Specialization

Structural Engineering

Email

trishna.choudhury@thapar.edu

Biography

Dr. Trishna Choudhury has been working with the CED Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, since December 2018. She completed her PhD degree in Structural Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in August 2018. Her research interests include Nonlinear Performance and Damage Assessment of Structures, Seismic Risk and Vulnerability Assessment, Seismic Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Buildings.

Education

• Ph.D. (IIT Guwahati) in Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
• B.E. in Civil Engineering / Assam Engineering College, Guwahati, Assam / First class

Experience: 

• August 2010 – July 2012: Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Royal School of Engineering and Technology (Royal Group of Institutions).
• August 2017 – November 2017: Junior Research Fellow (JRF-GATE) in the project titled “Evaluation and Enhancement of Seismic Capacity of Assam-type Housing” in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
• December 2018 – Present: Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab.

Teaching Interests:

• Structural Dynamics
• Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures
• Seismic Rehabilitation of Structures
• Probability Concepts in Fragility Analysis
• Seismic Vibration Control

Research Interests:

• Seismic Resistant Design and Vibration Control of Buildings

• Structural Damage, Fragility and Vulnerability Assessment

• Structural Retrofitting and Rehabilitation.

• Use of Smart and Sustainable Materials

Publications:

Research Articles in Journals 

1. Singh, C., Choudhury, T. (2024). “Influence of ground motion variables on the nonlinear seismic demand of masonry-infilled reinforced concrete frames.” Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-024-01954-5. IF: 4.6

2. Singh, N., Choudhury, T., and Roy, A.B.D. (2024). “Optimizing Waste Glass Powder Content in the Development of Sustainable Concrete for High-Temperature Resistance.” Iranian Journal of Science and Technology: Transaction of Civil Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40996-024-01504-8. IF: 1.7

3. Choudhury, T. and Bansal, P. (2022). “Seismic Fragility and Retrofitting of a Damaged RC Beam-Column Joint using UHP-HFRC,” Earthquakes and Structures, Techno Press, Vol. 23 (5), pp. 463-472. Impact Factor: 1.5

4. Sompura, M, Choudhury, T., Kwatra, N. (2021). “Investigating the Nonlinear Performance of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Beams”, Journal of Building Engineering, Elsevier, Vol. 44 (102640), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102640, IF: 7.144

5. Choudhury, T., Kumar, V., Rashid, F., and Kaushik, H. B. (2020). “Seismic Vulnerability Assessment and Strengthening of New Market Building Damaged after January 04, 2016 Imphal (India) Earthquake”, Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, ASCE, Vol. 34 (2): 04019116, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0001392 (Also published in select Science Last Fortnight, Current Science, Vol. 118, No. 7, 10 April 2020), IF: 2.5

6. Choudhury, T., and Kaushik, H. B. (2019). “Treatment of Uncertainties in Seismic Fragility of RC Buildings with Infill Walls”, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Elsevier, Vol. 126, November 2019, 105771, DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2019.105771. IF: 4

7. Choudhury, T., and Kaushik, H. B. (2018). “Seismic Response Sensitivity to Uncertain Variables in RC Frames with Infill Walls” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 144(10): 04018184, October, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0002190. IF: 4.1

8. Choudhury, T., and Kaushik, H. B. (2020). "Component Level Fragility Estimation for Vertically Irregular Reinforced Concrete Frames", Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Taylor & Francis, Vol 24(6), pp. 947-971, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13632469.2018.1453413. IF: 2.38

9. Choudhury, T., and Kaushik, H. B. (2018). “Seismic Fragility of Open Ground Storey RC Frames with Wall Openings for Vulnerability Assessment”, Engineering Structures, Elsevier, Vol 155(15), January 2018, Elsevier, pp. 345-357, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2017.11.023. IF: 5.5

10. Choudhury, T., and Kaushik, H.B. (2015). "Vulnerability Analysis of Buildings for Seismic Risk Assessment: A Review", The Bridge and Structural Engineer, The journal of the Indian National Group (ING) of International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Vol. 45(1), March 2015, pp. 63-76.

Research Articles in Conferences

1. Pandey, D.K., and Choudhury, T., “Compliant Tuned Liquid Damper for controlling vibration of short-period structures considering soil-structure interaction,” In 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (8ICRGEE), Organized by Indian Society of Earthquake Technology (ISET) in association with Department Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India and Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India, 11-14 December 2024. (SCOPUS)

2. Pandey, D.K., and Choudhury, T., “A New Implementation in a Tuned Liquid Damper to Mitigate the Vibration of Low-rise Buildings,” In NDRAMM 2024, March 23-24, 2024, NIT Silchar, Assam, India. (SCOPUS)

3. Kumar A. Pandey, D.K., and Choudhury, T., “Compliant Tuned Liquid Damper for Seismic Vibration Control of Short Period Structures”, In 13th Structural Engineering Convention-An International Event (SEC 2023), Organized by Department of Applied Mechanics, VNIT Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, 7-9 December 2023. (SCOPUS)

4. Tramboo, A. H. and Choudhury, T., “Seismic Performance Assessment of a Tall RC Building Retrofitted with Shear Walls”, In 12th Structural Engineering Convention-An International Event (SEC 2022), Organized by NCDMM and MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 19-22 December 2022.

5. Sompura, M., Choudhury, T., Kwatra, N., “Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Beams”, In 12th Structural Engineering Convention-An International Event (SEC 2022), Organized by NCDMM and MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 19-22 December 2022.

6. Gursikhmeet Singh, Prabhleen Singh, and Trishna Choudhury, “Influence of Openings in Masonry Walls in the Modelling of Masonry Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frames”. Paper accepted for CECAR9 (Civil Engineering Council in the Asian Region), organized by ACECC (Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council), hosted by the ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers) held on 21, 22, 23 September 2022 at Goa, India. (SCOPUS)

7. Choudhury, T., and Kaushik, H.B. (2019), “Purview of Nonlinear Static and Dynamic Analysis Procedures on Seismic Fragility Estimation of RC Buildings with Masonry Infills”, National Conference on Advances in Structural Technologies, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar, India – 788010.

8. Choudhury, T., and Kaushik, H.B. (2018), “Sensitivity Study of Seismic Response of MI-RC Frames to Critical Random Parameters”, 16th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, 20-22 December 2018, IIT Roorkee, India.

9. Choudhury, T., and Kaushik, H.B. (2018), “Seismic Fragility Flow Plots for Risk Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Open Ground Storey”, CESDOC 2018, 2nd International Conference on Sustainability, 18-19 December, Guwahati, Assam.

10. Choudhury, T., and Kaushik, H.B. (2017), “A Simplified Method for Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of RC Buildings with Open Ground Storey”, Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 9-13 January 2017, Paper No. 1684, Santiago, Chile.

11. Choudhury, T., and Kaushik, H.B. (2016), “Seismic Fragility of Reinforced Concrete Frames with Vertical Irregularities”, Proceedings of Structural Engineering Convention (SEC-2016), 21-23 December 2016, Paper ID 469, CSIR-SERC, Chennai, India.

12. Choudhury, T., and Kaushik, H.B. (2015), “Seismic Fragility of Masonry Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frames with Open Ground Story”, Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP), December 14-17, 2015, Paper No. O0202, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India.

Book Chapters

1. Choudhury T., Kaushik H.B. (2019) Seismic Fragility of Reinforced Concrete Frames with Vertical Irregularities. In: Rao A., Ramanjaneyulu K. (eds) Recent Advances in Structural Engineering, Volume 2. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol 12. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0365-4_49, E-book ISBN: 978-981-13-0365-4

Services to Institute / Department

Institutional Duties: Assistant Warden of Girls Hostel (Agira Hall, 900 students capacity) since September 10, 2024 at TIET.

Departmental Duties:

Sponsored Research Projects

• “A Low-Cost Seismic Vibration Control Mechanism for RC Buildings using Compliant Tuned Liquid Dampers” ongoing under the SERB- POWER grant (File no. - SPG/2021/002716) in June 2022 as Principal Investigator. (Approx budget: 26 lacs): Major contribution to the department laboratory– A servo-electric shake table (max acceleration capacity – 2g) has been installed under the sanctioned fund.

• “Investigation on the Self-Centering and Energy Dissipation Capacity of SMA Fibers for Retrofitting of RC Structures” ongoing under the Center of Emerging Materials and Science (CEEMS), a collaborative venture of Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET) and Virginia Tech in August 2022 as Principal Investigator. (Approx budget: 12.6 lacs)

Experience

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, since 03 December 2018 till present (Duration: 5 years 6.5 months)
• Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Royal School of Engineering and Technology (Royal Group of Institutions) during the period of 01 August 2010 to 16 July 2012 (Duration: 2 years)
• Junior Research Fellow (JRF-GATE) in the project titled “Evaluation and Enhancement of Seismic Capacity of Assam-type Housing” in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati during the period of 10 August 2017 to 06 November 2018 (Duration: 1 year 3 months)

Professional Membership

1. Indian Society of Engineering and Technology (ISET), IIT Roorkee, India
2. The Institution of Civil Engineers, India (ICE India)

Achievements, Awards, and Recognitions

• Ranked among top 1/8th of total candidates in India in four subjects in All India Senior Secondary examination in the year 2004 from Kendriya Vidyalaya CRPF, Guwahati.
• Star marks awardee in Higher Secondary examination in the year 2006 from Cotton College.
• Ranked 2nd in Gauhati University (B.E. Civil Engineering), Assam in the year 2010.
• Received Government of India (MHRD) scholarship during Ph.D. program at IIT Guwahati.
• 1st runners up in poster presentation in Research Conclave’16 held at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in the year 2016.

Teaching and Supervision

Courses Taught

M.E. Thesis Supervision: 8 completed, 1 ongoing, TIET

 B.E. Thesis Supervision: 6 completed, TIET

 B.E. Industrial Project Supervision: 8 completed, TIET

Participation in Seminars/ Lectures

1. Resource person (Invited lecture) for One-Week online Faculty Development Program on “Research & Innovations in Structural Engineering (RISE 2K24)" from 12th - 17th February 2024, organized by the Department of Civil Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Shamshabad, Hyderabad.
2. Member of the conference - CECAR9, Civil Engineering Conference at the Asian Region, Theme: Sustainable Design and Eco technologies for Infrastructures, Held in Goa, India from 21 September to 24 September 2022. Hosted by The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) India and Organized by ACECC (Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council)
3. Delivered an online lecture to the students of the Civil Engineering Department at Sreyas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, on 24 March 2022.
4. Organized a 3-day online seminar on Sustainable Development in Civil Engineering Systems - Advances and Challenges, in collaboration with The Institution of Civil Engineers (India) at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala on 23, 26, 30 January 2021 (with 16 keynote lectures).