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Studies On The Evaluation Of Thermal Stress Intensity Factors For Bi-Material Interface Cracks
(2010-07-29)
Components of turbines, combustion chambers, multi-layered electronic packaging structures and nuclear reactors are subjected to transient thermal loads during their service life. In the presence of a discontinuity like ...
Studies On Application Of Control Systems For Urban Water Networks
(2010-09-21)
Management and supply of water in an urban water distribution system is a complex process, which include various complexities like pressure variations across the network depending on topography, demand variations depending ...
Uncertainty Modeling For River Water Quality Control
(2010-08-30)
Waste Load Allocation (WLA) in rivers refers to the determination of required pollutant fractional removal levels at a set of point sources of pollution to ensure that water quality standards are maintained throughout the ...
Development Of Methods For Structural Reliability Analysis Using Design And Analysis Of Computer Experiments And Data Based Extreme Value Analysis
(2010-08-26)
The work reported in this thesis is in the area of computational modeling of reliability of engineering structures. The emphasis of the study is on developing methods that are suitable for analysis of large-scale structures ...
Time Dependent Deformations in Normal And Heavy Density Concrete
(2010-12-08)
Time dependent deformations in concrete, both creep and shrinkage, play a critical role in prestressed concrete structures, such as bridge girders, nuclear containment vessels, etc. These strains result in lossess, through ...
Site Characterization And Seismic Hazard Analysis With Local Site Effects For Microzonation Of Bangalore
(2010-05-25)
Seismic hazard and microzonation of cities enable to characterize the potential seismic areas that need to be taken into account when designing new structures or retrofitting the existing ones. Study of seismic hazard and ...
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. ...
Reduced Order Modeling Of Stochastic Dynamic Systems
(2010-07-23)
Uncertainties in both loading and structural characteristics can adversely affect the response and reliability of a structure. Parameter uncertainties in structural dynamics can arise due to several sources. These include ...
Dynamic State Estimation Techniques For Identification Of Parameters Of Finite Element Structural Models
(2010-04-12)
The thesis outlines the development and application of a few novel dynamic state estimation based methods for estimation of parameters of vibrating engineering structures. The study investigates strategies for data fusion ...
Novel Strategies For Real-Time Substructuring, Identification And Control Of Nonlinear Structural Dynamical Systems
(2010-02-17)
The advances in computational and experimental modeling in the area of structural mechanics have stimulated research in a class of hybrid problems that require both of these modeling capabilities to be combined to achieve ...