About IIT Kharagpur Program Features/ Program Schedule Structure and Venue Classroom lectures – 50% 1 week, 27 September – 3 October 2020 (9:00 AM – Numerical / Problem 5:00 PM) solving, Case study and Activity – 25% IIT Kharagpur – Hands-on work with coding Structural Reliability - 25% Research Facility AICTE Program Fee Who will benefit Nil for AICTE-QIP (Eligibility) sponsored participants 1. For faculty/students of Civil, Mechanical, For students - INR 7,000 + GST @18% Electrical, Electronics, Aerospace, Mining, QIP per participant Metallurgy, Chemical. For others - INR QUALITY 2. Practicing engineers 20,000 + GST @18% per participant 3. Industrial researchers IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME Last day of Accommodation Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Registration AC accommodation will be 2020 provided to the AICTE-QIP sponsored participants at the campus Guesthouse. Limited AC accommodation 18 is available for others on Kharagpur - a dusty town tucked away in the eastern corner of September 2020 first-come-first-serve basis at India, famous until 1950 as home to the longest railway no extra cost. RISK AND platform in the world - became the nursery where the seed of the IIT system was planted in 1951. IIT Kharagpur started its journey in the old Hijli Detention Camp in Eastern India, where RELIABILITY some of the country's great freedom fighters toiled and How to Apply sacrificed their lives for India's independence. Spurred by the ANALYSES OF Use the link: https://erp.iitkgp.ac.in/CEP/courses.htm to apply success of IIT Kharagpur, four younger IITs sprouted around the ONLINE. country in the two following decades, and from these five came ENGINEERING thousands of IITians, the brand ambassadors of modern India. It Signup Login Profile Fillup Choosea Apply Now was the success of this one institution at Kharagpur that wrote Program SYSTEMS India's technological odyssey. Payment if applicable is to be done ONLINE after getting short The Institute takes pride in its relentless effort to provide the best listed for the program. 1 Week platform for both education as well as research in the areas of science and technology, infrastructure designs, 27 September – 3 October 2020 entrepreneurship, law, management, and medical science and Prof. Baidurya Bhattacharya, Co-ordinator, technology. IITKGP is not just the place to study technology, it is Department of Civil Engineering the place where students are taught to dream about the future of Contact Us Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur technology and beam across disciplines, making differences Phone: +91-3222-283422 enough to change the world. Email: [email protected] Why take this course Course structure Engineering systems are subject to various uncertainties during their service lives: randomly Day Topics occurring loads, environmental degradation and 1 • Review of basic probability. Random variables, About the Faculty unpredictable operator errors. probability laws, common probability distributions – origins and interrelations Baidurya Bhattacharya The competing demands of economy and • Functions of random variables. Joint probability Professor Bhattacharya performance, while shortening the product design distributions, conditional distributions. Joint works in the area of cycle, have led our systems to become more complex. Normal distribution probabilistic mechanics The prototype or the mathematical model of the • Concepts of stochastic process and computational system can deviate from actual system behavior under materials science. service conditions in unknown ways. 2 • Reliability – historical development, applications, different measures of reliability. His research on material degradation, probabilistic Because of these uncertainties and incomplete • Probabilistic formulation of engineering problems. modelling, extremal processes and risk assessment of Concepts of performance requirements and structural systems have resulted in improved load information, our products and systems sometimes fail, definitions of failure. modelling, damage detection, system identification, and some failures have unacceptable consequences. • Component reliability - time to failure. seismic reliability analysis and design guides for structural • Formulation of structural reliability problems: components, nuclear power plant shells, ships, offshore It is therefore necessary that we accurately determine limit states vessels and bridges. He has set up the Structural the reliability of our products and systems, estimate Reliability Research Facility including a high performance the risks from their failure, set reliability targets and parallel computing cluster at IIT Kharagpur. • System reliability - representation of failure, know how to achieve them. 3 Bhattacharya obtained his BTech in Civil Engineering series and parallel systems, redundancy, fault (1991) from IIT Kharagpur and his MS (1994) and PhD trees. (1997) in Civil Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. • Common cause failure and multi-state components He joined the faculty of Civil Engineering at IIT Kharagpur • Reliability-based maintenance. Perfect and in 2006. He is currently Professor (HAG) and the Dean of imperfect repair International Relations. He is also the convener of IIT What you will get Kharagpur’s Joint Program Committee with IGCAR on 4 • Concepts of robustness and resilience of systems. safety analysis of sodium cooled nuclear reactors. He has • Consequence of failure, concepts of risk, utility, The mathematical tools for tackling uncertainties served the Institute as Chairman Civil Construction and • societal impact Maintenance. and incomplete information in engineering • Probability-based acceptance criteria – target reliability, uniform hazard vs. uniform risk, Bhattacharya has been a visiting faculty at Stanford and The ability to define performance objectives and decision making in the presence of uncertainties Johns Hopkins and has served on the faculty of the • University of Delaware. He has been a speaker at the estimate reliabilities of engineered systems Frontiers of Engineering series at the US National • Probability-based design. 5 Academy of Engineering. He served as an associate editor • Reliability-based design codes – factors of safety, of ASCE’s Journal of Bridge Engineering for 8 years. He • A global view of your profession and the ability to assignment vs. calibration of target reliabilities was elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of manage risks in engineering activities • Case studies Engineering in 2016 and Fellow of the American Society of • Final Exam Civil Engineers in 2018. Grading Daily quiz: 10 points each Final exam: 60 points.