National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Newsletter: Aug 2023


In this Newsletter:

 

NICEE Activities

 

1.       Inter-School Quiz Competition on IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips 2022-23

2.       Literature Review Workshop for Post Graduate Students

3.       Open House of NICEE

4.       Workshop for Under Graduate Architecture Students in Third Year

5.       Intimation Regarding Change of Postal Address/ email id

6.       RESIST Software Available for Individual Users

 

Conferences

7.       18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024), June 30 – July 05, 2024 Milan, Italy

 

Excerpts from other Newsletters 

8.       Newsletter of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), USA

               

Support to NICEE

9.       Recent Donors to NICEE

 

Details:

 

1. Inter-School Quiz Competition based on IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips 2023-24

                       

The invite for Inter-School Quiz for 2023-24 has been sent to all schools. You may like to respond to the same.

 

2. Literature Review Workshop for Post Graduate Students

 

The Annual Workshop for post graduate students pursuing their masters or doctorate degree with thesis in earthquake engineering is scheduled to be held during May 09 – 18, 2024. For further details please visit the website.

 

3. Open House of NICEE

 

The open house is held with the aim to enable postgraduate students to conduct literature survey for their thesis related to earthquake engineering issues and interact with the faculty and professionals. The Open House also welcomes professional engineers and architects to help them familiarize themselves with enormous literature available at NICEE on design and construction of safe habitat. The details of the Open House will be promulgated shortly. For further details or any queries please contact : Suresh Ailawadi at Tele - 0512 – 259 7749, Fax – 0512 – 259 7794 or E-mail: asuresh@iitk.ac.in

 

4. Workshop for Under Graduate Architecture Students in Third Year

 
The workshop for Architecture students to be held at IIT Kanpur during 2024, will be announced shortly. The aim of this workshop is to draw the attention of Architecture students toward keeping the earthquake engineering aspects in view while designing their structures. This year the workshop was held from July 22-29, 2023  and 61 students participated (https://www.nicee.org/Architecture_Workshop/Arch_Ws_2023_Report.pdf)

 

For details about previous workshops please visit http://www.nicee.org/Architecture_Workshop/

For further details or any queries related to the workshop, please contact: Suresh Ailawadi at Tele - 0512 – 259 7749, Fax – 0512 – 259 7794 or Email: asuresh@iitk.ac.in.

 

5. Intimation Regarding Change of Postal Address/ email id

 

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that we currently have more than 15,234 subscribers on NICEE list. At times we face problem of our mails being blocked by the outside servers with the presumption that we are spamming.

 

We would therefore like to request you to please do inform us as and when you switch over from one email id to another. We will stop sending mails to your old email id and will subscribe your current email id to nicee-list so that you continue to receive communication from NICEE.

 

Similarly, it is our earnest request that please do let us know whenever you want us to change your postal address and we will update our records. You may please inform us by sending a mail to nicee@iitk.ac.in.

 

6. RESIST Software Available for Individual Users

 

RESIST Software is now available for individual users. A copy of the same can be requested from NICEE on payment of Rs. 2,000/-. This version of RESIST is customized to Indian codes and construction conditions.

 

However, a more recent update is available with greatly enhanced graphical features but it is based upon New Zealand codes and practices. It may be downloaded free of charge from the New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineering website at  https://www.nzsee.org.nz/library/other-publications/resist/ .

 

For further details regarding the earlier version please visit http://www.nicee.org/npeee/showpage.php?id=149 and for any queries please contact: Suresh Ailawadi at Tele - 0512 – 259 7749, Fax – 0512 – 259 7794 or E-mail: asuresh@iitk.ac.in, nicee@iitk.ac.in

 

7. 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024), June 30 – July 05, 2024 Milan, Italy

 

Invitation and details of the 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024) scheduled to be held in Milan, Italy, scheduled to be held during June 30 to July 05, 2024 is available at https://www.wcee2024.it/

 

8. Newsletter of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), USA

 

The latest EERI Newsletter ‘The Pulse’ is available online at: https://www.eeri-members.org/pulse. The back issues can be viewed at   https://www.eeri.org/cohost/member-resources/pulse/archives

 

Following are selected contents of the Newsletter:

 

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The illegality is enormous’: Turkey’s quake cleanup may kill even more (The Guardian)

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Families in Turkey's quake cities battle dust and rubble six months on (BBC)

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6 months after a devastating earthquake, Turkey’s preparedness is still uncertain (Associated Press)

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What lessons can be drawn from the international earthquake response in Syria? (The New Humanitarian)

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Study shows California can learn from Turkey’s devastating earthquake (KPBS)

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21 injured after 5.5 magnitude earthquake in China (CNN)

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From the archives: The great San Francisco earthquake, 1906 (Building Magazine)

 

 

 

Announcements

 

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Kinemetrics Webinar: Dam Safety Case Studies with the KMIDam Platform

 

 

 

 

Opportunities

 

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Kinemetrics is Hiring a Project Engineer

 

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USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellowship: Landslide Impacts

 

 

9. Recent Donors to NICEE

 

Rs. 3,999/- and below

 

D.N. Nagraj, Mumbai