Proceedings of the International Symposium on Engineering under Uncertainty: Safety Assessment and Management (ISEUSAM - 2012)

1. Structural Reliability Analysis of Composite Wing Subjected to Gust Loads

   • D. K. Maiti, Anil Kumar Ammina

   Pages 355-370

2. Seismic Fragility Analysis of a Primary Containment Structure Using IDA

   • Tushar K. Mandal, Siddhartha Ghosh, Ajai S. Pisharady

   Pages 371-383

3. Nanotoxicology: A Threat to the Environment and to Human Beings

   • D. Dutta Majumder, Sankar Karan, A. Goswami, N Banerjee

   Pages 385-400

4. Probabilistic Assessment of Strengths of Corrosion-Affected RC Beams

   • Kapilesh Bhargava, Yasuhiro Mori, A. K. Ghosh

   Pages 401-426

5. Refined Modeling of Crack Tortuousness to Predict Pressurized Airflow Through Concrete Cracks

   • L. R. Bishnoi, R. P. Vedula, S. K. Gupta

   Pages 427-436

6. Experiences in Subsurface Investigations Using GPR

   • G. Venkatachalam, N. Muniappan, A. Hebsur

   Pages 437-453

7. A Robust Controller with Active Tendons for Vibration Mitigation in Wind Turbine Rotor Blades

   • Andrea Staino, Biswajit Basu

   Pages 455-476

8. Disaster Mitigation of Large Infrastructure Systems

   • Baidurya Bhattacharya

   Pages 477-482

9. An Overview of Application of Nanotechnology in Construction Materials

   • A. K. Tiwari, Subrato Chowdhury

   Pages 483-492

10. Sensor Network Design for Monitoring a Historic Swing Bridge

    • Giuseppe C. Marano, Giuseppe Quaranta, Rita Greco, Giorgio Monti

    Pages 493-502

11. Sensor Applications for Structural Diagnostics and Prognostics

    • Anindya Ghoshal

    Pages 503-516

12. Application of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Technique to Reduce Uncertainty on Corrosion Assessment of Rebars in Concrete by NDT Method

    • M. Bal, A. K. Chakraborty

    Pages 517-528

13. Effect of Very Mild Random Tremors on Saturated Sub-surface Flow

    • Amartya Kumar Bhattacharya, Debasish Kumar

    Pages 529-533

14. Slope Reliability Analysis Using the First-Order Reliability Method

    • Subhadeep Metya, Gautam Bhattacharya

    Pages 535-547

15. Design of a Tuned Liquid Damper System for Seismic Vibration Control of Elevated Water Tanks

    • Anuja Roy, Aparna (Dey) Ghosh

    Pages 549-562

16. Structural Reliability Evaluation and Optimization of a Pressure Vessel Using Nonlinear Performance Functions

    • P. Bhattacharjee, K. Ramesh Kumar, T. A. Janardhan Reddy

    Pages 563-575

17. Dynamic Response of Rectangular Bunker Walls Considering Earthquake Force

    • Indrajit Chowdhury, Jitendra Pratap Singh

    Pages 577-591

18. Probabilistic Risk Analysis in Wind-Integrated Electric Power System Operation

    • Suman Thapa, Rajesh Karki, Roy Billinton

    Pages 593-602

19. A Frequency Domain Study on the Seismic Response Mitigation of Elevated Water Tanks by Multiple Tuned Liquid Dampers

    • Soumi Bhattacharyya, Aparna (Dey) Ghosh

    Pages 603-618

20. Pavement Performance Modelling Using Markov Chain

    • S. K. Suman, S. Sinha

    Pages 619-627

International Symposium on Engineering under Uncertainty: Safety Assessment and Management (ISEUSAM - 2012) is organized by Bengal Engineering and Science University, India during the first week of January 2012 at Kolkata. The primary aim of ISEUSAM 2012 is to provide a platform to facilitate the discussion for a better understanding and management of uncertainty and risk, encompassing various aspects of safety and reliability of engineering systems.

The conference received an overwhelming response from national as well as international scholars, experts and delegates from different parts of the world. Papers received from authors of several countries including Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, UAE, UK and USA, besides India. More than two hundred authors have shown their interest in the symposium. The Proceedings presents ninety two high quality papers which address issues of uncertainty encompassing various fields of engineering, i.e. uncertainty analysis and modelling, structural reliability, geotechnical engineering, vibration control, earthquake engineering, environmental engineering, stochastic dynamics, transportation system, system identification and damage assessment, and infrastructure engineering.

• ISEUSAM 2012
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Safety and Reliability
• System Identification and Damage Assessment
• Uncertainty Analysis and Modelling
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk

• , Civil Engineering, Bengal Engineering and Science Univ., Howrah, India

  Subrata Chakraborty

• Bengal Engineering and Science Univ., Howrah, India

  Gautam Bhattacharya

Prof. S. Chakraborty has been teaching in the Department of Civil Engineering of Bengal Engineering and Science University, India for 17 years. He has completed his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1995. He is involved in numerous projects of Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. Prof. Chakraborty has been awarded Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering to recognize distinguished contributions to Engineering and also the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation to pursue advance research in seismic vulnerability analysis at RWTH Aachen Germany. He is also Managing Editor of International Journal of Engineering under Uncertainty: Hazards, Assessment, and Mitigation.

Prof. Gautam Bhattacharya is a distinguished faculty member of Department of Civil Engineering at Bengal Engineering and Science University, India. His area of research is deterministic and probabilistic analysis of reinforced and unreinforced slopes, retaining structures and foundations and geotechnical earthquake engineering. He has published several scientific articles in peer reviewed journals and also authored books with CRC Press and Springer. He has won several awards including the prestigious Sir Biren Mookerjee Prize for proficiencies in various courses at the undergraduate level.

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