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Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering |
Invited
Talks (selected)
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1)
“Deriving target reliabilities from
socio-economic considerations: a well-meaning but impractical approach to
design?” Fifth National Conference on Reliability and Safety, Structural Engineering Research Centre,
Chennai, India, March 2022 2)
“Surface effects in nanomechanics,”
Materials Simulation: A Virtual Guided Tour Webinar, India, May 2020. 3)
“Why didn’t I think of it
before?”, Structural Engineering
Research Centre, Chennai, March 2020 4)
“In what ways is ‘nano’ mechanics
different?”, Materials Research
Society of India Conclave, Kolkata, February, 2020. 5)
“Reliability based bridge rating using site
specific data,” Advanced
Infrastructure Management Bootcamp, University
of Delaware, June 2018 6)
“Extracting information from dissipative
processes involving small scale systems,” Materials Hallmark Research Seminar, University of Melbourne, April 2018 7)
“Probability based Safety Assessment of
Infrastructure Systems: Design, Maintenance and Safety Targets,” Workshop on Prevention through Design, IIT Kharagpur, March 2018 8)
“Reliability of structural systems with
dependent and load-sharing components,”
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO, Trivandrum,
February 2018 9)
“A family of deterministic temperature control
algorithms based on higher order temperatures” Recent Advances in Computational Mathematics,
Department of Applied Mathematics, University
of Calcutta, December 2016 10)
“Probability
based Safety Assessment of Infrastructure Systems: Design, Maintenance and Safety
Targets” ISWT on Probabilistic Safety
Assessment, IIT Kharagpur,
December 2015 11)
“Phonon
scattering dynamics of friction and thermophoretic motion in carbon nanotube
oscillators” Mathematics, mechanics and physics
for tomorrow's materials, International
Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, October 2015 12)
“Probability
based design philosophy” Train 10 Thousand Teachers,
National Mission on Education through ICT, IIT Kharagpur, September 2015 13)
“Calibration
of probability based design codes” Train 10 Thousand Teachers,
National Mission on Education through ICT, IIT Kharagpur, September 2015 14)
“Probability
based design and assessment of
civil infrastructure systems” Structural
Engineering Research Centre-CSIR,
Chennai, August 2015 15)
“Molecular
dynamics simulation of thermal transport in carbon nanotubes” Annual Technical Meeting of
NMD-ATM, College of Engineering Pune, Pune, Nov. 2014 16)
“Temperature
control in molecular dynamic simulations” Pravartana, IIT Kanpur,
July 2014 17)
“Treatment
of uncertainty in structural engineering problems” SERB-DST Brain Storming Workshop
on Research in Structural
Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, January 2014. 18)
“Risk
and reliability issues in infrastructure management” Indo Canadian Workshop on
Sustainable Infrastructure
Management Practices, New Delhi, February 2014 19)
“Mechanical
Properties of CNTs and CNT Nanocomposites Through Ab Initio and Atomistic
Simulations” Dept of
Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October 2012 20)
“Strength and reliability
assessment of structural components and systems” Boeing
R&D Center, Bangalore, May 2012. 21)
“Reliability assessment of
structural components and systems” Symposium
on Fatigue Fracture and Integrity Assessment, National
Metallurgical Laboratory -Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, May 2012. 22)
“Mechanical properties of CNTs and
CNT epoxy interfaces through simulation studies” Center
for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune, April 2012. 23)
“Challenges
in disaster mitigation of large infrastructure by engineering design” 2012 Indo-American Frontiers of
Engineering Symposium National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC,
March 2012 24)
“Molecular
dynamics simulation of fracture of carbon nanotubes” Emerging Trends in Carbon
nanotubes, Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur, November 2011 25)
“Extreme Value Statistics for the Very Small and the Rather Large in Engineering Problems” Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, July 2011 26)
“Atomistic
Simulations of Fracture” Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, February 2011 27)
“Atomistic
Modeling of Fracture” University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, January 2011. 28)
“Infrastructure
Systems Reliability Involving non-Structural Components” IUSSTF-NSF Indo-US Workshop on
Innovative Materials & Structural Systems for Resilient & Sustainable
Built Infrastructure, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, December
2009 29)
“Probability
theory and Bayesian inference” A short term course on logic and
applications of logic, IIT Kharagpur,
December 2009 30) “Probability concepts”
Statistics & Pattern
Recognition for Automated Diagnostics, IIT
Kharagpur, October 2009 31)
“Introduction
to Partial Safety Factor in Engg. Design” 5th Indo-German Theme Meeting on
`Structural Integrity of Pressure Retaining Components', BARC and Jadavpur
University, February, 2009 32)
“Molecular
dynamics simulation of fracture: a look at carbon nanotubes” Indo US workshop on Materials
Design: Measurement Modeling and Informatics, Bengal Engineering and Science
University, January 2009. 33)
“Molecular
dyanmics simulation of solids: a case study on carbon nanotubes” AICTE/MHRD sponsored winter school
on Nanoparticle-Science and Technoloy, National Institute of Technology,
Durgapur, Jan 2009 34)
“Bending
Behaviour of Carbon Nanotubes” Plenary Lecture, International
Conference on Materials Discovery, University of Tlemcen, Oran,
Algeria October, 2008. 35)
“Reliability
based bridge design and rating” Civil Engineering Training Center,
South Eastern Railways, Kharagpur, March 2008 36)
“Fracture
and Fracture resistance of carbon nanotubes” Workshop on Mechanical Behaviour
of Systems at Small Length Scales -2, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, February 2007. 37) “Monte Carlo Simulations in
Engineering” Soft
Computing Tools in Civil Engineering,
IIT Kharagpur, November 2006 38)
“Tensile
properties and fracture resistance of single-walled carbon nanotubes through atomistic
simulation” Defence Materials Research
Laboratory,
Hyderabad, May 2006 39)
“Analysis
of Randomness in Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes through Atomistic
Simulation” Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic
Research,
Kalpakkam, May 2006 40)
“Tensile
properties and fracture resistance of single walled carbon nanotubes through
atomistic simulation” Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic
Research,
Kalpakkam, May 2006 41)
“Reliability
of Redundant Ductile Structures with Uncertain System Failure Criteria”
Bhaba Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India, March 2006. 42)
“Application
of extreme value theory in civil engineering” University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 2005 43)
“Application
of extreme value theory in engineering” Bhaba Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India, January 2005 44)
“Issues
in structural systems reliability” Bhaba Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India, January 2005 45)
“Extremal
processes in probabilistic solid mechanics” Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India,
January 2005 46)
“Atomistic
Simulations of Fracture : A Review” 47)
Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur,
January 2003 48)
“Reliability-Based
Design: How to Use a Deterministic Finite Element Code in a Probabilistic
World” American Bureau of Shipping, Houston, TX, November 2002. 49)
“FORM
Inverse FORM and Code Calibration” Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Mumbai, India, August 2002. 50)
“Selecting
Target Reliabilities in Probability-Based Design” Bhaba Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India, August 2002. 51)
“Extreme
Value Theory in Civil Engineering” Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, August 2002 52)
“The
role of random nanoscale fluctuations in material damage growth and
failure” Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, July 2002. 53)
“Issues
in Probability-based Design” Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, India, August 2001. 54)
“Stochastic
CDM and Random Structural Damage Growth” Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, March 2000. 55)
“Developing
Target Reliability for Novel Structures: The Case of the Mobile Offshore Base”
Rice University, Houston, TX, February 2000. 56)
“Stochastic
CDM and Random Fatigue Crack Initiation” Stanford University, Stanford, CA, January 1999 |