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Rajesh Rupakhety - Professor
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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Rajesh Rupakhety
Íslenska
Professor
Location
VR-2 / V02-338
Phone
525 - 4129
Email
rajesh [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3504-3687
Research portal – Rajesh Rupakhety
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023
Courses 2022 - 2023
BYG401G - Computational Mechanics 1
BYG301G - Continuum Mechanics 1
Published works
2023
Strong ground motion from the seismic swarms preceding the 2021 and 2022 volcanic eruptions at Fagradalsfjall, Iceland
2022
Seismic Sequence Vulnerability of Low-Rise Special Moment-Resisting Frame Buildings with Brick Infills
Applied Sciences
Seismic Fragility Analysis of Low-Rise RC Buildings with Brick Infills in High Seismic Region with Alluvial Deposits
Buildings
Seismic Vulnerability of Vernacular Residential Buildings in Bhutan
Journal of Earthquake Engineering
Optimal design and performance assessment of multiple tuned mass damper inerters to mitigate seismic pounding of adjacent buildings
Journal of Building Engineering
Comparison and modelling of building losses in South Iceland caused by different size earthquakes
Journal of Building Engineering
Seismic Fragility of Aging Elevated Water Tank with Smooth Bars Considering Soil Structure Interaction
Buildings
Recent Advancement in Assessment and Control of Structures under Multi-Hazard
Applied Sciences
2021
Experimental Study of a New Bar Damper Device for Vibration Control of Structures Subjected to Earthquake Loads
Journal of Earthquake Engineering
Seismic response control of bridges with nonlinear tuned vibration absorbers
Structures
Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Sustainability
Optimum Double Mass Tuned Damper Inerter for Control of Structure Subjected to ground motions
Journal of Building Engineering
2020
Shared Tuned Mass Dampers for Mitigation of Seismic Pounding
Applied Sciences
Windstorm vulnerability of residential buildings and infrastructures in south-central Nepal
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
Seismic Response Mitigation of Base-Isolated Buildings
Applied Sciences
Speed and quality of recovery after the Gorkha Earthquake 2015 Nepal
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
A new method of seismic site classification using HVSR curves: A case study of the 12 November 2017 Mw 7.3 Ezgeleh earthquake in Iran
Engineering Geology
Effect of pulse-like near-fault ground motions on utility-scale land-based wind turbines
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
2019
Proceedings of the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering
Empirical fragility functions for Nepali highway bridges affected by the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Preface
Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering
Analysis of a Benchmark Building Installed with Tuned Mass Dampers under Wind and Earthquake Loads
Shock and Vibration
Statistical modelling of seismic vulnerability of RC, timber and masonry buildings from complete empirical loss data
Engineering Structures
2018
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics in Memory of Ragnar Sigbjörnsson
Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering
Seismotectonic and engineering seismological aspects of the M
w
7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake
Impacts and Insights of the Gorkha Earthquake
Preface
Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering
Seismotectonic and Engineering Seismological Aspects of the M w 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake
Impacts and Insights of Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal
Mechanical and thermo-mechanical response of a lead-core bearing device subjected to different loading conditions
MATEC Web of Conferences
A Study of Rigid Blocks Rocking Against Rigid Walls
Proceedings of the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
Development of a Common (European) Tool to Assess Earthquake Risk Communication
Proceedings of the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
Seismic Performance of Non-structural Elements Assessed Through Shake Table Tests: The KnowRISK Room Set-Up
Proceedings of the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
From Seismic Input to Damage Scenario: An Example for the Pilot Area of Mt. Etna Volcano (Italy) in the KnowRISK Project
Proceedings of the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
System Identification of a Residential Building in Kathmandu Using Aftershocks of 2015 Gorkha Earthquake and Triggered Noise Data
Proceedings of the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
2017
The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal and its aftershocks: analysis of strong ground motion
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Surface Strain Rate Tensor Field for Iceland Based on a GPS Network
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics in Memory of Ragnar Sigbjörnsson
Seismic Vulnerability of Icelandic Residential Buildings
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics in Memory of Ragnar Sigbjörnsson
Urban Disaster Prevention Strategies in the UPStrat-MAFA Project: From Risk Analysis to Communication
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics in Memory of Ragnar Sigbjörnsson
Determination of Parameters for Stochastic Strong Motion Models Representing Earthquakes in the South Iceland Seismic Zone
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics in Memory of Ragnar Sigbjörnsson
CALIBRATION OF CONSTITUTIVE MACRO MODEL FOR A LEAD- CORE BEARING DEVICE: IDENTIFICATION BASED ON RESULTS OBTAINED BY FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2015)
Damage and fracture in the lead-core in a lead-core bearing device for passive seismic isolation
ICF 2017 - 14th International Conference on Fracture
Is Perception of Earthquake Effects Gender Dependent?
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics in Memory of Ragnar Sigbjörnsson
2016
MODELING THE MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF A LEAD-CORE BEARING DEVICE: DAMAGE MECHANICS APPROACH
Proceedings of the VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS Congress 2016)
Estimating ground motion incoherence through finite source simulation: a case study of the 1980 El-Asnam Earthquake
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
2015
Seismic hazard assessment for Iceland in terms of macroseismic intensity using a site approach
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Damage to residential buildings in Hveragerði during the 2008 Ölfus Earthquake: simulated and surveyed results
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
2014
A saga of the 1896 South Iceland earthquake sequence: magnitudes, macroseismic effects and damage
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Quantification of loss and gain in performance using survey data: a study of earthquake-induced damage and restoration of residential buildings
Natural Hazards
2013
Rotation-invariant mean duration of strong ground motion
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
A note on autoregressive spectral estimates for frequency-wavenumber analysis of strong-motion array data
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Rotation-invariant measures of earthquake response spectra
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
2012
Spatial variability of strong ground motion: Novel system-based technique applying parametric time series modelling
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
2011
Adjustments for baseline shifts in far-fault strong-motion data: An alternative scheme to high-pass filtering
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Can simple pulses adequately represent near-fault ground motions?
Journal of Earthquake Engineering
Quantification of ground-motion parameters and response spectra in the near-fault region
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
2010
A note on the L'Aquila earthquake of 6 April 2009: Permanent ground displacements obtained from strong-motion accelerograms
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Estimating coseismic deformations from near source strong motion records: Methods and case studies
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
2009
Ground-motion prediction equations (GMPEs) for inelastic response and structural behaviour factors
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Ground-Motion Prediction Equations (GMPEs) for inelastic displacement and ductility demands of constant-strength SDOF systems
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Keywords for Specialisation:
Structural mechanics
Waves and vibrations
Earthquake source modelling
Ground motion characterization and prediction
Earthquake response of structures
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