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NAME: PARDEEP KUMAR DATE of BIRTH: 10TH DECEMBER 1968. NATIONALITY: INDIAN CURRENT POSITION: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,

CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT NATIONAL INSTUTUTE OF TCHNOLOGY HAMIRPUR H.P. – 177001 (INDIA PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD: * DEAN OF STUDIES (On Deputation)

HIMACHAL PRADESH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, HAMIRPUR H.P. – 177001 (INDIA)

** HEAD CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT NATIONAL INSTUTUTE OF TCHNOLOGY HAMIRPUR H.P. – 177001 (INDIA) (Since 20th October Till Date) PERMANENT ADDRESS: VILLAGE AND POST OFFICE – ARLOO TEHSIL – BANGANA DISTRICT – UNA, (HIMACHAL PRADESH) – 174307 (INDIA) ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

Exam Passed University / Institute Year Division %age of marks Matric CBSE 1984 First 63.7

10 +2 CBSE 1986 First 61.0

B. Tech. (Civil Engg.) R. E. C. Hamirpur (H.P.) 1990 First 72.1 M. Tech. (Structural Engg. and Construction Management)

R. E. C. Kurukshetra 1997 First 74.3

Ph.D. (Structural Engineering.) I. I. T. Roorkee (India) 2005 Degree Awarded TITLE OF DOCTORAL RESEARCH: Load Rating and Assessment of Masonry Arch Bridges. PARTICULARS OF EMPLOYMENT:

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Period of Employment Employer Post held From To

1 19.09.1991 01.10.1997 R E C Hamirpur Lecturer 2. 01.10.1997 01.10.2002 NIT Hamirpur Senior Lecturer 3 01.10.2002 19.09.05 NIT Hamirpur Lecturer (Selection

Grade 4 19.09.2005 1.01.2006 NIT Hamirpur Assistant Professor 5. 1.01.2006 18.08.2011 NIT Hamirpur Associate Professor 6. 18.08.2011 31.12.2012 H P Technical University Dean of Studies

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7. 01.01.2013 Till date NIT Hamirpur Associate Professor AREAS OF INTEREST The major area of interest is associated to Masonry Arch Bridges. There are a large number of these bridges on Indian railway and roadway network. These require attention for assessing their load carrying capacity and remaining service life. Another tool of interest is Finite Element Modeling of Structures. The tool has been used extensively in the research. In general design and analysis of Reinforced Cement Concrete Structures is yet another area of research.

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION International Journals:

1. Pardeep Kumar and N M Bhandari, “Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis of Masonry Arches for Prediction of Collapse Load” IABSE quarterly publication Structural Engineering International, Vol. 15, Number 3, August 2005, pp. 166-174.

2. Pardeep Kumar and N M Bhandari, “Mechanism Based Assessment of Masonry Arch Bridges” IABSE quarterly publication Structural Engineering International, Vol. 16, Number 3, August 2006, pp. 226-234.

3. B. Harvey, P. Kumar and N. M. Bhandari, “Mechanism Based Assessment of Masonry Arch Bridges” SEI Discussion, Structural Engineering International, Vol. 17, Number 1, February 2007, pp. 97-99.

4. Dubey Rahul and Kumar Pardeep, “Effect of Superplasticiser Dosage on Compressive strength of Self Compacting Concrete”, International journal of civil and Structural Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 2, Nov. 2012, pp- 360-366.

5. Dubey Rahul and Kumar Pardeep, “An Experimental Study for Optimization of High range Water Reducing Superplasticiser in Self Compacting Concrete”, Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering, Vol 7 Issue 1, March 2013, Pp-62-71.

6. Dubey Rahul and Kumar Pardeep, “Effect of Flyash on Water/Powder ratio and Superplasticiser Dosage in Self Compacting Mortars”, International journal of Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Vol 2 Issue 1, Feb. 2013, Pp 55-62.

7. Dubey R. and Kumar Pardeep, “An Empirical Approach to Design Optimized Self-Compacting Concrete Mixes”, Advances in Civil Engineering Materials, Vol 3 Issue 2, September 2014, online. DOI: 10.1520/ACEM20130117, ISSN: 2165-3984.

8. Dubey R. and Kumar Pardeep, “Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Retrofitting RC Cylindrical Columns using Self-Compacting Concrete Jackets”, Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier ISSN: 0950-0618. July 2016, Vol. 114. Pp104-117.

9. Pardeep Kumar and Sandeep Petwal, “Seismic Performance of Secondary Systems Housed in Isolated and Non Isolated Building”, Earthquakes and Structures, Techno Press., (under revision)

10. Pardeep Kumar and Ravi Kumar Sharma, “Refurbishment and Retrofitting of Distressed Masonry Corbel”, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers journal Structures and Buildings, (Submitted)

11. Bavita Bhardwaj and Pardeep Kumar, “Waste Foundry Sand in Concrete: A Review of Latest Developments”, Construction and Building Materials (Submitted).

National Journals:

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1. Pardeep Kumar and N M Bhandari, “Structural Properties of Brick, Mortar and Masonry” Indian Concrete Journal, Vol. 80, No. 10, October 2006, pp. 29-39.

2. Pardeep Kumar and N. M. Bhandari, “Assessment of Masonry Arch Bridges”, Highway Research Journal, Vol 1, no. 2, Special Issue 2008, pp. 93-111.

International Conferences:

1. N. M. Bhandari, Pardeep Kumar and Gunwant Prashant Umap, “Performance and Assessment of Masonry Arches”, Structural Engineering Convention – An International Meet, SEC-2003, IIT Kharagpur, Dec 12-14, 2003.

2. N. M. Bhandari and Pardeep Kumar, “Health Monitoring of Masonry Arch Bridges”, Proc. of International Conference on Current Trends in Aqueducts, roads, Rail and Marine Bridges, NBRDC Hydrabad, December 20-22, 2004.

3. Pardeep Kumar and N M Bhandari, “Non-Destructive Test Methods For Structural Assessment Of Masonry Structures”, Proc. of International conference on World of Innovations in Structural Engineering (WISE – 2004), Hydrabad, India, December 1-3, 2004,

4. Pardeep Kumar and N M Bhandari, “Assessment and Load Rating of Masonry Arch Bridges” Proceedings of 10th Canadian Masonry Symposium, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada, 8-12th June 2005, editor Lis- sel-Benz-Hagel-Yuen-Shrive, pp. 926-936. .

5. Pardeep Kumar and N. M. Bhandari, “Mechanism based assessment of masonry arch bridges”, Structural Engineering Convention – An International Meet, SEC-2005, IISc Bangalore.

6. Pardeep Kumar and N. M. Bhandari, “Rehabilitation of Masonry Arches”, V International Conference on Restoration of Heritage Masonry Structures, Cairo, Egypt, April 24-17, 2006.

7. N. M. Bhandari and Pardeep Kumar, “Load Rating of Masonry Arch Bridges using Artificial Neural Network”, Joint International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Civil and Building Engineering, Montreal, Canada, June 14-16, 2006.

8. Pardeep Kumar and N M Bhandari, “Testing for Assessment of Load Carrying Capacity of Masonry Arch Bridges”, First International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions, New Delhi, India, November 6-8, 2006. Pp-827-834.

9. Pardeep Kumar and N M Bhandari, “Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Masonry Arch Bridges”, 2nd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, ICCMS-2006, IIT Guwahati, India, Dec 8-10, 2006.

10. N M Bhandari and Pardeep Kumar, “Non-destructive test methods”, International Workshop on Seismic Evaluation and Strengthening of Existing Structures, SESES-2007, HIPA Shimla, June 15-16, 2007.

11. Kumar Pardeep, “Performance Assessment and Maintenance of Masonry Arch Bridges”, Proceedings of 34th IABSE Symposium on Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas, Venice, Italy, Sept. 22-24 2010.

12. Kumar Pardeep and Dubey Rahul, “Effect of High Dosages of High Range Water Reducing Agents on Properties of Self Compacting Concrete”, International Conference on Innovative World of Structural Engineering, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, September 17-19, 2010.

13. Dubey Rahul and Kumar Pardeep, “Strengthening and Rehabilitation of Reinforced Concrete Structures- A literature Review”, UKERI Concrete Congress, Innovations in Concrete Constructions, NIT Jalandhar, India, 5-8 March, 2013.

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14. Dubey Rahul and Kumar Pardeep, “An empirical approach for the optimization of fly ash content in self-consolidating concrete” 5th North American Conference on Design and Use of Self Compacting Concrete, (SCC 2013), Chicago, USA, May 12-15, 2013.

15. Kumar Pardeep and Dubey Rahul, “Influence of superplasticizer dosages on fresh properties of self-consolidating concrete”, 5th North American Conference on Design and Use of Self Compacting Concrete, (SCC 2013), Chicago, USA, May 12-15, 2013.

16. Pardeep Kumar and R. K. Sharma, “Determination of Dynamic Modulus of Elasticity of Concrete”, International Conference on Structural Engineering and Mechanics December 20-22, 2013, Rourkela, India

17. R. K. Sharma and Pardeep Kumar, “Utilization of Dredged Material from Reservoir of Hydro Project as Fine Aggregate in Concrete”, International Conference on Structural Engineering and Mechanics December 20-22, 2013, Rourkela, India

18. Pardeep Kumar, “Assessment of Bhaleth Bridge using Mechanism Method”, 7th WSEAS International Conference on Engineering Mechanics, Structures, Engineering Geology (EMESEG '14), Salerno, Italy, June 3-5, 2014

19. P. V. Mallikarjun, Pravin Jagtap, Pardeep Kumar, Vasant Matsagar , “Performance of Seismic Base-Isolated Building for Secondary System Protection under Real Earthquakes”, Advances in Structural Engineering , Vol –II, Part-XII, 10.1007/978-81-322-2193-7_104, pp 1353-1363, 2015.

20. Dubey R. and Kumar Pardeep, “Use of Self- Compacting Concrete as Retrofitting Material”, Proceedings of UKIERI Concrete Congress, Concrete Research Driving Profit and Sustainability, Advances in Civil Engineering Materials, Jalandhar, India, 2-5 November, 2015 pp. 2142-2151.

21. Vivek Tiwari, Puneet Paul, Tanuj Chauhan, Piyush Jamwal, Jyoti Kapoor, Nirdesh Kumar and Kumar Pardeep, “Prediction of 28 Days Compressive Strength of concrete from 7 Days Strength”, Proceedings of UKIERI Concrete Congress, Concrete Research Driving Profit and Sustainability, Advances in Civil Engineering Materials, Jalandhar, India, 2-5 November, 2015 pp. 2152-2159.

22. Kumar Pardeep “Stiffness Based Assessment of Masonry Arch Bridges”, Proceedings of the 7th ICCM2016, 1st-4th August 2016, Berkeley, CA, USA, G.R. Liu and Shaofan Li, Paper ID, ScienTech Publisher. http://www.sci-en-tech.com/ICCM2016/ICCM2016-Proceedings.pdf.

National Conferences and Symposiums: 1. Mrs. Tripta Goel, Raman Parti and Pardeep Kumar, “Road Accidents in Hamirpur District –

A case Study” National Workshop on Road Safety, 1992, TIET Patiala. 2. Parti Raman and Pardeep Kumar, Highway Infrastructure:- Future Strategies for Road

Development In India”, “Published in proceedings of 1st Amrit Jubilee , 80th Conference of Indian Economic Association from Dec. 27 to 29, 1997, Osmania University Hyderabad.

3. Pardeep Kumar, “Water Proofing of Buildings”, All India seminar on Building Services, Institution of Engineers (I), Nagpur Local Center, Nagpur 25-26 Nov.2000.

4. Pardeep Kumar, A. K. Dwivedi, S. S. Pusadkar, “Performance and Integrity testing of Concrete in Structures”, Proceedings of National Conference on Advances in Construction materials, REC Hamirpur, 8 – 9 April, 2002.

5. A. K. Dwivedi, Pardeep Kumar and S. S. Pusadkar, “High Performance Materials for structural Applications”, National Conference on Recent Advancements in Civil Engineering, Institution of engineers (India), Warangal Local center, Dec. 29-30, 2003, pp. I-6-I-12.

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6. S. S. Pusadkar, Pardeep Kumar and A. K. Dwivedi, “Utilization of Waste Material in Geotechnical Applications”, National Conference on Recent Advancements in Civil Engineering, Institution of engineers (India), Warangal Local center, Dec. 29-30, 2003, pp. III-31-III-36.

7. N. M. Bhandari and Pardeep Kumar, “Retrofitting and Assessment of Masonry Arch Bridges”, All India Seminar on Structural Rehabilitation and Water proofing, Institution of Engineers (India) Ghaziabad Local Centre, Oct 13-14, 2003, pp II-6.1-6.15.

8. Pardeep Kumar and N M Bhandari, “Rehabilitation of Masonry Arches”, Proc. of national conference on Recent trends in Highways and Bridges (RTHB 2005), TIET Patiala, February 18-19, 2005.

9. Pardeep Kumar and N M Bhandari, “Health Monitoring of Masonry Arch Bridges”, Proc. of national conference on Recent trends in Highways and Bridges (RTHB 2005), TIET Patiala, February 18-19, 2005.

10. N. M. Bhandari and Pardeep Kumar, “Structural Health Monitoring and Assessment of Masonry Arch Bridges”, Proc. of national conference on Advances in Bridge Engineering (ABE), IIT Roorkee, March 24-25, 2006.

11. N. M. Bhandari and Pardeep Kumar, “Artificial Neural Network – A Tool for Load rating of Masonry Arch Bridges”, Proc. of national conference on Advances in Bridge Engineering (ABE), IIT Roorkee, March 24-25, 2006.

12. Pardeep Kumar and N. M. Bhandari, “Retrofitting of Masonry Arch bridges”, Proc. Of National conference on Technology for Disaster Mitigation (TDM-2006), NIT Hamirpur, Sept. 29-30, 2006.

13. Pardeep Kumar and I K Bhat, “Building Brand in Higher Education”, Proceedings of ISTE Section Annual Convention, NIT Hamirpur, Nov. 18-19, 2007, pp-173-175.

14. Parti raman, R k Dutta, Pardeep Kumar, Surjit Singh Katoch and U K Pandey, “Curicullam Development In Civil Engineering at NIT Hamirpur”, Proceedings of ISTE Section Annual Convention, NIT Hamirpur, Nov. 18-19, 2007, pp-176-180.

15. Vijay Shanker, Pardeep Kumar, R. L. Sharma, “Role of Lift Irrigation Schemes in Sustaining Agriculture in Hill Regions”, Proceedings of National Seminar on integrated water Management and sustainable Water Pricing, (IWMSWP-2008), Rajasthan Technical University, 8-9 Feb. 2008, pp-245-250.

16. Vijay Shanker, Pardeep Kumar, S. S. Katoch, “Hydrological Investigations in Southern Part of Kangra Valley to ascertain drinking Water quality”, Proceedings of National Seminar on integrated water Management and sustainable Water Pricing, (IWMSWP-2008), Rajasthan Technical University, 8-9 Feb. 2008, pp-17-22.

17. Rahul Dubey and Pardeep Kumar, “Self Compacting Concrete: Innovative Material for Infrastructure Development”, Proceedings of National Conference Infrastructure Development in Civil Engineering, (IDCE-2008), 16-17 May 2008, pp-168-172.

18. Deepak Angra, Pardeep Kumar and N. P. Devgan, “Assessment of Load Carrying Capacity of Multispan Masonry Arch Bridges”, Proceedings of National Conference Infrastructure Development in Civil Engineering, (IDCE-2008), 16-17 May 2008, pp-183-189.

19. Paul Eckert, Pardeep Kumar and Vijay Shankar, “Sustainable Water Resources Management through River Bank Filtration- The Infrastructural Perspective”, Proceedings of National Conference Infrastructure Development in Civil Engineering, (IDCE-2008), 16-17 May 2008, pp-268-276.

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20. Abhishek Soni, Aditya Bhushan, Abhineshwar Jena, Pardeep Kumar, “Non-Destructive Evaluation of Concrete for Strength correlation”, Civil Engineering Conference-Innovation without Limits, CEC-2009, 18-19 Sept. 2009, pp. 113-116.

21. Lalit Mohan Bahuguna and Pardeep Kumar, “Effect Of Skew Angle On The Behavior Of Rcc Simply Supported Skew Slab Bridge Model”, Civil Engineering Conference Innovation for Sustainability (CEC – 2016), September 09 -10, 2016.

22. Udit Kumar and Pardeep Kumar, “ Effect Of Bed Joint Direction On Strength Of Skew Masonry Arch”, Civil Engineering Conference Innovation for Sustainability (CEC – 2016), September 09 -10, 2016.

23. Bavita Bhardwaj and Pardeep Kumar, “Waste Foundry Sand In Concrete: Review”, Civil Engineering Conference Innovation for Sustainability (CEC – 2016), September 09 -10, 2016.

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES ORGANIZED Ø I was actively involved in the organization of National conference on “Materials and their

application in Civil Engineering”, MACE-2004 held in Civil Engineering department of National Institute of Technology Hamirpur.

Ø I was the Chairperson for the technical session organized in the National Conference, MACE-2004.

Ø Organized workshop on “Concrete Mix Design” on Feb. 9-10, 2006 for the field Engineers of HP State Government.

Ø Organized National Conference of “Techniques for Disaster Mitigation” on September 29-30, 2006, at NIT Hamirpur.

Ø Organized International Workshop on “Seismic Evaluation and Strengthening of Existing Structures”, SESES-2007, jointly with HIPA Shimla, Shimla, on June 15-16, 2007.

Ø National conference on “Infrastructure Development in Civil Engineering” on 16-17 May, 2008.

Ø Civil Engineering Conference- Innovation without Limits, CEC-2009, 18-19 Sept. 2009 Ø Organized Workshop on Implementation of “National Vocational Educational Qualification

Framework” in Himachal Pradesh in collaboration with CSK HP Krishi Vishvavidyalaya Palampur and AICTE NEW Delhi on 24th December, 2011.

Ø Organized 3 day Workshop on “Human Values and Professional Ethics” in Collaboration with PTU Jalandhar at NITTTR Chandigarh during 1st to 3rd Dec, 2012.

Ø Civil Engineering Conference Innovation for Sustainability (CEC – 2016), September 09 -10, 2016.

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES ATTENDED Name of the Conferences /Seminar /Symposium /Workshop

Place and Sponsored by Dates

Structural Engineering Convention-2001 I. I. T. Roorkee October 29-31, 2001

Workshop on “Human Values in Technical I. I. T. Roorkee March 11, 2002

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Education” National Conference on “Advances in Constructional Materials”, AICM-2002

R. E. C. Hamirpur April 8-9, 2002

All India Seminar on “Structural Rehabilitation and waterproofing”

I.E., Ghaziabad October 13-14, 2003

Indian Geotechnical Conference IIT Roorkee 18-20 Dec., 2003 National Conference on “Materials and their application in Civil Engineering”, MACE-2004

NIT Hamirpur August 26-27, 2004

Mix Design competition for students TIET Patiala, ACC January 25, 2005 National conference on “Recent Trends in Highways and Bridges”, RTHB-2005

TIET Patiala February 18-19, 2005

Induction Training Programme on “Teaching Methods”

NPIU Noida and TEQIP at NIT Hamirpur

January 28-29, 2006

National Conference on “Advances in Bridge Engineering”, ABE

IIT Roorkee March 24-25, 2006

Short-term course on “Design and Conduct of Tracers study for Pass-outs”

NITTTR, Chandigarh November 8-10, 2006

Seminar on Super Ductile Rebars for Highly seismic Zones

Shimla, TATA Tiscon 26 July, 2007

Workshop on “ Getting Motivated: Some Practical Techniques”

NIT Hamirpur Feb. 3-4, 2007

National Symposium on “ Nanomaterials Design: Bridging Nanolength Scale”

NIT Hamirpur Nov. 17, 2007.

ISTE Section Annual convention SAC-07 NIT Hamirpur Nov. 18-19, 2007 Workshop on “Academic Quality Management”

NIT Calicut July 17-18, 2008

Workshop on IS: 800-2007 New Delhi , INSDAG Kolkata

April 22-23, 2009

Training on Altair Hyper Mesh Mech. Engg Deptt., NIT Hamirpur

Oct. 26-30, 2009

Training on Altair suit of products ie Hypermesh, Radioss and optistruct.

Mech. Engg Deptt., NIT Hamirpur

Feb 22-25, 2010

34th IABSE Symposium on “Large structures and infrastructures for environmentally constrained and urbanised areas”

Venice, Italy Sept. 22-25, 2010

55th Congress of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, ISTAM

NIT Hamirpur Dec.18-21, 2010

Workshop Public key Infrastructure CS&ED NIT Hamirpur Feb. 12-13, 2011 Workshop on Human Values and Professional Ethics

NITTTR Chandigarh Dec. 1-3, 2012

5th North American Conference on Design and Use of Self Compacting Concrete

Michigan Avenue, Chicago, USA

May 12-15, 2013

International Conference on Structural Engineering and Mechanics

NIT Rourkela, Orissa Dec. 20-22, 2013

UKIERI Concrete Congress, Concrete Research Driving Profit and Sustainability,

Dr. B R Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar

2-5 November, 2015.

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Advances in Civil Engineering Materials. 7th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2016).

University of California, Berkeley, USA

August 1st-4th, 2016

WINTER/SUMMER SCHOOLS ATTENDED

Sr. No. Title of Programme Organizer Duration and dates

1. Induction Training Programme Academic Staff College, Shimla (HP)

18 Dec, 1995 to 6 Jan, 1996

2. Reliability Based Innovative Product Design QIP at IIT Delhi. 1-12 June, 1998 3. Instrumentation and Data Analysis QIP at IIT Delhi. 6-17 July, 1998 4. Application of Mathematical Programming

Techniques for Reservoir Operations MREC Jaipur. 5 – 17 Oct, 1998

5. Integrated Environment – Sustainable Development

MREC Jaipur. 21 June, 1999 to 03 July, 1999

6. Advanced Testing techniques in Civil Engineering for Infrastructure Development

R.E.C Hamirpur (HP) June 25 to July 7, 2001

7. Revitalization of Technical Education R.E.C Hamirpur (HP) July 9 to July 21, 2001

8. C++ N.I.T. Hamirpur (HP) August 14-22, 2004 9. Store management and Financial

Administration HP Institute of Public Administration Shimla (HP)

Oct. 03-06, 2007

10. Short-term course on “Creative Teaching of Structural Analysis”

JNTU Hydrabad Dec. 17-22, 2007.

11. Training on “Management Capacity Development”

EQUATE 27-31 May, 2008.

12. STTP on “ Structural Steel Design for University Faculty”

TU Patiala & INSDAG Kolkata

Dec 1-6, 2008

13. Pedagogy Training EQUATE New Delhi March 20-22, 2009 14. Solar Passive Building Design NIT Hamirpur,

AICTE June 7-11, 2010

15. Fracture Mechanics of Concrete: Research and applications

IIT Madras July 12-18, 2011

16. Human Values and Professional Ethics IIT Kanpur 17-24 Jan-2012 17. Jeevan Vidya Shivir IIIT Hyderabad 22-29 Dec 2012 18. Leakage and Water Proofing of Buildings ESCI Hyderabad 16-20 Sept 2013 WINTER/SUMMER SCHOOLS ORGANISED:

Sr. No.

Title of Programme Sponsored by

Duration and dates

1. STTP on “Advanced Testing techniques in Civil Engineering for Infrastructure Development”

ISTE June 25 – July 5 2001

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2. STTP on “Estimation, construction and maintenance of public utility works” for Engineers of HPPWD.

TEQIP, NIT Hamirpur

April 19-23, 2006

3. STTP on “Capacity Building of Engineers for Earthquake Risk management” for Engineers of HPPWD.

MHA, Govt. of India

June 5-9, 2006

4. STTP on “Capacity Building of Engineers for Earthquake Risk management” for Engineers of HPPWD.

MHA, Govt. of India

June 12-16, 2006

5. STTP on “Capacity Building of Engineers for Earthquake Risk management” for Engineers of HPPWD.

MHA, Govt. of India

June 19-23, 2006

6. STTP on “Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer” for teachers of Technical Institutions.

TEQIP June 26-30, 2006

7. STTP on “Capacity Building of Engineers for Earthquake Risk Management” for Engineers of HPPWD.

MHA, Govt. of India

Oct. 8-12, 2007

8. STTP on “Water Harvesting” TEQIP Dec. 10-14, 2007

9. STC on “Composite Materials” AICTE June 30-July 10, 2008

10. 3-day workshop on “Universal Human Values” TEQIP-II Sept.27-29, 2013

(vi) No. of Projects (completed and in-progress): 2 Nos. (Amount = Rs. Lakhs).

Title of Project Funding Agency & Amount Sanctioned

Allotment Year & Time

Present Status of the Project/PI

1. Nano Material and its applications in Self Consolidating Concrete (R & D)

TEQIP-II Rs. 0.45 Lakh

2014 (6 months)

Completed Dr. Pardeep Kumar

2. Development of Geopolymer concrete with Foundary Sand (R & D)

TEQIP-II Rs. 0.66 Lakhs

2016 (3 months)

Completed Dr. Pardeep Kumar

3. Coordinator IEDC, 5 projects sanctioned by DST and 4 successfully executed.

DST Rs. 13.30 Lakh

2014 (5 Yrs)

Dr. Pardeep Kumar Ongoing

4. Providing Safer Infrastructure in Hazard Prone Areas of Himachal Pradesh

8.10 Lacs SCSTE, Shimla

(HP).

2016, (2 Yrs) Dr. Pardeep Kumar Ongoing

Total Amount Rs. 73.16 Lakhs

NOMINATIONS/ RECOGNITIONS

Sr. No. Nominated As Organisation

1. Member of Assessment Committee for Promotion of Technical Staff CSIR IHBT Palampur

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2. Member Academic Council HPTU Hamirpur

3. Member Board of Studies Indus International University

4. Member committee for Technical Textbook Prize Scheme AICTE

5. Member Selection Committee for Assistant Prof. and Junior Engineers G.E. College Ajmer

6. Member Recruitment of lecturers on contract basis NIT Hamirpur

7. Member Selection Committee for Assistant Prof. NIT Hamirpur

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CONTRIBUTIONS IN TEACHING TO CREATE ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT:

Courses Taught at Under Graduate Level Name of Course Brief Contents Structural Design-I (Reinforced Concrete Structures)

Design of Beams, columns, slabs, staircase, and footings by working stress and limit state method.

Structural Design –II (Reinforced Concrete Structures)

Design of Retaining walls, Design of water tanks, Design of prestressed concrete structures, Design of connections in steel structures.

Structural Design-III (Steel Structures)

Design of tension members, compression members, beams, plate girder, Roof trusses, water tanks and plastic design of steel structures.

Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures

General principles, Prestressing systems, losses of prestress, Design of prestressed beams for flexure, shear, Tension and compression members, End block, Circular prestressing, ultimate load design.

Advanced Structural Analysis Beams on elastic foundations, space frame analysis using matrix methods, Theories of failure, Theory of plates and shells, Approximate methods of analysis of building frames.

Structural Design-IV for Architecture

Design of circular, waffle, ribbed slabs. Design of different types of staircases. Moment Distribution of portal frames and multistoried buildings. Analysis and design of trusses and domes, shells etc.

Structural Analysis-II Method of Consistent Deformations, Three Moment Equation, Slope Deflection Method, Moment Distribution Method, Kani’s Method, Influence line Diagram using Muller Breaslau’s Principle, Plastic Methods of Analysis.

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Design of Steel structures Design of tension members, compression members, beams, plate girder, Roof trusses, water tanks and plastic design of steel structures.

Theory of structures Introduction to structures, loads. Slopes and deflections in determinate beams and Moving loads and influence lines for determinate and indeterminate structures. Analysis of indeterminate beams and frames and Plastic analysis

Bridge Engineering Investigation for bridge; Standard specification for Road Bridge; Design of slab culvert and box culvert; Design of T‐beam reinforced concrete bridges; Design of pre‐stressed concrete bridges; Design of Piers and masonry abutments.

Advanced Structural design General principles, Prestressing systems, losses of prestress, Design of prestressed. Design of retaining Walls, Design of Underground, resting on ground and Overhead water tanks, and Design of slab culvert and box culvert; Design of T‐beam reinforced concrete bridges;

Courses Taught at Post Graduate Level Name of Course Brief Contents Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis

Stiffness and Flexibility method of analysis for beams, pin jointed and rigid jointed, 2d and 3 d structures.

Prestressed Concrete Types, Analysis of sections, Losses of prestress, Design for flexure, shear, compression, tension and torsion. Design of Pretensioned and post tensioned members. Composite Sections, Design of pipes and tanks, design of determinate and indeterminate structures, Design of ribbed slabs.

Projects Guided To B. Tech Final Year Students:

Ø Computer aided design of Structural members. Ø Seismic Design of multistoried buildings. Ø Use of rice Husk Ash in concrete. Ø Strength improvement of RCC Beams by glued steel Plates. Ø Development of computer programme for “Moment Distribution Method for Analysis of Plane

Building Frames”. Ø Computer aided Design of RCC Isolated footings. Ø Computer Aided Design of RCC Columns. Ø Analysis and Design of Earthquake Resistant Multi Storied Building. Ø Analysis and Design of Earthquake Resistant Multi Storied Building Using STADPRO. Ø Design of Prestressed Concrete Box Girder Bridge Using STADPRO. Ø Analysis and Design of Multistoried Building. Ø Analysis of Beams Using Strut and Tie Model. Ø Seismic Evaluation of Civil Engineering Department Building Of NIT Hamirpur.

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Ø Study Analysis and Design Of Footbridges. Ø Non Destructive Testing and Evaluation of Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Science

and Engineering Department Buildings. Ø Isolated Rectangular Footing Design. Ø Analysis and Design of Steel Intensive Auditorium Ø Investigations on Self Compacting Concrete Ø Analysis of Reinforced cement concrete Beams using ANSYS Ø Finite Element Analysis of Floating Beams under moving loads Ø Non-Destructive Evaluation of Concrete for Strength correlation Ø Nano materials and its application in self-consolidating concrete Ø Prediction of 28 days Strength from 7 Day strength of Concrete M. Tech Dissertation Guidance S.No.

Name of Student Thesis Title Status

1. Sh. Deepak Angra Analysis of Multispan Arch Bridges Using NISA software

Completed, May 2007

2. Mr. Baljeet Yadav Simultaneous size shape and topology optimization of plane truss.

July 2014

3. Mr. Lal Singh Mechanism based assessment of skewed masonry arch bridges.

July 2014

4. Mr. P V Mallikarjun Rao

Seismic performance of secondary systems housed in isolated and non-isolated building structures.

June 2014

5. Mr. Ghanshyam Gupta

Dynamic analysis of pre-stressed concrete box girder highway bridge.

June 2014

6. Mr. Sandeep Petwal Seismic performance of Secondary systems housed in isolated and non-isolated structures

June 2015

7. Mr. Sumeet Sahoo Crack Growth Analysis of a cylindrical Pressure Vessel using CASCA and FRANC2D/L

June 2015

8. Mr Udit Kumar Behavior of Skewed Masonry arch bridges ongoing 9. Mr. Lalit Mohan

Bahuguna Experimental investigation on the Skewed Slab bridges

ongoing

10. Mr. Anand Kumar ongoing 11. Nishi Gangwar Wireless sensor Network ongoing Ph.D. Research Supervision S.No. Name of Student Thesis Title Status 1. Sh. Rahul Dubey Optimization of self-compacting

concrete mixes and its use in retrofitting

Completed May 2014

2. Ms. Babita Geo Polymer Concrete Ongoing Since Aug 2015 3. Mr. Vivek Seismic Micro zonation of Ongoing since Aug 2016

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Sharma Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh) 4. 5. Ph.D. Thesis Reviewed S.No. Name of Student Thesis Title University 1. Mr Vikram M

Patel Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Structures in Tsunami Prone Areas

Ganpat University

2. Mr. B V K Lalith Kumar

An Assessment of Seismic microzonation of Vishakhapatanam, Andhra Pradesh

Andhra University

3. M.S. Purkar Linear and Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis with special reference to the Design of Reinforced Earth Retaining Hall

Savitribai Phule Pune University

4. Sri VEMULAPALLI SRINIVASA RAO

Behaviour of standard and high strength slag cement concrete subjected to high temperature

Andhra University

5. Mr. Vinay Chandwani

Modeling and Analysis of Ready Mix Concrete Slump using Hybrid Genetic Algorithms- Artificial Neural Networks

MNIT Jaipur

REVIEWERS OF JOURNALS/EDITORIAL MEMBER

1. Structural Engineering International, Journal of International association of Bridge and Structural Engineers, Zurich, Switzerland.

2. International Journal of Engineering, Ireland. 3. International Journal of Earth Sciences & Engineering (ISSN 0974-5904) Indexed in CAS-

USA- Reference No: 172238 4. Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier ISSN: 0950-0618

CONTRIBUTION TO INSTITUTIONAL CORPORATE LIFE I have performed/ is performing following administrative duties at institute and departmental level. Ø Worked as Warden of Shivalik Hostel. Ø Worked as Warden of Manimahesh Hostel. Ø Worked as OIC Departmental Purchase wef 9th Sept. 2005 to 20th August 2007. Ø Worked as OIC Structural Engineering Laboratory wef August 2004 till 18.08.2011. Ø Worked as OIC Computational Laboratory of CED. Ø Member of admission committee to the institute wef 1st March 2006 to 2009. Ø President Students Activities for a period of 2 years in year 2008 and 2009 and

responsible for coordinating all student sports, Athletics, Cultural, Literary and Community Development functions and to monitor the working of students store.

Ø Coordinator Institute Newsletter for one term. Ø OIC Academic and Time table of CED wef. August 2004 to 9th Sept. 2005. Ø President of the Alumni Association of NIT Hamirpur for year 2007, 2008 and 2009.

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Ø Member of Himachal Pradesh State Technical Agency for Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana wef January 2006 to 2009.

Ø Worked as Coordinator Campus Development Committee for one full term. Ø Worked as Incharge maintenance of Civil Engineering Department wef 20th August 2007

to 2010. Ø Worked as DUGC Convener of Civil Engineering Department. Ø Worked as member of Institute Purchase Committee.

Industry Institute Interaction

• Delivered a lecture on “Free Vibration of Cylindrical Shells” my M. Tech. Thesis in the Department of Civil Engineering to the students and staff. (February 1998)

• Delivered a lecture on “Learning Earthquakes” in Government Polytechnic Hamirpur for students on the science day, 2005.

• Delivered a lecture on “Brand Building in NIT Hamirpur” in the “Induction Training for Teachers” at NIT Hamirpur on 28-29 January 2006.

• Organized a two-day workshop on “Concrete Mix Design” jointly with Ambuja Cements Ltd. on 9-10 Feb 2006.

• Delivered lectures on earthquake resistant practices in the course “Estimation, construction and maintenance of public utility works” organized under community development of TEQIP by Civil Engineering Department.

• Delivered lectures on Earthquake Resistant Design of Masonry Buildings, and Earthquake Resistant Design of RCC Buildings in the “Capacity Building for Earthquake Risk Management”.

• Delivered series of lectures during a training programme on “STAAD PRO” organized by Himachal Institute of Public Administration (HIPA) Shimla from 1st to 12th January 2007.

• Delivered expert lectures on “Earthquake Resistant Design and Construction Practices” at Govt. Polytechnic Hamirpur on 24th March 2007.

• Delivered expert lecture during a Workshop on “Earthquake Resistant Construction” organized by an NGO (Himalayan Mountain Forum) at Naddi, Dharamsala on 25th April 2007.

• Delivered expert lectures on “Earthquake Resistant Design and Construction Practices” at Govt. Polytechnic Sundernagar on 24th June 2007.

• Delivered expert lecture on Brand Building in Higher Education at NIT Hamirpur in Registrar’s Meet on 19 Oct, 2007.

• Delivered Lecture on “Strength and Failure of Composite materials” during AICTE sponsored STC on Composite Materials on July 7, 2008, NIT Hamirpur.

• Delivered Lecture on “Composites in Civil Engineering” during AICTE sponsored STC on Composite Materials on July 7, 2008, NIT Hamirpur

• Delivered two lectures on “Vulnerability assessment of Structures” and “Seismic Evaluation and Building Topology studies” at National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra under national programme for capacity building of engineers in Earthquake Risk management on 24th Dec, 2008.

• Delivered Lecture on IS: 1893(Part1)-2002 and IS:13920-1993, during March 20, 2010, NIT Hamirpur, under National Programme for Capacity Building of Engineers in Earthquake Risk Management (NPCBEERM) (19-23 March 2010)

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• Delivered Lecture on IS: 1893(Part1)-2002 and IS:13920-1993, during March 24, 2010, NIT Hamirpur, under National Programme for Capacity Building of Engineers in Earthquake Risk Management (NPCBEERM) (19-23 March 2010)

• Delivered Lecture on Construction in Rural Areas, at NIT Hamirpur in STTP under services to Community on “New Construction Techniques for Rural Areas”, (30th April to May 4th, 2010).

• Delivered lecture on “Earthquake Resistant Infrastructure Construction” in training programme on CBDM on 6th May 2011 at D. C. office Hamirpur HP.

• Delivered lecture on “General Codal Provision and Construction Techniques” in capacity building of Architects, Builders and Contractors in Earthquake Risk Management at HIPA Shimla organized by Municipal Co-operation Shimla on 23 July 2011.

• Delivered lecture on “Planning for Disaster Reduction in Schools and Hospitals” on International day for Disaster Reduction on 13th October, 2011 at district headquarter to the administration officials.

• Delivered expert lectures on “Introduction to the Codal Provisions and Modes of Failure of Buildings” at Govt. Polytechnic Sundernagar on 2nd November 2011 organized by NITTTR Chandigarh.

• Delivered Lecture series of lectures on Visual rapid Screening Codal Provisions, Retrofitting of structures codal Provisions, and Techniques of Retrofitting of structures during 3 day training Programme organized for SSA engineers in Rapid Visual screening, non structural Mitigation measures and retrofitting of structures during 15-17 March 2013 at NIT Hamirpur HP.

• Delivered Lecture series of lectures on Visual rapid Screening Codal Provisions, Retrofitting of structures codal Provisions, and Techniques of Retrofitting of structures during 3 day training Programme organized for SSA engineers in Rapid Visual screening, non structural Mitigation measures and retrofitting of structures during 29-31 March 2013 at NIT Hamirpur HP.

• Delivered Lecture under the aegis of rotary club on Learning Disasters and Disaster mitigation at DC Office Hamirpur for Public Awareness on 31 Aug. 2013.

• Delivered Lecture at Trisha College of Education, Hamirpur on Learning Earthquakes and Disaster mitigation for Awareness of FS&S on 14 Oct. 2013.

• Delivered Lecture at Swami Vivekanand PG College of Education, Tarkwari, Hamirpur on Learning Earthquakes and Disaster mitigation for Awareness of Faculty Staff and students on 13 August 2014.

• Delivered Lecture at Trisha College of Education, Hamirpur on Disaster mitigation, Awareness and Management for Faculty Staff and students on 14 Oct. 2014.

• Delivered a lectures on Basic Concepts of Structural Analysis at K C Group of Institutions Pandoga, Una on 6 October, 2014.

• Delivered Lecture at Faculty Development Programme organized by Himachal Pradesh Technical University, Hamirpur on Topic, Building Brand in Higher Education, to faculty of different institutions, on 08 Nov, 2014.

• Delivered a series of lectures to students of JN Govt. Engineering College Sundernagar, on Influence lines and prestressed concrete on 15 Nov, 2014.

• Delivered Keynote address in National Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure Development – 2015 at Chitkara University in collaboration with National Institute of

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Technical Teachers Training & Research Chandigarh and Institute of Engineers (India), on Infrastructure Developments: trends and Inspirations on 27 Feb 2015.

• Delivered expert lecture on Finite Element method (Linear and nonlinear Analysis on June 30 2015 during STC on Numerical and computational Methods in Engineering NCME-2015 june30-July 4 2015.

• Delivered Keynote address in National Conference on Innovation without Limits in Civil Engineering at JNGEC Sundernagar on 19 March 2016.

FOREIGN VISITS

1 Visited Griffith University, School of Engineering, Gold Coast Campus, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, to undertake training wef 7th December 2006 to 4th January 2007.

2 Visited Venice Italy to attend 34th IABSE Symposium on “Large structures and infrastructures for environmentally constrained and urbanised areas at Venice, Italy during Sept. 22-25, 2010.

3 Visited Chicago, USA, to attend 5th North American Conference on Design and Use of Self Compacting Concrete” to be held on 12-15th May 2013

4 Visited Italy, to attend 7th WSEAS International Conference on Engineering Mechanics, Structures, Engineering Geology (EMESEG '14) to be held at Salerno, Italy on June 3-5, 2014.

5 Visited University of Califronia, Berkeley USA, to attend ”, 7th International Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM2016), held at University of California, Berkeley, August 1st-4th, 2016, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Consultancy Projects in last 5 years.

S.No. Title of Project Funding

Agency Financial

Outlay

Year of start &

total period

Name of P.I. and

other Investigator

Status started /

completed / in progress

1. Non-Destructive Tests and strength of concrete at ACC Barmana

ACC Barmana

39750/- 2007 Pardeep Kumar

Completed

2. Assessment of quality of materials used in building of the GMS gohari in Teh. Arki Distt. Solan (HP)

HPPWD Arki 30,000/- 2007-2008

Pardeep Kumar H K Vinayak

Completed

3. Slope Stabilization at the Mining Site of ACC Barmana, Bilaspur (HP)

ACC Barmana

33,750/- 2008 Pardeep Kumar

Completed

4. Design and Installation of foundations for Bag filters at ACC Barmana, Dist. Bilaspur (HP)

ACC Barmana

1,35,000/- 2008 Pardeep Kumar

Completed

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5. Assessment of Quality of Slab laid on Indira Market Bus Stand - Nadaun

HPPWD, Hamirpur

40,000/- 2008 Pardeep Kumar H K Vinayak

Completed

6. Assessment of HPSEB Office at Rangas

HPSEB 30,000/- 2008 Pardeep Kumar and U K Pandey

Completed

7. Checking of Structural Design of Farmers Hostel

Univ. of Hort. & Forestry Nauni Solan

65,0000- 2008 Pardeep Kumar

Completed

8. Checking of Structural Design of Glazing for International terminal at Amritsar Airport

Sristi Interriors Amritsar PB

35,000/- June 2008

Pardeep Kumar

completed

9. Structural Design of Type-II Block residential Building at NIT Hamirpur with 12 quarters

NIT Hamirpur

1,04,353/-

2008-2009

Pardeep Kumar H K Vinayak

Completed

10. Structural Design of Type-II Block residential Building at NIT Hamirpur with 16 quarters

NIT Hamirpur

1,39,649/- 2008-2009

Pardeep Kumar H K Vinayak

Completed

11. Structural Design of Extended Parking in front of Administrative Block

NIT Hamirpur

83,535/-

2008-2009

Pardeep Kumar

Completed

12. Structural Design of Bank and Post Office Building

NIT Hamirpur

1,13,319/- 2008-2009

Pardeep Kumar

Completed

13. Structural Design of Office building at Nahan (HP)

HPSEB, Nahan

1,20,000/-

2009, 3 months

Pardeep Kumar

Completed

14. Structural Design of Extension of Aravali Hostel

NIT Hamirpur

1,20,000/- 2009-2010

Pardeep Kumar

Completed

15. Structural Design of Trainees Hostel at NIT Hamirpur

NIT Hamirpur

6,00,000/- 2009-2011

Pardeep Kumar

Completed,

16. Checking of Structural Design of Auditorium

Univ. Of Hort. & Forestry Nauni Solan

2,50,000/-

2010, 2 months

Pardeep Kumar

Completed

17. Structural Design of Extension of Kailash

NIT Hamirpur

3,00,000/- 2010, 6 months

Pardeep Kumar

Completed

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Hostel, NIT Hamirpur H K Vinayak

18. Mix design of Concrete for various agencies

Various Govt, semi Govt & NGO

Rs 12,000/- design

2010-2011

Pardeep Kumar

Completed

19. Regular Testing of steel in laboratory

Various Govt, semi Govt & NGO

As per office record

2010-2011

Pardeep Kumar

completed

20. Design of Footbridge NIT Hamirpur

No Charges

2010-2011

Pardeep Kumar

Completed

21. Checking of Design of WSS at Karsog

I & PH Karsog

2014 Pardeep Kumar

Completed

22. Vetting of Design of Solar panel Mounting Structure at Phagi Jaipur along with terminal at 400 KV substation Heerapura

L & T Dec 2014

Pardeep Kumar

Completed

23. Structural Design of 0.94 MLD WTP for Kot Hatwar Dehra in Tehsil Ghumarwin Distt Bilaspur HP

Sanjeev Malhotra, Govt Contractor, Ghumarwin.

2015 Pardeep Kumar

Completed

24. Improvement of Balh Valley Medium Irrigation Project, Zone No. 1 (Phase-2nd) in Tehsil Sadar, Distt Mandi (HP)

Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd, Dist. Mandi HP.

2015 Pardeep Kumar

Completed

25. Vetting of Structural Design of RCC R/Wall D/s of 1.97 MLD WTP at Kandapattan

Unipro techno Infrastructure pvt Limited, Chandigarh.

2015 Pardeep Kumar

Completed

26 Mix Design of various concrete mixes for different agencies

CPWD, HPPWD Amb, HPPWD Shogi, IHBT Palampur, HPPWD Nurpur, Haroli etc.

Rs 12,000/- per mix design

2014-2015

completed

27. Third Party inspection of works of IIT Mandi executed by CPWD

CPWD 43.00 Lacs

2015- Pardeep Kumar, Prof. R K Sharma,

Ongoing

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Vijay Shankar, Dr Vijay Bansal

28. Evaluation of flood Protection Works of Seer Khad at Jahu , Distt. Hmr

I & PH Deptt 11.00 Lacs

2015- Pardeep Kumar and Dr R K Sharma

Ongoing

29. Concurrent study of Lift Irrigation scheme in Beet area Una

I & PH Deptt 10.00 Lacs

2015- Pardeep Kumar and Dr Vijay Shanker

Ongoing

AWARDS RECEIVED

Best Teacher Award in Civil Engineering Department of NIT Hamirpur for the year 2007.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES:

Body/Society Membership No. Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) LM-19902

Life Member of Indian Concrete Institute (ICI) M-5414

Life Member of Indian Society for Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Technology (ISRMTT)

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Life Member of Indian Society for Construction Materials and Structures (ISCMS)

LM-612

Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India) (IE) F-122071-5

Fellow of Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India) (ACCE) FM-3162

Life Member of Indian Roads Congress (IRC) LM-39925

Life Member of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM)

L/805

Annual Member International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers, Italy Chapter 2010-2011

COMPETENCY TO USE SOFTWARES:

(i) STAADPRO

(ii) NISA

(iii)ANSYS

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(iv) AUTOCAD

KNOWLEDGE OF COMPUTING LANGUAGE:

Well versed with FORTRAN language and can develop own program for solution using Finite

Element Method.

Pardeep Kumar

ABSTRACT OF Ph. D. THESIS

LOAD RATING AND ASSESSMENT OF MASONRY ARCH BRIDGES

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There are a number of alternative assessment procedures available for the load rating of

existing masonry arch bridges. These include empirical methods such as the modified Military

Engineering Experimental Establishment (MEXE) Method (Department of Transport, 1997), to

more rational methods based on mechanism approach, finite element etc. The work presented in the

thesis has been directed towards the development of a rational procedure for the load rating and

assessment of masonry arch bridges in general and indigenously built arch bridges in particular.

The problem of load rating has been divided in two distinct parts. The first part is related to

the prediction of the load carrying capacity in terms of the axle load on an immaculate arch. The

second part is evaluation of the modifying factors, those consider the variation of the actual arch

from the ideal, required to arrive at the allowable axle load. The main emphasis in the present work

is focused on first part of the problem. On the other hand the evaluation of the modification factors

is quite subjective and depends to a great extent on the experience and the judgement of the

inspector/evaluator. Since BRS has carried out such an evaluation some times back, their

recommendations regarding these factors have been widely accepted by many countries and the

same has been adopted in the present study.

The present study has been carried out with the following objectives:

Ø Determination and review of existing research information;

Ø Conducting tests in laboratory to examine the elastic properties of the bricks, mortar and

masonry;

Ø Experimental determination of the moment-axial force interaction for indigenous brick masonry

construction and its comparison with the models available in the literature;

Ø Development of a computer aided mechanism based analysis to determine the ultimate collapse

load of the arch bridges.

Ø Development of a suitable 2-D non-linear finite element model incorporating effect of non-

linearity arising from material constitutive relationship of masonry, as well as from the cracking

and the crushing of masonry, to predict the complete response of masonry arch bridges including

the collapse load.

Ø Tests to failure on series of arches, to study the complete response including the failure

mechanism and the validation of the proposed mechanism and finite element analysis models;

Ø The application of artificial neural network (ANN) for load rating based on the experimental

field-tests on real bridges.

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The thesis presents the detail of the investigations carried out in laboratory in order to

determine the strength and elastic properties of masonry and its constituents. A constitutive relation

for the indigenous masonry based on the test results has been established for further use in the non-

linear finite element analysis. The axial force –moment interaction has been developed

experimentally for further use in the mechanism methods. The details and results of static load tests

on arches are presented in chapter 3. A computerized mechanism based analysis procedure has been

developed that account for the hinge formation on the basis of interaction of axial thrust and

moment determined experimentally. A two-dimensional finite element computer program has been

developed in Fortran to facilitate a computer aided non-linear analysis of masonry arch bridges and

the prediction of load carrying capacity. The analysis takes into account the material non-linearity

due to non-linear stress-strain relationship and cracking and crushing of the masonry. Using these

two proposed analytical methods, some of the bridges tested on full scale by Transport Research

Laboratory, U.K. and whose results are well documented, were analysed.

In addition to the above two analytical procedures, Artificial Neural Network has been just

used as a tool for the prediction of axle load on the basis of the data existing in literature, from the

results of full-scale tests conducted under the service loads. The trained network has been applied to

predict the axle load for the 8 bridges under this study. The comparison of predicted crown load

corresponding to 1.25 mm deflection with finite element results is within a reasonable range. The

trained network has further been used for prediction of load-deflection behaviour of a masonry arch

bridge within the serviceable range of deflections. An acceptance criterion for evaluation of the safe

load for rating of existing masonry arch bridges recommended in Indian Roads Congress SP-9 can

be suitably used.