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Curriculumvitae
Dr. Suhail Ahmad
Professor & Head
Department of Applied Mechanics
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. (1988)
M.Tech (Structural Dynamics), University of Roorkee. (1977)
BSc Engineering (Hons & Distinctions), (Civil), AMU, Aligarh. (1975)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Off‐shore Structures, Dynamics, Safety and Reliability, Finite Element Applications,
Computational Solid Mechanics, Stochastic Behavior of Composits, Low velocity and Ballistic
Impact.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Joined the Department of Applied Mechanics IIT Delhi as a lecturer in 1982 and subsequently
held the positions of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor.
• Visiting Fellow, Department of Civil engineering, University College of Swansea, University
of Wales, UK (1989-1990).
MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
• Head, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi. (April 2012 - Till date)
• Chairman, Standing Selection Committees for holding selection for IRD
Projects/Consultancies. (2008-2012)
• Member, Selection Committees at IITs, NITs, DRDO ,Central and State Universities.
• Chairman, DRC, Applied Mechanics Department. (2011-2012)
• Co-ordinator, Solid Mechanics Group, Applied Mechanics Department. (2008-2012)
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• Member, PEC, M.Tech, Computer Applications, Department of Mathematics, IIT Delhi.
(2008-09)
• Member, Central Placement Committee. (2008-10)
• GATE Activity, IIT Delhi. (2005-08)
• Member, Alumni Affair Committee. (2005-06)
• Convener, Vibration Group, IIT Delhi. (2001-04)
• Member, Selection Committee for National Overseas Scholarships. (July 2002)
• Member, Central Library Committee. (1998-2001)
• Member, Advisory Committee for Continuing Education Programme. (1995-98)
• Vice President, Board of Sports Activity (BSA). (1995-97)
• President, Various Sport Clubs under BSA. (1990-94)
• JEE Activity, IIT Delhi. (1995-97, 2000-01, 2004-06)
AWARDS & HONORS
• Recipient of the letter of appreciation from IIT Delhi for distinguished contribution to
Teaching and Research in 2005.
• Recipient of the letter of appreciation from IIT Delhi for distinguished contribution to
Teaching and Research in 1998.
• Award of Visiting Fellow to the University of Wales, UK. (1989-1990)
PROFESSIONAL INTERACTION
• Engineers India Limited (EIL)
• Indian Navy
• Department of Science & Technology (DST)
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
• Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO)
• Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB)
• Aeronautical Research & Development Board (AR&DB)
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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
• UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI)
- Micro-mechanics of natural anisotropic materials (Edinburgh)
• Indo-Russian
- Mathematical Modeling of Materials & Structures (Russian Academy of Sciences)
• Indo-Danish
- Composites for wind turbine blades (DTU)
MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
Reviewer for the following journals.
• Journal of Marine Structures, ELSEVIER Publications, USA.
• Journal, Ocean Engineering, ELSEVIER Publications, USA.
• Reliability Engineering & System Safety, ELSEVIER Publications, USA.
• Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment. SAGE Publications.
• Journal of Ship Technology, Institution of Naval Architects, India.
• Defence Science Journal, DRDO, India.
• Journal of Institution of Engineers, India.
• 9th (1999) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference & Exhibition (ISOPE-
99), Brest, France, May 30- June 4, 1999.
PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES (INTERNATIONAL/NATIONA L)
• Session Chairman, International Conference on Ocean Engineering, IIT madras, (2001).
• Session Co-Chairman, International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Artic Engineering
(OMAE 2007) Sponsored by ASME, Sandiego-USA, (June 10-15, 2007).
• Chairman, National Organizing Committee, 3rd Asian Conference on Mechanics of Functional
Materials and Structures, IIT Delhi (Dec 5-8, 2012)
• Member, Organizing Committee, 1st Indo-Danish Workshop on Future Composite
Technologies for Wind Turbine Blades, (Oct 8-9, 2012).
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• Chairman, Organizing Committee, National Symposium, “Large Deformations under Impact
Loading”, (Armament Research Board, DRDO & IIT Delhi), (Sept 1, 2012).
• Member, National Organizing Committee, Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics
(INCAM-2013), IIT Madras, (July 4-6, 2013).
• Session Chair, Anisotropic, heterogeneous and cellular materials: From micro architecture to
macro-level response, UKIERI Workshop, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, (Dec 12-
13, 2013).
• Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Safety and Reliability Symposium, ASME
Conference, Off-shore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE-2014), June 8-13, San
Francisco, USA.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Lectured the following subjects.
• Applied Computational Methods
• Finite Element Methods
• Dynamics
• Advanced Dynamics
• Experimental Methods and Analysis
• Product Reliability and Maintenance
• Design Methods
• Computational Mechanics
• Engineering Mechanics • Mechanics of Solid and Fluid
• Parallel processing in Computational Mechanics
MAJOR SOFTWARES DEVELOPED
• Static and Dynamic analysis of Marine Risers
• Dynamic response of Tension Leg Platform (TLP) under wind and wave environment
• Dynamic response of Articulated Tower
• Nonlinear response of Spar platform
• Probabilistic analysis and Reliability assessment of TLPs
• Parallel version of MixDyn
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SUPERVISION OF DOCTOR AND MASTER DEGREES
Ph.D Degree (19) (Awarded 12, In progress 7)
Awarded
1. Abdul Ali, “Nonlinear Dynamic Response of Tension Leg Platform”.
2. Nazrul Islam, “Dynamic Response of Articulated Offshore Towers”.
3. R. Marimuth, “Parallel Algorithms in F.E Analysis”.
4. Nadeem Ashan Siddiqui, “Reliability Analysis of a Compliant Offshore Platform”.
5. Mohd Jameel, “Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis and Reliability Assessment of Deep Water
Floating Structures”.
6. K. Gurumurthy, “Dynamic Analysis and Reliability of Mooring Lines for Deep Water
Floating Systems”. (Part-time, Scientist from Engineers India Limited (EIL))
7. Arshad Umar, “Nonlinear Response of a Moored Vessel”.
8. Rizwan Ahmad Khan, “Nonlinear Dynamic Response and Probabilistic Risk analysis of
Marine Risers”.
9. Vikash Kumar Satyam, “Dynamic Response of Marine Propulsion Systems under
Multiaxial Random Loads”. (Part-time, Officer from Indian Navy)
10. Lazar, “Transient Dynamic Finite Element Analysis of Plate and Shell Structures with Finite
Rotation”.
11. Rehan Ahmad Khan, “Reliability Analysis of Cable Stayed Bridges under Earthquake
Forces”.
12. Shailendra V Gade, “Large Deformation in Plates Subjected to Ballistic Impact of Small
Arms Kinetic Energy Projectiles”. (Part-time, Scientist from DRDO Pune)
In Progress
13. Pranab Kumar Pradhan, “High Speed Impact of Spherical Projectiles on Thin Plates”. (Part-
time, Scientist from DRDA Hyderabad)
14. Shivdayal Patel, “Probabilistic Analysis of Composite Materials under Ballistic Impact”.
15. Manander Singh, “Dynamic response and Probabilistic analysis of composite riser”.
16. S Koteswara Rao, “Large Deformations and Probabilistic Analysis of Structures Subjected
to Underwater Blast Loads”. (Part-time, Officer from Indian Navy)
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17. Bandaru Aswani Kumar, “Ballistic Performance and Probabilistic Analysis of Composite
Structures”.
18. Phm Salih, “Reliability Assessment of Post Repair Submarine Hull Structure”. (Part-time,
Officer from Indian Navy)
19. Rishav, “Aero dynamic response and Probabilistic behavior of tall slender structures”.
M.Tech (71)
Awarded
1. K. S. Nagesh, “Dynamic Analysis of Multi Hinged Articulated Tower”.
2. Bhaskar Sen Gupta, “Reliability Study of Tethers of Floating Platform”.
3. K.S.Krishnamurethy, “Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis for Earthquake Induced
Permanent Plastic Deformations in Embankment Dams”.
4. Devya Sinha, “Design Load Estimation of Offshore Structures”.
5. S. K. Deb, “Response of Multi Hinged Articulated Tower in random Sea”.
6. Balram Gupta, “Earthquake Induced Vibrations of Tension Leg Platform”.
7. Khalique Ahmad, “Active Control of Compliant offshore platform”.
8. B.Bhowmik, “Dynamic response of a double hinged articulated tower coupled to a
tanker”.
9. Syed Khaleeq Ahmad, “Active Control of Compliant Offshore Platform”.
10. Sanjeev Goel, “Critical Appraisal of Sequential Gravity Loading on High Rise Building”.
11. P. Ravindra BAbu, “Finite Element Analysis of Ocean Mining Pipe”.
12. Chandrashekhar V. Joshi, “Designing the Free Shape of Piston Ring and Calculating the
Related Cam Parameters”.
13. Prakash B.P, “Design of Free Piston Ring Profile and Determination of Cam
Displacement Diagram”.
14. Kulkarni Mandar Manohar, “Design Application af a Parallel Finite Element Software
Using Parallel Virtual Machine”.
15. Abhijit Shivmurti Majage, “Design Requirement of an Articulated Tower Under Dynamic
Loading”.
16. K.Ramanjaneyulu, “Finite Element Analysis and Reliability Assessment of Spherical
L.P.G. Storage Tank”.
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17. Vikas Kumar, “Fatigue and Fracture Reliability Assessment of an Aircraft Component
Under Random Loads”.
18. G. S. Raja Ramesh Dadi, “Dynamic Response of Tower Tanker System under Diffraction
Forces”.
19. Meera Dhigra, “Dynamic Finite Element Analysis of Cable Stayed Bridges”.
20. Praveen Ahuja, “Fatigue Life Estimation of an Aircraft Component under Random
Loading”.
21. Gaurav Prakash, “Aerodynamic Load Estimation on an Aircraft Wing”.
22. Rajit Kumar, “Combined Effect of Construction Sequence and P-Delta Analysis on
Differential Column Shortening in Tall Buildings”.
23. T. M. Raju, “Fatigue & Fracture load Estimation of Componenets under random loads”.
24. Achani Dasharatha, “Fluid Structure Interaction of Floating Tank due to Sloshing Effect”.
25. Gangadhar Machina, “Fatigue Reliability of a Component Under Random Loading”.
26. Abhay R. Bhandari, “Analysis Of Spar Wing-Skin Joints Used In Composite Aircraft
Structures”.
27. Rakesh Singh, “Design and Analysis of Dual Thrust Solid Rocket Propulsion Motor for an
Anti-Tank Tactical Missile”.
28. K. Vamsi Krishna, “Reliability Assessment of Articulated Tower under Random base
Shear”.
29. Alok Kumar Gupta, “Fatigue Life Estimation of a Deep water pipes under random loads”.
30. Manish. K. Gupta, “Dynamic & Fatigue Analysis of Armoured Vehicle Gear System”.
31. Amrish Pandey, “Dynamic Analysis of Articulated Joint of an Offshore Tower”.
32. Amit Monga, “Stress Analysis and Assessing Defect Acceptability in Hydro Turbine
Shaft”.
33. Khatmode Padharinath Namdeo, “Non Linear Dynamic Response Analysis of Otec Cold
Water Pipe”.
34. Manander Singh, “Finite Element Analysis of Articulated Joint”.
35. Sunil More, “Static and Dynamic Analysis of Shaft”.
36. Shravan Kumar, “Risk Assessment of Mooring Lines under Fluctuating Loads”.
37. Deepak Saxena, “Static & Dynamic Analysis of Armoured Vehicle Gear System”.
38. Ahsan Misbah, “Three Dimensional Coupled Response of a Vertical Deep-Ocean Pipe”.
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39. Asok Kumar Sethy, “Non-Linear Dynamic Analysis of Mooring Line Using Finite
Element Method”.
40. Arvind Kumar, “Dynamic Finite Element Analysis of Underwater Mining Pipe”.
41. Ajith Sarjerao Dubal, “Dynamic and Fatigue analysis of Propeller shaft under Multi-Axial
loading”.
42. Anga Pratap, “Reliability assessment of gear system under Random loads”.
43. Sachin Vilas Rokade, “Dynamic Analysis of shaft bearing systems”.
44. A.S. Vijay, “Behaviour of an aircraft Gas Turbine Shaft under Multi Axial Loads”.
45. Faisal Rehmani, “Finite Element VIV Analysis of Marine Risers”.
46. Pawan Singh, “Reliability Assessment of Vertical Cylindrical Pressure Vessel Under
Static and Dynamic Loading Using FEM”.
47. Ruparaj Mohapatra, “A New Method for Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Study of
Convergence Of Finite Element Results”.
48. Patil Pratap Narayan, “Dynamic Response of a Pair of Spur Gears”.
49. Sanjeev Pratap Singh, “Dynamic Response and Reliability Assessment of a Pair of Spur
Gears”.
50. Krishna Mohan Kumar, “Multiaxial Fatigue Behaviour of Aero Shafts”.
51. Ashish Dubey, “Static and Dynamic Analysis of Flexible Risers”.
52. R.Narender, “Behaviour of Aero-Shaft Supported on Rolling Element Bearing”.
53. T.Satish Kumar, “Fatigue Analysis of Steel Catenary Riser Due to Vortex Induced
Vibration”.
54. S. M. Sundaram, “Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Tall Rec Chimneys”.
55. Rahul Shandilya, “Probabilistic Analysis of Composite Plates”.
56. Rajesh Diwedi, “Probabilistic Analysis of Composite Panel under Low velocity Impact”.
57. Sarpate Chandraprakash Sopanrao, “Reliability Analysis of Hot Box in High Pressure
Reactor”.
58. Rishav, “Wind Induced Higher Mode Response of Cantilevered Slender Bodies”.
59. Suryawanshi Yuvraj Dhansing, “Aerodynamic Interference of Tall Chimneys”.
60. Bablu Kumar Jha, “Dynamic Response of Composite Risers”.
61. Chalukya Nagappa Chincholi, “Dynamic Response and Fatigue Analysis of Composite
Riser under Random Sea”.
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62. Manjulata Bhatti, “Ballistic Impact on Composite Plate”.
63. Munender Kumar, “Vortex induced vibration in slender/chimney structures”.
64. Surendra, “Response and Risk Assessment of gas turbine shaft under multi-axial loads”.
65. Jaykumar Vishwanath Teli, “Fatigue Reliability Analysis of Composite Riser”.
66. Viswanath Yakkala, “Stochastic Assessment of Human Femur Bone”.
67. Jeetendra Damade, “Aerodynamic Response of tall Slender Structures”.
68. Lakshmi V M, “Risk Assessment of ballistic impact on body armours”. (In progress)
69. Deepesh Thakur, “High velocity impact behaviour of composite materials”. (In progress)
70. Varun Singh, “Behaviour of femur bone under dynamic loading”. (In progress)
71. Nitin Thakare, “Fatigue failure analysis of composite marine riser”. (In progress)
COORDINATION OF RESEARCH PROJECTS (Sponsored & Consultancy)
Title Sponsor Amount (Rs) Duration Computational Methods in Engineering Analysis
and Design
IIT Delhi, UK Collaboration
under Colombo Plan
Response of Guyed Tower Platform to Random
Waves
CSIR
Submarine pipeline, A state of the art report Offshore Structures Research
Cell, Department of Civil
Engg, IIT Delhi
Parallel Processing in FORTRAN Department of Civil Engg,
University College of
Swansea, University of
Wales
Analysis of Submarine Pipeline ONGC
Finite Element Application Software
Development on Transputer Based Parallel
Systems
C-DAC, Pune 3,00,000
Design of an Oil Tank Resting on Poor Soil in
High Water Table
BPCL 25,000
Design Checking 80m Steel Bridge on
Devprayag
UPPWD 25,000 6 months
Static and Dynamic Analysis of INSA Blog EIL 99,500 2 years
Formation Design of Oil Tanker on poor soil HPCL 30,000 2 months
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Design Checking of Sumpwell Pump House &
Office Block
M/S Satyam Building 50,000 1 month
Analysis and Design check for the remodeling
of Gopalpur Drain & Culvent Phase-I
M/S Digvijay Sanitation 25,000 1 month
Technical Advice on O.H. Tank at N.G.M,
Najafgarh
Delhi Agri Marketing Board 25,000 4 months
Remedial Measures for Repair of OBC bank
C.P. Delhi
NBCC 45,000 4 months
Technical Advice on Glasss Testing L&T Limited 10,000 3 months
Design Check on OHSR at Udyog Vihar,
Guagaon
Public Health Department 10,000 3 months
Structural Design of Subway using No-Dig
technology
NBCC 47,500 6 months
Subway Structural design using Dynamic
ramming
NBCC 47,000 6 months
Basic features of cold twisted mils steel samples Tool Steel Research
Foundation
5,000 3 weeks
Dynamic Analysis of Articulated tower for Oil
Exploration
Oil Industry Development
Board (OIDB)
10,00,000 3 years
Fatigue & fracture reliability of Structural
Components under Random Loading
DRDO 5,29,650 3 years
Design Foundation for six HSD, SKO, MS and
water tanks at a site with high water tables &
poor soil
BPCL 1,20,000 4 months
Reliability Analysis of Component under
Random Loads
DRDO (ARDB) 7,00,000 3 years
Advice and Analysis of Dam Safety through
F.E. Package & Exposure of Engg Personals to
Finite Element Technique
Central Water Commission 2 months
Failure of False Ceiling on 7th Floor of INSA
(Delhi) building
Indian National Science
Academy (INSA)
2,00,000 2 months
Dynamic response and Risk Assessment of Air
Craft Component
AR&DB 4,78,840 2 years
Risk & Reliability analysis of Marine Risers Oil Industry Development
Board (OIDB)
6,64,000 2 years
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Mathematical modeling of Material and
Structures their deformation and fracture
processes
DST – RFBR
(Indo-Russian Project)
14,11,800.00 2 years
Development of Light weight ballistic materials
system for Body, Vehicle and Structural Armors
Industrial Research &
Development, IIT Delhi
1,00,00,000 3 years
Natural anisotropic materials from micro-level
composition to macro-level response
UK India Education and
Research Initiative (UKIERI)
32,44,200 2 years
Improvement of S&T infrastructure in Applied
Mechanics Department: Establishment of
Advanced Flow Diagnostics Laboratory
DST 3,60,00,000. 3 years
Conducting Tunnel Action Test on the Boundary
wall as well as Structural Design of Boundary
wall including Wind Action
Chief engineer (I&FC), Govt.
of NCT of Delhi
6,06,100 1 year
Structural Design of Warehouse at Pune Central Warehousing
Corporation
5,15,200 6 months
Structural Design of Sanswad Warehouse with
Rail side facility
Central Warehousing
Corporation
1,21,220 6 months
Structural Design of Sanswad Warehouse with
Rail side facility
Central Warehousing
Corporation
3,58,150 9 months
Wind Tunnel Study for 275m High RCC Twin
Steel Flue Chimney of Lanco Infratec Ltd,
Gurgaon.
Lanco Infratec Ltd, Gurgaon. 6,17,980 6 months
Stochastic Analysis of Composite Structures. General Electrical (I) Tech.
Centre Pvt. Ltd.
6,20.000 1 year 6
months
Design and Study on Cost Effective
Construction of Large Span Warehouses of
Central Warehousing Corporation, New Delhi.
Central Warehousing
Corporation
1,65,450 6 months
Design and Optimization of warehouses for B.C.
and Ordinary Soil Conditions of central
warehousing corporation, New Delhi.
Central Warehousing
Corporation
1,65,450 5 months
Design of Large Span Trusses for Coastal Areas
of central warehousing corporation, New Delhi.
Central Warehousing
Corporation
27,575 2 months
Adequacy of Remedial Measures for
Reinforcement of ROB Girders at Bikaner of
Rajasthan Urban Development Project, Jaipur.
Rajasthan Urban
Development Project, Jaipur.
3,30,900 3 months 3
weeks
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Vetting of Design and Drawings of the Single
Span Bridges for PWD Jammu over Ghordi
Nallah, Johnu Panjgrain Udhampur.
Kheen Been, Udhampur,
Basu & Associates Private
Ltd., (BAPL) , New Delhi
82,725 1 month
Authentication of Aerostat capacity against
projectile impact and remaining afloat
XIX Common Wealth
Games- Delhi.
No Honorarium
Endurance Test of TA Pin Under Cyclic Loads Ordnance Factory, Ministry
of Defence
Rs. 89,468/- 1 week
Review of Structural Design and Drawings of
proposed RGL Group Housing
Rajesh Projects (India) Pvt
Ltd, Delhi
Rs. 3,37,080/- 1 Month
&1 Week
INVITED LECTURES (Research/Educational)
S.No. Activity Body Duration 1. Lecture, “Fortran Based Parallel
Processing on Transputer Systems”
University College of Swansea, U.K 1989
2. Transputer based parallel processing
for finite element applications
Civil Engg Deptt, AMU, Aligarh, UP 1991
3. Reliability based design approach for
Engineering applications
Institute of Systems Studies &
Analyses Metcalfe House, Delhi
1996
4. Lecture series, “Finite Element
Analysis & Design for Automobile
components”
Hero Honda Motors Ltd, held at
Dept of Applied Mechanics, IIT
Delhi
17-01-05 to 10-02-2005
5. Lecture, “Computational Mechanics” For senior Officers of Indian Navy,
organized by Dept of Applied
Mechanics, IIT Delhi
20-02-2005 to 28-02-2005
6. Special Lecture entitled “Dynamic
Response of components under multi
axial random loads”
National Conference on “Optimum
and Reliable Product Design”,
Organized by IIT Delhi and
Numerical Simulation Technology,
Tokyo, Japan
19-12-2005 to 20-12-2005
7. Finite element application to dynamic
problems
RITES LTD, RITES Bhawan,
Gurgaon, Haryana
2006
8. Lecture, “Dynamic Response and
Fatigue Reliability of Marine Risers
under Random Loads”
Civil Engg Dept, University of Texas
Austin, Texas, USA
16-06-2007
9. Risk & Reliability analysis of Marine
Risers
Oil Industry Development Board
(OIDB), World Trade Center,
2008
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Connaught Place, Delhi
10. Key note address, “Dynamic response
and reliability analysis of deep water
off – shore structures”
3rd International Congress on
Computational Mechanics and
Simulation, Department of Civil
Engineering, IIT Bombay
01-12-2009
11. Special lectures in, “Finite Element
fundamentals- Engineering Design”
Industry Sponsored Course
Dassault Systems Solid Works Corp,
USA and IIT Delhi
16-12-2009
12. Guest lecture on “Seismic Reliability
Analysis of off-Shore Structures”
Department of Ocean Engineering,
IIT Madras, India, Chennai
24-11-2010
13. Invited Lecture, “Probabilistic
Behavior and Reliability Based Design
Applications of Composites”
Indo-Danish Workshop on Future
Composite Technologies for Wind
Turbine Blades, IIT Delhi
08-10-2012 to 09-10-2012
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (165)
1. Journals (54)
S. No Reference
1. Ahmad, Suhail and Datta, T.K., “Dynamic Response of Marine Risers” Journal of Engineering
Structure (UK), Vol. 11, pp. 179-188, 1989.
2. Ahmad, Suhail and Datta, T.K., “Probabilistic Pseudo – Static Analysis of Marine Risers”, Journal
of Offshore Mechanics and Artic Engineering, Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 58-64, 1990.
3. Ahmad, Suhail and Datta, T.K., “Parametric Studies on the Static Behaviour of Marine Riser”,
China Ocean Engineering, Vol. 4, No.1, pp. 13-28, 1990.
4. Ahmad, Suhail and Datta, T.K., “Nonlinear Response Analysis of Marine Risers”, Computers and
Structures (U.K.), Vol.43, No. 2, pp. 281-295, 1992.
5. Ahmad, Suhail and Datta, T.K., “Probabilistic pseudo-static analysis of marine risers”, Journal of
offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 53, 58-64, 1993.
6. Ali Abdul and Ahmad, Suhail, “Nonlinear Response of Tension Leg Platform to Directional
Random Sea”, Journal of Engineering Structures.
7. Sengupta, B. and Ahmad, S. "Reliability Assessment of Tension Leg Platform Tethers Under
Nonlinearly Coupled Loading”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 53, 47-60, 1996.
8. Ahmad, S. "Stochastic TLP response under long crested random sea." Computers and Structures,
61(6) 975-993, 1996.
9. Sarkar, A., Ahmad, Suhail. And Datta, T.K., “Treatment of Hydrodynamic Loading for Random Sea
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State”, China Ocean Engineering, Pergaman Press (New York), Paper No: 343, 1996.
10. Ahmad, S., Islam N. and Ali A. “Wind induced response of tension leg platform.” Journal of Wind
Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. Vol/ISS 72/1- 3, 225-240, 1997.
11. Ahmad, S., Islam N. and Siddiqui. “Wind Induced Response of Doubly Articulated Tower”, Journal
of Wind Engg and Industrial Aerodynamics, 67-68, U.K, 1997.
12. Ahmad, S.K and Ahmad, S. "Active control of nonlinearly coupled response under wind and wave
environment." Computers and Structures, 72, 735-747, 1999.
13. Goel, S. and Ahmad, S. “Critical appraisal of sequential gravity loading on high rise buildings”,
Journal of Tall Buildings, 1999.
14. Siddiqui and Ahmad, S. “Reliability analysis of TLP tethers against maximum and minimum tension
failure”, ASCE
15. Siddiqui, N.A. and Ahmad, S. "Reliability against progressive failure of TLP tethers in extreme
tension”" Journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 68, 195-205, 2000.
16. Siddiqui, N.A. and Ahmad, S. "Fatigue and fracture reliability of TLP tethers under random
loading", Journal of Marine Structures, 14, 331-352, 2001.
17. Khan, R.A., Ahmad, S. and Datta, T.K. “Dynamic Behaviour of Cable Stayed bridges: Advances in
Vibration Engg and Technology of Machinery”, Vol. 1, 2002.
18. Siddiqui, N.A. and Ahmad, S. "Reliability of TLP tethers under extreme tensions", Structural
Engineering and Mechanics, 16(3), 317-326, 2003.
19. Siddiqui, N.A. and Ahmad, Suhail. “Dynamic Behaviour of Tension Leg Platform under Impulsive
Loading”, Defence Science Journal, 53 (2), pp 205-210, 2003.
20. Islam Nazrul, and Ahmad Suhail, “Nonlinear Seismic Response of Articulated Offshore Tower”,
Defence Science Journal, 53 (1), pp 105-113, 2003.
21. Ramanjaneyulu, K., Hussain, A., Sehgal, D.K and Ahmad S. “Finite Element Analysis & reliability
Assessment of Spherical LPD Storage Tank”, Journal of Institution of Engineers, India, Vol 84, pp
98-103, 2003.
22. Khan, R.A., Ahmad, S. and Datta, T.K. “First passage failure of Cable Stayed Bridges under random
ground motion" International Journal of European Earthquake Engineering., Vol. 1, No. 1, 2004.
23. Khan, R. A., Datta, T. K. and Ahmad, S. “Dynamic behaviour of cable stayed bridge under critical
parametric conditions” published in the Journal of Advances in Vibration Engineering and
Technology of Machinery, Vol. 3, No.1, 2004.
24. Umar, A., Ahmad, S. and Datta, T.K. “Stability Analysis of a Moored Vessel”, Journal of Offshore
Mech. Arctic. Eng. 126 (2), 164-174, 2004.
25. Umar A., Ahmad S., Datta T.K., “Moored Vessels Dynamics”, International Ship Building
Progress.2004.
26. Khan, R.A., Ahmad, S. “Seismic Response of Articulated Tower”, Journal of European Earthquake
Engineering, 2004.
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27. Khan, R.A., Ahmad, S. and Datta, T.K. “Effect of Soil-Structure Interaction on Seismic Risk of FAN
Type Cable Stayed Bridges, Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, 6 (2), 47-56, 2004.
28. Umar A., Datta T.K., Ahmad S. “Response Uncertainties of Moored Vessel Under Random Sea”,
Journal of Advances in Vibration Engineering, Bangalore, India.
29. Khan, R.A., Ahmad, S. and Datta, T.K. “Fragility analysis of Flexible Base Fan Type Cable Stayed
Bridges" Journal of European Association for Earthquake Engineering. 3, No.1, 2005.
30. Khan, R.A., Ahmad, S. and Datta, T.K., “Seismic Fragility of Fan Type Cable Stayed Bridges”
International Journal of Earthquake Engineering & Engineering Vibration, Vol.4, No. 1, June 2005.
31. Siddiqui, N.A., Jameel, M. , Umar, A. and Ahmad, S., “Nonlinear coupled response of tension leg
platform”, Journal of Advances in Vibration Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 65-80, 2005.
32. Khan, R.A., Ahmad, S. and Datta, T.K., “A Simplified Fragility Analysis of Fan Type Cable Stayed
Bridges”, International Journal of Earthquake Engineering & Engineering Vibration, 4 (1), 2005.
33. Khan, R. A., Datta, T. K. and Ahmad, S. “Reliability Analysis of Fan Type Cable Stayed Bridges
Against First Passage Failure Under Earthquake Forces” International Journal of Seismology and
Earthquake Engineering, Vol.7, No.3, Fall 2005.
34. Khan, R.A, N.A Siddiqui, Naqvi, S.Q.A, Ahmad, S. "Reliability Analysis of TLP tethers under
impulsive loading" Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 73-83, Jan 2006.
35. Islam N. and Ahmad S. “Earthquake response of articulated offshore tower”, International Journal
of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Vol. 1, pp 48 – 58, 2006.
36. Umar A., Ahmad S., Datta T.K., “Response Characteristics of Moored Vessels Under random Sea”,
Advances in Vibration Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 1, 33 – 42, 2006.
37. Khan, R.A., N.A. Siddiqui, Naqvi, S.Q.A., Ahmad S., “Reliability Analysis of TLP tethers under
impulsive loading” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol 91 73-83, Jan 2006.
38. Jameel, M. and Ahmad, S., “Three Dimensional Wave Forces of First and Second Order on large
Cylinders”, Journal of Ship Technology, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 42-53, 2006.
39. R.A. Khan, T.K. Datta and S. Ahmad., “Seismic risk analysis of modified fan type cable stayed
bridges”, Engineering Structures (ELSEVIER), Vol. 28, pp 1275-1285, July, 2006.
40. Khan, R. A., Datta, T. K. and Ahmad, S. “Probabilistic Risk Analysis Including Soil – Structure
Interaction of Harp Type Cable Stayed Bridges” published in the International Journal of Asian
Journal of Civil Engg. (Building & Construction), Vol.6, No.6, 2006.
41. Vikas Kumar Satyam, Vijay Subramaniam and Suhail Ahmad “Dynamic Response of Shafts under
Multi-axial Random Loads” Advances in Vibration Mechanics Vol. 6 No. 1, 79-88, 2007.
42. R.A. Khan and S.Ahmad “Safety Assessment of Deepwater Marine Riser under Random Loads”,
International Journal of maritime Engineering, UK Vol. 160 (MA4) pp 175-183, 2007.
43. Nazrul Islam and Suhail Ahmad., “Reliability of articulated tower joint against random base shear”,
Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Vol. 27, Number 1, September-10, 2007.
44. Nazrul Islam, Moonis Zaheer and Suhail Ahmad, “Double-hinged Articulated Tower Interaction
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with Wind and Waves”, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol 97, pp 287-
297, 2009.
45. Nazrul Islam, Moonis Zaheer and Suhail Ahmad, “Response of double hinged articulated tower
platforms to wind forces”, International Journal of Wind and Structures, Vol.12, No.2, pp.103– 120,
2009.
46. Khan, R.A., Datta, T.K. and Ahmad, S. “Seismic Risk Analysis of Harp Type Cable Stayed
Bridges”, Int. Jr. of Engineering Sismica, XXVII (4), 5-16, 2010.
47. Nazrul Islam, Syed Danish Hasan and Suhail Ahmad (2010),"Double Hinged Articulated Offshore
Tower under Seismic Excitation", Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, vol.4, No.3(2010), pp.1-18
48. Rizwan. A. Khan, Arshdeep Kaur, S. P. Singh and Suhail Ahmad., “Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of
Marine Risers under Random Loads for Deepwater Fields in Indian Offshore”, Journal of Procedia
Engineering, ELSEVIER, Science Direct, Vol. 14, pp 1334-1342, 2011.
49. A. B. M. Saiful Islam, Mohammed Jameel, S. Ahmad .,, Mohd Zamin Jumaat & V. John Kurian,
“Structural behaviour of fully coupled spar–mooring system under extreme wave loading”,
International Journal of Wind and Structures, 19 (1), Supplement 1,pages S69-S77 December 2013.
50. Rizwan A Khan., Ahmad Suhail., “Fatigue Analysis of offshore structures using bilinear S-N
Curve”, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, ASME Transaction (In press), 2013.
51. Mohammed Jameel, Suhail Ahmad, Saiful Islam A. B. M and Mohd Zamin Jumaat, “Non-linear
dynamic analysis of coupled spar platform”, Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, Volume
19, Issue 4, 2013.
52. A. B. M. Saiful Islam, Mohammed Jameel, Suhail Ahmad, Mohd Zamin Jumaat & V. John Kurian,
“Structural behaviour of fully coupled spar–mooring system under extreme wave loading”, Journal of
Civil Engineering and Management, Volume 19, Supplement 1, December 2013, pages S69-S77
53. Patel SD., Ahmad Suhail, Mahajan P., “Probabilistic Analysis of Composite Plate due to Low
Velocity Impact”, Indian Science Academy, Special Issue Part-A, pp 773-779.
54. Patel SD., Ahmad Suhail, Mahajan P., “Reliability Analysis of Composite Plate under Low Velocity
Impact using Gaussian Response Surface Method”, International Journal for Computational Methods
in Engineering Science and Mechanics. (In Press, Code UCME 2013-0111).
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Behaviour of Cable Stayed Bridges”, 6th International Symposium on Earthquake Engineering,
University of Roorkee, Roorkee, October, 1978.
2. Ahmad, Suhail and Datta, T.K., “Effects of Geometric Nonlinearity on the Response of Marine
Risers”, 3rd Indian Conference Ocean Engg, IIT Bombay, 1986.
3. Ahmad, Suhail and Datta, T.K., “Seismic Response of Marine Risers”, ASME Conf. Proc.
(OMAE-6), March, Houston, Texas, U.S.A, 1987.
4. Ahmad, Suhail and Datta, T.K., “A Parametric Study on Dynamic Behaviour of Marine Riser”,
Ocean Structural Symposium’88, Deptt of Civil Engg, Oregon State University, Corvallis,
U.S.A, Sept, 1988.
5. Ahmad, Suhail and Datta, T.K., “Response of Submerged Cylindrical Structures to Seismic
Excitation”, World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, August, 1988.
6. Ahmad, Suhail, “Parallel Fortran Applications on Transputer Systems”, Workshop on Parallel
Processing, BARC, Bombay, Feb- 7-9, 1990.
7. Ahmad, Suhail and Datta, T.K. “Riser response to Non Stationary Seismic Excitation” Indian
Conference on Ocean Engg, NIO, Goa, 1991.
8. Ali, A. and Ahmad, Suhail. “Wave Induced Response of Tension Leg Platform”, Symposium
on Ocean Engg, NIO, Goa, 1992.
9. Nagesh, K.S and Ahmad, Suhail, “Dynamic Response of Multi Hinged Articulated Tower”, 8th
National Convention of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, March, 1993.
10. Nazrul Islam and Ahmad, Suhail, “Nonlinear Dynamic Response of Multi Hinged Articulated
Tower”, ASME Conference.
11. Sengupta, B. and Ahmad, Suhail, “Nonlinear Dynamic Response of Tension Leg Platform
Tethers under Offshore Environment”, National Seminar on Aero Structures, IIT Kharagpur,
April, 1994.
12. Gupta, B and Ahmad, Suhail, “Seismic response of tension leg platform”, 10th Symposium on
Earthquake Engineering, Roorkee, November, 1994.
13. Ahmad, Suhail and Islam, N. “Wind Induced Response of Tension Leg Platform” International
Conference on Wind Engg, Jan 9-13, New Delhi, 1995.
14. Ahmad, Suhail and Datta, T.K., “Response of Submerged Cylindrical Structures to Seismic
Excitation”, 9th International Conference on Wind Engineering, New Delhi, India Jan 9-13, 1995.
15. Ahmad, S K and Ahmad, Suhail, “Active Control of Compliant Offshore Platform”,
Conference on New Challenges for Civil Engineers of Developing Countries in the 21st Centuary
(NCCDC-96), Civil Engg Deptt, JMI, New Delhi, 1996.
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16. Ahmad, S., Islam, N. and Siddiqui, N. A. “Wind-induced response of double articulated
towers.” The 2nd International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE’96), Fort
Collins, Colorado, USA, 4-8 August, 1996.
17. Ahmad, Suhail, and Ahmad, S K, “Active Controlled Response of Tension Leg Platform”,
International Conference on Ocean Engg, IIT Madras, December, 1996.
18. Ahmad, S K and Ahmad, Suhail, “Active control of tension leg platform under random sea”,
international Conference on Ocean Engineering (ICOE 96), IIT Madras, India, 1996.
19. Ahmad, Suhail Siddiqui Nadim, “Stability and Reliability Analysis of Tension Leg Platforms”,
International Conference on Ocean Engg, IIT Madras, December, 1996.
20. Umar, A., Datta, T.K. and Ahmad, S., “Second Order Wave Forces on Large offshore
Structures” Conference on Ship and Ocean Technology, IIT Kharagpur, March 5-7, 1997.
21. Siddiqui, N.A. and Ahmad, S. “Dynamic Response of Tension leg Platform to Second Order
Viscous drift-forces”, International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and
Experimental Mechanics, IIT Kharagpur, Dec 1-5, 1998.
22. Siddiqui, N.A. and Ahmad, S. “Fatigue Reliability Analysis of Tension Leg Platform”,
International Symposium on Safety Science and Technology” Beijing, China, Oct 7-10, 1998.
23. Siddiqui, N.A. and Ahmad, S. “Reliability Analysis of Tension Leg Platform Against Ultimate
Collapse Limit State”, 4th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety
(ICQRMS’99), Shanghai, China, May 18-21, 1999.
24. Siddiqui, N.A. and Ahmad, S. “Fatigue Reliability Analysis of TLP tethers under Random Wave
and Wind Loading”, ISME, National Conference, IIT Delhi, February, 1999.
25. Ahmad, S. “Nonlinear Dynamic response of Ocean Mining Pipe”, 3rd ISOPE Ocean Mining
Symposium, Goa, India, Nov 8-10, 1999.
26. Rehan Ahmad Khan, Ahmad, Suhail, and Datta, T.K. “Dynamic Behaviour of Cable Stayed
Bridges”, 1st International Conference on Vibration Engg and Technology of Machinery
(VETOMAE-1), IISc Bangalore, Oct 25-27, 2000.
27. Alam, M.N., Siddiqui, N. A. and Ahmad,S. (2000). “Fatigue reliability analysis of welded
joints” International Conference on Quality, Reliability andIt at the Turn of the Millenium,.
Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India, 21-23, Dec. 2000. 28. Suhail Ahmad and Nazrul Islam, “Wind induced response of Articulated Tower”, International
Conference on Ocean Engineering, pp 21-28, IIT Madras, Dec, 2001.
29. Ahmad S., Islam N. and Ali A., [1995], "Wind induced response of tension leg platform
[TLP]", International conference on wind engineering [ICWE] 1995, New Delhi, pp 381-392.
30. Suhail Ahmad and Nazrul Islam, “Stochastic Response of Multi hinged Articulated Tower
under Short Crested random sea”, International Conference on Ocean Engineering, pp 9-15, IIT
Madras, Dec, 2001.
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31. Suhail Ahmad and Nazrul Islam, “Response of Double Hinged Articulated Tower under Long
Crested random Sea”, International Conference on Ocean Engineering, pp 1-8, IIT Madras, Dec,
2001.
32. Dadi, G.S.R.R, Suhail Ahmad and Abhijit S.M. “Behaviour of an Articulated Tower under
Forces due to Wave Diffractions”, International Conference on Ocean Engineering, pp 15-20,
IIT Madras, Dec, 2001.
33. Babu, R.S and Suhail Ahmad, “Dynamic Behaviour of Under Water Mining Pipe”,
International Conference on Ocean Engineering, pp 69-74, IIT Madras, Dec, 2001.
34. Siddiqui, N.A. and Ahmad, S. “Tether Reliability Analysis of a Tension Leg Platform”,
International Conference on Ocean Engineering, pp 35-40, IIT Madras, Dec, 2001.
35. A. Umar, T.K. Datta and Ahmad, S. “Wave Forces Estimation- A critical Study”, International
Conference on Ocean Engineering, pp 125-134, IIT Madras, Dec, 2001.
36. Ahmad, S. “Reliability Analysis of Offshore tower hinge”, 1st International ASRANET
Colloquium, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K, July 8-10, 2002.
37. Siddiqui, N.A. and Ahmad, S. “Fatigue Reliability of Taut Mooring Systems”, 1st International
ASRANET Colloquium, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K, July 8-10, 2002.
38. Suhail Ahmad and Nazrul Islam. “Turbulent Wind and Double Hinged Articulated Tower”,
National Conference on Wind Engineering (NCWE), IIT Roorkee, April 2-4, 2002.
39. Dadi raja, R. and Ahmad, Suhail. “Dynamic Response of an Articulated Tower under Diffracted
Wave Forces”, Marine Hydrodynamics, Sewha, Naval Research Board, pp 251-259, Feb 1-2,
2002.
40. Khan, R.A., Ahmad, S. and Datta, T.K., Khan, “Risk Analysis of Cable Stayed Bridges”, 8th
International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics, Southampton, U.K, July
14-16, 2002.
41. Siddiqui, N. A. and Ahmad, S. “Dynamic behavior of tension leg platforms under impulsive
loading,” Symposium on Large Deformation, India International Centre, New Delhi, India,
September 1, 2002. 42. Khan, R.A., Ahmad, S. and Datta, T.K., Khan, “Fragility Analysis of Cable Stayed Bridges”,
12th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering (12SEE-2002), IIT Roorkee, Dec 16-18, 2002.
43. Umar, A ., Datta, T.K. and Suhail, A. (2002). “Effect of geometric nonlinearity on the stability
of a
moored system.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Ship and Ocean Technology
(SHOT’ 2002), 16-18 December, I.I.T. Kharagpur, 2002.
44. Rehan Ahmad Khan, Ahmad, Suhail (2002). “Probabilistic Seismic Risk Analysis of Fan Type
Cable Stayed Bridge”, Second International Conference on Vibration Engineering and
Technology of Machinery (VETOMAC- 2), Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India, 15-
19th December, 2002.
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45. Rehan Ahmad Khan, Ahmad, Suhail (2003). “Probabilistic Seismic Risk Analysis of Cable
Stayed Bridges” Forth International Conference on Seismology and earthquake Engineering,
Tehran, Iran12-14th May 2003.
46. Nazrul Islam and Suhail Ahmad, “Random Wave Response of Double Pendulum Articulated
Off-Shore Tower”, ASME Conf. Proc. (OMAE 2003) Volume 1: Offshore Technology, 2003.
47. Rehan Ahmad Khan, Ahmad, Suhail (2003). “First Passage Failure of Cable Stayed Bridges
under Random Ground Motion” Ninth International Conference on Application of Statistics and
Probability in Civil Engineering, 6-9th July, 2003, California. USA.
48. Umar A., Datta T.K., Ahmad S. “Statistical Characterization of the Surge Response of Moored
Buoy under Random Sea”, National Conference of Advances in Civil Engg (ACEDEC-2003),
HBTI, Feb 15-16, 2003.
49. Vikas Kumar Satyam, Vijay Subramaniam and Suhail Ahmad (2004) “Response of Shafts
under Multi-axial Random Loads”, A Fusion of Harmonics (Proceedings of VETOMAC 3 and
ACSIM), 949-957, 2004.
50. Rehan Ahmad Khan, Ahmad, Suhail (2004). “Seismic Risk Analysis of Cable Stayed Bridge
with Support Flexibility”, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, August 1-6, 2004,
Vancouver, Canada.
51. Khan, R.A., Siddiqui, N. A. Naqvi, S.Q.A. and Ahmad,S. “Reliability assessment of tension leg
platforms under impulsive loading.” National Conference on Structural Engineering and
Mechanics (SEM’04), September 24-25, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani,
Rajasthan, India. 2004. 52. Khan, R.A., Siddiqui, N. A. Naqvi, S.Q.A. and Ahmad,S. “Reliability assessment of TLP tethers
under impulsive loading.” Third Indian National Conference on Harbor and Ocean
Engineering (INCHOE 2004), December 7-9, 2004, Goa, India, pp. 283-290. 2004.
53. Naqvi, S. Q. A ., Umar , A ., Ahmad, S., and Datta, T.K. (2005). “Wave force estimation in deep
water A critical study”. Proceedings of National Seminar on Sustainable Infrastructure for
National Development (NSSIND), Aligarh,17-18 April, pp. 71-81, 2005.
54. Khan, R.A., Ahmad, S. and Datta, T.K., “Seismic Fragility of Fan Type Cable Stayed Bridges”,
International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR’05) 19-23 June, 2005,
Rome, Italy.
55. Satyam, V.K., Prathap, Anga. Vijay, A.S., Ahmad, S., “Fatigue Life & Reliability Assessment
of Gear Under Random Loading”, International Conference on Reliability & System Safety, 21-
23 December, 2005, IIT Kharagpur, India.
56. Khan, R.A., Ahmad, S. and Datta, T.K., Khan, Rizwan, A., “Seismic Reliability Analysis of Fan
Type Cable Stayed Bridges Against First Passage Failure”, International Conference on
Reliability and System Safety, 21-23 December, 2005, IIT Kharagpur, India.
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57. Khan, Rizwan. A, Ahmad, S., “Fatigue Reliability Analysis of Deep Water Marine Risers”
International Conference on Reliability & System Safety, 21-23 December, 2005, IIT –
Kharagpur, India.
58. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Fatigue Reliability Analysis of Deep Water Marine
Risers”, Proceedings International Conference on Reliability and Safety Engineering (INCRESE
2005), IIT Kharagpur, pp 567-576, 2005.
59. Nazrul Islam and Suhail Ahmad, “Seismic Response of Double Hinged Articulated Latticed
Tower”, First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology”, Geneva,
Switzerland, 3-8 September 2006, Paper no. 908, pp 01 –10, 2006.
60. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Safety Assessment of Deep water Marine Riser under
Random Loads”, International Symposium on Safety Science and Technology (ISSST 2006),
Oct 24-27, 2006, Changusa, China.
61. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Deep Water Marine
Risers”, 2nd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, Dec 8-10,
2006, IIT Guwahati.
62. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Safety Assessment of Deep Water Suspended Piping
Systems under Random Loads”, Proceedings International Conference on Reliability and Safety
Engineering (INCRESE 2006), IIT Chennai, 2006.
63. Jameel, M. and Ahmad, S., “Computation of Wave Forces on Three Dimensional Cylinder by
Diffraction Method for Finite and Infinite Water Depths”, International Conference on Marine
Hydrodynamics MAHY 2006. 5-7th Jan 2006. Visakhapatnam, India. 2006.
64. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Dynamic Response and Fatigue Reliability of Marine
Risers under Random Loads”, Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Offshore
Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2007), 10th – 15th June, San Diego, California, USA,
2007.
65. Nazrul Islam, Syed Danish Hasan, Khalid Moin and Suhail Ahmad, "Seismic Behavior of
Double Pendulum Offshore Tower under Different Earthquake", National Conf. on Geotechnical
and Structural Aspects of Earthquake Engineering, Aug 4-5,2007, Jamia Millia Islamia, New
Delhi, pp 357-370. 2007.
66. Nazrul Islam, Moonis Zaheer, Syed Danish Hasan and Suhail Ahmad, [2007], "Comparative
Dynamic Response of Multi-Hinged Articulated Tower under earthquake and Wind Loading",
National Conf. on Geotechnical and Structural Aspects of Earthquake Engineering, Aug. 4- 5,
2007, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, pp 319-330.
67. Moonis Zaheer, Nazrul Islam, Syed Danish Hasan and Suhail Ahmad, [2007], "Controlled
Seismic Response of Double Hinged Compliant Platform in Ocean Environment", National
Conf. on Geotechnical and Structural Aspects of Earthquake Engineering, Aug 4-5, 2007, Jamia
Millia Islamia, New Delhi, pp 309-318.
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68. Moonis Zaheer, Syed Danish Hasan, Nazrul Islam and Suhail Ahmad, [2007], "Effect of
Platform Size on Seismic Reesponse visa-viz Wind Response", National Conf. on Geotechnical
and Structural Aspects of Earthquake Engineering, Aug 4-5, 2007, JMI, New Delhi, pp 295-308.
69. Rizwan A. Khan, V.K. Satyam and Suhail Ahmad., “Fatigue Reliability Assessment of welded
joints of Offshore Structures using Bilinear Crack Growth Law” Proceedings International
conference on Reliability and Safety Engineering (INCRESE 2007), Dec 17th – 19th , 2007, IIT
Kharagpur, India.
70. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “3D Finite Element of Marine Risers under Random
Loads” International Conference on Computer Aided Engineering, Dec 13-15th, 2007, IIT
Madras, Chennai, India, 2007.
71. Sanjeev R Singh and Suhail Ahmad., “Reliability analysis of Gear Systems” Proceedings
International Conference on Reliability and Safety Engineering (INCRESE 2007), Dec 17th –
19th, 2007, IIT Khargpur, India.
72. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics Assessment of welded
joints of Offshore Structures using Bilinear Crack Growth Law” , Proceedings of 26th
International conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2008), 15th –
20th June, 2008, Estoril, Portugal.
73. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Probabilistic Fatigue and Fracture Safety Analysis of
Welded joints of Offshore Structure, proceedings of 9th Biennial ASME Conference on
Engineering Systems Design and Analysis (ESDA 2008), 7-9th July, 2008, Haifa, Israel.
74. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Effect of Bi-Linear S-N Curve and Crack Growth Law
on the Safety Analyses of Welded Joints of an Offshore Structure” ASME Conf. Proc.
ESDA2008 (2008), Volume 4, 2008.
75. Gurumurthy, K. Ahmad S and Chitrapu A.S., “Nonlinear Coupled Dynamic Response of a Spar
Mooring System”, Offshore Asia, 17th – 19th March 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008.
76. Gurumurthy, K., Ahmad, S. and Chitrapu, A.S., “Coupled dynamic analysis of mooring lines
for deep water floating systems”, Proceedings of International Conference in Ocean Engineering,
ICOE 2009, 1-5th Feb. 2009, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
77. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Vortex Induced Oscillations of a Marine Riser in Deep
Indian Ocean”, Proceedings of International Conference on Ocean Engineering (ICOE 2009), 1-
5th Feb, Chennai, India, 2009.
78. Dubey, A. and Suhail Ahmad. “Vortex Induced Vibration of Flexible Risers”, Proceedings of
International Conference on Ocean Engineering (ICOE 2009), 1-5th Feb, Chennai, India, 2009.
79. Rizwan A. Khan and Ahmad S (2009), "Fatigue Reliability Assessment of Marine Risers in
deep Offshore fields in Indian Oceans”, Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Ocean,
offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2009), 31st May- 5th-June, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2009.
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80. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Probabilistic Fatigue Safety Analysis of Oil and Gas
Risers under random Loads”, Proceedings International Conference on offshore Mechanics and
Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2010)ASME, 6th June-11th June, 2010, Shanghai, China.
81. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Fatigue Reliability Assessment of Marine Risers in Deep
Offshore Fields in Indian Ocean”, 10th Biennial ASME Engineering Systems Design and
Analysis conference (ESDA 2010) ASME, Istanbul, Turkey, 12th -14th July, 2010.
82. Ahmad S and N K Gupta., “Probabilistic analysis of composite plates under low velocity
Impact”, 10th International IMPLAST Conference, Society of Experimental Mechanics, USA,
2010.
83. Rizwan A. Khan and Suhail Ahmad., “Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Marine Risers under
Random Loads for Deepwater Fields in Indian Offshore”, Twelfth East Asia-Pacific Conference
on Structural Engineering and Construction, Hong Kong, 26th-28th January 2011.
84. Gurumurthy, K., Ahmad, S. and Chitrapu, A.S., “Dynamic Analysis of mooring lines for deep
water floating systems”, Proceedings of 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and
Arctic Engineering, OMAE 2011-50240, June 19-24, 2011, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, OMAE
2011-50140.
85. Jameel M, Ahmad S, Islam ABMS and Jumaat MZ., “Nonlinear analysis of Fully Coupled
Integrated Spar-Mooring Line System”, Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Offshore
and Polar Engineering .Conference, Maui, Hawaii, USA, June 19-24, pp. 198-205, 2011.
86. Jameel M and Ahmad S., “Fatigue Reliability Assessment of Coupled Spa Mooring System”.
Proceedings of the ASME 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic
Engineering, (OMAE 2011-49687), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, June 19-24, 2011.
87. Ahmad S., “Fully coupled nonlinear dynamic response of spar offshore oil platform under
random loads”. Proceedings, Russian-Indian workshop on topical problems of solid and fluid
mechanics, St.petersburg, Russia,1-5 July 2011.
88. Ahmad S and N K Gupta., “Probabilistic analysis of composite plates under low velocity
Impact”. Proceedings, Russian-Indian workshop on topical problems of solid and fluid
mechanics, 1-5 July 2011, St.Petersburg, Russia.
89. Patel S., Mahajan P., Ahmad S., “Probabilistic analysis of anisotropic composite plate damage
initiation due to low velocity impact”, ISAMPE National Conference on composites
(INCCOM 10), Pune, 18-19 November, India, 2011.
90. K. Gurumurthy, Suhail Ahmad, A.S. Chitrapu, “Reliability Analysis of Mooring Lines for Deep
water Floating systems” OMAE2012-84001, Proceedings of the ASME 2012 31st International
Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2012 June 10-15, 2012, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, 2012.
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91. Islam, A. B. M. S., Jameel, M., Ahmad, S. and Jumaat, M. Z. Nonlinear response of coupled
integrated spar platform under severe sea states. Proceedings of the ASME 31st International
Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2012-83862), Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, 2012.
92. Rizwan Khan, Suhail Ahmad, “Probabilistic Fatigue and Fracture Analysis of Deepwater
Marine Risers” OMAE2012-83580, Proceedings of the ASME 2012 31st International
Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2012 June 10-15, 2012, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. 2012.
93. Jameel, M., Ahmad, S., Khaleel M. & Islam, A. B. M. S. Fully Coupled Nonlinear Dynamic
Response of Spar Platform under Random Loads. Proceedings of The 22nd International
Offshore (Ocean) and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE-2012-TPC- 0756), Rhodes,
Greece. 2012.
94. Patel S., Ahmad S., Mahajan P, “Reliability assessments of composite plate under damage
initiation due to low velocity impact”, 11th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design
and Analysis(ESDA12), ASME Nantes, 2-4 July, France. 2012.
95. Patel S., Ahmad S., Mahajan P., “Probabilistic analysis of glass epoxy composite beams for
damage initiation due to high velocity impact”, Communicated to 15th International Conference
on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering (AMME15), Military Technical College
Kobry Elkobbah, Cairo, May 29-31, Egypt, 2012.
96. Patel S., Ahmad S., Mahajan P., “Probabilistic analysis of composite plate under ballistic
impact”, Communicated to International Conference on Mechanics of Nano, Micro and Macro
Composite Structures, Politecnico di Torino ,18-20 June, Italy, 2012.
97. Patel SD., Ahmad Suhail, Mahajan P. “Probabilistic Assessment of Composite Plate For
Damage Propagation Under Impact” Third Asian Conference on mechanics of Functional
Materials and Structures, (ACMFMS -2012) IIT Delhi, 5-8 December 2012.
98. Patel SD., Ahmad Suhail, Mahajan P. “Reliability Analysis of Composite Plate under Low
Velocity Impact using Gaussian Response Surface Method” Proceeding of the International
Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS), IIT Hyderabad, 10-12
December 2012.
99. Patel SD., Ahmad Suhail “Probabilistic Behavior and Reliability Based Design Applications of
Composites” Indo-Danish Workshop Future Composite Technologies for Wind Turbine Blades,
IIT Delhi, 8-9 October, India 2012.
100. Bandaru Aswani Kumar and Suhail Ahmad, “Prediction of BFS in composite armors under
ballistic impact”, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Composite Structures
(ICCS17), June 17-21, Portugal, 2013.
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101. Rizwan A Khan., Ahmad Suhail., “Fatigue Reliability Evaluation of Marine Risers Under
Vortex Induced Vibration”, Proceedings of the ASME 2013 32nd International Conference on
Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, OMAE2013, June 9-14, Nantes, France, 2013.
102. Patel SD., Ahmad S., Mahajan P., Probabilistic failure analysis of composite beams under
ballistic impact”, International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR’13)
June 16-20, New York, USA, 2013.
103. Bandaru Aswani Kumar and Suhail Ahmad., “Numerical simulation of progressive damage of
laminated composites under ballistic impact”, International Conference on Structural Safety and
Reliability (ICOSSAR’13) June 16-20, New York, USA, 2013.
104. Aswani Kumar Bandaru and Suhail Ahmad, (2013), Damage and Reliability Assessment of
Composites under High Velocity Impact, Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM)
2013, 4 – 6 July 2013, IIT Madras.
105. Patel SD., Ahmad S., Mahajan P., “Comparative Probabilistic Failure Analysis of Composite
Beams under impact|”, Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM) 2013, 4 – 6 July
2013, IIT Madras.
106. Patel SD., S. Ahmad., Mahajan P., "Safe and Reliable Design of Composite Plate under low
velocity Impact", 4th Indo-Russian Workshop on "Topical problems in Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics", Nov 11-15, IIT Madras, 2013.
107. B. A. Kumar., S. Ahmad., "Ballistic Impact performance of layered composite targets", 4th Indo-
Russian Workshop on "Topical problems in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics", Nov 11-15, IIT
Madras, 2013.
108. Suhail Ahmad, “Probabilistic behaviour and strength reliability of composites: A case study of
the human femur”, Anisotropic, heterogeneous and cellular materials: From micro architecture to
macro-level response, UKIERI Workshop, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, (Dec 12-13,
2013)
109. Viswanath. Y, Ahmad Suhail, Pankaj. P, Mahajan. Static Analysis and Strength Reliability of
Human Femur, Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design
and Analysis (ESDA2014) June 25-27, 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark
110. Manander Singh and Suhail Ahmad, “Bursting Capacity and Debonding of Ultra Deep
Composite Production Riser: A safety Assessment”, Proceedings of the ASME 2014 33rd
International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering OMAE2014, June 8-13,
2014, San Francisco, California, USA
111. Manander Singh and Suhail Ahmad, “Local Stress Analysis of Composite Production Riser
under Random Sea”, Proceedings of the ASME 2014, 33rd International Conference on Ocean,
Offshore and Arctic Engineering OMAE2014, June 8-13, 2014, San Francisco, California, USA