Ajaya Kumar Gupta
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Professor Emeritus of Civil EngineeringStructural Engineering and Mechanics Office: 326 Mann Hall |
Research Interests
Nuclear plant structural safety, structural and earthquake engineering.
Education
- PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois Champaign 1971
- MS, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois of Roorkee, India 1968
- BS, Civil Engineering, University of Roorkee, India 1966
Representative Publications
Books
A. K. Gupta, Response Spectrum Method in Seismic Analysis and Design of Structures, Blackwell, 1990; CRC Press, 1992.
A. K. Gupta and P. J. Moss, Editors, Guidelines for Design of Low-Rise Buildings Subjected to Lateral Forces, CRC Press, 1993.
Special Publications
A. K. Gupta, A. Gupta and M. K. Bose, "Evaluation of Methods for Analysis of Nonclassically Damped Coupled Systems," Attachment 2, Benchmark Program for Evaluation of Methods to Analyze Nonclassically Damped Coupled Systems (Eds. Xu and DeGrassi, BNL), NUREG/ CR-6661, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2000.
A. K. Gupta and A. Gupta, “Independent Analysis of BM3 Piping Model,” Appendix H, Re-evaluation of Regulatory Guidance on Modal Response Combination Methods,” (Eds. Morante and Wang, BNL), NUREG/ CR-6645, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1999.
Journals and Conference Proceedings
A. Gupta, S. K. Rustogi and A. K. Gupta, "Ritz Vector Approach for Evaluating Incabinet Response Spectra," Nuclear Engineering and Design, 190 (3) 1999, 255-272.
A. Gupta and A. K. Gupta, “Missing Mass Effect in Coupled Analysis,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 124(5) 1998: “I-Complex Modal Properties,” 490-495; “II-Residual Response,” 496-500.
C. S. Min and A. K. Gupta, "Vector Algorithm for Reinforced Concrete Shell Element Stiffness Matrix," Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 2(2) 1994, 125-139.
A. K. Gupta, T. Hassan, and A. Gupta, “Correlation Coefficients for Modal Response Combination of Nonclassically Damped Systems,” Nuclear Engineering and Design, 165, 1996.
B. E. H. Mahmoud and A. K. Gupta, "Inelastic Large Displacement Behavior and Buckling of Cooling Tower," Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 121 (6) 1995.
A. K. Gupta and S. R. Maestrini, "Unified Approach to Modeling Post-Cracking Membrane Behavior of Reinforced Concrete," Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 115 (4) 1989, 977993.
H. Akbar and A. K. Gupta, "Ultimate Behavior of an R.C. Nuclear Containment Subjected to Internal Pressure and Earthquake," Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 8 (6) 1986, 12801295.
A. K. Gupta and S. L. Chu, "A Unified Approach to Designing Structures for Three Components of Earthquake," Proceedings, International Symposium on Earthquake Structural Engineering, St. Louis, 1976, 581596.
Professional Memberships
American Nuclear Society
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
International Association of Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology
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