Online Education & Skilling | IIT Guwahati

Workshops & Training Programs

IIT Guwahati organizes a wide range of short-term workshops, courses and training programs under Online Education & Skilling. These programs are designed for students, faculty, professionals, and researchers across disciplines. While many workshops focus on emerging areas of science, engineering, and technology with hands-on learning, others emphasize knowledge sharing, arts, humanities, and management themes. Programs may be offered as open courses accessible to all, or tailored to meet the needs of specific groups. The duration of these workshops typically ranges from a few hours to few weeks.

Title : Role of Isolators in Seismic Resilience of Infrastructure

Description: The Workshop will broadly cover the following topics through lectures, laboratory visit and field visit: Overview of Seismic Isolation of structures (Principles, systems, application to buildings and bridges, Damping and Soil Structure interaction) Codes and regulations (CSA-S6 and CNB, BIS, AASHTO) Design and analysis (Modelling of structure, load classification, iterative design, software demonstration) Innovative systems, cold regions, economical systems and experimental developments (Elastomeric isolator, Friction Pendulum bearings, Seismet (developed by METCO), NRBUD, other systems (Fuse joint), dampers) Implementation and examples of projects in Canada and India

Date: 26 Feb 2026 - 27 Feb 2026

Instructor: Dr. Kaustubh Dasgupta, Dr. Lotfi Guizani, Dr. Sajal K. Deb, Dr. Sandip Das, Dr. Romanbabu Oinam

Department: Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Registration Closed on: 27-02-2026