Research Interests and Areas

Earthquake Risk and Reliability Analysis of Bridges

Straight and skewed bridges
Probabilistic evaluation of seismic performance
Risk, reliability and uncertainty analysis
Residual service life prediction
Risk mitigation through seismic retrofitting

Disaster Resilience of Bridges and Highway Systems

Probabilistic evaluation of performance
Loss assessment due to natural disasters
Modelling of performance-based post-event recovery
Life-cycle resilience
Resilience enhancement through optimal retrofitting

Multihazard analysis

Hazard analysis
Fragility curves and surfaces of real-life and representative bridges
Multihazard risk assessment
Multihazard resilience
Bridge design options for multihazard scenarios
Optimal use of advanced materials for risk mitigation

Vacancy for doctoral students: I am currently looking for bright and motivated doctoral students. My research interest spans over various traditional and emerging areas of Structural Engineering. Broad research areas include - Earthquake Engineering, Bridge Engineering, Risk and Reliability Analysis, Structural Resilience, Performance Assessment of Bridges under Multiple Hazards. Please go to my research and publication pages for more information. Interested candidates feel free to contact me.