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Inverse Sensitivity Methods In Linear Structural Damage Detection Using Vibration Data
(2009-06-29)The thesis addresses the problem of structural damage detection using inverse sensitivity based methods. The focus here is on characterization with regard to identification, location, and, quantification of structural ... -
Investigating and Modelling the Microscopic Pedestrian Behavioral Dynamics in Mass Religious Gatherings
Pedestrian models that can realistically reproduce observed pedestrian movement dynamics are crucial in facility planning and pre-event planning of crowded situations. Despite the elaborate arrangements, crowd disasters ... -
Isogeometric based formulations for the bending analysis of laminated composite structural elements
Isogeometric analysis (IGA) is a family of numerical methods to solve boundary value problems. The founding principle of isogeometric methods is aimed at integrating computer aided design (CAD) with nite element method ... -
Land-Climate Nexus: Unravelling Compound Extremes From Multivariate Analysis To Transformer Networks
The interplay between land use and extreme hydroclimatic events is a crucial aspect of Earth system science, influencing water resources, ecosystem stability, and disaster risk management. Extreme hydrologic events often ... -
Liquefaction Resistance and Cyclic Response of Air - Injected Desaturated Clean Sandy Soil: Experimental and Numerical Investigations
Liquefaction has been one of the major concerns in the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering. Various mitigation techniques such as vibroflotation, deep dynamic compaction, explosive compaction, grouting, deep soil ... -
Liquefaction response of the sand reinforced with 3D printed geocells
Geocells are one of the most widely used geosynthetics, owing to their three-dimensional interconnected cellular structure that allows immediate support to heavy loads and provides high lateral confinement and wider ... -
Localization Induced Base Isolation In Fractionally And Hysteretically Damped Nonlinear Systems
(2009-08-04)This Thesis comprises of two parts containing similar studies of Nonlinear Localization induced Base Isolation of structural systems. The present method of base isolation,like other nonlinear vibration isolation methods, ... -
Lower Bound Finite Element Limit Analysis for Solving Different Planar and Axisymmetric Stability Problems in Soil and Rock Media
The finite element limit analysis (FELA), which utilizes the concept of finite elements and an optimization procedure, is a very powerful technique to find an accurate solution of different stability problems in geomechanics. ... -
Lower Bound Limit Analysis Applications For Solving Planar Stability Problems In Geomechanics
(2014-09-04)Limit analysis based upon the theory of plasticity is one of the very useful numerical techniques to determine the failure loads of different civil and mechanical engineering structures for a material following an associated ... -
Machine Learning Methods for Soil property prediction using VNIR and MIR Spectroscopy
Soil plays a key role in food security, freshwater regulation, biodiversity and climate mitigation. Soil intersects directly or indirectly with at least seven of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Among the ... -
Macroscopic crowd flow and risk modelling in mass religious gathering
Understanding the principles and applications of crowd dynamics in mass gatherings is very important, specifically with respect to crowd risk analysis and crowd safety. Historical trends from India and other countries ... -
Macroscopic modelling of heterogeneous, disordered road traffic flow
The groundwork for much of the existing traffic flow theory was laid in the 1950s and 1960s by researchers from developed economies like the United States. The car-following modelling approach, which is arguably the most ... -
A Magnesia Based Sustainable Method For De-Fluoridation Of Contaminated Groundwater
(2010-10-14)Groundwater is a major and sometimes lone source of drinking water worldwide. The chemical composition of groundwater is a combined product of the composition of water that enters the aquifer and its reaction with various ... -
Mathematical Modelling and Advanced Control Techniques for Irrigation Canal Management
Efficient water management in irrigation canal systems is vital for sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation. This thesis presents advanced control strategies to optimize water distribution and address the ... -
Mechanics of cutting in granular media
Cutting is an important deformation process encountered during many instances in the engineering of infrastructure, such as trawling, trenching, and excavation. This thesis presents the results of an experimental program ... -
Mechanics of Drilling in Porous Brittle Solids
(2018-01-01)This thesis presents a detailed experimental programme on understanding the mechanics of drilling in porous brittle solids. Gypsum was used as a model material for this experimental study, in which the mechanics of drilling ... -
Mechanics of Flat-punch Indentation of Metallic Honeycombs Using High-fidelity Continuum FE Simulations
Metallic honeycombs and foams are widely used in the automotive and aerospace industries due to their desirable mechanical properties such as light-weight, high and tailorable specific stiffness, high specific strength, ... -
Mechanism And Control Of Sulphuric Acid Induced Heave in Soils
(2010-07-12)The escalating pollution of the environment has been one of the greatest concerns of science in recent years. Industrial advances in agriculture, expansion of chemical industries and a general change in lifestyle all over ... -
Methodologies for Risk Assessment of Landslides Induced by Rainfall and Earthquake
Landslide is one of the greatest natural catastrophes and poses a major threat to lives and property worldwide. As development expands into unstable hill areas under the pressure of increasing population and urbanisation, ... -
Methods For Forward And Inverse Problems In Nonlinear And Stochastic Structural Dynamics
(2009-09-03)A main thrust of this thesis is to develop and explore linearization-based numeric-analytic integration techniques in the context of stochastically driven nonlinear oscillators of relevance in structural dynamics. ...