 38 Seismic Testing of Panel (P-437) BHEL, Hyderabad One Year 0.40 39 Seismic Testing of Bus Duct (P-381) Best and Crompton,

Madras One Year 0.40

40 Seismic Testing of Panel (P-389) BHEL, Bhopal One Year 0.50 41 Seismic Testing of Panel (P-370) HBBL, Baroda One Year 0.40 201.00

Site Specific Design Earthquake Parameters

SN Title Funding Agency Duration Amount

Lakh Rs.

1 Site Specific Design Earthquake Parameter Study of Dibbin HEP (EQD-3013/08-09)

Dibbin HPPL, Hydrabad Two year 5.00

2 Site Specific Design Earthquake Parameter S&I (WR) Division, 3 Years 5.00

Study of Parwan Irrigation Project near Jhalawar (EQD-3015/08-09)

Jhalawar (Rajasthan)

3 Site Specific Design Earthquake Parameter Study of Shontong Karcham HEP (EQD-3016/08-09)

Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd. Sundernagar

4 Years 5.00

4 Site Specific Design Earthquake Parameter Study of Tilaiya Dam, Jharkhand (EQD-3018/08-09)

Jharkhand Integrated Power Ltd. New Delhi

3 Years 8.00

23.00

Other Projects SN Title Funding Agency Duration Amount

Lakhs Rs 1 Design, analysis and shake table testing of

model of reactor building of NPC Nuclear Power Corporation, Mumbai

5 years 10.00

2 Stress Analysis of 420 kV Isolator of Elpro International Ltd.

Elpro International Ltd. 1 month 0.30

3 Feasibility of Instrumentation of two rail bridges of NEF Railways

NEF Railways 6 months 0.25

4 Design, Fabrication, Installation and Processing of Data of Tiltmeters at Kaliamobhora Bridge (P-598)

NEF Railways 5 Years 1.00

5 Vibration Studies in Administrative Building of Power Station at Kasimpur

UPSEB 2 Years 0.40

6 Static and Dynamic Analysis of District Judges Court, Allahabad

PWD 2 Years 0.06

7 Design of Underwater Fragmentation Tank of TBRL

TBRL, Chandigarh 3 Years 0.08

8 Design and Fabrication of Large Size Shake Table for MERI, Nasik

MERI, Nasik 3 Years 1.10

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ANNEXURE-I

SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS

1. Since 1976, working for development of strong motion instrumentation network in India. Formulated, negotiated and received several strong motion projects from Department of Science and Technology (DST), World Bank, Tehri Hydro Development Corporation and other river valley projects. At present, looking after a network of about 400 strong motion accelerographs (135 analog SMA 1 and 265 digital) and 350 structural response recorders (modified version of seismoscope with six pendulums). These efforts have significantly contributed in making Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee as the nodal agency of strong motion instrumentation in India and abroad.

2. Almost all major earthquakes that have struck our country after early 80’s have been recorded by

this instrumentation. These records have created an extremely important data base which has been widely used by engineers and scientists for research and application in the field of earthquake engineering and seismology.

3. Above efforts have resulted into award to IIT Roorkee, a most prestigious mission mode project of

Department of Science and Technology (now with Ministry of Earth Sciences). In this project named as “National Strong Motion Instrumentation Network”, we have developed a network of 300 digital strong motion accelerographs covering area of seismic zone IV, V and some densely populated cities of zone III. About 240 of these instruments are connected through NICNET / SWAN of NIC. This state of the art instrumentation is one of the largest network of strong motion instruments in world with almost real time capability covering a window of about 2000 km x 300 km. A website named as www.pesmos.in has been developed and all the recorded time histories are uploaded in this website for registered users. As of now (September 2012), about 500 time histories from 170 earthquakes have been uploaded in this web site.

4. Formulated and developed use of synchronous noise (having absolute flat power spectrum) for evaluation of different numerical schemes used for processing of data as well as analysis of systems.

5. Developed and disseminated widely, several digital signal processing software with graphic

interface. List of software and a brief description of each is enclosed herewith. Latest being, software for development of spectrum compatible time history with fling. These software are being commonly used by students and researchers in India and abroad.

6. Band limited interpolation scheme, which is quite common in image processing, was introduced

for use for earthquake engineering data. It has been shown that prevalent interpolation schemes using first or higher order interpolation substantially distorts the digital data and can adversely affect the engineering results.

7. New scheme for processing of accelerogram in frequency domain was developed.

Its advantages over prevalent time domain processing schemes were highlighted. 8. We have performed in-depth analysis on various aspects of ground motion of all recorded

earthquakes. For Bhuj Earthquake of 2001, records of SRR were used to find attenuation relationship of the region, which has then been compared with Eastern North America ground motion attenuation relation. Under an Indo Norwegian project, attenuation characteristics of spectral acceleration using recorded acceleration time histories was done

9. For the first time in India, an extensively instrumented multistoried building at Ahmedabad provided records of its response of its different floors during Bhuj earthquake of 2001. Using structural drawings of the building, it was analyzed for recorded ground motion and analytical as well as recorded response were then compared and studied in detail. Model of the structure was fine tuned and effects of soil structure interaction is being studied in detail.

10. Developed, maintained, operated, upgraded and extensively used the prestigious shake table

facility of the Department of Earthquake Engineering. Large number of seismic tests of power plant equipment of reputed private and public sector companies were conducted on this facility.

11. Worked as Organizing Secretary of 12th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, which was

conducted with great success on December 16-18, 2002. About 250 delegates from 15 different countries participated in the symposium. Edited two volumes of the conference proceedings comprising of 169 technical papers. For the first time, conference proceedings were made available in a CD.

12. In the year 1991, developed a microprocessor based digital accelerograph under a research scheme

of DST. This accelerograph has a resolution of 12 bits. Technology transfer document were prepared and technology was transferred to a Delhi based private enterprise.

LIST OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPED AND DISSEMINATED

SN Name Brief Description

1 SPEC Takes ASCII values of a target response spectrum as input and outputs ASCII values of response compatible acceleration time history. Takes input of damping value of target response spectra, duration of time history, rise time of time history and decay time of time history from terminal. Graphic display of comparison of target spectra vs. achieved spectra after each iteration as well as achieved time history is also provided.

2. SPEC3 Generates spectrum compatible time history with fling using phase of a recorded time history.

3. RESP Takes equally sampled acceleration ASCII time history file as input file. Provides ASCII output of spectral acceleration for given periods and dampings (to be specified in another input file). Graphic display of input time history and output response spectra (for all the dampings in one figure) is also provided.

4. BINRESP Takes equally sampled ASCII acceleration time history file as input file. Provides ASCII output of spectral acceleration at bin frequency interval for damping to be provided through terminal. ). Graphic display of input time history and output response spectra is also provided.

5 LOPASS Takes equally sampled ASCII time history file as input. Takes cut off frequency for low pass filter as well as order of filter as input through terminal. Outputs ASCII file of low passed time history. Graphic display of input time history as well as low passed output time history is also provided.

6 HIPASS Takes equally sampled ASCII time history file as input. Takes cut off frequency for high pass filter as well as order of filter as input through terminal. Outputs ASCII file of high passed time history. Graphic display of input time history as well as high passed output time history is also provided.

7 BPASS Takes equally sampled ASCII time history file as input. Takes cut off frequencies for band pass filter as well as order of filter as input through terminal. Outputs ASCII file of band passed time history. Graphic display of input time history as well as band passed output time history is also provided.

8 FFT Takes one directional equally sampled ASCII time history file as input and outputs Fourier magnitude of time history in ASCII format. Graphic display of input time history and output FFT magnitude is also provided.

9 INSCOR Takes equally sampled ASCII acceleration time history file as input. Takes natural frequency and damping of sensor as input through terminal. Performs instrument correction of the input file and outputs the ASCII corrected acceleration time history file. Graphic display of input time history as well as instrument corrected output time history is also provided.

10 WNOISE Generates synchronous noise (a white noise whose Fourier magnitude is exact one) of duration and sampling rate to be taken through terminal. Graphic display of generated time history is also provided

11 BASECOR Takes equally sampled ASCII time history file as input. Takes least square line of the history as baseline (x axis) and outputs ASCII file with new base line (rotational components not considered). Graphic display of input time history as well as baseline corrected output time history is also provided.

12 NONLIN Takes unequally sampled ASCII time history file as input. Outputs linearly interpolated equally sampled time history file at sampling rate to be given through terminal.

13 GENSIN Generates single frequency sinusoidal data of duration and sampling rate to be given through terminal. Graphic display of generated time history is also

provided. 14 MULTISIN Generates multi-frequency sinusoidal data of frequencies and magnitudes (to be

given through an input file) and duration as well as sampling rate to be given through terminal. Graphic display of generated time history is also provided.

15 FDIF Takes equally sampled ASCII time history file as input. Performs differentiation in frequency domain and outputs differentiated time history ASCII file. Graphic display of input time history and differentiated time history is also provided.

16 FINT Takes equally sampled ASCII time history file as input. Performs integration in frequency domain and outputs integrated time history ASCII file. Graphic display of input time history and integrated time history is also provided

17 PROC1 Takes digitized files of records of SMA 1 performed on digitizing table of DEQ and converts them on unequally spaced uncorrected accelerogram

18 ALINT Performs linear interpolation to increase sampling rate of an equally spaced ASCII time history file.

19 INPO1 Performs band limited interpolation of equally spaced ASCII time history file such that values of original samples do not change and new samples are determined in between original samples such that frequency contents of original sequence are maintained

20 INPO2 Performs band limited interpolation of equally spaced ASCII time history file. However, values of original samples are not kept and all the new samples are determined such that frequency contents of original sequence are maintained.

Note: For each of the above software, a text file is also made which gives detailed instructions about working of the program.