NEWS LETTERINDIAN SOCIETY OF EARTHQUAKE TECHNOLOGYhttp://www.iset.org.in Tel No. 01332-284491 E-mail:office@ .org.iniset

ESTD: 1962 Co-Editor: Anupam Chakrabarti April 2014

President's Message

Dear Fellows/Members,

On recapitulating the concerns and thoughts shared with you through the last issue (January 2014) of the News Letter, it is disheartening to note that no noteworthy progress is made during the last quarter regarding most of the issues deliberated there in. I would like to appeal once again to the concerned functionaries and members to kindly spare some of their valuable time for the betterment of your own Society. The major issues requiring urgent attention are as given below:

A new Management Committee of ISET Roorkee Chapter has been duly elected and took over the charge on May 3, 2014. There is still no response from seven Chapters; Bangalore, Chennai, Jorhat, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur and Pune which continue to be inactive for considerable long periods, and needful action is required urgently. Local Chapters can consider organizing One-day Workshops/ Special lectures on themes of interest to common public and technical get-togethers for their members as part of their activities.

Updated information has been received from E-mail ids of over 825 members and about 275 mailing addresses are still either incomplete or unknown at present. The names of such members with their membership no. are posted on the website: www.iset.org.in. Your help is solicited in early updation of the membership database.

The backlog of ISET Journal continues to be of great concern to all of us, as there is no progress made in this regard. The backlog needs to be cleared at the earliest possible.

As requested earlier, Fellows/Members may also contribute popular articles/short narratives etc. aimed at enhancing the awareness about earthquake safety, preparedness and risk mitigation for benefit of the general public vulnerable to earthquake/ tsunami phenomena. Society will welcome donors for donations to the Society under section and also for instituting Awards to encourage technology development in the country in the area of earthquake technology.

I hereby solicit the support and the active participation of all the Fellows and Members of the Society towards accomplishing the above mentioned tasks and other objectives to make ISET more vibrant and relevant to the needs of the general public and other stakeholders. I also welcome your valuable inputs in order to position the ISET to take a lead role in searching sustainable solutions to the earthquake problem.

President, ISETwason2009@gmail.com

ISET Local Chapters:

Updation of Membership Database:

ISET Journal:

Prof. H.R. Wason

26 members.

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THTHE 34 ISET ANNUAL LECTUREthThe 34 ISET Annual Lecture was delivered on “Seismic Design and Safety Aspects of Dams” by Shri A.B. Pandya,

Chairman, Central Water Commission, New Delhi, on Friday, March 28, 2014 in the Jai Krishna Hall, The Institution of Engineering (I), Roorkee Local Centre, Roorkee. Prof. H.R. Wason, President, ISET presided over the function. Prof. M.L. Sharma, Vice President, ISET, introduced the eminent speaker. The abstract of the lecture is given below:

The seismic safety of dams has assumed greater importance now because of associated widespread human and economic loss. Strong earthquakes affect large areas, subjecting many dams to strong ground shaking. This is particularly important for Himalayas, where large number of dams have been built or are being built or planned. The 2001 Bhuj earthquake affected about 245 dams, though mainly small dams, but the large scale dam failures calls for review of present design practices. More and more stringent criteria are now being prescribed for seismic design. The earlier methods adopted for seismic analysis of dams are either considered obsolete or even wrong today. There is thus an urgent need for systematic review of existing design techniques and reassessment of seismic safety of existing dams. ICOLD has recently revised its seismic design criteria (Bulletin 148) which are different from the earlier one (Bulletin 72). Also, USACE has also come out with guidelines on seismic design of dams (EM-1110-2-6050, 6051, 6053, etc.). This change shows that dams which were considered safe at the time of completion may not retain that certification even if maintained properly. The National Committee of Seismic Design Parameters (NCSDP) of India is also periodically reviewing its guidelines on seismic parameters to be adopted for dam design based on the state-of-the-art guidelines outlined in ICOLD, USACE and other publications. Dynamic analysis of dams, either using response spectra or time history, has now become almost mandatory for all the dams being designed or planned in India. The seismic coefficient/pseudo static method is considered deficient as it may not satisfy today's seismic criteria. However, a large pool of experience and performance data of dams exist which were designed by such methods and continue to perform their designed function. Their performance, as viewed from a more rigorous angle leads to additional cost and construction implications. Amalgamation of presently available dam sections with those needed for the modern approach is required so that while not compromising on safety, a panic reaction is also avoided. This paper discusses the present practices on seismic design and performance criteria for dams; conceptual and construction requirement for seismic requirement of concrete gravity and embankment dams and also the need for periodic review of seismic safety of existing dams.

Er. Ajay Chourasia, Secretary, ISET proposed vote of thanks. The Annual Lecture was attended by large member of th rdengineers, academicians, scientists and students. The 34 ISET Annual Lecture was followed by 43 Annual General

Meeting at the same venue.

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TH RDGLIMPSES of 34 ISET ANNUAL LECTURE and 43 AGM

Chief Guest Shri A.B. Pandya, lighting the Lamp that the time of 34 ISET Annual Lecture

Prof. H. R. Wason, President, ISET, welcoming the Chief Guest, ISET Members and other Guests to the ISET Annual Lecture

Prof. M.L. Sharma, Vice-President ISET, introducing the ISET Annual Speaker to the audience

Shri A.B. Pandya delivering ththe 34 ISET Annual Lecture

Prof. H.R. Wason, President, ISET presenting a Memento to the Speaker Shri A.B. Pandya

A view of the audience at the time thof 34 ISET Annual Lecture

Prof. H.R. Wason, President, ISET and rdEr. Ajay Chourasia, Secretary, ISET conducting the 43 AGM

rd43 Annual General Meeting in progress

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Preamble

Who Should Attend

This International Conference is in continuation of the previous five such conferences organized by the Missouri University of Science & Technology, Rolla (US), under the chairmanship of Prof. Shamsher Prakash. All the conferences have proved to be highly successful events.

The Conference shall have invited Keynote Lectures, State of the Art & Practice (SOAP) lectures, Special Lectures and contributed original research papers for discussion and publication in the proceedings. Contributions are expected from over 40 countries.

Earthquake, civil, structural and geotechnical engineers, seismologists, geologists, scientists, teachers, builders, consultants, architects, land use planners and other professionals.

Themes1a. “Dynamic Properties of Soil and Soil-Like Materials, Engineering Soil Parameters

and Constitutive Relations”

1b. “New Field and Laboratory Methods and Results, Data Base, Large Scale Field Tests, Centrifuge Tests”

2. “Wave Propagation, Engineering Vibrations and Solutions, Vibrations of Machine Foundations, Blast, Traffic and Construction Vibrations, Vibration Absorption”

3a. “Engineering Seismology: Near Fault and Directivity Effects, Geologic Indicators of Rupture Direction, Geometric Effects on Ground Motions, Motion Parameters for Design, Borehole Arrays, Seismological and Strong Motion Arrays, Interpretation of Field Arrays Data, Site Amplification”

3b. “Local Site Effects: 1-D/2-D Wave Propagation Predictions and Measurements, Nonlinear versus Equivalent Linear Analysis, Effective Stress versus Total Stress Analysis”

4a. “Liquefaction and Seismically-Induced Settlement, Ground Failures, Seismic Studies of Kobe, Lima Peru, Chile, Pakistan, China, U.S. and other Recent Earthquakes, Spatial Liquefaction”

4b. “Stability and Displacement Performance of Slopes, Landfills and Earth Dams Under Earthquakes”

5a. “Soil-Structure Interaction and Dynamic Loading for both Shallow and Deep Foundations”

5b. “Soil-Foundation Interaction Triggered by Seismic Faulting”

6a. “Seismic Analysis and Design of Retaining and Marine Structures, Field Studies on Retaining Walls in California, Japan, India and other countries”

6b. “Seismic Hazard Zonation: Earthquake Risk Assessment with Earthquake Risk Management, Microzonation Projects and Procedures, Use of Building Codes to Reduce Earthquake Hazards”

7a. “Case Histories of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Failures and Geotechnical Analysis of Recent Earthquakes, Reports of Recent Damaging Earthquakes”

7b. “Seismic Analysis and Retrofit of Foundations of Bridges and other Sub-Structures, Seismic Retrofit Projects and Procedures”

8. “Model and Full-Scale Tests of Geotechnical Structures Including Centrifuge Tests, Recent Advances from Earthquake Simulation Facilities such as NEES, E-Defence, NCREE”

9. “Performance Based Design in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering”

Indian Society of Earthquake Technology &Department of Earthquake Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee-247667, India

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ISET MEMBERSHIP CORNER

The Executive Committee of ISET extends a hearty welcome to the following Members who have been admitted to the Society during the period September 02, 2013 to March 27, 2014.

1. LM 1562 Dr. Ankit Gupta NIT Hamirpur2. LM 1563 Er. Ish Kumar Jain Nagpur3. LM 1564 Er. Rajesh R. Joshi Nagpur4. LM 1565 Dr. Sandip Das Guwahati5. LM 1566 Er. Hemant Shrivastava Gwalior6. LM 1567 Er. Koravi Chennakesavulu Vijayawada, A.P.7. LM 1568 Er. Jaya Prakash Vemuri Hyderabad

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NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED

Prof. Manish Shrikhande, (LM-690) has authored a new textbook on "Finite Element Method and Computational Structural Dynamics". The details of the book can be accessed from the publisher's link: http://www.phindia.com/bookdetails/finite_element_method_and_computational_structural_dynamics_by-shrikhande_manish_-isbn-978-81-203-4995-7

Dr. Rajendra Kumar Bhandari, (LM-486) has authored a book titled “Disaster Education and Management” published by Springer. For details, contact: pankaj.wadhera@springer.com or amazon.com

FEE STRUCTURELife Membership ì 5000/- (US$ 500)

Annual Membership ì 1000/- (US$ 100)

Student Membership (Annual) ì 500/-

Permanent Institutional Membership ì 25,000/- (US$ 2500)

Annual Institutional Membership ì 6000/- (US$ 600)

Life Fellowship ì 2000/- (US$ 200)

Annual Subscription of ISET Journal ì 2000/- (US$ 200)

Application form can be downloaded from website www.iset.org.in or obtained from Secretary, ISET, Earthquake Engineering Department Building, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee-247 667, Uttarakhand, India.

RESULTS OF ELECTION FOR MANAGING COMMITTEE OF ISET ROORKEE CHAPTER

The following persons have been elected unopposed for Managing Committee of ISET Roorkee Chapter for the term 2014-2016.

Chairman : Dr. I.D. Gupta (LM 541) Secretary : Dr. Ravi Sankar Jakka (LM 1509)Members : Prof. Rajesh Chandra (LM1206); Dr. J.P. Narayan (LM 973); Dr. Vir Singh (LM 1526)

Sd/-(V.K. Gupta)Returning Officer,ISET Roorkee Chapter

CALENDAR OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS

AUGUST 08-09, 2014Golden Jubilee Conference “Geotechnology 2030: Future Vision Conference”. The theme of the Conference is “Challenges and Future Developments in Geotechnics” to be held in New Delhi Contact Address: Dr. Tanusree Chakraborty, E-mail: geotechnology2030@gmail.com

AUGUST 24-29, 2014nd2 European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey

Contact Address: For more details, please visit: www.2eceeistanbul.org

AUGUST 25-27, 2014th8 IS on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soil Ground, to be held in Seoul, South Korea, Contact

Address: For more details, please visit: www.is.seoul2014.org

SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 01, 2014rd3 International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction, to be held in Boulder, Colorado, US

Contact Address: For more details, please visit: http://3icudr.org/conference/

AUGUST 08-09, 2014Golden Jubilee Conference “Geotechnology 2030: Future Vision Conference”. The theme of the Conference is “Challenges and Future Developments in Geotechnics” to be held in New Delhi Contact Address: Dr. Tanusree Chakraborty, E-mail: geotechnology2030@gmail.com

AUGUST 24-29, 2014nd2 European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, to be held in Istanbul, Turkey

Contact Address: For more details, please visit: www.2eceeistanbul.org

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AUGUST 25-27, 2014th8 IS on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soil Ground, to be held in Seoul, South Korea, Contact

Address: For more details, please visit: www.is.seoul2014.org

SEPTEMBER 09-11, 2014th50 Anniversary of Danube-European Conf. on Geotechnical Eng., to be held in Vienna, Austria

Contact Address: For more details, please visit: www.decge2014.at

SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 01, 2014rd3 International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction, to be held in Boulder, Colorado, US

Contact Address: For more details, please visit: http://3icudr.org/conference/

OCTOBER 11-12, 2014Thirtieth National Convention of Civil Engineers on 'Sustainable Urban Development', to be held Mumbai, Contact Address: The Honorary Secretary, IEI, Maharashtra State Centre, 15 Haji All Park, K Khadye Marg, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai, Tel.: 022-23543650/23542943; E-mail: maharashtrasc@ieindia.org

NOVEMBER 16-19, 2014rd3 International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE), to be held in Tokyo, Japan

Contact Address: For more details, please visit: http://www.ialcce2014.org

DECEMBER 11-13, 2014th15 Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (15SEE-2014), to be held in IIT Roorkee

Contact Address: Prof. Manish Shrikhande, Organizing Secretary, Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee-247 667, Uttarakhand, India, , Tel.:+91 1332 285536; Fax:+91-1332-276899/273560; E-mail: 15see@iitr.ac.in; URL: http://15see.org

DECEMBER 18-20, 2014Indian Geotechnical Conference 2014 on Geotechnics for Inclusive Development of India (GEOIND), to be held in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, IndiaContact Address: For more details, please visit: www.igc2014kakinada.org

DECEMBER 22-24, 2014Structural Engineering Convention (SEC-2014), to be held in IIT DelhiContact Address: For more details, please visit: http://civil.iitd.ac.in/sec2014

JANUARY 21-23, 2015Sixth International Geotechnical Symposium on Disaster Mitigation in Special Geoenvironmental Conditions, to be held in Chennai, Contact Address: For more details, please visit: email: 6igs.chennai2015@gmail.com; www.igschennai.in/6igschennai2015

AUGUST 10-11, 2015International Conference in Geotechnical Engineering-ICGE-2015, to be held in Colombo, Sri LankaContact Address: Email: sas@uom.lk (President); gm@ceebsl.com (Hony. Secretary)

SEPTEMBER 13-17, 2015XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, to be held in Edinburgh, UK, Contact Address: xviecsmge2015@in-conference.org.uk

NOVEMBER 9-13, 2015th15 Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (15ARC) on New Innovations and

Sustainability, to be held in Fukuoka, Kyushu, JapanContact Address: For more details, please visit: www.15arc.org

NOVEMBER 15-18, 2015Sixth Int. Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geo-materials, to be held in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Contact Address: For more details, please visit: www.saig.org.ar/isdcg2015

AUGUST 01-06, 2016th6 International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics to be held

in New Delhi (NCR), INDIAContact Address: For more details, please visit: www.6icragee.com

AUGUST 14-18, 2016Geo-Chicago 2016: Geoenvironment & Sustainability Speciality Conference, to be held in Chicago, lllinois, USA, Contact Address: For more details, please visit: www.asce.org/geo/conference

JANUARY, 2017th16 World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16WCEE), to be held in Santiago, Chile

Contact Address: For more details, please visit: www.16wcee.com

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ANNUAL GENERAL BODY MEETING

rdMINUTES OF THE 43 ANNUAL GENERAL BODY MEETING OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY OF EARTHQUAKE TECHNOLOGY HELD ON MARCH 28, 2014 AT 4:45 P.M. IN THE JAI KRISHNA HALL, INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS (I), ROORKEE LOCAL CENTRE, ROORKEE.

rd43.0 Prof. H.R. Wason, President ISET, welcomed the members present to the 43 Annual General Body Meeting.

nd43.1 The minutes of the 42 Annual General Body Meeting were confirmed.

nd43.2 The action taken on the minutes of the 42 AGM were reported and the same were noted.

43.3 Reporting Items:

All the reporting items are given in the Annual Report of the Secretary (see item 43.5, Annexure-II), therefore, they are not repeated here.

43.4 Considered the Annual Audited Report of Accounts of the Society for the year ending March 31, 2013 as approved by the Executive Committee and the same was approved by the General Body. A copy of Annual Audited Report is enclosed in Annexure-I.

43.5 Considered the Annual Report of the Secretary for ISET activities during the period March 09, 2013 to March 27, 2014 as approved by the Executive Committee and the same was approved by the General Body. A copy of Annual Report is enclosed in Annexure-II.

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the chair.

(Er. Ajay Chourasia)Secretary, ISET

INDIAN SOCIETY OF EARTHQUAKE TECHNOLOGY, ROORKEEANNUAL REPORT

(For the period from March 09, 2013 to March 27, 2014)

Dear Members,It gives me immense pleasure in presenting the Annual Report of Indian Society of Earthquake Technology for the period March 09, 2013 to March 27, 2014. The salient activities of the Society during this period are presented in this Annual Report.

1. Meetingsnd

The last Annual General Body Meeting (42 AGM) of the Society was held at Delhi on March 09, 2013, minutes of which were published in the ISET News Letter of January-April 2013. During the period of report, four Executive Committee Meetings (ECM) have taken place as detailed below:

Meeting No. Date Venue

th174 ECM March 09, 2013 Delhi

th175 Joint ECM April 26,2013 Roorkee

th176 ECM September 02, 2013 Roorkee

ECM by Circulation Oct. 29, 2013 By Circulation

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2008-2009 1440 09 44 53 6 1552 87

2009-2010 1468 22 44 53 6 1593 41

2010-2011 1511 25 46 53 6 1641 48

2011-2012 1526 30 46 53 6 1661 20

2012-2013 1544 32 46 54 6 1682 21

2013-2014 1568 33 46 54 6 1705 25(as on 27.03.2014

Financial Year

Individual Members Life Fellows

Institution Members Total Membership

Increased

Life Annual Permanent Annual

In addition, Meeting of local (Roorkee-Based) members of the ISET Executive Committee was held on December 16, th2013 to consider the proposal to “6 International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake

thEngineering and Soil Dynamics”. It was resolved that the 6 International Conf. shall be organized by the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology in collaboration with the Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee during December 07-12, 2015 at New Delhi.

2. Audit ReportThe Report on the Accounts of the Society for the financial year 2012-2013, audited by M/s Vikas Khanna & Co., Chartered Accountants, Roorkee, was approved by the E.C. in its meeting held on September 02, 2013. It may be noted that in this financial year, the total capital fund of the Society has significantly increased from Rs. 43,01,083.00 to Rs. 49,10.450.00. The excess of income over expenditure during the financial year was Rs. 5,18,367.00.

3. PublicationsThe issues of 2010, Vol. 47 and 2011, Vol. 48 are still under proof reading & copyediting, which could not be published due to some technical problems. Similarly, the issues of 2012, Vol. 49; 2013, Vol. 50 and 2014, Vol. 51 are being processed.

4. ISET Annual LecturerdThe 33 ISET Annual Lecture was delivered entitled “The Journey Towards Seismic Safety in India” by Prof. Sudhir

thK. Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, VGEC, Ahmedabad on March 09, 2013. The 34 ISET Annual Lecture shall be delivered by Shri A.B. Pandya, Chairman, Central Water Commission, New Delhi on March 28, 2014 on “Seismic Design and Safety Aspects of Dams”.

5. MembershipSince April 01, 2013, 24 Life Members, 01 Annual Member have been enrolled

6. Election of ISET E.C. for the term 2013-2015

The following persons have been elected unopposed for various posts of the ISET Executive Committee for the term 2013-2015.

(a) PRESIDENT

Prof. H.R. Wason LF-32

(b) VICE-PRESIDENT LF-45

Prof. M.L. Sharma

(c) SECRETARY

Vacant

(d) MEMBERS

Er. Y.K. Gupta LM 0162

Dr. Venkatesh Kumar LM 1053

Sri B.N. Hira LM 0854

Er. Ashok Kumar LM 1541

Sri K.C. Naithani LM 0993

Sri P.K. Das LM 1513

Dr. Ranjit Das LM 1430

Vacant

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Er. Ajay Chourasia and Dr. B.P. Suneja were nominated as Secretary and member respectively by the Executive Committee for the term 2013-2015. Dr. B.K. Maheshwari and Dr. Anupam Charkrabarti were nominated as Editor and Co-Editor respectively by the Executive Committee for the term 2013-2015. The following Institutional members have been nominated on the E.C.:

1. Chief Engineer, Kerala State Electricity Board, IM-98

Vydyuthi Bhavanam, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram

2. Principal, Bhagalpur College of Engineering, IM 129

Bhagalpur, BIHAR

7. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

On the recommendation of the editor, the Editorial Committee for the ISET Journal has been reconstituted by the Executive Committee, for the term 2013-2015. Beside advisory members, three associate editors have been appointed. Now the editorial committee consist of:

Associate Editors:

Structural Dynamics: Prof. R.S. Jangid, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai,

E-mail: rsjangid@civil.iitb.ac.in

Soil Dynamics: Prof. A. Boominathan, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, New Delhi-110016, India E-mail: boomi@iitm.ac.in

Seismology and Seismotectonics, Prof. M.L. Sharma, Dept. of Earthquake Eng., IIT Roorkee,

E-mail: mukutfeq@iitr.ernet.in

Advisory Members:

1. Prof. D.P. Abrams, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, E-mail: d-abrams@illinois.edu

2. Prof. Pradipta Banerji, IIT Roorkee, E-mail: pbanerji.iitb@gmail.com , director.iitrke@gmail.com

3. Prof. S.K. Bhattacharyya, CBRI, Roorkee E-mail: srimankb@gmail.com

4. Prof. T.K. Datta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, E-mail: tkdatta@civil.iitd.ac.in

5. Prof. S.K. Deb, IIT Guwahati, E-mail: skdeb@iitg.ernet.in

6. Dr. I.D. Gupta, CWPRS, Khadakwasla, Pune, E-mail: director@cwprs.gov.in

7. Prof. S.K. Jain, IIT Gandhinagar / Kanpur, E-mail: skjain@iitk.ac.in , director@iitgn.ac.in

8. Dr. Amir M. Kaynia, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, E-mail: Amir.M.Kaynia@ngi.no

9. Prof. Paulo B. Lourenco, Univ. of Minho, Portugal, E-mail: pbl@civil.uminho.pt

10. Prof. M.R. Madhav, JNTU and IIT Hyderabad, E-mail: madhavmr@gmail.com

11. Prof. C.S. Manohar, IISc Bangalore, E-mail: manohar@civil.iisc.ernet.in

12. Prof. C.V.R. Murty, IIT Madras, Chennai, E-mail: cvrm@iitm.ac.in

13. Prof. S.K. Nath, IIT Kharagpur, E-mail: nath@gg.iitkgp.ernet.in

14. Prof. D.K. Paul, IIT Roorkee, E-mail: dpaulfeq@gmail.com, dpaulfeq@iitr.ernet.in

15. Dr. B.K. Rastogi, ISR, Gandhinagar, E-mail: dgisrgad@gmail.com

16. Dr. Masato Saitoh, Saitama University, Japan, E-mail: saity@mail.saitama-u.ac.jp

17. Prof. K.G. Sharma, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, E-mail: kgsharma@civil.iitd.ac.in

18. Prof. G.L. Shivakumar Babu, IISc Bangalore, E-mail: gls@civil.iisc.ernet.in

19. Prof. M.P. Singh, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA, E-mail: mpsingh@vt.edu

20. Prof. S.K. Singh, UNAM, Mexico, E-mail: krishnamex@yahoo.com

21. Prof. Ravi Sinha, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, E-mail: rsinha@civil.iitb.ac.in

22. Prof. Kevin Z. Truman, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, E-mail: trumank@umkc.edu

23. Prof. J.H Yin, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, E-mail: cejhyin@polyu.edu.hk

8. ISET Trifunac Award

Call for nomination for “ISET Trifunac Award for Significant Contributions in Strong Motion Earthquake Studies” for the year 2014 was published in July-October 2013 issue of the News Letter and ISET Website: www.iset.org.in. The last date of nomination was March 31, 2014, which is extended by one month to April 30, 2014.

9. ISET Shamsher Prakash Award

Call for nomination for “ISET Shamsher Prakash Award for Significant Contributions in Geotechnical Earthquake

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Engineering” for the year 2014 was published in July-October 2013 issue of the News Letter and ISET Website: www.iset.org.in. The last date of nomination was March 31, 2014, which is extended by one month to April 30, 2014.

10. ISET V.H. Joshi Award

The E.C. in its meeting held on December 01, 2012 has approved the institution of “ISET V.H. Joshi Award for Significant Contributions in Structural Dynamics” a 4-yearly award according to the Clause IX of the Bye-Laws of the Society. The award consists of an award money of INR 51,000/-, and a Citation. In this concern, total corpus amount of Rs. 2,47,000/- has been received from Dr. V.H. Joshi on 02.04.2013.

Call for nomination for “ISET V.H. Joshi Award for Significant Contributions in Structural Dynamics” for the year 2014 was published in July-October 2013 issue of the News Letter and ISET Website: www.iset.org.in. The last date of nomination is March 31, 2014, which was extended by one month to April 30, 2014.

11. ISET B.K. Maheshwari Award

Call for nomination for “ISET B.K. Maheshwari Research Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis in Soil-Structure Interaction in India” for the year 2014 was published in July-October 2013 issue of the News Letter and ISET Website: www.iset.org.in. The last date of nomination was March 31, 2014, which was extended by one month to April 30, 2014.

th12. 15 Symposium on Earthquake EngineeringthThe Indian Society of Earthquake Technology is Co-organizer of the “15 Symposium on Earthquake Engineering”

15SEE-2014 jointly with the Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee. The Symposium is being held from December 11-13, 2014 at Roorkee.

th13. 6 Int. Conf. on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

The Indian Society of Earthquake Technology in collaboration with the Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee thshall be organizing the “6 Int. Conf. on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics”.

thThe 6 Int. Conf. is being held from August 01-06, 2014, 2016 at New Delhi (NCR), India, Website: www.6icragee.com.

14. Membership Fee

The Society received a sum of Rs. 91,000/- in the financial year 2012-2013 in the form of fee for various categories of membership of the Society.

15. Activities of Local Chapters

·Delhi Local Chapter

Delhi Local Chapter organized the following lecture and Workshop in cooperation with the Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi:

1. Lecture on “Health Monitoring of Structures” was delivered on October 17, 2013 by Dr. S. Bhalla, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi.

2. Organized a one day Workshop on “Seismic Assessment and Safety of Structures' on March 9, 2013 in the Department of Civil Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

16. Acknowledgements

The Society would like to thank the DST, New Delhi for generous grants to support its activities. Society is also thankful to Dr. M.L. Sharma, Professor & Head, Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee for extending the facilities required for smooth functioning of the Society and carrying out its activities.

The Society is grateful to Prof. Sudhir K. Jain, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad for rddelivering the 33 ISET Annual Lecture on March 09, 2013. We are also grateful to Shri A.B. Pandya, Chairman, Central

thWater Commission, New Delhi for kindly accepting our invitation for delivering the 34 ISET Annual Lecture on March 28, 2014. The Society is also thankful to the authors and reviewers of papers published in the ISET Journal and the members of the Editorial Committee. Sincere thanks are also placed on record to all individuals and organizations, who have helped the Society directly or indirectly in furtherance of its objectives.

In the end, I would like to thank all the members of the Executive Committee, in particular, Prof. H.R. Wason, President; Prof. M.L. Sharma, Vice-President; Dr. B.K. Maheshwari, Editor; Dr. Anupam Chakrabarti, Co-Editor; and Dr. Manish Shrikhande, Immediate Past Secretary, who were always willing to help and advise me in carrying out my responsibilities as Secretary of the Society. Also, I would like to thank the staff members of ISET Office particularly Mr. Pawan Kumar for working hard for the Society.

Roorkee (Ajay Chourasia)

March 28, 2014 Secretary, ISET

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