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Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures (CE-802 (D)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Engineering Seismology

  • Introduction to engineering seismology
  • Geological and tectonic features of India
  • Origin and propagation of seismic waves
  • Earthquake measurement parameters
  • Characteristics of earthquake and its quantification- Magnitude and Intensity scales
  • Seismic instruments
  • Seismic zoning map of India
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Unit 2

Response Spectrum

  • Response history and strong motion characteristics
  • Response Spectrum- elastic and inelastic response spectra
  • tripartite (D-V-A) response spectrum
  • use of response spectrum in earthquake resistant design
  • Computation of seismic forces in multi-storeyed buildings - using procedures as per codal provisions
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Unit 3

Aseismic Structural Modelling

  • Structural configuration for earthquake resistant design
  • Concept of plan irregularities and vertical irregularities
  • Soft storey
  • Torsion in buildings
  • Design provisions for these in IS-1893
  • Effect of infill masonry walls on frames, modeling concepts of infill masonry walls
  • Behaviour of masonry buildings during earthquakes, failure patterns
  • strength of masonry in shear and flexure
  • Slenderness concept of masonry walls
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Unit 4

Design of structure for earthquake resistance

  • Seismic design philosophy,Load combinations
  • Ductility and energy absorption in buildings
  • confinement of concrete for ductility
  • design of columns and beams for ductility
  • ductile detailing provisions as per IS-1893
  • Lateral load resisting structural systems
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Unit 5

Seismic control of structures

  • Introduction, concept and types of seismic control systems
  • active, passive and semi-active systems
  • Requirements of efficient earthquake resistant structural system
  • damping devices
  • base isolation systems
  • Retrofitting of structures

Reference Books

  • Dynamics of Structures - Theory and Application to Earthquake Engineering, Pearson Education
  • Earthquake Resistant Design of Building Structures, Wiley (India)
  • Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures, Oxford University Press
  • Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures, Prentice Hall of India
  • Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Buildings, John Wiley & Sons
  • Manual of Seismic Design, Prentice-Hall India Pvt Ltd
  • Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Prentice-Hall India Pvt Ltd
  • IS 1893: Criteria for earthquake resistant design of structures, Bureau of Indian Standards
  • IS 4326: Code of practice for earthquake resistant design and construction of buildings, Bureau of Indian Standards
  • IS 13920: Ductility detailing of reinforced concrete structures subjected to seismic forces, Bureau of Indian Standards
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