Joint Workshop on Earthquake Science, organised by TU9 and Indian Institutes of Technology
The recent devastating earthquakes in India, Japan and Turkey have enhanced a broad public awareness on the implications of seismic resistant structures and the favourable human response which will be able to save lives from catastrophes.
It is evident that earthquake is not a concern for a particular nation since natural hazard like earthquake and its further consequences are not restrained by national boundaries.
Hence, it is important that the know-how could be achieved by collaborative efforts from the international research community. Thus the research in such an important field can be promoted in a broad spectrum.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are the elite technical institutions in India and the TU9 is the network of Germany’s leading Institutes of Technology. Experts from both sides would like to organise a collaborated workshop on “Earthquake engineering for sustainable structures” which will be expanding the intensive col-laborated research in this field.
Research on earthquake includes versatile aspects, such as: efficient international early warning systems, seismic safety of structures, hazard analysis from earth-quake, etc. Along with these technical issues, it is similarly significant to know the response of the people during and after earthquake as well as the socio-economical impact after earthquake. This will be a challenge to deal with the imposed socio-economical conditions and the resilience of the society with the hazard caused by earthquake.
Fortunately, Germany is not placed in high earthquake-prone zones. However, Rheingraben, Schwäbische Alb, southern Black Forest and the region around Gera have experienced medium earthquakes in the past, leading to higher requirements for structures in these regions (new Earthquake Code DIN 4149).
India is situated in one of the most hazardous earthquake zones in the world. For example, in recent past, Kashmir region has been placed in a more intensive seis-mic zone and in the near future, there is a high likelihood for a strong earthquake to strike - although it is very difficult to provide any predictive information for earth-quake.
The research topic “Earthquake Science“ has enormous relevance not only for India but for other countries as well.
In the TU9/IIT workshop, German and Indian researchers from different fields will bring out the state-of-the-art on vast aspects of “Earthquake Science“ and finally, potential research area(s) will be identified for further collaboration.
There is a time proven tradition of research collaboration between Germany and India and this workshop will provide an additional impulse.
The workshop will be organised by TU9/ILEK, University of Stuttgart. The Indian partners for organisation are from IIT Madras (Chennai) and Structural Engineering Research Center (SERC).
The Indian participants are from the following institutions: IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras, IIT Roorkee, IISc. Bangalore, BARC, DST, L&T ECC, NGRI (Hyderabad), NRSA (Hyderabad), SERC, CPRI, Anna University.
The Germany participants are from the following institutions: TU Darmstadt, Uni-versität Karlsruhe (TH), Universität Stuttgart, GFZ Potsdam, Universität Potsdam und Universität Würzburg.
IIT Madras was founded in 1958 with the active support from German government and this year, IIT Madras is celebrating its 50th year of establishment. The foundation charter was signed in Bonn by the then German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the Indian Prime Minister J. Nehru.
Here you can download the paper "Seismic Performance of Structural D-region of Existing RC Structure Designed with Different Considerations", written by Balthasar Novák, K. Ramanjaneyulu, Constanze Roehm and Saptarshi Sasmal,. (PDF-Datei, 664 kb)