Achievements of The Staff
Paper Presentation

1. Dr. Pranesh Murnal

a)Papers in International Referred Journals:
1. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha - "VPPP: An isolation device for aseismic design" Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structured Dynamic, Wiley, May 2000, Vol 29, 603-627.
2. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha - "Earthquake resistant design of structures using the Variable Frequency Pendulum Isolator" Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol 128(7), 870-880.
3. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha- " Behaviour of Torsionally Coupled Structures with Variable Frequency Pendulum Isolator" , Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, July 2004.
4. R. Sinha and M. Pranesh- "Aseismic design of structure-equipment systems using Variable frequency pendulum Isolator" Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol 231, 2001, 129-130.

b)Papers in conference proceedings
1. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha-"Aseismic design of tall structures using variable frequency pendulum isolator." Eight East Asia-Pacific conference on structural engineering and construction, Singapore held on Dec 5-7, 2001 (on CD)(presented personally)
2. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha-"Vibration control of primary-secondary systems using VFPI." 16th international conference on structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology. International Association of Strctural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, Washington DC. USA . Aug 2001 (on CD)
3. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha- "Earthquake resistant design of torsionally coupled structure using VFPI." Structures 2001 conference: 2001 Structures Congress and Exposition Structural Engineering Odyssey. American Society of Civil Engineers, Washington DC. USA. May 2001 (on CD)
4. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha-" Aseismic design of tall structures using variable frequency pendulum isolator." World conference of Earthquake Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand. Feb 2000 (on CD)
5. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha- "Behaviour of multi-degree-of-freedom shear structure isolated using VFPI." Canedian conference on Earthquake Engineering. Canedian Association of Earthquake Engineering, Vaneouver, BC, Canada, June 2000 (on CD).
6. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha- "Vibration control of primary-secondary systems using variable frequency pendulum isolator." 11th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology, Roorkee. Dec 1998 697-704.
7. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha- "FPS isolator for structural vibration control." Int. Conf. On Theoretical Applied Computational and Experimental Mechanics, IIT, Kharagpur. Dec 1998 (on CD)
8. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha- "Earthquake resistant design of buildings using VFPI." 2nd International symposium on New Technologies for Urban safety of Megacities in Asia, to be held on October 30-31, 2003 at Japan (Presented personally)
9. M. Pranesh - "Passive vibration control: An emerging trend in earthquake resistant design." National seminar on advances in concrete and concrete structures held at GIT, Belgaum, India on October 25-26, 2002 (Invited Paper)
10. M. Pranesh and R. Sinha- "Behaviour of structures isolated using VFPI during near source ground motion." 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 1-6 August 204 held at Vancouver, Canada
11. M. Pranesh - "Seismic base isolation systems." Proc. National Conf. On Civil Engineering Materials & Structures, 1995

Patents
Sr.No. Title of patent Inventors Applicants Patent Number
1. A constant long period vibration protective pendulum isolator for structures Dr. Ravi Sinha and Murnal Pranesh IIT, Bombay 197756
2. A variable period vibration protective pendulum isolator for structures (proposed title) Dr. Ravi Sinha and Murnal Pranesh IIT, Bombay 197850

*Updated on 16/05/2006