• IITK-BMTPC Earthquake Tips - Learning Seismic Design and Construction: While the subject of earthquake
    engineering has its own sophistication and a lot of new research is being conducted in this very important
    subject, it is also important to widely disseminate the basic concepts of earthquake resistant constructions
    through simple language. With this objective, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) and the Building
    Materials and Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC), a constituent of the Ministry of Urban Development &
    Poverty Alleviation, Government of India, launched the IITK-BMTPC Series on Earthquake Tips in early 2002.
    Professor C. V. R. Murty was requested to take up the daunting task of expressing difficult concepts in very
    simple language, which he has very ably done.

  • IAEE Guidelines for Earthquake Resistant Non-Engineered Construction (English Edition by NICEE): The
    'Guidelines for Earthquake Resistant Non-Engineered Construction' was published by the International
    Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) in 1986 with the objective of improving the seismic safety of
    non-engineered housing constructions. Such structures are usually built by common man across many
    developing countries. It offers basic concepts and construction techniques to improve the earthquake
    resistance of these commonly built houses. The National Information Center of Earthquake Engineering of
    India (NICEE) is pleased to offer the second reprint of the English version of these Guidelines.




  • Hugo Bachmann, (2003). Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic Principles for Engineers, Architects,
    Building owners, and Authorities. Federal Office for Water and Geology (FOWG), Federal Department of Foreign
    Affairs (DFA). Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC).  BWG,
    Biel. The National Information Center of Earthquake Engineering hosted at Indian Institute of Technology,
    Kanpur, India is happy to present the reprint (in colour) of monograph by Professor Hugo Bachmann that
    conveys the concept of earthquake resistant design of buildings in a very simple and pictorial style. A soft copy
    of this publication is also available.



























  • Driver R.G., Kulak G.L., Kennedy D.J.L, and Elwi A.E., (1997). Seismic Behaviour of Steel Plate Shear Walls.
    Structural Engineering Report No. 215, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
    Alberta, Canada.






  • M. Altug Erberik and Amr Elnashai, (2003). Seismic Vulnerability of Flat-Slab Structures. Technical Report. Mid-
    America Earthquake Center, Newmark Civil Engineering Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. DS-9
    Project (Risk Assessment Modeling).

  • Shang-Cheol Kim and Donald W. White, (2003). MDOF Response of Low-Rise Buildings. Mid-America
    Earthquake Center, Newmark Civil Engineering Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


  • K.C. Chang, L.L. Chung, B.J. Lee, Y.F. Li, K.C. Tsai, J.S. Hwang, S.J. Hwang, (2002). Seismic Retrofit Study of RC
    Bridge Columns. International Training Programs for Seismic Design on Building Structures 2002 (ITP2002).
    National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), Taiwan.


  • Yen-Po Wang, (2002). Fundamentals of Seismic Base Isolation. International Training Programs for Seismic
    Design on Building Structures 2002 (ITP2002). National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering
    (NCREE), Taiwan.

  • Price T.E. and Eberhard M.O., (1998). Effects of Spatially Varying Ground Motions on Short Bridges. Journal of
    Structural Engineering, ASCE, August 1998, Vol. 124, No. 8, pp. 948-955. Available from Marc O. Eberhard
    homepage, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.

  • Trochalakis P., Eberhard M.O. and Stanton J.F., (1997). Design of Seismic Restrainers for In-Span Hinges.
    Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, April 1997, Vol. 123, No. 4, pp. 469-478. Available from Marc O.
    Eberhard homepage, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.

  • Eberhard M.O. and Marsh M.L., (1997). Lateral-Load Response of Two Reinforced Concrete Bents. Journal of
    Structural Engineering, ASCE, April 1997, Vol. 123, No. 4, pp. 461-468. Available from Marc O. Eberhard
    homepage, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.

  • Eberhard M.O. and Marsh M.L., (1997). Lateral-Load Response of a Reinforced Concrete Bridge. Journal of
    Structural Engineering, ASCE, April 1997, Vol. 123, No. 4, pp. 451-460. Available from Marc O. Eberhard
    homepage, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.





  • Bruneau M., Reinhorn A., (2006). Overview of the Resilience Concept. 8th National Seismic Conference, San
    Francisco, April 2006 - CD-ROM Paper No. 2040. Available from Michel Bruneau Webpage, State University of
    New York at Buffalo.

  • Cimellaro G.P., Reinhorn A., Bruneau M. (2006). Quantification of Seismic Resilience. 8th National Seismic
    Conference, San Francisco, April 2006 - CD-ROM Paper No. 1094. Available from Michel Bruneau Webpage,
    State University of New York at Buffalo.



  • Cimellaro G.P., Reinhorn A., Bruneau M., (2005). Seismic Resilience of a Health Care Facility. Workshop of the
    Asian-Pacific Network of Center in Earthquake Engineering Research, Jeju, Korea, November 2005. Available
    from Michel Bruneau Webpage, State University of New York at Buffalo.