Category: Structural Engineering
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AI/ML in Structural Engineering
Anyone who interacted with me two years ago about applications of Machine Learning in Structural Engineering, this is how the conversation would have gone. Why don’t you use Machine Learning in your field? Machine learning needs a lot of data which we don’t have as there are several unique conditions…
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Vapor Cloud Explosion in a Petrochemical Plant at Jaipur, India
(This paper was written by me as part of the course CE 384T on Blast-Resistant Structural Design by Dr. Eric Williamson in University of Texas at Austin) On the evening of 29th October 2009, a devastating explosion occurred in the petroleum oil lubricants terminal of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) at…
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Dhajji-Dewari Masonry
As a Structural Engineer I always try to relate whatever I study by observing the relevance in the real world. One such instance led me to a type of construction which I have learnt. After an arduous trek of 4 hours ascending from 2130m to 2850m above MSL at Triund,…
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Moving Load Analysis in ABAQUS
When I was working on the analysis of masonry infilled frame in ABAQUS for my research at IIT Kanpur, a friend of my friend dropped by the office where I used to work and explained me the research problem he was working on. He was working on the stress analysis…
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Reconnaissance of the effects of the M7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake of April 25, 2015
I was part of the research team which went for field visit to Kathmandu and Bihar to investigate the effects of the devastating M7.8 Gorkha earthquake. There were primarily three types of buildings, namely Reinforced concrete buildings, Unreinforced Masonry buildings and Traditional heritage structures. We observed the damages in these…
Bhushan Raj Selvaraj 