Academics

Dr. Avik Samanta

 
Dr. Avik Samanta
Asst. Professor
Ph.D (IIT Bombay), M.Tech (IIT Kanpur), B.E. (IIEST, Shibpur)
Ph: +91-612-302 8191
asamanta[AT]iitp.ac.in
Research Areas : Structural Engineering, Structural Dynamics, Performance Based Earthquake Engineering
Other Interests :  Vibration Control
Courses taught at IITP :
  • Design of Steel Structures
  • Design Studio
  • Civil Engineering Design – II
  • Structural Analysis
  • Structural Dynamics
  • Engineering Mechanics
  • Civil Engineering Materials
  • Infrastructure Drawing And Estimation
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Infrastructure Engineering Lab
  • Structural Engineering Lab
  • Engineering Drawing Lab
  • Fluid Mechanics Lab
PhD Students :

Lakshmi Kant

Saurabh Suman
Sanjeet Kumar
Professional Experience :
  • Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (June 2010 to July 2013)
Sponsored Projects :
Title Principal Investigator Sponsored by Project Cost Status
Seismic response, damage and vulnerability of structures in Patna for future earthquakes. Dr. Avik Samanta DST, Govt. of India ₹ 21.39 lakhs Completed
Publications : Journals
  1. Avik Samanta, Arabinda Swain. “Seismic Response and Vulnerability Assessment of Representative Low, Medium and High-rise Buildings in Patna, India” Structures, 19 (2019) 110–127.
  2. Avik Samanta and Pranjul Pandey. “Effects of ground motion modification methods and ground motion duration on seismic performance of a 15-storied building”, Journal of Building Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2017.11.003. 
  3. Avik Samanta and Yin-Nan Huang. “Ground-motion scaling for seismic performance assessment of high-rise moment-resisting frame building” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. Volume 94, March 2017, Pages 125-135.
  4. Avik Samanta and Pradipta Banerji. “Earthquake vibration control using sloshing liquid dampers in building structures.” Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, World Scientific Group, Volume 06, Issue 1, March, 2012, Page 1.
  5. Pradipta Banerji and Avik Samanta. “Earthquake vibration control of structures using hybrid mass liquid damper.” Engineering Structures, Elsevier, Volume 33, Issue 4, April 2011, Page 1291.
  6. Avik Samanta and Pradipta Banerji. “Structural vibration control using modified tuned liquid dampers.” The IES Journal Part A: Civil and Structural Engineering, Taylor & Francis Group, Volume 3, Issue 1, February, 2010, Page 14.
  7. Pradipta Banerji, Avik Samanta and Sachin A Chavan. “Earthquake vibration control using tuned liquid dampers: Experimental studies.” International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering, Volume 2, Issue 2, December, 2010, Page 133.
  8. Avik Samanta and Ashwini Kumar. “Distortional buckling in braced-cantilever I-beams.” Thin-Walled Structures, Elsevier, Volume 46, Issue 6, June 2008, Page 637.
  9. Avik Samanta and Ashwini Kumar. “Distortional buckling in monosymmetric I-beams.” Thin-Walled Structures, Elsevier, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 2006, Page 51.
  10. Ashwini Kumar and Avik Samanta. “Distortional buckling in monosymmetric I-beams: Reverse-curvature bending.” Thin-Walled Structures, Elsevier, Volume 44, Issue 7, July 2006, Page 721.

Conferences/Symposium
  1. Lakshmi Kant and Avik Samanta. Structural response for multistoried buildings including dynamic structure-soil-structure interaction. The 16th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (16SEE), IIT Roorkee, December, 2018.
  2. Saurabh Suman and Avik Samanta. Review of Fragility Curves for Seismic Risk Assessment of Buildings in India. The16th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (16SEE), IIT Roorkee, December, 2018.
  3. Saurabh Suman, Avik Samanta and Lakshmi Kant. Vulnerability Assessment of Structures under Earthquake and Post-earthquake Fire by Fragility Analysis-a review. The 7th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering, November 2018, Bangkok, Thailand.
  4. Lakshmi Kant, Avik Samanta and Saurabh Suman. Dynamic Interaction of SMRF Building Structures on Raft Foundation. The 7th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering, November 2018, Bangkok, Thailand.
  5. Avik Samanta, Pranjul Pandey. Effects of Ground Motion Duration and Scaling Methods on Seismic Performance of Tall Structures. The 8th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management, 2017, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
  6. Avik Samanta and Tso-Chien Pan. Seismic Response Studies of Structures in Singapore for Disaster Mitigation in Future Earthquakes. 15th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (15SEE), IIT Roorkee, December 11-13, 2014
  7. Avik Samanta, Kusnowidjaja Megawati and Tso-Chien Pan. Duration-dependent inelastic response spectra and effect of ground motion duration. Proc. of 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (15WCEE), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2012.
  8. Yin-Nan Huang, Avik Samanta, and Dung Viet Ha. Scaling ground motions for response-history analysis of tall buildings. 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (15WCEE), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2012.
  9. Avik Samanta and Yin-Nan Huang. “Scaling Ground Motions for Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings.” Proc. 3rd Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Bangkok, Thailand, December, 2010.
  10. Avik Samanta and Pradipta Banerji. “Structural control using modified tuned liquid dampers.” Proc. 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE), Beijing, China, October 2008.
  11. Avik Samanta and Pradipta Banerji. “Efficient numerical schemes to analyse earthquake response of structures with tuned liquid dampers.” Proc. 13th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, December 2006, Page 1372.
  12. Ashwini Kumar and Avik Samanta. “Distortional Buckling in Monosymmetric I-Beams.” Proc. 2nd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, December 2006, Page 1.

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