Education History

  • BE Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University
  • MS Structural Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo
  • Ph.D Structural Earthquake Engineer, SUNY at Buffalo

Work Experience

Lecturer, JHU Whiting School of Engineering, Engineering for Professionals

Publications

Journal Paper
• Dutta, A., Mander, J.B. and Kokorina, T., “Retrofit for Control and Repairability of Damage,” Earthquake Spectra, November, 1999.
• Dutta, A. and Mander, J.B., “An Energy Based Methodology for Ductile Design of Concrete Columns,” December 2001, Vol. 127, No. 12, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Dutta, A. and Hamburger, R.O., “Case Study of a 40 Story Buckling Restrained Braced Frame Building Located in Los Angeles,” February 2010, Vol. 19, Issue 1-2, The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, J. Wiley Interscience.
• Tam, K.T., Mayes, R.L., McCormick, D.L, Dutta, A. and Goings, C.B., “Experimental Verification of Spliced Buckling Restrained Braces,” 1st Quarter, 2014, Engineering Journal, American Institute of Steel Construction.

Refereed Research Reports
• Dutta, A. and Mander, J.B., “Capacity Design and Fatigue Analysis of Confined Concrete Sections,” Technical Report MCEER-980007, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, N.Y.
• Dutta, A., Mander, J.B. and Kokorina, T., “Experimental Study on the Seismic Design and Retrofit of Bridge Columns Including Axial Load Effects,” Technical Report MCEER-990003, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, N.Y.
• Mander, J.B., Dutta, A. and Kim, J.H., “Fatigue Analysis and Design of Unconfined Concrete Columns,” Technical Report MCEER-980009, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, N.Y.
• Mander, J.B., Dutta, A. and Goel, P., “Capacity Design of Bridge Piers and the Analysis of Overstrength,” Technical Report MCEER-980003, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, N.Y.

Conference Proceedings
• Mander, J.B.and Dutta, A., “A Practical Energy Based Design Methodology for Performance Based Seismic Engineering,” 1996 Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) Convention, Maui, Hawaii.
• Mander, J.B. and Dutta, A., “How Can Energy Based Seismic Design be Accommodated in Seismic Mapping,” Proceedings of the FHWA/NCEER Workshop on the National Representation of Seismic Ground Motion for New and Existing Highway Facilities; Burlingame, California, May 29-30, 1997.
• Dutta, A. and Mander, J.B., “Seismic Fragility Analysis of Highway Bridges,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Earthquake Engineering Frontiers in Transportation Systems, Tokyo, Japan, June 22-23, 1998.
• Dutta, A., Mander, J.B. and Kokorina, T., “Retrofit for Control and Repairability of Damage,” Proceedings of the 14th US-Japan Workshop on Bridge Engineering, Pittsburgh, November 3-4, 1998.
• Dutta, A. and Mander, J.B., “Seismic Design for Damage Control and Repairability,” Proceedings of the 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference Commemorating the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, San Francisco, April 18-22, 2006.
• Dutta, A., Sumnicht, J.F., Mayes, R.L., Hamburger, R.O., Citipitioglu, A., Ericksen, K. and Kasalanati, A., “A Unique Application of Base Isolation Technology,” Proceedings of the 10th World Conference on Seismic Isolation, Energy Dissipation and Active Vibrations Control of Structures, Istanbul, Turkey, May 28-31, 2007.
• Dutta, A., Sumnicht, J.F., Mayes, R.L., Hamburger, R.O., Citipitioglu, A., “An Innovative application of Base Isolation Technology,” Proceedings of the 2008 Structures Congress, Vancuover, British Columbia, April, 2008.
• Dutta, A. and Hamburger, R.O., “Case Study of a 40 Story Buckling Restrained Braced Frame Building Located in Los Angeles,” Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council, May 8, 2009, Los Angeles, California.
• Dutta, A., R.L., Hamburger, R.O., Bono, S.T., Searls, C. and Campbell, L., “Advance Performance Based Analysis for Seismic Retrofit of a Historic High Rise Building,” Proceedings of the 2009 SEAOC Convention, San Diego, California.
• Dutta, A., Sumnicht, J.F., Mayes, R.L., Hamburger, R.O., Citipitioglu, A., “An Innovative application of Base Isolation Technology,” Proceedings of the 2009 ATC & SEI Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, December 2009, San Francisco, California.
• Dutta, A., McCormick, D.L., Tam, K.T., Goings, C.B. and Mayes, R.L., “Case Study of the Seismic Upgrade of a Critical Facility using Spliced Buckling Restrained Braces,” Proceedings of the 2010 SEAOC Convention, Indian Wells, California.
• Dutta, A., Wetzel, N., Bono, S.T., McCormick, D.L. and Sumnicht, J.F., “Allowing Damage to the Foundation: Is it All That Bad?” Proceedings of the 2013 SEAOC Convention, San Diego, California.
• Bono, S.T., Dutta, A., Moore, K.S., “Non-linear Dynamic evaluation of a Hospital stair Tower Demonstrating SPC2 Compliance,” Proceedings of the 2014 SEAOC Convention, Palm Springs, California.
• Bono, S.T., Dutta, A., Moore, K.S.,” Nonlinear Dynamic Evaluation of a Hospital Stair Tower with SSI and Pounding Effects,” 2015 ATC-SEI Conference Proceedings
• Dutta, A., R.L., Bono, S.T., Hamburger, R.O., Duan, X., Neo, J., Soligon, A., “Performance Based Seismic Evaluation of a Long Span Structure Including Vertical Ground Motion,” Proceedings of the 20016 SEAOC Convention, Maui, Hawaii (Submitted).
• Moore, K.S., Dutta, A., “Resiliency of Tainan Following the Meinong Earthquake,” Proceedings of the 20016 SEAOC Convention, Maui, Hawaii (Submitted).
• Aviram, A., Dutta, A., Hamburger, R.O., “Nonlinear Modeling of Mat Foundation Differential Settlements In Seismic Evaluation of High-Rise Buildings”, Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Santiago, Chile, January 2017 (Submitted).
• Duan, Xiaonian, Soligon, A., Neo, J. and Dutta, A., “Performance-Based Seismic Design of the Tocumen Airport South Terminal in Panama”, Proceedings of 2017 ACI Convention and Special Publication meeting session on Performance Based Seismic Design of concrete Buildings: State of the Practice, Anaheim, CA, October, 2017.
• Handzhiyski, L., Hamburger, R.O. and Dutta, A., “”Nonlinear Pushover Analysis of Pile Foundations”, 11th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering.

Professional Organizations

The Masonry Society
American Concrete Institute
American Institute of Steel Construction
Structural Engineer’s Association of Northern California