Earthquake-induced structural damages caused due to site effects, soil liquefaction failure, and associated excessive settlement are well-known worldwide. The primary controlling factor responsible for the superstructure’s ...

Nonlocal interactions of material points play a vital role in modelling certain important aspects of inelastic phenomena such as plasticity and damage in solids. For plasticity problems, nonlocal interactions allow ...

Adhesive forces, mediated by van der Waals’ and other interactions, dominate the contact response in the micron and sub-micron regimes. Understanding adhesion is especially important in biological systems (interaction of ...

The work reported in this thesis is in the area of Monte Carlo simulation based methods for structural reliability estimation with special focus on strategies to reduce sampling variance of the estimator for the probability ...

Estimation of reliable site effects and amplifications are important for seismic design. There are several 1D and 2D large scale site response analyses were reported in the literature and very limited shallow bedrock small ...

This thesis proposes electrical resistivity measurement as a potential method to characterize different types of geomaterials under different environmental conditions. Electrical resistivity method is a promising non-destructive ...

Econometric choice models have been widely used in travel behaviour research to understand human activities, time-use, mobility choices, consumption, and related preferences. Most research in this area had focused on ...

Public transit systems are an indispensable part of any metropolitan city. Its success depends on many factors, chief among which is the ease with which users can query for optimal journeys using mobile apps. Conventional ...

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 ...

Landslides are major natural disasters which pose a significant risk to lives and infrastructure globally. As urbanization is increasing due to the increasing population in mountainous regions, the risk due to landslides ...