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Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao

Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao  gave a guest lecture for 5th semester civil engineering students of Gandhi Institute for Technology (GIFT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The title of his talk was Concepts of Earthquake-Resistant Design. The event was organized by National Academy of Construction (NAC), Hyderabad on 10  July.

His talk emphasized several aspects of earthquake engineering including recurrent earthquakes in the Indian sub-continent that have been causing the loss of properties and lives of people at regular intervals, the earthquake vulnerability profile of India, earthquake occurrences, their unpredictability, their effect on different types of buildings and measures required to be taken to make buildings safe.

 

July 2024