Theory and Practice in Earthquake Engineering and Technology

Introduction to Earthquake Engineering and Technology.- Performance Based Seismic Design of Structures.- Seismic Hazard Assessment.- Relevance of Site Effect in Earthquake Resistant Construction.- Seismic microzonation studies in India.- Engineering Preparedness for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation.

Prof. Dr. TG Sitharam is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam since July 2019. He is a member of the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Established through an Act of Parliament: SERB Act 2008, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He is a Senior Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and served IISc for more than 27 years. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at IIT Guwahati during 2019-2020 for more than a year. He was the former Chairman, Research Council, CSIR- CBRI (Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee). He is holding the position of Director (additional charge) of Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar, Assam (A Deemed to be University), since May 2021. Over the last 35 years, he has carried out research and development in the area of geotechnical and infrastructure engineering, seismic microzonation and soil dynamics, Geotechnical earthquake engineering and has developed innovative technologies in the area of earth sciences, leading to about 500 technical papers, 20 books with Google scholar H-index of 47 and I-10 index 137 with more than 7175 citations. He has guided 40 Ph.D. students and 35 Master's Students. He was listed in the world's top 2% of scientists for the most-cited research scientists in various disciplines by Stanford University in 2020. His name appeared again in the top 2% of scientists IN Elsevier by Stanford University in 2021. His broad area of research falls into Geotechnical Infrastructure engineering, earth sciences, hydrology, seismology, and natural hazards. He has carried out Seismic microzonation of many urban centers in India and he is an authority on seismic microzonation and site effects. Presently, he is the President of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology and he was the chairman of the 7th International conference on recent advances in geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil