Manish Shrikhande

Lecture Slides for Computational Structural Dynamics

• Introduction to scientific computations and basic concepts from  linear algebra 

• Solution of linear simultaneous equations

• The algebraic eigenvalue problem and the singular value decomposition 

• Polynomial interpolation and numerical quadrature 

•  Time marching: numerical solution of initial value problems 

• Discrete Fourier Transforms 

Lecture Slides for Finite Element Method

• Mathematical modeling, differential equations and approximate solutions 

• Finite elements of one-dimension

• Finite elements of two and three-dimensions 

• Mapped elements 

•  Finite elements for plates and shells 

Representative Research Publications

• Analysis of the strong motion data from Bhuj earthquake of 26 January 2001 

• Seismic damage detection in a building frame via finite element model updating

• Strong motion versus weak motion: Implications for seismic microzonation studies 

• Wavelet packet characterization of scenario earthquake ground motions 

•  Base isolation by geosynthetic for brick masonry buildings 

• Optimal placement of supplemental dampers in seismic design of structures 

•  Synthetic accelerograms: A state of the art review (This is the last version of a manuscript that I was working on to chart the evolution of artificial accelerograms for engineering analyses. I stopped working on this manuscript the day I learned about my father suffering from cancer. Unfortunately, he succumbed to extreme weakness on 03 Sept. 2004 after the sixth round of chemotherapy.) I could never bring myself to finish this manuscript later. 

Outreach Activities

• Uncertainty modeling 

• Introduction to Structural Dynamics

• A presentation on "How to Make Presentations" 

• Engineering for Earthquake Effects 

•  Computer Systems and Programming 

• Tripartite Graph Paper 

• Gnuplot script and a sample data file for plotting response spectrum on a triapartite graph