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Student Research

The following are the thesis topics that post-graduate students at IIT Kanpur undertook research on under the guidance of the various faculty members:

 
Doctor of Philosophy Theses 
Seismic Behaviour of Framed Masonry Panels in Out-of-Plane Direction with Prior In-plane Damage
Vaibhav Singhal; In progress; Supervisor: Durgesh C. Rai
Seismic Analysis of Bridge Structures Supported on Well Foundations
Goutam Mondal; In progress; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
AfterShock Ground Motion: Characterization and Effects on Damage-Based Seismic Design 
Sandip Das; 2009; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta 
Improvement in Geometric Design of Reinforced  Concrete Structural  Walls to Resist Earthquake Effects
Kaustubh Dasgupta; 2008; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty
Seismic Strengthening of Open-GroundStorey RC Frame using Steel-Caging & Aluminium Shear Yielding Dampers
Dipti Ranjan Sahoo; 2008; Supervisor: Durgesh C. Rai
Seismic Design of Welded Connections in Steel Moment Resisting Frame Buildings with Square Box Columns
Rupen Goswami; 2007; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty 
Evaluation of Strengthening Options for Masonry Infilled RC Frame with Open First Storey
Hemant B. Kaushik; 2006; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain and Durgesh C. Rai
Seismic Design of Strong-Axis Welded Connections in Steel Moment Resisting Frame Building
Jaswant Narayan Arlekar; April 2002; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty 
Wavelet-Based Non-Stationary Seismic Response of Structural Systems
Biswajit Basu; May 1998; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta 
Stochastic Response of Suspension Bridges to Spatially Varying Earthquake Excitations
Manish Shrikhande; 1997; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta 
Torsional Behaviour of Elevated Water Tanks with Reinforced Concrete Frame Type Stagings during Earthquakes
Sekhar C. Dutta; 1995; Supervisors: Sudhir K. Jain and C.V.R.Murty 
A Ductility and Displacement Based Design Procedure for Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings
Gehad E. Rashad; 1993; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain 
Master of Technology Theses (Dual Degree)
Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Low Rise Masonry Structures by considering Interaction b/w In-plane and Out-of-plane Response
Pawan Agnihotri; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Hysteretic Performance of Aluminium Shear Yielding Damper (Al-SYD) under Axial loads
Md. Naseem; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
In-situ non destructive study of historical masonry monument and establishing a correlation for laboratory prepared specimen and field specimen
Alok Singh Tomar; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Thermal stresses in mass concrete at early ages
Piyush Raj; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
AL-SYD as an Energy Dissipation device in Truss Moment Frames
Ankit Sachan; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Inclusion of Non-Stationarity Factor in Modal Combination Rule
Shashank Pathak; In Progress; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
Master of Technology Theses
Full Scale Testing of Al-SYD based Seismic Retrofitting for Non-Ductile Open Ground Storey RC Frame
Kaustubh Mehta; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Effect of Fatigue on Wind Turbine Foundation Structure
Sanjukta Chakraborty; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Ductility Reduction Factors for Masonry Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frames
Manish Kumar; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Crack Width Analysis of RC Beams under Monotonic Loading
Anil K. Pathrikar; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
A Performance-Based Design Index with Consideration of Residual Displacement
Pampa Dey; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Correlation of Damage Parameters with Linear Response
Satya Kiran R. Alluri; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai & S. R. Chaudhuri
Fragility analysis of existing flat slab structures
Vijaya Narayanan.A.R; In Progress; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Seismic Design of RC Bridge Piers
Sunil S. Shinge; In Progress; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Ductility Reduction Factor for Masonry Infilled RC Frames
Manish Kumar; In Progress; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Analysis of Response of Well Foundation considering Soil-Structure Interaction
Shriharsh Modak; In Progress; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Estimation of Residual Displacement for Horizontal Ground Motions
Harikrishnan.M.G; 2009; Supervisor: V. K. Gupta
Characterization of Near-Fault Forward-Directivity Ground Motions
Suparno Mukhopadhyay; 2009; Supervisor: V. K. Gupta
Spectral Amplification Factors of Indian Earthquake Ground Motions
Rahul Sharma; 2009; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Probabilistic Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis: A Case Study for Ahmedabad City
Raushan Kumar Singh; 2009; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Seismic Analysis of Bridge Abutment-Soil Systems
Chinmoy Kolay; 2009; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Analysis of Buried Pipelines Subjected to Reverse Fault Motion
Shantanu Joshi; 2009; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Out-of-Plane Seismic Behavior of Masonry Infilled Panels with Prior in-Plane Damage
K. Srinaganjaneyulu; 2009; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Effect of Foundation Flexibility on Ductility Reduction Factor
Siddharth Yadav; 2009; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Effect of Steel Truss Superstructure Flexibility on Seismic Design of Substructure and Superstructure Connections of a Multi-span Simply Supported Railway Bridge
Ashish Kumar; 2007; Supervisor: C.V.R. Murty
On Time and Frequency Dependence of Apparent Velocity of Propagation and Lagged Coherency for Spatially Varying Ground Motions
Riya G. Catherine; 2007; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
Ordered Peak Response under Multicomponent Ground Motion Via Modal Combination Rule and Its Correlation with Nonlinear Response
Ayan Sadhu; 2007; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
A Response Spectrum Method for Peak Floor Accelerations in Multistoried Buildings
Rashmi Kumari; 2007; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
Some Observations on Seismic Response on Bridges on Well Foundations
Anil Agarwal; 2006; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Response of Burried Segmented Pipelines Subjected to Liquefaction Induced Permanent Ground Deformation
Amit R. Hirani; 2006; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Seismic Vulnerability of Buildings and Population in India with a Case Study at Kanpur
Chakresh Jain; 2006; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Flexural Behaviour of GFRP Reinforced Concrete Beams
T.V.V.S.S Padmanabha Rao; 2006; Supervisor: C.V.R. Murty and K. K. Bajpai
Influence of Wall Flexibility on Seismic Behaviour of Steel Frame with Unstiffened Steel Plate Shear Walls
Dhiraj Kumar Tiwary; 2006; Supervisor: C.V.R. Murty
Effect of Configuration of Transverse Ties on confinement of RC Columns
Sudeshna Ghosh; 2006; Supervisor: C.V.R. Murty and K. K. Bajpai
Design of Shear-Link Braced Frame and Development of High-Force Yielding Shear-Link
Dhritiman Banerjee; 2006; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Effect of Confinement Schemes on In-Plane Behaviour of URM Walls under Cyclic Lateral Loads
Debashish Mukherjee; 2006; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Review of Guidelines for Blast Resistant Building and a Case Study of Library Building at IIT Kanpur
Jasinder Singh Sodhi; 2005; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Response of Burried Continuous Pipeline to Permanent Ground Deformation
Suresh Ranjan Dash; 2005; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Enhancement of Flexural Capacity of Undamaged RC Column by a Composite Steel Caging Technique
Pasala Naga Prasad; 2005; Supervisor: D. C. Rai and Sudhir K. Jain
Control of Out-of-Plane Deformation of Inelastically Buckling Aluminium Shear Panels
Saikat Banerjee; 2005; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
In-Plane Lateral Resistance of Masonry Confined by Grid Elements
Samaresh Paikara; 2005; Supervisor: D. C. Rai
Statistical Study of Inelastic Displacement Ratio Spectrum for Existing Structures
Abhishek Banerjee; 2005; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
Wavelet-Based Generation of Spatially Correlated Accelerograms
Kaushik Sarkar; 2005; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
Experimental Investigation of Inelastic Cyclic Buckling of Aluminium Shear Panels
Sachin Jain; 2004; Supervisor: D. C. Rai 
Effect of Soil Structure Interaction on Strength Ductility Demands of Shaft Supported Elevated Water Tanks for Earthquake Loads
Bhumika Singh; 2004; Supervisor: D. C. Rai 
Design Spectrum-Based Scaling of Strength Reduction Factors
Debasis Karmakar; 2004; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta 
Seismic Response of RC Frame Buildings on Stilts
Perwez Ahmad; 2004; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain 
Forced Vibration Study of a Reinforced Concrete Building
Major Sanjay Adsar; 2004; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain and K. K. Bajpai 
Battened Built-up Beam-Column under Cyclic Load
Diptiranjan Sahoo; 2003; Supervisor: D. C. Rai 
Modeling of Infill Walls with Openings
Goutam Mondal; 2003; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain 
Pushover Analysis of Masonry Buildings
Santosh Kumar; 2002; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain 
Investigation of Seismic Shear Design Provisions of IRC Code for RC Bridge Piers Using Displacement-Based Pushover Analysis
Rupen Goswami; 2002; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty 
Investigation of IS Code Provisions on Seismic Design of RC Structural Walls
Kaustubh Dasgupta; 2002; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty 
Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis of North-East India 
Sandip Das; 2002; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta 
Attenuation Relationships of Earthquake Intensities in India
Sailender K.Chaubey; 2001; Supervisors: Sudhir K. Jain and P.L.Narula 
Experimental Investigation under Cyclic Loading of Brick Masonry House with Precast RC Plank and Joist Flooring System Developed by CBRI
Jayanta Dutta; 2001; Supervisors: C.V.R.Murty and S.K.Agarwal 
Attenuation Relations for the Himalayan Regions from Seismic Ground Motion Data
A. D. Roshan; 2000; Supervisors: Sudhir K. Jain and P.C.Basu 
Seismic Response of Multiply-Supported Secondary Systems :: Uncertainties and Decoupling Criteria
Samit Ray Chaudhuri; 2000; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta 
Wavelet Based Characterization of Design Ground Motions
Shushovan Mukherjee; 2000; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta 
Experimental Investigation of Cyclic Behaviour of Precast Exterior Beam-Column Joints
Manoj K. Joshi; 2000; Supervisors: C.V.R.Murty and M.P.Jaisingh
Experimental Investigation of Cyclic Response of Reinforced Connections for Earthquake-Resistant Steel MRFs
Aniruddha Moitra; 2000; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty
Experimental Investigation of RC Frames with Brick Masonry Infills having Central Opening subjected to Cyclic Displacement Loading
G. B. Pavan Raj; 2000; Supervisors: Sudhir K. Jain and C.V.R.Murty
Effect of Confinement on Strength and Ductility of Large RC Hollow Sections
Prabuddha Dasgupta; 2000; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty 
Beneficial Effects of Brick Masonry Infills in Seismic Design of RC Frame Buildings
Diptesh Das; 2000; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty
Implementation of Torsional Provisions in Buildings with Rigid and Flexible Floor Diaphragm 
Dhiman Basu; 1999; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Experimental Investigation of In-plane Diaphragm Action of the CBRI Precast Plank and Joist Flooring System for Earthquake-Resistant Constructions
Rajesh Agarwal; 1999; Supervisors: C.V.R.Murty and R.N.Iyengar
Experimental Investigation of Welded Beam-to-Column Connections in Steel Structures for Earthquake-Resistant Design
Mukul Pant; 1999; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty
Experimental Investigation of Brick Masonry Infill Walls in RC Moment Resisting Frames for Earthquake Resistant Design
Akella Jagannadharao Kiran; 1999; Supervisors: Sudhir K.Jain and C.V.R.Murty
Effect of Seismicity Model on Design Force Ratio Spectrum
Vinjhamuri Srimahavishnu; 1999; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta 
Nonlinear Push-Over Analysis of Flat Slab Buildings With and Without Seismic Retrofitting
Tirandas Srikanth; 1999; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Overstrength and Ductility Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Structural Walls
Jogala Ranjith Kumar Reddy; 1999; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Mode Acceleration Approach to Seismic Response of Secondary Systems
V. Surya Chandra Rao; 1998; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
On Scaling of Strength Reduction Factors for Horizontal Earthquake Ground Motions
Arun Kumar Tewari; 1998; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
Incorporating Contribution of Higher Modes in Equivalent Static Lateral Force Procedure in Seismic Design
Reeta Jha; 1998; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty
Secondary Effects Including Shear Deformations in Design of Frame Columns
Manoj K. Garg; 1998; Supervisors: C.V.R.Murty and Ashwini Kumar
Cyclic Response of RC MRFs with Brick Masonry Infills
Rakesh K. Saxena; 1998; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain and C.V.R.Murty
Ambient and Low-Level Forced Vibration Tests on a RC MRF Building with URM Infills
Sandeep S. Rajpathak; 1998; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty
Considerations in Seismic Design of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames
Sudip Paul; 1998; Supervisors: C.V.R.Murty and Sudhir K. Jain
Seismic Drift Capacity of Gravity Columns using Nonlinear Monotonic Analysis
G. G. S. Achary; 1997; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Damage- Based Life of Structures in Seismic Environment
R. Pradeep Kumar; 1997; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
Preliminary Models for Scaling Power Spectral Density Functions of Earthquake Ground Motions
Bidisha De; 1997; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
Ambient Vibration Survey of Reinforced Concrete Moment Resisting Frames with Unreinforced Brick Masonry Infills
Jaswant N. Arlekar; 1997; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty
Comparison of Experimental Cyclic Response of RC Frames With and Without Brick Masonry Infills
Neeraj K. Vasandani; 1997; Supervisors: Sudhir K. Jain and C.V.R.Murty
Seismic Response of Gravity Columns in Buildings with Shear Walls
Varsha Aggarwal; 1996; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Stochastic Response of Multiply- Supported Secondary Systems to Earthquakes
Aparna Dey; 1996; Supervisor: V. K. Gupta
Effect of Joint Panel Zones on Seismic Response Steel Moment Resisting Frames
Kintali Sankara Narayana Gupta; 1996; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty 
Modelling Seismic Response of Unreinforced Masonry Infilled Reinforced Concrete Moment Resisting Frames
Amit Nagar; 1995; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty 
Improvements in the Consideration of Secondary Effects in the Design of Frame Columns
Aparna Sengupta; 1995; Supervisor: C.V.R.Murty 
A Study of Ordered Peaks in Seismic Damage Analysis
Biswajit Basu; 1994; Supervisors: Vinay K. Gupta and Debashish Kundu
A Study of the Characteristics of Strong Ground Motion Recorded in Indian Earthquakes
Navin Chandak; 1994; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Assessment of Seismic Overstrength in Reinforced Concrete Frames
Rahul Navin; 1993; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Dynamics of Seperable Multistorey Buildings with Flexible Floor Diaphragms
Chandrasekhar K. Jain; 1993; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Ductility of Reinforced Concrete Columns and Beams with and without Concrete confinement
P. Mandal; 1993; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Stochastic Response of Torsionally Coupled Multistoreyed Buildings
Pawan Agarwal; 1993; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
On Gust Factors for Wind- Excited Building Response
K.V.S. Chandrashekhar; 1993; Supervisor: Vinay K. Gupta
Experimental and Analytical Studies on Dynamics of 140m Stack at Narora
Arvind Shrivastava; 1991; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain and Vinay K. Gupta
A Study on Aseismic Design Aspects of Overhead Tanks
Sajjad U. Sameer; 1990; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Study of Seismic Response of Tall Chimneys
B.K. Gupta; 1988; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Dynamics of Horizontal Setback Buildings with Flexible Floor Diaphragms
Utpal K. Mandal; 1988; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Analysis of Underwater Pipelines During Installation
M. V. Rama Rao; 1988; Supervisors: Sudhir K. Jain and B. P. Singh
Seismic Analysis of Bhakra and Lakhwar Dams
J. Rajasankar; 1988; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
A Study on Provisions of Indian Standards for Aseismic Design of Buildings
A.K. Patnaik; 1988; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Experimental Study on Brick Masonry Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frames Under Lateral Load
Achintya; 1988; Supervisors: Sudhir K. Jain and P.Dayaratnam
Dynamic Analysis of Multistorey Buildings with End Walls
V. V. Joshi; 1987; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain
Dynamic Response of Setback Buildings with a Flexible Floor Diaphragm
Rajiv Sharma; 1987; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain 
Static and Free Vibration Analysis of Single Piles in Lateral Direction
U. B. Halabe; 1985; Supervisor: Sudhir K. Jain