Assistant Professor

Dr Nishant Sharma

Department of Civil Engineering

Interests

  1. Soil-structure Interaction
  2. Earthquake Engineering
  3. Finite Element Modelling and Analysis

Education

2012

National Institute of Technology
Raipur, India
BTech (Civil Engineering)

2020

Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati, India
PhD (Civil Engineering)

Experience

  • January 2021- June 2022 - Assistant Professor - Faculty of Engineering and Technology (ITER), Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Research Interest

  • Nonlinear Analysis and Seismic Resistant Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings
  • Seismic Response Evaluation of Buildings Considering Soil Structure Interaction Effects
  • Application of Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2016 – Departmental Winner, Poster Presentation Competition, Research Conclave – IIT Guwahati
  • 2012-2018 – IIT Guwahati Institute Research Assistantship, Doctoral Program – MHRD
  • 2012 – All India Rank 72, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) – IIT Delhi
  • 2011– First Position, Green Fest – NIT Raipur

Publications

International Refereed Journal Articles
  • Prediction of natural period of RC frame with shear wall supported on soil-pile foundation system using artificial neural network - Sharma, N., Dasgupta, K., and Dey, A. - Journal of Earthquake Engineering, doi.org/10.1080/13632469.2020.1824876 (2020)
  • Natural period of reinforced concrete building frames on pile foundation considering seismic soil structure interaction effects - Sharma, N., Dasgupta, K., and Dey, A. - Structures, 27, 1594-1612, doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2020.07.010 (2020)
  • Optimum lateral extent of soil domain length for dynamic SSI analysis of RC framed buildings on pile foundations - Sharma, N., Dasgupta, K., and Dey, A - Frontiers in Structural and Civil Engineering, 14(1), 62–81, doi.org/10.1007/s11709-019-0570-2 (2020)
  • A state-of-the-art review on seismic SSI studies on building structures - Sharma, N., Dasgupta, K., and Dey, A. - Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, 3(1), 22, doi.org/10.1007/s41062-017-0118-z (2018)
Book Chapters
  • Seismic behaviour of RC building frame considering soil-structure interaction effects -Sharma, N., Dasgupta, K., and Dey, A. - In Advanced Topics in Structural Vibration, Ed. S. Dutta, E. Inan, S. K. Dwivedy, Springer, Singapore. 157–170: ISBN No. 978-981-15-5862-7 (2021)
  • Influence of BNWF soil modelling on dynamic of pile foundation for RC frame with structural wall - Sinha, A., Sharma, N., Dasgupta, K., and Dey, A. - In Advanced Topics in Structural Vibration, Ed. S. Dutta, E. Inan, S. K. Dwivedy, Springer, Singapore. 277–288: ISBN No. 978-981-15-5862-7, Springer, Singapore (2021)
  • Importance of inclusion of soil structure interaction studies in design codes - Sharma, N., Dasgupta, K. and Dey, A. - In Recent Advances in Structural Engineering, Vol. 2, Ed. A. Rama Mohan Rao, K. Ramanjaneyulu, Springer, Singapore, 233-244: ISBN No. 978-981-13-0365-4 (2019)
  • Nonlinear static of RC frame buildings during construction stages - Gogoi, A., Bhuyan, B., Sharma, N., and Dasgupta, K. - In Recent Advances in Structural Engineering, Vol. 2, Ed. A. Rama Mohan Rao, K. Ramanjaneyulu, Springer, Singapore, 13-24: ISBN No. 978-981-13-0365-4 (2019)
International and National Conference Papers
  • Influence of shear wall on seismic response of RC frame buildings on pile foundation considering SSI - Dey, A., Sharma, N., and Dasgupta, K. - In 17th World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, 27 September- 2 October 2021, Sendai, Japan. (2020)
  • Seismic SSI effects on fundamental period of reinforced concrete frame with shear wall -Sharma, N., Dasgupta, K., and Dey, A. - In Proceedings of the 11th Structural Engineering Convention, 19-21 December 2018, Paper No. 20180391_R1, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (2018)
  • Natural period of RC buildings considering seismic soil structure interaction effects - Sharma, N., Dasgupta, K., and Dey, A. - In 16th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, 20-22 December 2018, Paper No. 275, IIT Roorkee, India (2018)
  • Nonlinear static behaviour of RC-building frame under lateral loads considering soil structure interaction effects - Sharma, N., Dasgupta, K., and Dey, A. - In Indian Geotechnical Conference, 14-16 December 2017, Paper No. Th12_729, IIT Guwahati, India (2017)
  • 5. Finite element modeling intricacies for SSI studies - Sharma, N., Dasgupta, K., and Dey, A. - In 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, 1-6 August 2016, Paper No. 43, IIT Roorkee Extension Center, Greater Noida, India (2016)
  • 3D finite element modeling of a large-sized pile group - Acharyya, R., Sharma, N., Dey, A., and Dasgupta, K. - In North East Students Geo-Congress on Advances in Geotechnical Engineerning, 22 January 2016, pp. 219-231, NIT Agartala, India (2016)
  • Review of seismic soil-structure interaction with pile foundation - Sharma, N., and Dasgupta, K. - In UKIERI Workshop on Seismic Requalification of Pile Supported Structures (SRPSS), 7-9 January 2015, IIT Guwahati, India (2015)
  • Influence of modelling of RC structural walls on dynamic analysis of wall frame buildings -Sahu, S. K., Sharma, N., and Dasgupta, K. - In Proceedings, 10th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), Oakland, CA, USA (2014)

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