Name : Dr. Ashok Kumar
Designation: Professor (Retired)
Organisation: Department of Earthquake Engineering, I.I.T. Roorkee
Academic (B.E. degree onwards) Qualifications:
| SN | Degree | University/Institution | Division/ Equivalent | Year | Specialization |
| 1 | B.E. (Hons.) | BITS, Pilani | First | 1972 | Mechanical Engineering |
| 2 | M.E. | UOR, Roorkee(now I.I.T. Roorkee) | First with Hons. | 1974 | Machine Design |
| 3 | Ph.D. | UOR, Roorkee(now I.I.T. Roorkee) | 1993 | Earthquake Engineering |
Professional
- Developed India’s first earthquake early warning system
- Development of computer software using digital signal processing techniques for processing of strong motion earthquake data.
- Seismic hazard analysis and site specific earthquake parameters
- Search for attributes of Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) System and development of algorithm for EEW.
- Seismic qualification of Electrical Equipment on shake table for design earthquake. These equipment are subsequently installed at important projects like Nuclear Power Plants after successful testing (about 35 testings/reports).
- Development of software for system identification using test data of shake table tests on the systems.
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Semi active control of structures using magnetorheological dampers
Teaching
- Taught courses on Introduction to Earthquake Engineering, Theory of Vibrations, Solid Mechanics, Instrumentation, Model analysis, Digital Signal Processing and Numerical Analysis at various undergraduate and post-graduate levels.
- Have lectured as an invited lecturer for various specialist courses for practicing engineers and scientists.
- Co~ordinated specialist courses for engineers and scientists of different organisations like Nuclear Power Corporation, IMD, DST etc..
Laboratory Developed
- India’s first laboratory for earthquake early warning system
- India’s first Shake Table Laboratory comprising of 20 ton payload biaxial earthquake simulator
- Strong motion data processing laboratory
- Small shake table at CoEDMM and at DEQ
Awards and Posts Held in Important Bodies
- Convener, Subcommittee of CED 39 for revision of IS4967 -1968 “Recommendations for Seismic Instrumentation for River Valley Projects” of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
- Member, Earthquake Engineering Sectional Committee CED 39 of BIS
- Member, Working Group of CED 39 for Revision of Recommended Response Spectra of IS1893
- Member, Mechanical Vibration and Shock Sectional Committee MED 28 of BIS.
- Received Khosla award of University of Roorkee for the year 1992 for a research paper entitled “The Effect of Band limited interpolation of nonuniform Samples on Records of Analog Accelerographs” (authored with Basu,S. and Chandra, B.)
- Honorary Secretary, Indian Society of Earthquake Technology for 1993-95
- Secretary, Staff Association, University of Roorkee for 1993-94