IIT Gandhinagar | Faculty | Civil Engg

Dhiman Basu

Assistant Professor

	B.E.: Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, 1995 M.Tech.: IIT Kanpur, India, 1998 Ph.D.: University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY), 2012
	Email: dbasu@iitgn.ac.in

Research Interest

Rotational components of earthquake ground motion (Rotational Seismology)
Asymmetric and setback buildings (Complex Structures)
Seismic isolation
Passive structural control and damping amplification devices (Seismic Protective Systems)
Seismic performance assessment of existing and retrofitted structures (Seismic Hazard and Loss Computation)
Nonlinear structural analysis
Numerical methods

Work Experience

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, (Aug 2012 – present)
Post-Doctoral Scholar , University at Buffalo, State University at New York (SUNY) (Apr 2012 - July 2012)
Scientist, Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai, India (Mar 2002 - Aug 2008)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, GB Panth University of Agriculture and Technology, India (Sep 1999 - Feb 2002)
Research Associate, I.I.T. Kanpur (Dec 1998 - Sep 1999)
Graduate Engineer Trainee , M/S Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. Ltd (India) (July 1995 - Jan 1996)

Selected Recent Publications

Basu, D. and Jain, S. K. (2007). "Alternative method to locate center of rigidity in asymmetric buildings." Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 36: 965-973.
Basu, D. (2008). "From third to fourth order variant of newton's method for simple roots." Applied Mathematics and Computations, 202: 886-892.
Basu, D. (2009). "Dynamics of a class of horizontal setback buildings with flexible floor diaphragm." Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 135: 873-877.
Basu, D., Whittaker, A. S. and Constantinou, M. C. (2012). "On estimating rotational components of ground motion using data recorded at a single station." Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE (doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0000408).
Basu, D., Whittaker, A. S. and Constantinou, M. C. (2012). "Extracting rotational components of earthquake ground motion using data recorded at multiple stations." Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (Accepted for publication).