Professor
Dr. Mehedi Ahmed Ansary
Department
of Civil Engineering
Bangladesh
University of Engineering and Technology
Secretary
General
Bangladesh
Earthquake Society (BES)
Room
644
Dhaka-1000
Bangladesh
Tel:
+88-2-966-5788
Fax:
+88-2-9665639
ansary@ce.buet.ac.bd; ansaryma@yahoo.com
Bangladesh
University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
is the premier technical university of Bangladesh and is the oldest
institution for the study of Engineering and Architecture in Bangladesh. The
history of this institution dates back to the days of Dhaka Survey School, which
was established at Nalgola, in Old Dhaka in 1876 to train Surveyors for the then
Government of Bengal of British India. As the years passed, the survey School
became the Ahsanullah School of Engineering offering three-year diploma courses
in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. In recognition of the generous
financial contribution from the then Nawab of Dhaka, it was named after his
father Khawja Ahsanullah. It moved to its present premises in 1912.
In
1948, the School was upgraded to Ahsanullah Engineering College as a Faculty of
Engineering under the University of Dhaka, offering four-year bachelor's courses
in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. In
order to create facilities for postgraduate studies and research, Ahsanullah
Engineering College was upgraded to the status of a University in 1962 and was
named East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology. After the war of
Liberation in 1971, Bangladesh became an independent state and the university
was renamed as the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
Department
of Civil Engineering, BUET (Bangladesh University of Engineering and
Technology) BUET has a specific expertise in the areas of structural
engineering, geotechnical engineering, preparation of seismic hazard maps and in
seismic microzonation of urban areas in Bangladesh. It has already established
National Centre for Earthquake Engineering (NCEE) in 2002. BUET is currently
overseeing a seismic instrumentation project for the five kilometre long Bridge
(Jamuna multipurpose bridge, Bangladesh). If has also procured sixty SMAs from
USGS recently. A two year long higher education linkage project with Virginia
Polytech Institute and State University, USA has been established on seismic
vulnerability of Bangladesh. BUET has also organised several training workshops
and short courses on earthquake engineering and seismic retrofiting.
Prof.
Mehedi Ahmed Ansary
Prof.
Mehedi Ahmed Ansary graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering, BUET in
1991 and joined at the same Department as a Lecturer in June 1991. He obtained
his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1996. His research
interest is urban disaster mitigation, which includes development of microzone
maps for cities of Bangladesh, assessment of building and lifeline
vulnerabilities, characterization of weak and strong ground motion from
free-field and bridge data monitoring, raising awareness among citizens of
Bangladesh through simplified experimental techniques and easy to understandable
guidelines for earthquake resistant construction, study of other urban disasters
such as floods, fires and tornadoes etc.
He is currently working as the Secretary-General of
Bangladesh Earthquake Society (BES), which is affiliated with International
Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE). He is also the Project Director of
VPI, USA and NCEE-BUET Linkage project funded by USAID, Bangladesh from January,
2004. He is member of consultative panels of several Government agencies of
Bangladesh. From 1993, Prof. Ansary represented Bangladesh as an expert member
in several international symposium/workshops on earthquake and Tsunami related
issues.
BUET1:
Ansary, M. A., Yamazaki, F., and Katayama, T. (1995). Statistical
analysis of peaks and directivity of earthquake ground motion, International
Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 24 (11), pp.
1527-1539.
BUET2:
Ansary, M. A., Yamazaki, F., and Katayama, T. (1996). Application of microtremor measurements to the estimation of site
amplification characteristics, Bulletin of Earthquake Resistant Structure
Research Center, IIS, University of Tokyo, No. 29, pp. 95-113.
BUET3:
Ansary, M. A., Yamazaki, F., and Katayama, T. (1996).
Observation of Microtremor using
array at Hualien large-scale seismic test site, Taiwan, Journal of the
Civil Engineering, IEB, No. 24(1), pp. 41-54.
BUET4:
Yamazaki, F. and Ansary, M. A. (1997). Horizontal-to-vertical
spectrum ratio of earthquake ground motion for site characterization, International
Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 26, pp.
671-689.
BUET5:
Noor, M. A., Ansary, M. A. and Seraj, S. M. (1997). Critical Evaluation and Comparison of Different Seismic Code Provisions,
Journal of the Civil Engineering, IEB, No. 25(1), pp. 1-20.
BUET6:
Ansary, M. A. and Yamazaki, F. (1998). Behavior
of Horizontal and Vertical SV at JMA Sites, Japan, Journal of
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 124(7), pp.
606-616.
BUET7:
Ansary, M. A., Noor, M. A. and Seraj, S. M. (2000). Response spectra based on simulated earthquakes and its application and
assessment, Journal of the
Civil Engineering, IEB, No. 27(1), pp. 1-20, June, 2000.
BUET8:
*Ansary, M. A., Al-Hussaini, T. M., Sharfuddin, M. and Chaudhury, J. R.
(2001) 1999 Moheskhali Earthquake: A
Damage Study, Journal of Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Science), No.
27(2), pp. 139-149, December, 2001.
BUET9:
*Ansary, M. A., and Sharfuddin, M. (2002) Proposal for a new seismic zoning map for Bangladesh,
Journal of the Civil Engineering, IEB, No. 30(2), pp. 77-89,
December, 2002.
BUET10:
*Ansary, M. A. (2004) Seismic loss estimation of Dhaka for an earthquake of
intensity vii, Oriental
Geographer, No. 48 (1),
pp. 1-16.