Professional Services - Dr Durgesh C Rai

Specialized Industry Specific Courses:

Following modules of 2 to 3-day courses were developed and conducted for specific industry professionals:

Seismic Design of Liquid Storage Tanks
Chennai during March 7-8, 2024 for L&T Construction, Water & Effluent Treatment, 33 participants
Nonlinear Seismic Pushover Analysis
Navi Mumbai in April 4-6, 2019 for Reliance Industries Ltd., ~ 40 participants
Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures
IIT Kanpur during March 4-9, 2019 for Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation Programme (ITEC) sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Govt. of India, 23 participants from 11 countries.
Structural Analyses using ETABS/SAP
IIT Kanpur in February 2015 for NICEE in association with CSI, ~ 60 participants
Design of Steel Structures to IS800 and EC3
Mumbai in September 2010 for Tecnimont ICB Pvt. Ltd.
Gurgaon in January 2010 for Siemens Power Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
Design of Wind Turbine Tower
IIT Kanpur in April 2011 for Siemens Power Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
Seismic Analysis of Industrial Structures
Gurgaon in Dec. 2008 for Siemens Power Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai in July 2009 for Tecnimont ICB Pvt. Ltd.
Seismic Design of Industrial Concrete and Steel Structures
Jamnagar in January 2006 for Reliance Industries
Design for Dynamic Forces
Rocla Technology, Sydney, Australia, Feb. 2000

Short Term Courses:

Following modules of short-term courses were developed and conducted for professionals and teachers of engineering colleges and polytechnics with colleagues::

Advanced Seismic Analysis of Buildings and Bridges
IIT Kanpur, 2-4 March, 2020 for academics and design professionals, 23 participants
Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures
IIT Kanpur during March 4-9, 2019 for 23 international participants from 11 countries under the Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation Programme (ITEC) of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Govt. of India
Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures for Earthquake and Fire as per NBC 2016
IIT Gandhinagar, May 2-5, 2018 for building design professionals, ~40 participants
Seismic Design of Reinforced and Confined Masonry Buildings
IIT Gandhinagar, Feb 17-21, 2014 for building design professionals
Seismic Design of Railway Bridges
IIT Kanpur in May 2011 for Railway engineers and other bridge design professionals, 54 participants
Earthquake Resistant Design
Yangon, for Myanamar Engineering Society, March 4-8, 2009 as World Seismic Safety Initiative event
Seismic Retrofitting and Strengthening of Structures
Kathmandu in June 2009 for Institute of Engineering, Tribuvan University, Nepal
Experiments in Earthquake Engineering
IIT Kanpur in March 2008 for Gujarat teachers
Seismic Design of Bridges
IIT Kanpur in February 2007
Nonlinear Analysis of Structures
IIT Kanpur in October 2006 under NPEEE
Seismic Design of Industrial Concrete and Steel Structures
Jamnagar in January 2006 for Reliance Industries
Seismic Evaluation and Strengthening of Buildings
New Delhi in June 2004 for Govt. of NCT Delhi
IIT Kanpur in August 2005 under NPEEE
Seismic Design of RC Structures
New Delhi in June 2004 for Govt. of NCT Delhi
Seismic Design of Masonry Structures
IOE, TU, Kathmandu, Nepal in Dec. 2001 under QIP of IOE
New Delhi in June 2004 for Govt. of NCT Delhi
IIT Kanpur in October 2005 under NPEEE
Introduction to Earthquake Engineering
Ahmedabad in July 2003 for GSDMA
IIT Kanpur in August 2003 under NPEEE
IIT Kanpur in June 2004 under IRDT, Kanpur
Seismic Design of Steel Structures
IIT Kanpur in September-October 200 under NPEEE
IIT Kanpur in May 2000 under NPEEE
IIT Kanpur in March 2008 from Gujarat Colleges
Architecture for Earthquake Resistance of Buildings/Architectural Considerations in Seismic Design of Buildings
IIT Kanpur in January 2005 under NPEEE

Guest Lectures in Short Term Courses

In-plane and Out-of-plane Response of Masonry Infilled RC frames Strengthened with Fabric Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRCM) (Experimental and Analytical Techniques for Evaluating the Seismic Strengthening Measures for Masonry Structures under Accelerate Vigyan scheme of SERB at IIT Patna, October 26, 2021)
Seismic considerations for Masonry structures (Advances in Earthquake Engineering, under AICTE ATAL Academy by College of Engineering, Pune, January 4, 2021)
Engineering measures for mitigation of out-of-plane seismic vulnerability of unreinforced masonry walls under Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Recent Developments in Civil Engineering at Jorhat Engineering College, Jorhat.
Masonry infills in framed buildings (Seismic resistant design of masonry and reinforced concrete structures, IISc Bangalore, 16 - 20 January 2017)
Confined masonry: Alternative building typology for earthquake resistance (Seismic resistant design of masonry and reinforced concrete structures, IISc Bangalore, 16 - 20 January 2017)
FEM Analyses for dynamic and nonlinear problems (Finite Element Method, Constitutive Modeling and Applications, IIT Gandhinagar, 2-5 April, 2012)
Experimental Simulation in Earthquake Engineering Research and Preparedness in a TEQUIP course at HBTI, Kanpur
Technical oral presentations and visual elements at a QIP Course on Communication Skills for Engineers, Dept. of Humanities, IIT Kanpur
Non-destructive Testing in a course on Lab Practice in Building Material Testing at IRDT, Kanpur
Controls of Shake Table for Earthquake Simulation Studies (IIT Kanpur)
Seismic Performance of Masonry and RC Structures (QIP Roorkee)
Seismic Behaviour and Design of Steel Structures: (IIT Kanpur, ESCI, Hyd., IIT Roorkee)
Earthquake Safety and Survival, Earthquake-resistant Non-engineered Structures (ALTC Ghaziabad and NPTI, New Delhi)
Seismic Strengthening and Retrofit of Structures (CEPT, Ahmedabad and SERC Summer School, IIT Roorkee)
Estimation of Acceleration from Field Observation (SERC School, IIT Roorkee)