Research Interests

Project Title: Seismic Design Provisions to Incorporate Amplification in Force Demands on Acceleration-sensitive Secondary Systems Due to Building Irregularities

Funding Agency: SERB, DST, Govt. of India 

Duration: 2024-2027

Status: Ongoing

Project Title: Evaluation and Retrofitting of Existing Structures for Safe and Sustainable Built Environment 

Funding Agency: DST, Govt. of India 

Collaborating Institutes: IIT Roorkee and University of Porto, Portugal

Duration: 2023-2026

Status: Ongoing

Project Title: Revival of Climate cum Disaster Resilient Vernacular Housing Techniques of the North-Western Indian Himalayan Region: Documentation, Investigation, and Knowledge Dissemination 

Funding Agency: NMHS, MOEFCC, Govt. of India 

Duration: 2023-2026

Status: Ongoing

Project Title: Compendium of Traditional Earthquake Resilient Construction for Knowledge Sharing and Disaster Risk Reduction: Promotion of Traditional Construction Practices 

Funding Agency: NDMA, New Delhi

Collaborating Institutes: IIT Roorkee and AEC Guwahati

Duration: 2020-2023

Status: Completed

Project Summary: Indian Himalayas have a rich heritage in traditional knowledge, which is used for building construction, especially in high seismic zones of India. This project aims to identify all the traditional building typologies which are in existence in the Indian Himalayan region and document them, along with their contemporary counterparts, tracking the historical variations in their construction. The project will further identify the various earthquake resilient and vulnerable features of these traditional building typologies and suggest remedial measures for reducing seismic vulnerability of these traditional buildings. As a part of this project work, a regional building typology classification scheme for Indian Himalayan region will also be developed. 

Project Title: Next-generation Earthquake Loss Estimation Tool for Hilly Regions 

Funding Agency: SERB, DST, India

Collaborating Institutes: IIT Roorkee 

Industrial Partner: RMSI Pvt. Ltd.

Duration: 2019-2022

Status: Completed

Project Summary: The project aims to develop a GIS-based tool that can be used to estimate earthquake losses, in an event of an earthquake, in hilly regions of India. In this project, we are developing the fragility functions for various building types which are prevalent in the hilly regions of India. Those fragility functions, along with the appropriate seismic hazard, topographic amplification factor, and exposure model will be used to estimate earthquake loss to test beds in hilly regions of India. 

Project Title: Design Guidelines for Seismic Design of Non-Structural Components for Near-Fault Sites 

Funding Agency: ISIRD Grant, IIT Ropar

Duration: 2019-2020

Status: Completed

Project Summary: World-over the available provisions for seismic design of NSCs are based on recordings on instrumented buildings or numerical studies conducted using ground-motions mostly recorded in the far-fault sites. As near-fault ground-motions exhibits significantly different characteristics as compared to those recorded in the far-fault, therefore, the project aims to develop design guidelines for seismic design on NSCs accounting for the pulse-like characteristics of the near-fault ground-motions.