B&SE: The Bridge and Structural Engineer, is a quarterly journal published by ING-IABSE. It is one of the oldest and the foremost structural engineering Journal of its kind and repute in India. It was founded way back in 1957 and since then the journal is relentlessly disseminating latest technological progress in the spheres of structural engineering and bridging the gap between professionals and academics. Articles in this journal are written by practicing engineers as well as academia from around the world.
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Editorial Board Chair : Alok Bhowmick, Managing Director, B&S Engineering Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Noida
Members : Mahesh Tandon, Managing Director, Tandon Consultants Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi A K Banerjee, Former Member (Tech) NHAI, New Delhi Harshavardhan Subbarao, Chairman & MD, Construma Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai Nirmalya Bandyopadhyay, Director, STUP Consultants Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi Jose Kurian, Chief Engineer, DTTDC Ltd., New Delhi S C Mehrotra, Chief Executive, Mehro Consultants, New Delhi
Advisors : A D Narain, Former DG (RD) & Additional Secretary to the GOI N K Sinha, Former DG (RD) & Special Secretary to the GOI G Sharan, Former DG (RD) & Special Secretary to the GOI A V Sinha, Former DG (RD) & Special Secretary to the GOI S K Puri, Former DG (RD) & Special Secretary to the GOI
Front Cover :
R P Indoria, Former DG (RD) & Special Secretary to the GOI S S Chakraborty, Chairman, CES (I ) Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
Picture shows damaged multi-storeyed building in Bhuj District from Gujarat Earthquake, which occurred on 26th January 2001. The Photo clearly shows insufficient connection between the RC elevator core and rest of the building, leading to the under utilization of the lateral strength and stiffness of the elevator core.
B C Roy, Senior Executive Director, JACOBS-CES, Gurgaon
The devastating Gujarat Earthquake affected about 20 districts, killed around 20,000 people (including 18 in south eastern Pakistan), injured another 167,000 and destroyed nearly 400,000 homes.
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The Bridge and Structural Engineer
Journal of the Indian National Group of the International Association for Bridge & Structural Engineering
March 2015
The Bridge & Structural Engineer, March 2015
The Bridge and Structural Engineer
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