Faculty Profile

Dr. Asha Joseph
Associate Professor

Profile

 

Dr. Asha Joseph secured PhD on the topic “Dynamic Behaviour of Ground Supported Cylindrical Water Tanks” from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala  in 2019. She did her masters in Computer Aided Structural Engineering from Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kothamangalam with First Rank in the year 2007. She completed her B.Tech in Civil Engineering with Honours from Government Engineering College, Thrissur  in 1997.

Dr. Asha started her teaching profession as Lecturer at Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam in 2007 and worked as Assistant professor at  IES college of Engineering, Thrissur for 6 years. She started her career in Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Angamaly  in the year 2014 as Assistant Professor  in Civil Engineering and working as Associate Professor in the institute since 2019. Before switching to academia,  she worked with structural design firms.

Dr. Asha is actively involved in the events  of FISAT and has made significant contributions to the institute in the role of IQAC joint coordinator since 2019.  She is the faculty advisor of ISTE FISAT chapter and has served as joint convenor of NBA accreditation visit held in 2023. She was the treasurer of FISAT Staff Welfare and Recreation Forum for 2 years.

Her areas of interest are Structural Dynamics, Finite element Analysis, Earthquake Engineering and Building Information Modelling.  Being an approved research guide of APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, she is guiding research project and acts as  doctoral committee member of research scholars. She has guided 22 M.Tech projects and several B.Tech projects.

Dr. Asha is the reviewer of several indexed journals such as Journal of Institution of Engineers India; Springer publications, International Journal of Structural Engineering; Inderscience publications, Structural Engineering and Mechanics – An international Journal; Techno press publications, Material Today : Proceedings; Elsevier publications . She has published 15 papers in journals and 20 papers in international/national conferences and has chaired the technical sessions of national/international conferences organised by various institutes. She is the editor of the book Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering published by Springer.

She is a chartered Engineer and life member of professional bodies : Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE),  Institution of Engineers (India).

 

Educational Qualification

 

• PhD in Civil Engineering from School of Engineering – Cochin University of Science and Technology (2019)

• MTech in Computer Aided Structural Engineering from Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kothamangalam – Mahatma Gandhi University (2007)

• BTech (Honours) in Civil Engineering from Government Engineering College, Thrissur – University of Calicut (1997)

 

Experience

 

• Associate Professor – Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Angamaly Kerala – 1 Nov 2019  – till date

• Assistant  Professor – Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Angamaly Kerala – 1 July 2014 – 31 Oct 2019

• Lecturer- Assistant Professor – IES College of Engineering, Thrissur – 4 Feb 2008 –  19 June 2014

• Lecturer – SAINTGITS Engineering College, Kottayam – 29 Oct 2007 –  15 Dec 2007

 

Awards and honours

 

Awards and Recognitions:

• First Rank (2007) – M.Tech in Computer Aided Structural Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi University

• Best Student in Civil Engineering (1997) instituted by Architects and Engineers Association , Thrissur

• Best Paper award – International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management – SECON’21 held in May 2021

• PhD guideship, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University

• Received fund for the conduct of Faculty Development Program on “ Construction Industry – Present and Future Trends “ from APJAKTU held in June 2021

 

Professional body memberships

 

• Life Member of Institution of Engineers (India)

• Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education

• Chartered Engineer

Research & Publications

 

Area of interest: 

• Structural Dynamics

• Finite element Analysis

• Earthquake Engineering

• Building Information Modeling

Journals

  1. Asha Joseph, Sneha Benoy. “Seismic behaviour of post-tensioned concrete shear wall: A Review”, Sustainability, Agri, Food and Environmental Research, 10(1), April 2021, ISSN 0719-3726
  2. Abhijith A., Adarsh Manoj, Anjali A. Prasad,, Athira A. Prasad and Asha Joseph, “Topology Optimization of Deep Beam Using ANSYS”, International Journal of Scientific Research and Reviews, 177- 186, July 2020
  3. Asha Joseph, Anjanet Anto. “Seismic Performance of Seesaw Braced Energy Dissipation System- A Review”, Science and Engineering Journal, Vol 25, 306-312, ISSN NO : 0103-944X
  4. Asha, J., and Glory, J. “Fluid – Structure- Soil Interaction Effect on Dynamic Behaviour of Circular Water Tanks”, International Journal of Structural Engineering (Inderscience), Vol 10 No 1, 25-39, Aug 2019
  5. Asha, J., and Glory, J. “Influence of water fill condition on the seismic response of ground supported circular water tanks”, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 46, No. 4, 304-314, October 2019,
  6. Asha J., and Glory J. , “Dynamic Behaviour and Seismic Response of Ground Supported Cylindrical Water Tanks”, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A (Springer) , 99(3):453–461, Sept 2018
  7. Asha, J., and Glory, J. “Seismic behaviour of circular water tanks under combined Fluid – Structure and Soil – Structure Interaction effects”, Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research, Vol 5 , No 9, 137-142, September 2018
  8. Reshma Ramesh and Asha Joseph, “Structural Performance of Unstiffened Laminated Composite Pressure Vessels”, American Journal of Engineering research, Volume-6, No 7, -241-250, July 2017
  9. Shahid P.T. and Asha Joseph , “Structural Behaviour of Welded I-Beam to Box-Column Connections under Dynamic Loading”, International Journal for Research in applied science and Engineering Technology, Vol 6, No 5, 1551-1562, May 2018
  10. Deepthi Stephen and Asha Joseph , Investigation on Buckling Behaviour of Anchored Steel Tanks, Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research, Volume 5, No 6, 13-22, June 2018
  11. Reshma Ramesh and Asha Joseph, Review on burst pressure analysis of laminated composite pressure vessels, International Research journal of engineering & Technology, Vol 4, No 5, 2738-2742, May 2017
  12. Shilja Sureshkumar and Asha Joseph, “Review on structural performance of water tanks under dynamic loading”, International Research journal of engineering & Technology, Vol 4, No 4, 1698 -1703, April 2017
  13. Hinta Thampi, Aswathi Suresh and Asha Joseph, “Experimental Investigation on Effect of Horizontal Ring Baffles on the Sloshing Behaviour of Ground Supported Cylindrical Water Tank”, International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Vol 6, No 4, 1177-1183, April 2017
  14. Raji Ruth George and Asha Jospeh, “Dynamic Analysis of Elevated Cement Concrete Water Tank”, IJIRST –International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology, Vol 3, No 03, 146-150, Aug2016
  15. Binta M George and Asha Joseph , “An Investigation on Dynamic behaviour of Composite Bridge Deck Panels”, IJIRST –International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology, Vol 3, No 03, 126-129, Aug 2016

Conferences

  1. Sneha Binoy and Asha Joseph, Comparative Performance Analysis of Post-tensioned Hybrid Concrete Shear Wall with Openings Under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading, Proceedings of 17th Symposium on EarthquakeEngineering (Vol. 2), Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Aug 2023, Vol 330, 181 – 192, Springer Nature, Singapore
  2. P. U. Jithin and Asha Joseph, Thermal and Structural Behavior of Precast Concrete Sandwich Panels, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management – SECON’22, Oct 2022, Vol 284, 511-522
  3. Swathy and Asha Joseph. Strength Optimization of Litzka Type Welded Beams by Varying Angle of Castellations, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management – SECON’22, Oct 2022, Vol 284, 533-542
  4. Sneha Binoy and Asha Joseph, Effect of Openings in Post-tensioned Shear Wall with External Energy Dissipating Reinforcements Under Cyclic Loading ,Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management – SECON’22, Oct 2022, Vol 284, 25-38
  5. Sneha Benoy and Asha Joseph, Numerical Investigation and Parametric Analysis of Hybrid Shear Wall with Energy Dissipating Reinforcements, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management – SECON’2021, Sept 2021, Vol 171, 191-203
  6. Anjanet Anto , Asha Joseph, Seismic Performance Evaluation of Seesaw Braced Energy Dissipation, System, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management – SECON’2021, Sept 2021, Vol 171, 313 -325
  7. D P Antoo, A Joseph, ‘Investigation of Bolted Beam Column Steel Connection with RBS subjected to Cyclic loading”, Current Trends in Civil Engineering : Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of International Conference on ICRACE, Jan 2021, 133-146
  8. A James, A Joseph, “Evaluation of Progressive collapse resistance of Steel Moment Resisting Frame”, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of International Conference on Structral Engineering aadn Construction Management – SECON’2020, Nov 2020, 57-68
  9. D P Antoo, A Joseph, “Analytical study on Dynamic Behaviour of Bolted Beam Column Steel Connection with Reduced Beam Section”, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management – SECON’2020, Nov 2020, 225-240
  10. Anjaly James, Asha Joseph, “Progressive collapse resistance of steel frames under column removal Scenario”, Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (ICRACE 2020), Cochin University of science & Technology, Kochi, Kerala July 2020, 24 -37 ,ISBN No. 978-81-941516-5-4
  11. Meeval Bibin , Asha Joseph. “Response of Self Centering Steel Moment Resisting Frames Against Cyclic Loading”, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering – Proceedings of SECON ’19, 539-549, Dec 2019
  12. SS Abraham, A Joseph , “Performance Evaluation of Polyurethane Cement Composite as a Retrofit Against Seismic Loading” , Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering – Proceedings of SECON ’19, Vol 46, pp 359 -370, Dec 2019
  13. S Sureshkumar, A Joseph , “Evaluation of Structrual Response of Ground Supported Cylindrical water Tanks to Static and Harmonic Loading” , Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering – Proceedings of SECON ’19, Vol 46, pp 527 -538, Dec 2019
  14. H Aswin, V Abhirami, N Anzil, J D Jerry , A Joseph, “Mechanical and Durability characterisitcs of Bacterial Concrete”, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering – Proceedings of SECON ’19, Vol 46, pp 819 -829, Dec 2019
  15. Shahid P.T. and Asha Joseph , “Non-linear static analysis of welded I-beam to box-column connections using finite element method”, Proceedings of Second National Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (SECON18), FISAT, April 2018, 166-174
  16. Deepthi Stephen and Asha Joseph (2018), “Investigation on Buckling Behaviour of Anchored Steel Tanks”, Proceedings of Second National Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (SECON18), FISAT, April 2018, 103 – 109
  17. Asha Joseph, J.M.Praveen, Basil Sabu, HintaThampi and Aswathi Suresh, “Experimental Investigation on Effect of Baffles on the Sloshing Behaviour of Ground Supported Cylindrical Water Tank”, International conference on Advances in Technology, Engineering and Computing, A multinational Colloquium, SCMS school of engineering and technology, 22-23, June 2017
  18. Shilja Sureshkumar and Asha Joseph., “Investigation on response of ground supported cylindrical water tanks under dynamic loading”, Proceedings of National Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management SECON’17, FISAT, March 2017, 49-55
  19. Reshma Ramesh and Asha Joseph, “Effect of aspect ratio and fiber orientation on the buckling load of composite plates”, Proceedings of National Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management SECON’17, FISAT, March 2017, 1-6
  20. Asha Joseph, J.M.Praveen, Basil Sabu, HintaThampi and Aswathi Suresh, “Experimental investigation on sloshing behavior of ground supported cylindrical water tank”, Proceedings of National Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management SECON’17, FISAT, March 2017, 124-129

Books authored/edited:

  1. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering – Proceedings of the 3rd National Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (SECON’19), held in Angamaly, Kerala, India, on 15-16 May 2019, Published by Springer.

 

FDPs/Trainings attended

 

  1. International FDP on Emerging Trends in Additive Manufacturing Technologies organised by Department of Mechanical Engineering, FISAT from 30.01.2023 to 03.02.2023
  2. International FDP on Advanced Research and Quality Publication  organised by FISAT from 29.08.2022 to 02.09.2022
  3. STTP on MS Excel Essentials with Statistical Analysis for Academicians by Centre for Statistical Analysis (CSA) and Department of Statistics, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences from 25.04.2022 to 27.04.2022
  4. STTP on Advances in Bridge Engineering : Design and Research Perspective organised by Department of Civil Engineering, Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur from 21.03.2022 to 25.03.2022
  5. FDP on Construction Industry – Present and Future Trends by Department of Civil Engineering, FISAT from 21.06.2021 to 26.06.2021
  6. FDP on Design Thinking and Creativity for Innovation by NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad from 24.05.2021 to 28.05.2021
  7. FDP on Sustainable Building materials and Practices  by Mar Baselios Institute of Science and Technology, Ernakulam from 38.04.2021 to 30.04.2021
  8. FDP on Recent Advances in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering by College of Engineering and Management, Punnapra from 11.03.2021 to 13.03.2021
  9. Course on Non linear analysis in ANSYS by ANSYS Inc from 23.10.2020 to 06.11.2020
  10. FDP on Building Information Modelling organised by Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi from 2.12.2019 to 13.12.2019
  11. FDP on Design of Advanced concrete Structures organised by Department of Civil Engineering, FISAT from 03.07.2019 to 10.07.2019

Resource Person

 

  1. Reviewer  of Journal of  Institution of Engineers India ( Scopus Indexed ), Springer publications
  2. Reviewer  of Material Today : Proceedings , Elseiver publications
  3. Reviewer  of Structural Engineering and Mechanics – An international Journal , Techno press publications
  4. Reviewer of International Journal of Structural Engineering , Inderscience publications
  5. Reviewer of National conference on Materials, Structures and Environment organised by Department of Civil engineering, NSS college of Engineering, Palakkad in 2023
  6. Reviewer of international  conference STAGE 2020   organised by Department of Civil engineering, NSS college of Engineering, Palakkad in 2020
  7. Reviewer of International conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management organised by Department of Civil Engineering for 2020, 2021,2022 and 2023
  8. Reviewer of National  conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management organised by Department of Civil Engineering for 2017, 2018 and 2019
  9. Program Chair of  of International conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management organised by Department of Civil Engineering for 2021, 2022 and 2023
  10. Chair of the technical session of National conference on Materials, Structures and environment organised by Department of Civil engineering, NSS college of Engineering, Palakkad in 2023
  11. Chair of the  technical session of KSCSTE sponsored international conference on Innovative trends in Engineering for Sustainability organised by TocH Institute of Science and Technology, Ernakulam in 2023
  12. Chair of Technical session  of International conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management organised by Department of Civil Engineering for 2021, 2022 and 2023
  13. Approved research guide of APJAKTU and guiding a research project under APJ Abdul Kalam University
  14. Doctoral Committee member of two research scholars of APJ Abdul Kalam University
  15. Chair of Technical session  of National  conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management organised by Department of Civil Engineering for 2017, 2018 and 2019
  16. Coordinator and resource person of Add on Program on BIM Modelling organised by Department of Civil Engineering, FISAT in 2022
  17. Coordinator of KTU sponsored FDP on Construction Industry – Present and Future Trends  organised by Department of Civil Engineering, FISAT in 2021
  18. Curriculum Review Sub Committee Member of MTech courses in Structural Engineering, Structural Engg. & Construction Management,  APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala – 2022
  19. Advisory Committee member of International Conference organised by Department of Civil Engineering, Universal Engineering College , Thrissur in 2020
  20. Coordinator and resource person of Add on Program on BIM Workshop – Modelling in REVIT  organised by Department of Civil Engineering, FISAT in 2020

Projects Guided

 

M.Tech Projects

  1. Seismic Performance Evaluation of Composite Shear walls, 2023
  2. Thermo Structural Design and analysis of Cryo Insulation, 2023
  3. Damage Mitigation Study in CFST Columns with Artificial Damage Scenario, 2022
  4. Analysis of thermal and structural behaviour of Precast Concrete Sandwich Panels , 2022
  5. Strength optimization of Litzka type welded beams with Stiffeners, 2022
  6. Performance evaluation of Post Tensioned Hybrid Shear Wall with External Energy Dissipating Reinforcements , 2021
  7. Seismic Performance of SeeSaw Braced Steel Structure , 2021
  8. Progressive Collapse Resistance of Steel Frames Under Column Removal Scenario , 2020
  9. Investigation of Bolted Beam Column Steel Connections with RBS subjected to Cyclic Loading , 2020
  10. Seismic Evaluation of Self Centering steel Moment Resisting Frames , 2019
  11. Performance Evaluation of Polyurethane Cement Composite against Static and Dynamic Loading , 2019
  12. Investigation on Buckling Behaviour of Anchored Steel Tanks , 2018
  13. Seismic Performance Evaluation of I beam to Box Column Connections using Finite Element Method, 2018
  14. Structural Performance of Unstiffened and Stiffened Laminated Composite Pressure Vessels , 2017
  15. Evaluation of Structural Performance of  Ground supported Cylindrical water tanks to dynamic loading, 2017
  16. Dynamic Analysis of Elevated Water tanks , 2016
  17. A study on Dynamic Behaviour of Hybrid FRP Concrete Bridge Decks on Steel Girders, 2016
  18. Dynamic analysis of Ground supported rectangular water tank , 2015
  19. Analytical Investigation on Influence of Pile on Tunnel in Clay under seismic loading
  20. Seismic evaluation of Under reamed piles in C Phi soil , 2014

B.Tech Projects

  1. Design of water distribution network for Angamaly municipality, 2023
  2. Analysis and optimisation of staging of water tank using STAAD Pro, 2021
  3. Utilisation of waste plastic in manufacturing and testing of bricks, 2020
  4. Structural optimization of deep beam using ANSYS, 2020
  1. Numerical Investigation of Seismic Behaviour of End Bearing Pile foundations in Homogenous Cohesive soil and Layered soil, 2013
  2. Estimation of Seismic response of Pile foundations in Cohesive soil using Finite Element Methods , 2012

Phd guidance

 

• Nikhil R | Research Topic – Buckling Behavior of Liquid Storage Tanks

Courses offered

 

  1. S2 MTech | 06CE6018 | Finite Element Analysis
  2. S2 MTech | 222ECE002 | Project Planning and Implementation
  3. S1 MTech | 06CE6027 | Structural Dynamics
  4. S1 MTech |06CE6157 | Advanced Concrete Technology
  5. S1 MTech | 221TCE002 | Construction Planning Scheduling and Control
  6. S8 | CET 478 |Building Information Modelling
  7. S6 | CE 466 | Finite Element Methods
  8. S5 | CET 303 | Design of Concrete Structures
  9. S5 | CE 303 | Structural Analysis II
  10. S3 | CET 201 | Mechanics of Solids
  11. S1 | EST 100 | Engineering Mechanics

Contact

 

Staff Room 2

Decennial Block (DB 307)

Ph: +91-484-2725-014

emailid:ashameledath@fisat.ac.in