PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Editorial Board Membership

 

  • Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering
  • Member, Editorial Board, Structural Safety (Elsevier)
  • Member, Editorial Board, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics (Elsevier)
  • Member, Editorial Board, Structural Control and Health Monitoring (Wiley)
  • Associate Editor (Structural Dynamics), ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology, (2007-2013); Member of Editorial Board for 2013-2015.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Earthquakes and Structures (from 2010) (Techno Press).
  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Life cycle reliability and safety engineering (Journal of Society for reliability and safety).

 

Seminars/Lectures (Selected list)

 

  1. 1991, Dynamics of an uncertain axially vibrating rod, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
  2. 1994, Stochastic finite element method for dynamic analysis of engineering structures, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  3. 1997, Earthquake response analysis of multiply supported piping structures using method of critical excitations, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam.
  4. 1997, Finite element analysis of vehicle structure interactions, Aeronautical Development Establishment, DRDO, Bangalore.
  5. 2001, Reduced order modeling in structural dynamics, Gas Turbine Research Establishment, Bangalore.
  6. 2003, Reliability analysis of randomly parametered structural dynamical systems, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, USA.
  7. 2003, Engineering structures under partially specified earthquake loads: Method of critical excitations and design based on inverse reliability, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, USA.
  8. 2003, Reliability analysis of randomly parametered structural dynamical systems, Department of Civil Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
  9. 2007, Novel strategies for structural system identification and reliability analyses of existing structures, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  10. 2007, Nonlinear structural system identification using dynamic state estimation methods, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
  11. 2007, Probabilistic methods in nonlinear structural system identification, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
  12. 2008, Research into condition assessment and reliability analysis of existing structures, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
  13. 2009, Finite element model updating in condition assessment of existing railway bridges, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science.
  14. 2009, Condition assessment and reliability analysis of existing structures, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur
  15. 2009, Prospects for collaborative research in the area of reliability analysis of existing structures, BARC, Mumbai.
  16. 2010, Dangers from Earthquakes and Engineering Strategies to face them, Colloquium, National Centre for Biological Sciences, March 2010.
  17. 2011, Probabilistic methods for updating mathematical models of instrumented structures, University of Waterloo, and Carleton University, Canada.
  18. 2012, Bayesian  methods for model updating in structural engineering, University of Swansea, UK.
  19. 2013, On engineering safe structures, Institute Colloquium, Indian Institute of Science.

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20.  2014, Random vibration testing with controlled samples, University of Southampton.

  1. 2015, Challenges in structural health monitoring of ageing bridges, IIT Hyderabad Center of Excellence in Sustainable Development and IC-IMPACTS, India-Canada Workshop, Sustainable Infrastructure and Materials, January 13 2015, Hyderabad
  2. 2015, Advances in Structural health Monitoring for Ageing Infrastructure, TEQIP Winter School on Recent Advances in Structural Engineering and Materials, IIT Hyderbad, 14 January 2015.
  3. 2016, Condition assessment of ageing railway bridges, Pre-conference workshop on Structural Integrity, SICE-2016, IISc, Bangalore, 2nd July 2016.
  4. 2016, Safety of Engineering Structures: Prediction, Diagnosis, and Prognosis, Invited Lecture, Professor G S Ramaswamy Memorial Lecture on the occasion of the CSIR-SERC Foundation day, 10th June 2016, CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai

 

Field studies

 

  • Environmental vibration survey at the National Centre for Biological Sciences at the Animal House Facility, 2009.
  • Condition assessment of five existing railway bridges in Karnataka.
  • Environmental vibration survey at the Yashodha hospital, Hyderabad at the proposed site for installing an MRI equipment
  • Environmental vibration survey at the National Centre for Biological Sciences at the proposed site for installing an electronic microscope
  • Field investigation of damages during 1984 earthquake in South India
  • Deployment of GPS as a part of the project on Investigation of strain fields in zones of recent seismicity in Southern peninsular India.
  • Field investigation of the 1993 Latur earthquake.
  • Field investigation of the 2000 Bhuj earthquake.
  • Field investigation of the 2000 earthquake in South India.

 

Reviewer for the following Journals

 

  1. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics
  2. Structural safety
  3. ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics
  4. ASCE Journal Structural Engineering
  5. ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering
  6. ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics
  7. ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews (book review)
  8. Journal of Acoustical Society of America
  9. AIAA Journal
  10. IEEE Systems Journal
  11. IEEE Transactions on Reliability
  12. International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics
  13. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  14. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  15. Structural Control and Health Monitoring
  16. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
  17. Journal of Sound and Vibration
  18. Engineering Structures
  19. International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering
  20. Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering
  21. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics?
  22. Sadhana [Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences]
  23. Resonance - Journal of Science Education [Indian Academy of Sciences]
  24. Current Science [Current Science Association & Indian Academy of Sciences]
  25. Journal of Structural Engineering [Published by Structural Engineering Research Centre, India.]
  26. Nuclear Engineering and Design
  27. International Journal for Engineering Analysis and Design
  28. ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology
  29. Advances in Vibration Engineering [Published by Vibration Institute of India].
  30. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
  31. The Shock and Vibration Digest
  32. Applied Mathematical Modelling
  33. Earthquake Spectra
  34. Mathematical Problems in Engineering
  35. Advances in Acoustics and Vibration
  36. Advances in Structural Engineering
  37. CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science
  38. Journal of Institution of Civil Engineers, India
  39. Europhysics Letters (EPL)
  40. Earthquakes and Structures
  41. Journal of Indian Institute of Science
  42. Reliability Engineering & System Safety

 

Review of grant proposals, theses, book proposals & codes

 

  1. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India.
  2. Department of Science and Technology
  3. Ministry of Earth Sciences
  4. Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences
  5. Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology
  6. Austrian Research Council
  7. UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) research proposal.
  8. Thesis reviewer
    1. IIT Madras
    2. IIT Mumbai
    3. IIT New Delhi
    4. IIT Kharagpur
    5. NIT Rourkela
    6. IISc Bangalore
    7. University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
  9. Reviewer for book proposals (Springer)
  10. Reviewer for the Indian Seismic Code IS 1893 (Part 1):2002 and Commentary on this code prepared by Profs S K Jain and C V R Murty as a part of the IITK-GSDMA Project on Building Codes.
  11. Expert member to identify the best paper published in the ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology in the area of structural dynamics for the period 1997-2000 & 2001-2006.

 

Review of Books

 

  1. C S Manohar, 2009, Review of Critical Excitation Methods in Earthquake Engineering, Izuru Takewaki. Elsevier, Amsterdam (2007). 270 pp., Hardbound, $146.00, ISBN-13: 978-0-08-045309-5, Engineering Structures, 31(8), 1916-1917.
  2. C S Manohar, 2003, Review of the book Scattering of waves: applications to the Mexico City Valley, by E Reinoso, WIT Press, Southampton, UK. 2002. 202 pp. ISBN 1-85312-833-3.$122.00  Applied Mechanics Review, 56, B48.
  3. C S Manohar, 2001, Review of the book Dynamic Analysis and Earthquake Resistant Design, Volume 2: Methods of Dynamic Analysis, Applied Mechanics Reviews, 54, B75.

 

Organization of conferences and short-term courses

 

1.      Organizing Secretary, National Seminar on materials and Structures, July 26 1996, Indian Institute of Science.

2.      Organizing Secretary, IISc-Industry Interaction Meet on Vibration problems in engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2000.

3.      Organizing Secretary, The first International Conference on Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery, October 2000, Bangalore.

4.      Principal coordinator, Short-term course on Probabilistic Structural Mechanics, Indian Institute of Science, 1998.

5.      Course convener, Semester program on earthquake engineering, funded by National Program on Earthquake Engineering Education, MHRD, August-December 2004.

6.      Course convener, Short-term course on structural dynamics in earthquake engineering, funded by National Program on Earthquake Engineering Education, MHRD, March 8-13, 2004.

7.      Convener and Instructor, Pre-symposium workshop on Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques in Stochastic Structural Mechanics, 20th July 2005.

8.      Organizing Secretary, National Symposium on Structural dynamics, random vibrations and earthquake engineering, July 21-22, 2005, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

9.      Course convener, Short-term course on Experimental methods in earthquake engineering, funded by National Program on Earthquake Engineering Education, MHRD, December 2006.

10.  Course convener, Short-term course on Structural system identification, funded by National Program on Earthquake Engineering Education, MHRD, January 2007.

11.  Organizer, Workshop on Fire safety engineering and structures in fire, 9-13 August 2010, IISc, Bangalore; this activity is a part of the project with University of Edinburgh and IIT Roorkee funded by the UKIERI.

12.  Session organizer [Engineering large infrastructure for disaster/ hazards], Indo-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Bethesda, MD, USA, March 2012. http://www.naefrontiers.org/Symposia/IAFOE/28104.aspx

  1. Session Organizer and Chair, Indo-German Frontiers in Engineering Symposium, March 14-17, 2013, Organized by the Von Humbolt Foundation, Germany and Department of Science and Technology, India, (Title of the session: Engineering for natural disasters and risk management).

 

 

Committee membership

 

  1. Member, Technical Committee of Dynamics, Engineering Mechanics Division, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003-2007
  2. Expert member, 2010, Committee for selecting faculty members, IIT Hyderbad.
  3. Expert Member, Committee to assess Scientists from SERC, Madras (CSIR) for promotion.
  4. Member, Personality Test Board, Union Public Service Commission, Civil Services, Government of India, 2007.
  5. Member, Expert Committee, Recruitment of faculty members for Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, 2006, 2007.
  6. Expert member, Committee for Promotion of Superintending Engineers to Chief Engineers, Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd., Bangalore (2007)
  7. Expert Member, Committee to assess Scientists from Aeronautical Development Agency (DRDO) for promotion.
  8. Expert Member, Assessment Committee in the area of Material Science and Engineering, CSIR, (2007)
  9. Member, Program Implementation Committee, National Program on Earthquake Engineering Education, MHRD, Government of India, 2005-2007.
  10. Member, Technical Committee on Structural Dynamics, Engineering Mechanics Division, American Society of Civil Engineering, 2003-2007.
  11. Member (Nominated), Indian Society for Earthquake Technology, 2005-2007.
  12. Member, Selection of best paper in the area of structural dynamics published in the ISET Bulletin.
  13. Member, Selection of best ME thesis in the area of earthquake engineering for an award instituted by NICEE, Kanpur IIT.
  14. Member, Panel of reviewers for reviewing projects funded by the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, 2002.
  15. Member, Committee on Shock and Vibration standards for Indian applications: seismic vibrations, Defence and Research and Development Laboratories, Research Centre Imarat- Bureau of Indian Standards (DRDL-RCI/BIS Committee).
  16. Member, Expert Team to conduct workshops on Need analysis for short-term training programmes in civil engineering, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Government of India, 1996.
  17. Member, Special technical evaluation committee for procuring structural analysis softwares, Gas Turbine Research Establishment, Bangalore, Defence R & D organization, Government of India, 2002.
  18. Member, Assessment Committee for considering promotion of engineering officers of the Central Power Research Institute, Bangalore, India, 2004.
  19. Member, 2004-to present, Doctoral Committee for one PhD Scholar from Anna University, Chennai.
  20. Member, National Advisory Board, National Information Centre for Earthquake Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
  21. Expert Member, 2006, Committee on earthquake response of rotors, Bharath Heavy Electricals Limited, New Delhi.

 

Administration at IISc

 

  1. Chairman, Department of Civil Engineering, 2011-2014.
  2. Chairman, Centre for Earth Sciences, July 2007-2010.
  3. Member Secretary, IISc-IGCAR R & D Cell, 2011-present
  4. Member, Internal Committee against sexual harassment, 2016-present.
  5. Project Coordinator, Research, Education, and Manpower Development in the Discipline of Earth Processes 2009-2014, Rs 11.7 Crores, Funded by Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India.
  6. Institute Coordinator, National Program on Earthquake Engineering Education, MHRD, Government of India, 2005-2007.
  7. Convener, Department Recruitment Committee, 2007 to present.
  8. Convener, 1993-1995, 2000, Structural Engineering Laboratory
  9. Senate Medals Committee, 2005- present.
  10. Senate Centenary Committee, 2006.
  11. Security Committee, 2006.
  12. Senate Curriculum Committee, 2006-2010.
  13. Senate Committee on External Registration Program, 2004-05.
  14. Member, Committee of Professors for Earth Science Studies, 2007-present.
  15. Member, Senate Committee on Library matters, 2000- 2004.
  16. Paper setter and examiner for GATE 2000 (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering)