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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:24 am Post subject: Seismic hazard estimation |
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Dear Prof. RNI, I congratulate you on this second of the series (the first one being that of Delhi). However, engineers may like to have results in a readymade form for them to use in practice. I do not know how many Sefians would have read both your papers but atleast I hope they would visit the site http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/hazmaps/design/index.php atleast ONCE to see what the type of excellant research you are doing that may lead to that goal. The IS Code is quite backward - sticking to few broad zones when long ago other codes had switched over to acceleration maps. I hope one day, even in my own lifetime, we will enable building engineers with that type of information available in that web link. We need to take up this in MISSION MODE by dedicated persons in IISc and IIT's and researchers in other Institutions to accomplish it in say 18 months from now. May be NICEE could coordinate this project. Sincerely ARC PS: I will be sending a separate mail to your personal ID after rereading your paper.
On Sun Dec 10 10:19:37 2006, rni[AT]civ... <rni[AT]civ...
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Dear Sefians: The following may be of interest to those who like to see Earthquake Engineering practised as a modern scientific discipline, rather
than languishing as a thumb rule based colonial relic. Thanks RN Iyengar |
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:12 am Post subject: Seismic hazard estimation |
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Dear Prof.ARC: Thanks for your kind words. Researchers should continuously try to upgrade the knowlewdge base of the community. This is too well known. But as the country is rushing towards 'knowledge as power', civil engineering profession, in some areas, continues to be embarassingly backward. Estimating seismic hazard and presenting it to design engineers is one such. Not that the learned in EE are not aware of this. But, then their loyalty seems to be more to money and consultancy, with what little know how is available, rather than spend time on hard research, leading to verifiable and reviewable public documents. Many are also afraid of public debate which is very essential in a democratic set up like ours. Under the pretext of India being a developing country, earthquake engineering had been denied progress by vested intersts. Now that we are discussing these openly is a sign that those days are over for good! It is definitely possible to come out with an acceleration map with differing probabilities, for the whole country. If only I can get the support of say, four young engineers with good computational abilities (MATLAB etc), the map can be prepared with whatever is known about the tectonic situation of the country. Naturally this will have to be in an upgradable mode so that revisions are possible with minimum further effort. About making my research understandable to designers I am available at their service, as always I have been. RNI [quote]Dear Prof. RNI, I congratulate you on this second of the series (the first one being that of Delhi). However, engineers may like to have results in a readymade form for them to use in practice. I do not know how many Sefians would have read both your papers but atleast I hope they would visit the site http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/hazmaps/design/index.php atleast ONCE to see what the type of excellant research you are doing that may lead to that goal. The IS Code is quite backward - sticking to few broad zones when long ago other codes had switched over to acceleration maps. I hope one day, even in my own lifetime, we will enable building engineers with that type of information available in that web link. We need to take up this in MISSION MODE by dedicated persons in IISc and IIT's and researchers in other Institutions to accomplish it in say 18 months from now. May be NICEE could coordinate this project. Sincerely ARC PS: I will be sending a separate mail to your personal ID after rereading your paper.
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Dear Sefians: The following may be of interest to those who like to see Earthquake Engineering practised as a modern scientific discipline, rather
than languishing as a thumb rule based colonial relic. Thanks RN Iyengar
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:12 am Post subject: Seismic hazard estimation |
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Dear Prof.ARC: Thanks for your kind words. Researchers should continuously try to upgrade the knowlewdge base of the community. This is too well known. But as the country is rushing towards 'knowledge as power', civil engineering profession, in some areas, continues to be embarassingly backward. Estimating seismic hazard and presenting it to design engineers is one such. Not that the learned in EE are not aware of this. But, then their loyalty seems to be more to money and consultancy, with what little know how is available, rather than spend time on hard research, leading to verifiable and reviewable public documents. Many are also afraid of public debate which is very essential in a democratic set up like ours. Under the pretext of India being a developing country, earthquake engineering had been denied progress by vested intersts. Now that we are discussing these openly is a sign that those days are over for good! It is definitely possible to come out with an acceleration map with differing probabilities, for the whole country. If only I can get the support of say, four young engineers with good computational abilities (MATLAB etc), the map can be prepared with whatever is known about the tectonic situation of the country. Naturally this will have to be in an upgradable mode so that revisions are possible with minimum further effort. About making my research understandable to designers I am available at their service, as always I have been. RNI [quote]Dear Prof. RNI, I congratulate you on this second of the series (the first one being that of Delhi). However, engineers may like to have results in a readymade form for them to use in practice. I do not know how many Sefians would have read both your papers but atleast I hope they would visit the site http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/hazmaps/design/index.php atleast ONCE to see what the type of excellant research you are doing that may lead to that goal. The IS Code is quite backward - sticking to few broad zones when long ago other codes had switched over to acceleration maps. I hope one day, even in my own lifetime, we will enable building engineers with that type of information available in that web link. We need to take up this in MISSION MODE by dedicated persons in IISc and IIT's and researchers in other Institutions to accomplish it in say 18 months from now. May be NICEE could coordinate this project. Sincerely ARC PS: I will be sending a separate mail to your personal ID after rereading your paper.
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Dear Sefians: The following may be of interest to those who like to see Earthquake Engineering practised as a modern scientific discipline, rather
than languishing as a thumb rule based colonial relic. Thanks RN Iyengar
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