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NEWS LETTER

INDIAN SOCIETY OF EARTHQUAKE TECHNOLOGY http://www.iitr.ernet.in/iset, Fax No. 01332-284491

ESTD: 1962 Co-Editor: M. Shrikhande Jan. 2008-April 2008

INSTITUTION OF A NEW ISET AWARD

ISET SHAMSHER PRAKASH AWARD FOR SIGNIFICANT CONTRIB UTIONS IN

GEOTECHNICAL-EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

A new ISET award “ISET Shamsher Prakash Award for Significant Contributions in Geotechnical-Earthquake Engineering” has been instituted by the generosity of Prof. Shamsher Prakash

Prof. Shamsher Prakash is an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET), former President of ISET and Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Missouri Rolla, U.S.A. The award is to honour individuals world-wide for their outstanding contributions in Geotechnical-Earthquake Engineering. The award consists of an award money of Rs. 51,000/-, a shawl and a plaque. The award was instituted on March 12, 2008 and will be given for the first time in the 14th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering to be held in December 2010. The nomination process of the first award will start from April 2009. This is the highest award given by ISET.

THE 28TH ISET ANNUAL LECTURE

The 28th ISET Annual Lecture was delivered on “Foundations for Industrial Machines and Earthquake Effects” by Dr. K.G. Bhatia, General Manager (Retd.), Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., New Delhi and Former President, ISET on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 in the Auditorium, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi. Prof. D.K. Paul, President, ISET presided over the function. Prof. Vinay K. Gupta, Editor, ISET Journal introduced the eminent speaker. The faculty members, engineers, scientists attended the lecture.

Prof. D.K. Paul, President, ISET welcoming the Chief Guest, Delegates and other Invitees to the Annual Lecture

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Prof. Anand S. Arya, National Seismic Advisor, Government of India addressing the gathering during Annual Lecture

Prof. Vinay K. Gupta, Editor, ISET Journal introducing the ISET Annual Speaker to the audience

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Dr. K.G. Bhatia delivering the 28th ISET Annual Lecture

Dr. B.K. Maheshwari, Secretary, ISET and Prof. D.K. Paul, President, ISET at the time of 37th Annual General Meeting

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ISET MEMBERSHIP CORNER

The Executive Committee of ISET extends a hearty welcome to the following Members who have been admitted to the Society during the period August 25, 2007 to March 11, 2008 Life Members 1. LM 1340 Dr. Mehtab Alam New Delhi 2. LM 1341 Ms. Saraswati Setia Kurukshetra, Haryana 3. LM 1342 Mr. Ashish Kumar Parashar Rohinipuram Raipur 4. LM 1343 Mr. Bob Martin War Meghalaya State 5. LM 1344 Mr. Chandrashekhar S. Magadal Bagalkot 6. LM 1345 Mr. Parminder Singh Jaitla New Delhi 7. LM 1346 Dr. Satish Kashirao Deshmukh Akola, (M.S.) 8. LM 1347 Dr. Jayant Nath Tripathi Allahabad 9. LM 1348 Mr. Harendra Prasad Singh IIT Roorkee 10. LM 1349 Dr. Nirmal Kumar Muzaffarpur, Bihar 11. LM 1350 Mr. Lakshmeesh L. Tumkur (Dist), Karnataka State 12. LM 1351 Dr. Sunil Kumar Muzaffarpur-842 002, Bihar 13. LM 1352 Mr. Ajith Anugraha Faridabad-121 010, Haryana 14. LM 1353 Mr. Dikember Singh Kutiyal Dist.-Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand 15. LM 1354 Mr. Rajib Sarkar IIT Roorkee 16. LM 1355 Mr. Vijay Namdev Khose Thane, Maharashtra-400 605 Life Fellows

1. LF 42 Dr. Harpal Singh, Principal GZS College of Eng. & Technology, Bathinda 2. LF 43 Dr. Rajeev Goel, Scientist, CRRI, Noida

CALENDER OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS

JULY 20-22, 2008

RILEM-CICE 2008: 4 th International Conference on FRP Composites in Civil Engineering to be held in Zurich Contact address: For more details, please visit: www.cice2008.org

JULY 27-30, 2008 Sixth National Seismic Conference on Bridges and Highways to be held in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A Contact address: For more details, please visit: www.scdot.org/events/6NSC/

AUGUST 7-9, 2008 National Seminar & Exhibition on Recent Developments in Design & Construction Technologies to be held in Bangalore Contact address: Dr. M.U. Aswath, Secretary Organizing Committee, Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India), Bangalore Centre 02, UVCE Alumni, Association Building, K. R. Circle, Bangalore-560 001, Tel: 91-080-22247466, Fax: 91-080-22219012, Email: admin@accehq.net, Web: www.accehq.net

AUGUST 11-16, 2008 6th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering and Symposium in Honor of Professor James K. Mitchell to be held in Arlington, Virginia, USA. Contact address: Dr. Shamsher Prakash, Conference Chairman, Professor Emeritus in Civil Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, Tel: (573) 341-4489, Fax: (573) 341-4729/4992, Email: prakash@umr.edu

SEPTEMBER 17-19, 2008 IABSE Congress on Creating and Renewing Urban Infrastructure to be held in Chicago, U.S.A Contact address: For more details, please visit: www.iabse.org/chicago08

OCTOBER 1-6, 2008 12th International Conference of IACMAG to be held in Goa, India Contact address: Prof. D.N. Singh, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400 076, Tel: 91-22-25767340(O), 25768340(R)/25720644(R-Direct), M: 09820758508, Fax: 91-22-25767302/25723480, E-mail: dns@civil.iitb.ac.in

OCTOBER 12-17, 2008 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering to be held in Beijing, China Contact address: 14WCEE Secretariat, C/o Chinese Association of Earthquake Engineering, 9 Xuefu Road, Harbin 150080, China, Tel: +86-451-86652900, Fax: +86-451-86652651, E-mail: secretariat@14wcee.org, Web: www.14wcee.org

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ANNUAL GENERAL BODY MEETING

MINUTES OF THE 37th ANNUAL GENERAL BODY MEETING OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY OF EARTHQUAKE TECHNOLOGY HELD ON MARCH 12, 2008 AT 5:00 P.M IN THE AUDITORIUM, FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA, JAMIA NAGAR, NEW DELHI. 37.0 Prof. D.K. Paul, President ISET, welcomed the members to the 37th Annual General Body Meeting.

37.1 The minutes of the 36th Annual General Body Meeting were confirmed. 37.2 The action taken on the minutes of the 36th AGM were reported and the same were noted. 37.3 Reporting Items:

(a) The following persons have been elected to various offices of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology for the term 2007-2009

President : Prof. D.K. Paul (LF-10) Elected unopposed

Vice-President : Prof. H.R. Wason` (LF-32) Elected

Secretary : Dr. B.K. Maheshwari (LM-981) Elected unopposed

Members : Prof. Vinay K. Gupta (LF-39), Sri A.P. Dange (LM-622)

Dr. G. Sankarasubramanian (LM-1277), Sri Sushil Gupta (LM-726)

Sri Girish C. Joshi (LM-1085), Sri K.C. Naithani (LM-993)

Dr. M. Shrikhande (LM-690), Dr. Venkata Ramana Gunturi (LM-675)

Dr. Vinay K. Gupta and Dr. Manish Shrikhande were nominated as Editor and Co-Editor respectively by the Executive Committee for the term 2007-2009. Dr. M.L. Sharma served as Co-editor of ISET in the interim and later he was nominated by E.C. as Co-opted member for the term 2007-2009. The following Institutional members have been nominated on the Executive Committee:

1. The Chairman IM 46 (P) Nuclear Power Corporation V.S. Bhawan, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai-400 094

2. Principal IM 126 (P) Govt. College of Engg., Amravati Near Kathora Naka, Amravati-444 603

(b) On the recommendation of the editor, the Editorial Committee for the ISET Journal has been reconstituted by the EC, for the term 2007-2009. Beside advisory members, three associate editors have been appointed. Now the editorial committee consists of:

Associate Editors: Structural Dynamics: Prof. C.S. Manohar, Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

E-mail: manohar@civil.iisc.ernet.in

Soil Dynamics: Dr. G.V. Ramana, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi

E-mail: ramana@civil.iitd.ernet.in

Seismology and Seismotectonics: Dr. M.L. Sharma, Department of Earthquake Engineering

IIT Roorkee, Roorkee

E-mail: mukutfeq@iitr.ernet.in

Advisory Members

1. Professor M.D. Trifunac (Ground Motions), 855 Arcadia Ave # E, Arcadia, CA 91007, USA

2. Professor R.N. Iyengar (Probabilistic Methods), Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

3. Professor D.K. Paul (Computational Mechanics), Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee

4. Professor M.P. Singh (Active Control) , Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics, VPI & State University, 227 Norris Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

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5. Professor T.K. Datta (Base Isolation), Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi

6. Dr. I.D. Gupta (Seismic Hazard and Zoning), Joint Director, C.W.P.R.S., Khadakwasla, Pune

7. Professor C. Lomnitz (Seismology and General Aspects of Geophysics), Department of Geophysics, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacan 04510, Mexico, D.F., MEXICO

8. Professor P. Fajfar (Seismic Design), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Jamova 2, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA SI-1000

9. Professor A.K. Chopra (Dams), DCE, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

10. Professor S.C. Goel (Experiments on Steel Structures), DCE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109Û2125, USA

11. Mr. R. Reitherman (Historical Initiative) , Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE), 1301 S. 46th Street, Richmond, CA 94804, USA

12. Professor D.P. Abrams (Experiments on Masonry and Concrete Structures), 2118 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, 205 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 618101, USA

13. Professor S. Tinti (Tsunami), Department of Physics, Sector of Geophysics, University of Bologna, Viale Carlo Berti Pichat, 8, 40127 Bologna, ITALY

14. Dr. S.K. Ghosh (Building Codes), S.K. Ghosh Associates Inc., 334 East Colfax Street, Unit E, Palatine, IL 60067, USA

15. Professor G.M. Calvi (Bridges), Director, European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, ITALY

16. Professor K.M. Rollins (Seismic Liquefaction), DCE, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA

17. Professor J.P. Moehle (Seismic Retrofitting), Director, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

(c) The DST has sanctioned a sum of Rs. 75,000/- towards printing expenses of the ISET Journals & News Letters and their circulation.

(d) The proposal was sent to AICTE, New Delhi. Response from AICTE is awaited.

(e) Update of ISET website is under process.

(f) The Directory of members of the Society is in print.

(g) ISET at a glance is under preparation.

37.4 Considered the Annual Audited Report of Accounts of the Society for the year ending March 31, 2007 as

approved by the Executive Committee and the same was approved by the general body. 37.5 Considered the Annual Report of the Secretary for the period December 19, 2006 to March 11, 2008 as

approved by the Executive Committee and the same was approved by the general body. 37.6 The E.C. in its 154th meeting held on August 24, 2007 has recommended Prof. A.S. Arya for Honorary

Fellowship of the Society. The General Body has unanimously confirmed the Honorary Fellowship on Prof. A.S. Arya.

37.7 The proposal to amendments Clause V 3.2 of the Bye Laws for upgrading IInd class train fare to three-

tier A.C. Train fare was approved unanimously. The amended Clause is a follows: V 3.2 “The amount of travel grant shall be limited to three-tier A.C. train fare both ways.” 37.8 Any other items:

(i) The General Body has approved unanimously following amendments in the bye laws: (a) The recommendation of the EC for the membership of the society for diploma holders with more

than 10 years experience was considered and approved. The amended Clause is as follows:

II.1.2 Individual Members: The membership of the Society is open to all individuals associated with or interested in earthquake technology. In addition to this, they must have a degree in any branch of science or technology or diploma in engineering with more than 10 years professional experience or its equivalent.

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(b) The general body considered the issue of processing of application of ISET fellows and approved the EC’s recommendation for deleting the word ‘immediate’ from the clause II.1.4. The amended Clause is as follows:

II.1.4 Fellows: Individual Members can apply for Fellowship of the Society if they are more than 40 years of age and have made significant contribution to Earthquake Technology. All such applications shall be considered by a committee comprising of the President and two past presidents of the Society.

(c) The EC’s recommendation to increase the processing fee of all the awards from existing 10% to

25% was considered and approved. The approved Clauses VII4.1 and IX.10.1 are given below:

VII4.1 Award money and 25% of it for processing expenses should not exceed 75% of interest earned in 4-years and balance of interest after taking out award money as well as processing expenses should be added to corpus of that award. If an award is not given when due, the award money should be added to corpus of that award. If 75% of interest earned in 4 years is insufficient for already announced award money and processing expenses due to inadequate corpus for that award, that award may be skipped when due and award money be added to corpus of that award. The E.C. should increase award money by Rs. 500/- whenever 75% of interest earned in 4 years is adequate to meet such increased award money. Award money already announced should not be decreased.

IX.10.1 Award money and 25% of it for processing expenses should not exceed 75% of interest earned in 4-years. Balance of interest should be added to corpus of that award.

(ii) Reporting Items: (a) The President informed the General Body about the institution of the “ISET Shamsher

Prakash Award for Significant Contribution in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering” a 4-yearly International Award according to the Clause IX of the Bye-Laws of the Society with a face value of award Rs. 51,000/-, a shawl and a plaque.

(b) The award money for four-yearly Trifunac Award has been increased from existing Rs. 25,000/- to Rs. 30,000/- as per clause IX 10.4 of ISET Bye-Laws.

(iii) The suggestions were made to explore the following items:

(a) Publication of a magazine/monograph on practical work by ISET

(b) Organization of AGM and Annual Lecture by ISET local chapters by rotation.

The society put on the record thanks and appreciation for ISET Delhi local chapter for making all the arrangement and efforts for organizing the 156th EC meeting, 28th Annual Lecture and 37th AGM held on March 12, 2008. Particularly we are thankful to Chapter’s Chairman Prof. Khalid Moin and Secretary Dr. Rehan Khan for all the excellent arrangements at Jamia.

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the chair.

(B.K. Maheshwari) Secretary

ANNEXURE-I

IND IAN SOC IET Y OF EA RT HQUA KE TE CH NOL OGY, R OORKEE

ANNUAL REPORT

(For the period from 19thth December, 2006 to March 11, 2008)

Dear Members, It gives me pleasure in presenting the Annual Report of Indian Society of Earthquake Technology for the period 19thth December, 2006 to March 11, 2008). The salient activities of the Society during this period are presented in this Annual Report.

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1. Meetings The last Annual General Body Meeting (36th AGM) of the Society was held at Roorkee on 19th December 2006, minutes of which were published in the ISET News Letter of July 2006-January 2007. During the period of report, Five Executive Committee meetings (ECM) have taken place as detailed below:

Meeting No. Date Venue 151st ECM December 19, 2006 Roorkee 152nd ECM February 02, 2007 Roorkee 153rd ECM April 20, 2007 Roorkee 154th ECM August 24, 2007 Roorkee 155th ECM December 13, 2007 Roorkee

2. Audit Report The Report on the Accounts of the Society for the financial year 2006-2007, audited by M/s Vikas Khanna & Co., Chartered Accountants, Roorkee, was approved by the E.C. in its meeting held on December 13, 2007. It may be noted that in this financial year, the total capital fund of the Society has significantly increased from Rs. 20,02,559.00 to Rs.. 26,93,339.00. The excess of income over expenditure for the year under report is Rs. 4,847.00 as compared to excess of income over expenditure Rs. 56,478.00 for the previous year. 3. Publications The March 2007 Special issue of the ISET Journal is in printing. The June 2007 issue and September-December 2007 combined issues of the ISET Journal are being printed. The March 2008 issue is under type-setting. 4. Membership Since April 01, 2007, 41 Life Members, 2 Life Fellows, 1 Annual Member and 2 Institutional Members have been enrolled.

Financial Year

Individual Members

Institution Members Total Membership Increased

Life Annual

Life Fellows

Permanent Annual 2003-2004 1179 20 41 44 7 1291 49 2004-2005 1206 06 41 44 7 1304 13

2005-2006

1257 13 41 48 7 1366 62

2006-2007

1314 08 41 50 6 1419 53

2007-2008 (as on March

11, 2008)

1355 09 43 52 6 1465 46

5. ISET Annual Lecture The 27th ISET Annual Lecture was delivered on December 19, 2006 at Roorkee by Prof. Ahmed Elgamal, Professor and Chair, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0085, U.S.A. on ‘Simulation of Seismically-Induced Ground Deformation Effects on Structures and Mitigation Techniques’. 6. Election of ISET E.C. for the term 2007-2009 The following persons have been elected to various offices of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology for the term 2007-2009

President : Prof. D.K. Paul (LF-10) Elected unopposed

Vice-President : Prof. H.R. Wason (LF-32) Elected

Secretary : Dr. B.K. Maheshwari (LM-981) Elected unopposed

Members : Prof. Vinay K. Gupta (LF-39), Sri A.P. Dange (LM-622)

Dr. G. Sankarasubramanian (LM-1277), Sri Sushil Gupta (LM-726)

Sri Girish C. Joshi (LM-1085), Sri K.C. Naithani (LM-993)

Dr. M. Shrikhande (LM-690), Dr. Venkata Ramana Gunturi (LM-675)

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Dr. Vinay K. Gupta and Dr. Manish Shrikhande were nominated as Editor and Co-Editor respectively by the Executive Committee for the term 2007-2009. Dr. M.L. Sharma served as Co-editor of ISET in the interim and later he was nominated by E.C. as Co-opted member for the term 2007-2009. The following Institutional members have been nominated on the Executive Committee:

1. The Chairman IM 46 (P) Nuclear Power Corporation V.S. Bhawan, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai-400 094

2. Principal IM 126 (P) Govt. College of Engg., Amravati Near Kathora Naka, Amravati-444 603

7. Directory of Membership The Directory of members of the Society is in print. 8. Editorial Committee On the recommendation of the editor, the Editorial Committee for the ISET Journal has been reconstituted by the EC, for the term 2007-2009. Beside advisory members, three associate editors have been appointed. Now the editorial committee consists of:

Associate Editors: Structural Dynamics: Prof. C.S. Manohar, Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

E-mail: manohar@civil.iisc.ernet.in

Soil Dynamics: Dr. G.V. Ramana, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi

E-mail: ramana@civil.iitd.ernet.in

Seismology and Seismotectonics: Dr. M.L. Sharma, Department of Earthquake Engineering

IIT Roorkee, Roorkee

E-mail: mukutfeq@iitr.ernet.in

Advisory Members

1. Professor M.D. Trifunac (Ground Motions), 855 Arcadia Ave # E, Arcadia, CA 91007, USA

2. Professor R.N. Iyengar (Probabilistic Methods), Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

3. Professor D.K. Paul (Computational Mechanics), Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee

4. Professor M.P. Singh (Active Control), Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics, VPI & State University, 227 Norris Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

5. Professor T.K. Datta (Base Isolation), Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi

6. Dr. I.D. Gupta (Seismic Hazard and Zoning), Joint Director, C.W.P.R.S., Khadakwasla, Pune

7. Professor C. Lomnitz (Seismology and General Aspects of Geophysics), Department of Geophysics, UNAM, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacan 04510, Mexico, D.F., MEXICO

8. Professor P. Fajfar (Seismic Design), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Jamova 2, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA SI-1000

9. Professor A.K. Chopra (Dams), DCE, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

10. Professor S.C. Goel (Experiments on Steel Structures), DCE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109Û2125, USA

11. Mr. R. Reitherman (Historical Initiative) , Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE), 1301 S. 46th Street, Richmond, CA 94804, USA

12. Professor D.P. Abrams (Experiments on Masonry and Concrete Structures), 2118 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, 205 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 618101, USA

13. Professor S. Tinti (Tsunami), Department of Physics, Sector of Geophysics, University of Bologna, Viale Carlo Berti Pichat, 8, 40127 Bologna, ITALY

14. Dr. S.K. Ghosh (Building Codes), S.K. Ghosh Associates Inc., 334 East Colfax Street, Unit E, Palatine, IL 60067, USA

15. Professor G.M. Calvi (Bridges), Director, European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, ITALY

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16. Professor K.M. Rollins (Seismic Liquefaction), DCE, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA

17. Professor J.P. Moehle (Seismic Retrofitting), Director, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

9. Financial Assistance by DST The DST has sanctioned a sum of Rs. 75,000/- towards printing expenses of the ISET Journals & News Letters and their circulation. 10. Financial Assistance by AICTE The proposal was sent to AICTE, New Delhi. Response from AICTE is awaited. 11. Membership Fee The Society received a sum of Rs. 1,66,250.00 in the financial year 2006-2007 in the form of fee for various categories of membership of the Society. 12. Activities of Local Chapters • Roorkee Local Chapter

Roorkee Local Chapter organized the following lectures alongwith the Deptt. of Earthquake Engineering, I.I.T. Roorkee: Lecture on “Building Disaster Risk Models for India” was delivered on April 20, 2007 by Dr. Sushil Gupta, GM (Risk Management Group), RMSI, Noida Lecture on “Simplified Methods of Nonlinear Seismic Analysis” was delivered on August 08, 2007 by Dr. Pankaj, School of Civil and Electronics, Alexander Graham Bell Building, The University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JL, U.K. Lecture on “The Seismic Risk and Loss Assessment Tool, SELENA, Theoretical background, New features and Applications” was delivered on March 10, 2008 by Dr. Dominik H. Lang, Post Doc Fellow, NORSAR, Kjeller, Norway

13. Acknowledgements The Society would like to thank the AICTE and DST, New Delhi for generous grants to support its activities. Thanks to Prof. D.K. Paul, Former Head and Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Professor & Head, Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee for extending the facilities required for smooth functioning of the Society and carrying out its activities. The Society is grateful to Prof. Ahmed Elgamal, Professor and Chair, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0085, U.S.A. for delivering the 27th ISET Annual Lecture. The Society is also thankful to the authors and reviewers of papers published in the ISET Journal and the members of the Editorial Committee. Sincere thanks are also placed on record to all individuals and organizations who have helped the Society directly or indirectly in furtherance of its objectives. In the end, I would like to thank all the members of the Executive Committee, in particular, Prof. D.K. Paul, President, Prof. H.R. Wason, Vice-President, Prof. Vinay K. Gupta, Editor & Dr. Manish Shrikhande, Co-Editor, and Dr. N.C. Singhal, Past Secretary, who were always willing to help and advise me in carrying out my responsibilities as Secretary of the Society. Roorkee (B.K. Maheshwari) March 11, 2008 Secretary

TO ALL MEMBERS OF ISET

We would like to have your current mailing address, telephone numbers, mobile number, fax number and e-mail address. Kindly send this information through e-mail at iset@iitr.ernet.in. We look forward for your active participation in the affairs of the Society.

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2008 SHAMSHER PRAKASH ANNUAL PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE I N THE

PRACTICE OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

Shamsher Prakash Foundation solicits nominations (no applications) for the “2008 SHAMSHER PRAKASH ANNUAL PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE PRACTICE OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING” for young (45 years) primarily from practicing engineers, all over the world. Nominations should reach the Honorary Secretary on or before September 30, 2008. The candidates should be specialists in Geotechnical Engineering and/or Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and it is necessary that they have significant independent contributions to practice and show promise of excellence. Age may be relaxed for exceptional nomination at the discretion of the Judging Committee. The Award consists of US $1100.00 and a plaque. The nominations may be made on a plain paper. All nominations will be reviewed by a Judging Committee of International Experts from Canada, Japan, UK, China and United States. The award will be announced by December 31, 2008. Suitable arrangements will be made for awarding the Prize at an appropriate ceremony in the country of residence of the winner.

Particulars for Nominations:

Please send SEVEN complete assembled folders to the Foundations with following information:

(1) Name of the Candidate, (2) Complete postal address and Telephone, Fax number, E-mail, (3) Date of birth and age as on September 30, 2007, (4) Chronology of education, (5) Chronology of jobs held, (6) Area of specialization, (7) Statement of 500 words demonstrating the significant contribution to practice, and its national and/or international impact and future potential, (8) Complete list of professional reports in the preceding 5 year period, and referred technical papers, in journals only. Please enclose not more that two reports and three publications and Digital color photo (Soft copy).

For further information, please contact: Shamsher Prakash or Sally Prakash, Honorary Secretary, SPF, 1707 Jackson Circle, Rolla MO 65401, USA, Tele/Fax: 573-3645572, E-mail: prakash@mst.edu & Prakash@mst.edu, Web: www.yoga10.org

HANDBOOK OF FOUNDATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL MACHINES

by

Dr. K.G. Bhatia

This handbook shares author’s long experiences on the subject and focuses on the improvements needed in the design process with the sole objective of making practicing engineers to have better perspective of the dynamics of machine system.

The handbook covers basic fundamentals necessary for understanding and evaluating dynamic response of machine foundation system. It is anticipated that this handbook shall serve as a Reference Book for several industry segments like power, petrochemical, refineries, sugar, steel, cement, textile, fertilizer, etc.

The handbook provides basic methodology for design of Rotary, Reciprocating & Impact Machines and Vibration Isolation System.

ISBN: 978-81-906032-0-1, Page: 688, Hard Bound: 1.8kg, Price: INR 4.000.00 (India), US$120.00 (Other Countries)

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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering, I.I.T. Kanpur

The following monograph has been published by the National Information Center on Earthquake Engineering (NICEE). • IITK-GSDMA Guidelines on Measures to Mitigate Effects of Terrorist Attacks on Buildings

(Priced at Rs. 200/- per copy) • Earthquake-Resistant Confined Masonry Construction (Priced at Rs. 100/- per copy)

Overseas order may add Rs. 250/- per copy to cover air-mail postage and handling, a copy by sending an email with their complete name, affiliation, organization and postal address to nicee@iitk.ac.in Payment can be made by credit card at web site www.nicee.org/payment.php mentioning “Publications” as purpose or can also be made by a draft in favour of ‘National Information Center of Earthquake Engineering’ payable at Kanpur and mailed to Ms. Parvati, National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur-208 016. Outstation cheque will be accepted and should add Rs. 45/- as bank charges.

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ANNOUNCEMENT

The following changes in ‘Indian Minerals’ the flagship Earth science journal published from the Geological Survey of India, are to be implemented soon (starting from Vol. 62, No. 1; January-March, 2008): 1) Name of the journal: To be changed from the present ‘Indian Minerals’ to ‘Journal of Geosciences

(formerly Indian Minerals)-Geological Survey of India’.

2) Size: To be increased to Demy Quarto size (11" x 9.5" approx.) from the existing Crown Quarto size (9.33" x 7.5" approx.).

3) Cover Design: Layout of the cover will also be changed concomitantly

4) Periodicity: Quarterly publication

Besides the above, a major drive is being undertaken to revamp the journal that has completed more than 60 years of continuous publication Contact Address: For more details, please visit: www.gsi.gov.in

CALL FOR ADVERTISEMENT IN THE ISET NEWS LETTER

Dear Sir/Madam

The Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET) was established in 1962. The ISET is a founder member of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) and represents India on this World Forum with various aspects of Earthquake Engineering. The aims and objectives of the Society are mainly to provide necessary forum for Scientists and Engineers for promoting and disseminating the knowledge in the field of Earthquake Engineering.

At present there are 1348 Life Members of ISET from various Government Institutes, NGOs and membership is increasing year by year. The Society is giving wide publicity to the technical know-how related to field of Earthquake Engg. and Disaster Mitigation through a Journal and News Letter quarterly.

The Society has no permanent source of income except fees of Life Memberships, to meet out the salary of its part time staff, postage and day to day contingent expenditure. Only partial grants are received from DST and AICTE for printing of ISET Journals/News Letters. More funds need to be generated for improving the performance of the Society.

In this context, it is our pleasure to invite you for advertising your products in the News Letter of the Society. The advertisement charges are as follows:

Sl.No. Paper Size Charges for one issue (INR)

Charges for all issues during the year (INR)

1. ½ page in News Letters Rs. 7,500 Rs. 15,000 2. Full page in News Letters Rs. 12,500 Rs. 25,000

Kindly consider for advertisement in the Society’s News letter and send a copy of your advertisement. Please note that the advertisement charges may please be paid by Bank Draft/Crossed Cheque drawn in favour of “The Secretary, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology”, payable at Roorkee.

OBITUARY

Members of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology express their grief and sorrow over the sad and untimely demise of Dr. D.N. Krishnamurthy on January 09, 2008.

Dr. Krishnamurthy retired as Professor of Civil Engineering, Regional Engineering College-MACT now MANIT, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. After retirement he worked as Principal in 5 private engineering colleges. Two years back he shifted to Bangalore where he worked as Consultant for Structural Design.

The members of the ISET share the grief of his departure with the members of his family.

May his soul rest in peace.