Civil Engineering Ph.D Scholar

Supervisor: Ramancharla Pradeep Kumar

Name: Bodige Narender

Adderss:-

NBH: 124, IIIT Campus.
IIIT Hyderabad, Gachibowli,
Hyderabab 500 032.
Email: narender.bpg@research.iiit.ac.in

Area of Intrest & Research:

1. Primary objective is RESEARCH, directed towards increase of KNOWLEDGE.

2. To Study the Vulnerability Assessment of Existing Reinforced Concrete Building.

3. Seismic hazard analysis.

Overview:

India has experienced several devastating earthquakes in the past resulting in a large number of deaths and severe property damage. In the last few decades, a dramatic increase in the losses caused by natural catastrophes has been observed in India. Reasons for the increased losses are manifold, though these certainly include the increase in population, the development of new “super-cities” many of which are located in zones of high seismic hazard, and the high vulnerability of modern societies and technologies. India has had a number of the world’s greatest earthquakes in the last century. In fact, more than 60 percentage areas in the country are considered prone to damaging earthquakes. The north-eastern region of the country as well as the entire Himalayan belt is susceptible to greater earthquakes of magnitude more than 8.0. The main cause of earthquakes in these regions is due to the improvement of the Indian plate towards the Eurasian plate at the rate of about 50 mm per year. Besides the Himalayan region and the Indo-Gangetic plains, even the peninsular India is prone to damaging earthquake. During the last century, 4 great earthquakes struck different parts of the country: (1) Great Assam earthquake (1897), (2) Kangra earthquake (1905), (3) Bihar-Nepal earthquake (1934 ) and (4) Assam earthquake (1950). In recent times, damaging earthquakes experienced in our country include (1) Koyna earthquake(1967) (2) Bihar Nepal earthquake(1988), (3) Uttarkashi earthquake(1991), (4) Killari earthquake(1993), (5) Jabalpur earthquake(1997), (6)Chamoli earthquake(1999),(7) Bhuj earthquake(2001),(8) North Andaman(2002),(9)North Kashmir(2005),(10) Sikkim earthquake(2006). Most recent constructions in the urban areas consist of poorly designed and constructed buildings. The older buildings, even if constructed in compliance with relevant standards at that time, may not comply with the more stringent specifications of the latest standards. Until the 2001 Bhuj earthquake, our country was fortunate not to experience a large earthquake in an urban area. The very high vulnerability of urban India was starkly demonstrated during the Bhuj earthquake. The frequent occurrence of damaging earthquakes clearly demonstrates the high seismic hazard in India and there is an urgent need to assess the seismic vulnerability of buildings in urban areas of India as an essential component of a comprehensive earthquake disaster risk management policy.

Present Work:

The present works mainly focus on Seismic vulnerability assessment of existing reinforced concrete building in Chandigarh city.

Tutor:

Structural Dynamics (Monsoon-2011)

Advanced Structural design (Spring-2010)

Project Undertaken:

Publications:

Chenna Rajaram, Bodige Narender, Neelima Satyam and Ramancharla Pradeep Kumar., "Preliminary Seismic Hazard Map of Peninsular India", Proc. 14th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee 2010, pp 497-491.

Conference Attended:

14th Symposium on EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING on Dec 17-19th 2010 at IIT-Roorkee, Roorkee.

National Symposium on EARTHQUAKE SAFETY OF TALL BUILDINGS on Dec 16th 2008 at IIIT Hyderabad.

NATIONAL ROUND ROBIN EXERCISE ON PUSHOVER EXPERIMENTS AND ANALYSIS OF PROTOTYPE RETROFIITED RCC STRUCTURE on 24 & 25 March 2010 at CPRI, Banaglore.

Workshop Attended:

Technical lecture on SOME INTERESTING STRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION METHODS on August 5th 2011 by Prof.N.Raghavan.

Technical lecture on ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR MODELING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CONCRETE on Jan 29th 2011 by Prof. H. Sudarsana Rao, JNTU Anantapur at IIIT-H, Hyderabad.

Technical lecture on GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF FOUNDATION FOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING on 16 April 2010 at JNTUH by Prof. Madhav.

Technical lecture on GEOTECHNICAL CHALLENGES IN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA: CASE STUDIES on Apr 26th 2010 by Prof. K S Rao, IIT Delhi at IIIT-H, Hyderabad.

Technical lecture on NEED FOR SPECIAL CONCRETES on Jan 18th 2010 by Prof. Ravindra Gettu, IIT Chennai at Hyderabad.

Technical lecture on WHY BRIDGES WILL COLLAPSE IN INDIA? on Aug 31st 2009 by Prof. C.V.R. Murty, IIT Hyderabad at IIIT-H, Hyderabad.

Technical Lecture on PREFABRICATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MASS HOUSING: SOME ISSUES on Jul 22th 2009 by Er. S. Eshwaraiah (Chief Engineer, AP State Housing Corporation) at IIIT-H, Hyderabad.

Technical Lecture on SPECIFYING CONCRETE FOR DURABILITY: ARE WE GETTING THERE? on Feb 13th 2009 by Dr. Ravindra K Dhir (University of Dundee) at IIIT-H, Hyderabad.

Seminar on SEISMIC MICROZONATION OF DELHI REGION on Nov 11th 2008 by Dr. Neelima Satyam at IIIT-H, Hyderabad.

Technical Lectures/Seminars Attended:

Seminar on SEISMIC MICROZONATION OF DELHI REGION on Nov 11th 2008 by Dr. Neelima Satyam at IIIT-H, Hyderabad.

Technical Lecture on SPECIFYING CONCRETE FOR DURABILITY: ARE WE GETTING THERE? on Feb 13th 2009 by Dr. Ravindra K Dhir (University of Dundee) at IIIT-H, Hyderabad.

Technical Lecture on PREFABRICATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MASS HOUSING: SOME ISSUES on Jul 22th 2009 by Er. S. Eshwaraiah (Chief Engineer, AP State Housing Corporation) at IIIT-H, Hyderabad.

Technical lecture on WHY BRIDGES WILL COLLAPSE IN INDIA? on Aug 31st 2009 by Prof. C.V.R. Murty, IIT Hyderabad at IIIT-H, Hyderabad.

Technical lecture on NEED FOR SPECIAL CONCRETES on Jan 18th 2010 by Prof. Ravindra Gettu, IIT Chennai at Hyderabad.

Technical lecture on GEOTECHNICAL CHALLENGES IN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA: CASE STUDIES on Apr 26th 2010 by Prof. K S Rao, IIT Delhi at IIIT-H, Hyderabad.

Experience:

I was working as Lecture in J.B Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderbad in 2007 -2008.