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National Information Centre of
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Newsletter: August
2024 |
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NICEE Activities 1. Workshop for Under Graduate Architecture
Students in Third Year 2.
Inter-School Quiz Competition
on IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips 2024-25 3.
Literature Review
Workshop for Post-Graduate Students 4.
Open House of NICEE 5.
Intimation
Regarding Change of Postal Address/ Email ID 6.
RESIST Software
Available for Individual Users 7.
Oriya Translation
of Earthquake Tips Excerpts from other
Newsletters 8.
Newsletter of
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), USA Support to NICEE 9.
Recent Donors
to NICEE Details: 1. Workshop for Under Graduate
Architecture Students in Third Year The dates of the
workshop for Architecture students scheduled to be held at IIT Kanpur will be
announced shortly. For further details or any queries please contact: Suresh
Ailawadi at Tele - 0512 – 259 7749, Fax – 0512 – 259 7794 or Email: asuresh@iitk.ac.in. 2. Inter-School Quiz
Competition based on IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips 2024-25 The invite for the Inter School Quiz has been sent
to all. In case your school has not received the invite please do let us
know. For further details please visit http://www.nicee.org/Quiz/quiz.htm
. Members willing to enthuse and/ or conduct the preliminary round of
quiz in their city of residence may please contact: Suresh Ailawadi at Tele -
0512 – 259 7749, or E-mail: asuresh@iitk.ac.in 3. Literature Review Workshop for
Post-Graduate Students The details of Annual Workshop for post graduate students pursuing
their masters or doctorate degree with thesis in earthquake engineering will
be promulgated shortly. 4. 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 5. Intimation Regarding Change of Postal Address/ email id It gives me great pleasure to inform you that we
currently have more than 15,400 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. Oriya Translation of Earthquake Tips The Oriya
Translation of Earthquake Tip No. 4 has been uploaded on the website. 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:
9. Recent Donors to NICEE Rs. 3,999/- and below J. Prakashvel, Chennai |