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CONTENTS Preface iii Acknowledgements iv POLYMER COMPOSITES Mechanical Properties of Carbon Reinforced Composites 3 Nuri Akkas, Ipek Aydeniz and Gungor Gunduz Applications of Fiber-Reinforced Composites in Civil Engineering and Other Engineering Structures 13 J. N. Bandyopadhyay Wave Propagation Through Fiber Reinforced Composite Laminated Plates 23 M. R. Chitnis, Y. M. Desai and Tarun Kant Properties and Applications for Precoated Sheets : A Polymer Composite 29 K. Diwan Bending Stiffness and Damage Studies on Qudsi-lsotropic Laminated Composite Plates 35 P. Durga Prasad and N. K. Naik Design of Composite Laminates with Cut-Outs under Large Amplitude Vibration Environment 41 N. G. R. lyengar Towards a Rational Approach for Development of Failure Criteria for the Design of Composite Laminates 49 A. V. Krishna Murty, S. Gopalkrishnan, M. Kumar and G. Narayan Naik Impact Response of a Laminated Cylindrical Composite Shell Panel 57 K. S. Krishnamurthy, P. Mahajan and R.K. Mittal Textile Composites in Structural Applications: Impact Damage Initiation Studies 63 S. Meduri, B. R, Nemani, N. K. Naik and D. K. Mahanty Finite Element Analysis of Smart Laminated Plates 71 Abhijit Mukherjee and Shailendra Joshi Finite Element Analysis of Cantilever Laminated Composite and Sandwich Plate Structures 77 A. G. Niyogi, M. K. Laha and P. K. Sinha Finite Element Impact Analysis of Multiple Delaminated Composite Plates 85 P. K. Parthi, S. K. Bhattacharyya and P. K. Sinha Elastic Buckling of Symmetric Sandwich Laminates Using a Higher-Order Theory 95 Hemant Patil and Tarun Kant Analysis of Composite Stiffened Panels for Ship Structures 101 S. G. Prusty, C. Ray and S. K. Satsangi Application of FCM to Laminated Composite DCB Specimen under Model Interlaminar Fracture 113 B, K. Raghu Prasad, Neeraj Mehrotra and D. V. T. G. Pavan Kumar Experimental Investigations on Flexural Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened with CFRPC Laminates 125 V. P. V. Ramana, T. Kant, P. K. Dutta, S. E. Motion, A. Mukherjee and Y. M. Desai Vibrations of Laminated Composite Beams Using Higher Order Hybrid / Mixed Theory 131 M. Kameswara Rao and Y, M. Desai Stregthening of Reinforced Concrete Members with Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite (FRP) Laminates 139 D. V. Reddy, G. Gervois, L A. Carlsson and W. Ahn Parametric Instability of Laminated Composite Rectangular Plates Subjected to Concentrated In-Plane Edge Loading 151 S. K. Sahu and P. K. Datta Higher-Order Shear Deformation Theories for the Stress Analysis of Composite Shell Structures on Parallel Machines 159 Mahesh S. Shah and Tarun Kant Feasibility of Using Cenosphere-Polymer Composites for Structural Applications 165 Arun Shukla and Venkitanarayanan Parameswaran Response and Failure of Symmetric Laminates under Bi-Axial Compression 173 S. B. Singh and A. R. Pandey Thermal Postbuckling Analysis of Composite Skew Plates 183 Maloy K Singha, L. S. Ramachandra and J. N. Bandyopadhyay Strain Energy Release Rate Analysis of Tapered Laminated Composite Panels 191 K. Vijayaraju, P. D. Mangalgiri and B. Dattaguru MECHANICS Elasto-Plastic Response of a Clamped Beam under Impact Load 203 Tarif Uddin Ahmed, L. S. Ramachandra and S. K. Bhattacharyya A Beam Finite Element Based on Trigonometric Shear Deformation Theory 213 Avinash Ainapure and Rameshchandra Shimpi Analysis of Multi-Storeyed Buildings of Open Section Subjected to Torsion 223 R. S. Ayyar, B. N. Pandya and G. Parthasarathy An Optimised Doubly Curved Shell Configuration as a Substitute for Interfloor Slab Systems 235 R. Subrahmonia Ayyar and V. Venkatraj Circular Hybrid Plate under Axisymmetric Thermoelectromechanical Load 245 Amit Chander and G. P. Dube A Trigonometric Shear Deformation Theory for Flexure and Free Vibration of Isotropic Thick Beams 255 Yuwaraj M. Ghugal and Rameshchandra P. Shimpi A High Precision Shear Flexible Locking Free Element for the Analysis of Plates of Different Shapes 265 S. Haldar, D. Sengupta and A. H. Sheikh Modified Axial and Flexural Stiffness Coefficients for Reinforced Concrete Plane Frame Member 277 P. S. Kadam, M. R. Shiyekar and K. T. Krishnaswamy Investigation of the Effects of Residual Stresses in Structural Angle Sections 289 Phiroze Mehta A New Stiffened Plate Element 299 Madhujit Mukhopadhyay and Manoranjan Barik Analysis of Mixed-Mode Fracture Problems Containing Multiple Crack-Tips Using Adaptive Finite Element Procedures 309 K S. R. K. Murthy and M. Mukhopadhyay Response Sensitivity as a Useful Structural Parameter 319 P. C. Pandey Direct Inverted Stiffness Matrix for Continuous Beam Using an Innovative Approach with Relative329 Deformation Coefficient Harshvadan S. Patel and Hemant S. Patil Direct Inverted Stiffness Matrix for Plane Frame Using an Innovative Approach with Relative 337 Deformation Coefficient Harshvadan S. Patel and Heinant S. Patii Influence Lines of Grids Using Matrix Method and Muller-Bresslau Principle 343 B. G. Prusty and Lakshmidhar Kar A Locking Free Horizontally Curved Beam Element of Arbitrary Shape with Shear Deformation 351 A. H. Sheikh Nonlinear Analysis of Moderately Thick Rectangular Plates: An Analytical Approach 359 K. K. Shukia and Y. Nath Stochastic Finite Element Methods: A Brief Review with Analysis 367 A. V. Singh and Y. Zheng A Study of the Quality of Extracted Stress Intensity Factors Using the Finite Element Method 377 C. S. Upadhyay DYNAMICS Optimum Design of Hybrid Control System for MDOF Structures 387 A. S. Ahlawat and A. Ramaswamy Design of Concrete Shell Junction of Water Tank 395 S. M. Basha, G. Tripathi, G. R. Reddy, R. K. Singh, R. Patnaik, S. Ramanujam and H. S. Kushwaha Source Location - An Inverse Structural Dynamic Problem 401 R. N. lyengar and S. K. Agrawal Seismic Response of Bridges Isolated by Elasto-Plastic System 409 R. S. Jangid Effect of Finite Size Joint Correction on Earthquake Analysis and Design of Staging for Overhead Service Reservoirs 419 Hemant Kaushil and R. K. Ingle Experimental and Analytical investigations on Impact Response cf Clamped Grillages 425 C. K. Madheswaran and M. V. Dharaneepathy A Floor Response Spectrum Coupled Analysis for Secondary Systems Using Available Codes 435 C. V. Marcelo, J. C. Waldo and J. L Roehl Free Vibration Analysis of Shells with Curved Quadratic Isoparametric Eight and Nine Node 441 Finite Elements A. N. Nayak and J. N. Bandyopadhyay Free Vibration Analysis of Infinite Curved Panels Using the Wave Propagation Method 453 Chitaranjan Pany, S. Parthan and Somenath Mukherjee Seismic Analysis of Liquid Storage Tank with Multiple-lmpulsive-Convective Mass Lumping Scheme 463 G, Tripathi, S. M. Basha, R. K. Singh, G. R. R&ddy, R. Patnaik, S. Ramanujam and H. S. Kushwaha Simplified Approach for Seismic Analysis of Structures 471 V. Varma, S. M. Basha, G. R. Reddy, K. K. Vaze, R. Patnaik, H. S. Kushwaha and S. Ramanujam SPECIAL STRUCTURES Parametric Study of Cable Nets 483 Ashok K. Ahuja and Vipul K. Garg Finite Element Analysis of Endodontically Treated Teeth 493 M. Kheur, A. S. Mehta, S. P. Joshi and A. Mukherjee Requalification and Decommissioning of Offshore Platforms 501 A. G. Madhava Rao Structural Analysis of Solid Propellant Boosters 507 R. Palaninathan and M. R. Suresh Kumar Estimation of Prestress Losses in the Inner Containment of an Indian PHWR 517 Indrajit Ray, Raghupati Roy, U. S. P. Verma and A. S. Warudkar Dynamic Behaviour of Flexible and Rigid Aircraft under Nonstationary Ground Input 525 S. Talukdar and D. Yadav COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN Topology and Discrete Optimal Design of Trusses Using Genetic Algorithm and Object Oriented Methodology 535 Kanwalpreet and C. V. Ramakn'shnan Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Steel-Concrete Composite Beams 545 S. Kumar, K. C. Naithani, V. K. Gupta, S. K. Ghosh, D. Karmakar and P. K. Maini STAIR-2000: A Software for Analysis and Design of Staircases 553 S. C. Patodi and B. K. Thakkar Prediction of Load From the Yield Patterns of Orthotropic Plates and Shells Using an Augmented Simplified Fuzzy ARTMAP Network 561 S. Rajasekaran and G. A. Vijayalakshmi Pai STABILITY Longitudinal Buckling of Imperfect Cylinders Subject to Axial Force 573 J. C. Boot and M. M. Naqvi A Review of I. S. Code Provisions for Effective Length of Framed Columns 587 J. B. Dafedar, Y. M. Desai and M. R. Shiyekar A Review of Instability of Structures 595 V. Kalyanaraman NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES Error Estimation and h-Adaptive Refinements for Dynamic Analysis of Structures 615 Nagesh R. lyer, G. S. Palani, J. Rajasankar and T. V. S. R. Appa Rao Adaptive Finite Element Analysis and High Performance Computing 625 C. S. Krishnamoorthy On Arc Length Procedure and Integration of Constitutive Relations for Damage Coupled Elastoplasticity 635 Arbind Kumar Singh and P. C. Pandey GENERAL Behaviour of Slag Cement Mortar Modified with Silica Fume, Superp'asticiser and Polymeric Latex 645 Arun Kumar Chakraborty and Sekhar Chandra Dutta Staging Design Aspects of RCC Water Towers for Limiting Drift 653 R. K. Ingle and S. S. Kulkarni Construction Materials for the New Millennium 659 S, K. Kaushik Seismic Design of Geosynthetic Reinforced Retaining Walls for Mumbai Fly-Overs 667 J. N. Mandal Fatigue Reliability Evaluation, Design and Code Calibration of Steel Bridges 673 G. Raw and R. Ranganathan Interaction of Two Structures on a Common Foundation 681 K. V, Subramanian and H. A. Mapari A Comparison of Design Wind Speed Based on Extreme Value Analysis and I.S. Code Approach 687 A. Vijaywargiya, S. G. Bapat, U. S. P. Verma, A. S. Warudkar Analysis of Raft by Variable ' K' Approach IGNCA - Case Study 693 A. V. Kashikar, S. P. Bagli, D. M. Dave and A. P. Mull Stress Analysis of Penstock Branching Using Finite Element Technique 705 B. D, Zare and M. H. Kanadia Circular Base Raft for Bandra Influent Pumping Station - Behaviour of Various Idealised Finite 715 Element Models Bharat Gharat and Nilesh Tamhane AUTHOR INDEX 721 |
