• Course Code : CE 462

• Session : Offered in Even Semesters (Ongoing Session: Jan 2025 – May 2025) 

• Pre-requisite: None

• Outcome: Upon completion of the course CE 462: Disaster Mitigation and Earthquake Engineering, students will be able to-

  • Identify and analyze the causes and impacts of natural disasters, including earthquakes, floods, and forest fires. 

  • Understand the principles of engineering seismology and the functioning of earthquake recording instruments. 

  • Evaluate the vibration response of structures to dynamic loads and earthquake forces. 

  • Assess structural performance during earthquakes and identify design shortcomings such as lack of ductility or detailing. 

  • Develop disaster management strategies for rescue, risk mitigation, and casualty management based on lessons from past earthquakes. 

Assessment Scheme: Quizzes, Assignments, Tutorials, Mid-terms and End-terms.

Brief Overview of Modules: 

Module 1: Natural Disasters: Earthquake, Floods, Drought, Coastal Hazards, Landslides, Rockslides, and Forest Fires.

Module 2: Elements of Engineering Seismology: Earthquake phenomenon, earthquake recording instruments.

Module 3: Introduction to Theory of Vibrations: Single-degree un-damped and damped systems, elastic response to simple load functions, and earthquake response spectra.

Module 4: Performance of Buildings and Structures: Intensity of earthquake forces, lack of strength and integrity in buildings, quasi-resonance, lack of ductility, lack of detailing.

Module 5: Earthquake Effects: On ground and soil liquefaction, buildings, structures, power plants, switch yards, equipment and other lifeline structures, release of poisonous gases and radiation.

Module 6: Lessons Learnt from the Past Earthquakes: Case Studies of important Indian earthquakes and major world Earthquakes.

Module 7: Disaster Management: Salient features of disaster rescue, risk management, and casualty management.