APPLICATION FORM FORWADING CERTIFICATE AICTE QIP
SHORT TERM TRAINING
AICTE QIP (Required for Teachers from AICTE recognized PROGRAMME
Short Term Training Programme Engineering Institutions)
on
Design of Steel Buildings for Certified that Professor / Dr. / Mr. / Ms. / Mrs.
Earthquake and Fire Design of Steel Buildings for
Earthquake and Fire
Name: _______________________________________________
(in block letters)
is an employee of this Institute and will be relieved of Programme Dates
Highest Educational Qualification: his/her duties here for attending the AICTE QIP
Short Term Training Programme on Design of Steel
15 – 20 March 2021
Designation: Buildings for Earthquake and Fire to be conducted at the
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of
Organization: Technology Madras during 15-20 March 2021.
Postal Address: Coordinators
P S Lakshmi Priya
&
eMail Address:
Rupen Goswami
Mobile No: Signature of the sponsoring authority
with date and seal
Phone No: Sponsored by
Note: No course fee is charged for participants sponsored
by AICTE approved Institutions.
Experience (in years):
All India Council for Technical Education
(a) Teaching (b) Industrial
Courses Taught in last 2 years:
Mail to:
Dr. P. S. Lakshmi Priya
All data provided are true to the best of my knowledge and
Department of Civil Engineering
belief.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai 600036
Organized by
Phone: +91 44 2257 4319
Signature of the Applicant
Place:
Fax: +91 44 2257 5286 Department of Civil Engineering
eMail:
[email protected] Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Date:
BACKGROUND COURSE CONTENT ONLINE MODE
The proposed short-term course is designed to help This course is designed to enable participants to teach The training program will be conducted in online
enhance and strengthen basic knowledge of design and/or design regular low-rise steel buildings to mode using either MS Teams or Webex platform.
of steel structures. Steel is increasingly used as a resist earthquake shaking and fire loading. For this
material of construction of long-span structures and purpose, first the fundamental principles of design of
tall buildings. With focus on rapid development in steel members will be discussed in the context of
the country, design of steel structures is going to be IMPORTANT DATES
resisting gravity loading. Then, the fundamentals of
in demand in the future and engineers will have to earthquake resistant design and fire engineering will
be ready to face this task. Receipt of Applications at IIT Madras
be introduced with focus on designing steel
on or before 01 March 2021
structural members and connections to resist these
Design of steel structures requires fundamental actions. Also, some retrofit strategies for steel
07 March 2021
understanding of stability behaviour of relatively Intimation to Selected Candidates by eMail
buildings will be discussed in the context of
slender structural members under various types of 05 March 2021
earthquake and fire damages. Finally, hands-on
loading. In addition to gravity loads, these structures
11 March 2021
tutorial sessions will be conducted to help the
are often subjected to extreme loading conditions, Confirmation by Selected Candidates by eMail
participants understand the analytical components of
such as earthquake shaking and exposure to fire. 08 March 2021
structural design.
With limited provisions available in design codes to 14 March 2021
design steel structures for these two unique loading The broad topics of discussion will include: IMPORTANT LINKS
conditions, this course is designed to provide 1. Introduction to steel as a structural material
understanding on four basic fronts of structural 2. Compression member design Center for Continuing Education, IITM
design, namely (1) Basic Design, (2) Earthquake 3. Flexural member design http://www.cce.iitm.ac.in/
Resistant Design, (3) Fire Resistant Design, and (4) 4. Design of fasteners and connections
Retrofit Design of steel buildings. 5. Earthquake resistant design
6. Fire engineering Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras
https://civil.iitm.ac.in/
7. Retrofit of steel buildings exposed to earthquake
and fire.
Course Coordinator Profile
MATERIAL Dr. P S Lakshmi Priya
https://civil.iitm.ac.in/?page_id=816
Each registered participant will be provided with a
set of lecture notes.
FACULTY
P S Lakshmi Priya, IIT Madras
Rupen Goswami, IIT Madras
