National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Newsletter: February 2024


In this Newsletter:

 

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.       Members in News

 

 

Conferences

8.       18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024), June 30 – July 05, 2024 Milan, Italy

 

Excerpts from other Newsletters 

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

               

Support to NICEE

10.    Recent Donors to NICEE

 

Details:

 

1. Workshop for Under Graduate Architecture Students in Third Year     

 

The workshop for Architecture students is scheduled to be held at IIT Kanpur during June 11-15, 2024. The studio sessions will be held during these dates. The lectures will be conducted on two weekends prior to these dates. The schedule for the same will be announced closer to the dates. The aim of this workshop is to draw the attention of Architecture students towards keeping the earthquake engineering aspects in view while designing their structures. For details about previous workshops please visit http://www.nicee.org/Architecture_Workshop/ . 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 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.

 

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. Members in News

 

NICEE is proud to share that Prof Mahesh Tandon, the member and the past Chairman of the National Advisory Committee, has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institution of Bridge Engineers in an award ceremony on 9 Feb 2024 in Mumbai in recognition of his pathbreaking and pioneering work in bridge and metro design and construction

 

8. 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/

 

9. 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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Learning from Earthquakes: Marking the Anniversary of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence

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After the Quake: One Turkish Family's Struggle (The New York Times)

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One year after a devastating earthquake, Turkey tries to rebuild (The Washington Post)

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A Year After a Devastating Quake: Container Cities, Trials and Grief (The New York Times)

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A year after Turkey's earthquake, hundreds of thousands of people remain in shelters (NPR)

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Turkey mourns its tens of thousands dead, surrounded by the ruins of last year’s earthquake (Associated Press)

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‘I said I’d bury my son with his grandad’: Tales from Syria’s earthquake (Al Jazeera)

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Southern California shaken by 13 earthquakes over 25 minutes (The Guardian)

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Japan’s Noto earthquake: thousands of survivors struggle as accusations of neglect grow (The Guardian)

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Earthquake fever grips Turkey’s Istanbul amid fears of ‘the big one’ (Al Jazeera)

 

 

 

Announcements

 

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Kinemetrics Webinar: Ensuring Safe and Compliant Earthquake Response and LNG Facility Operational Continuity Using the KMI-LNG Platform

 

 

 

 

Opportunities

 

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USAID Establishes Science for Development Fellowships Program 2024

 

 

10. Recent Donors to NICEE

 

Rs. 4,00,000/- and above

M/s CSI-Engineering Software Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

 

Rs. 4,000/- to Rs. 19,999/-

Abhay Khandeshe,  Pune

Chinmoy Kolay, Kanpur

Alok Tiwari, Indore

 

Rs. 3,999/- and below

Satish Annigeri, Hubli

J. Prakashvel, Chennai