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Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology

GOVT.ENGINEERING COLLEGE KOTTAYAM

(AFFILIATED TO APJ ABDUL KALAM TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY)
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, named after the late Prime Minister Sri Rajiv Gandhi, run by the Government of Kerala, started functioning in 1991.

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Department of Civil Engineering

Dr. Jiji Anna Varughese

Associate Professor


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Educational Qualification


Qualification Specialization University Year
Ph DEarthquake Engg IIT Madras2013
M TechStructural Engg University of Kerala1995
B TechCivil EnggUniversity of Kerala1992

Work Experience


Teaching Experience 20 years
Industrial Experience 5 years

Area Of Interest


Structural Dynamics, Seismic Design of buildings, Bridge Engineering, Finite Element Analysis, Design of steel and concrete structures, Composites and nano-materials
Membership:• Fellow Member, Institution of Engineers (India), -F-121605-4 • Life Member – Indian Society for Technical Education (LM 50606) • Life member- Indian society of Systems for Science & Engineering- LM 00577

Major Publications


Papers in Journals 7
Papers in Conferences 11
Displacement-based Seismic Design of Open ground storey Buildings, Journal of Structural Engineering & Mechanics, Technopress, Korea, 54(1), pp. 19-33, April 2015
Seismic behaviour of Concrete Gravity Dams, Advances in Computational Design, Technopress, Korea, April 2016
Fatigue Analysis of GFRP Bridge Deck Panels, International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, December 2013
Comparison of Force-based and Displacement based methods for seismic design of buildings, Journal of Structural Engineering, SERC, Chennai, 39 (1)
107-112 April-May, 2012

Review of displacement-based seismic design methods of RC regular frames, Journal of Structural Engineering, SERC, Chennai, June-July 2012
Seismic design philosophy- from force-based to displacement-based design, Advances in Indian Earthquake Engineering & Seismology, Springer book (2018)
273-289
Load distribution patterns for displacement-based seismic design of RC framed buildings, Journal of Institution of Engineers (A series), 95(4), pp211-219, December 2014

R&D


CERD STUDENT PROJECT FUNDING (2020)- Properties and Behaviour of Concrete with Carbon Nanotube composites
CERD STUDENT PROJECT FUNDING (2018)- Development of Compressive Behaviour Model for Masonry
seed Money Project at GEC Barton Hill (2016)- Modelling of Hydrodynamic Effects on Elevated Water Tanks"

Responsibilities


Co-ordinator, Scheme for her Empowerment in Engineering Education (SHE) at RIT

Awards


• Gayathri Devi Award for the woman researcher with highest CGPA for the year 2013 from IIT Madras
• Best paper Award, International Conference (ISEES 2016) at GEC Barton Hill during 29th -30th September 2016
• Supervisor for the student project which got “Innovative student Project Award by Association of Engineers Kerala during 2018”