Assistant Professor

Dr Arijit Saha

Department of Civil Engineering

Interests
  1. Earthquake Engineering
  2. Vibration Control of Structures
  3. Probabilistic Risk and Resilience Assessment

Education

2013

West Bengal University of Technology
India
BTech

2015

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
India
MTech

2021

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
India
PhD

Professional Experience

  • 09 Nov 2021-08 Aug 2022 – Project scientist – Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
  • 2019-20 (II), 2019-20 (I) and 2018-19 (II)- Tutor (TA101A: Engineering Graphics)- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.

Research Interest

  • Vibration Control of Structures, Base Isolation System, Uncertainty Quantification and Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Reliability Based Design of Structures, Life-cycle-cost Based Design Optimization and Resilience of the Structural System, Small Scale Experimental Investigation using Shake Table Test.

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2015 - 2021 – Ph.D Scholarship – Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

List of Publications

  • Implications of Inter-storey Isolation on Seismic Fragility, Loss and Resilience of buildings Subjected to Near Fault Ground Motions- Saha, A and Mishra, S. K., Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 20, 899-939 (2022)., Springer Nature.
  • Synthesis of a Vector-valued Intensity Measure for Improved Prediction of Seismic Demands in Inter-Story-Isolated (ISI) Buildings subjected to Near Fault Ground Motions- Saha, A and Mishra, S. K., Engineering structures, 248, 113241 (2021). Elsevier B. V.
  • Amplification of seismic demands in inter-storey-isolated buildings subjected to near fault pulse type ground motions- Saha, A and Mishra, S. K. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 147, 106771 (2021). Elsevier B. V.
  • Adaptive Negative Stiffness Device based Nonconventional Tuned Mass Damper for Seismic Vibration Control of Tall Buildings- Saha, A and Mishra, S. K., Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 126, 105767 (2021). Elsevier B. V.
  • Seismic protection of the benchmark highway bridge with passive hybrid control system- Saha, A., Saha, P. and Patro, S. K., Earthquakes and Structures, 15(3); 227-241 (2018). Techno-press Journals.
  • Polynomial friction pendulum isolators (PFPIs) for seismic performance control of benchmark highway bridge- Saha, A., Saha, P. and Patro, S. K., Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 16(4), 827-840 (2017). Springer Nature.
  • Seismic response control of benchmark highway bridge using non-linear FV spring damper- Saha, A., Saha, P. and Patro, S. K., The IES Journal Part A: Civil & Structural Engineering: 8(4); 240-250 (2015). Taylor and FrancisEffect of forward directivity and non-forward directivity ground motions on the inter-story isolation system- Saha, A and Mishra, S. K., 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Japan, 2g-0231 (2020)
  • Seismic Response Mitigation of Structure by Negative Stiffness Devices via Mid-story Weakening- Saha, A and Mishra, S. K., Advances in Structural Vibrations, Lecture notes in Mechanical Engineering, 223-231 (2021), Springer Nature Singapore.
  • Effect of forward directivity and non-forward directivity ground motions on the inter-story isolation system- Saha, A and Mishra, S. K., 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Japan, 2g-0231 (2020).
  • Seismic performance of inter-story isolation system under near fault motions- Saha A, Pandey, D. K. and Mishra, S. K., 16th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Paper no 399 (2018), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
  • A New Implementation for Tuning Liquid Damper to Short Period Structure for Controlling Seismic Response: Experimental study- Pandey, D. K., Saha, A. and Mishra, S.K., 16th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Paper no 313 (2018), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
  • Seismic response control of benchmark highway bridge using semi active hybrid control system- Saha, A. and Saha, P., 13th International Conference on Vibration Problems, Paper no 160 (2017), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

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