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Awards for Honoring Persons for Their Outstanding Contributions

Further, in reference to one of the objectives of the Society to honour distinguished persons for their outstanding contributions, the following awards have also been instituted.

ISET Biot Award – Citation and award money for Significant Contribution in “Earthquake Engineering with emphasis on Biot Response Spectrum Method” a 4-yearly award. The award consists of an award money of INR 2,00,000/- for each award.

ISET V.H. Joshi Award – Citation and award money for Significant Contribution in “Structural
Dynamic”, a 4-yearly award. The award consists of an award money of INR 1,25,000/- for each award.

ISET Shamsher Prakash Award – Shawl, Plaque and award money for significant contributions in “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering”, a 4-yearly award. The award consists of award money of Rs. 51,000/- for each award.

ISET Shamsher Prakash Mid Career Research Award – Shawl, Plaque and award money for significant contributions in “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering”, a 4-yearly award. The award consists of award money of Rs. 51,000/- for each award.

ISET Shamsher Prakash Early Career Research Award – Shawl, Plaque and award money for significant contributions in “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering”, a 4-yearly award. The award consists of award money of Rs. 51,000/- for each award.

“ISET Trifunac Award – Citation and award money for significant contributions in “Strong Motion Earthquake Studies”, a 4-yearly award. The award consists of award money of Rs. 30,000/.

ISET T.G. Sitharam Mid-career Research Award – plaque and certificate and award money for
Innovations in “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering”, a 4-yearly award. The award consists of
award money of Rs. 30,000/- for each award.

 
National Research Awards for Honoring Persons with Best Ph.D. Thesis Work
A research award for recognizing best Ph.D. Thesis work in India has also been recently instituted.

ISET B.K. Maheshwari Research Award – Citation and award money for Best Ph.D. Thesis in “Soil-Structure Interaction in India”, a 4-yearly National Research Award. The award consists of award money of Rs. 11,000/-

ISET D.K. Paul Research Award – Citation and award money for Best Ph.D. Thesis in “Earthquake Risk Reduction” a 4 yearly award. The award consists of award money of Rs. 60,000/-
 
ISET Award for research publications in the field of Earthquake Technology

In order to recognize good research papers published in the ISET Journal and other Publications of the Society, the Society gives the following awards.

“ISET Jai Krishna Award” – Certificate and award money for the best paper in the publications of the Society for block years 1985–88, 89–92 and so on.

“ISET B.N. Gupta Award” – Certificate and award money for the best paper in Seismology and
Seismotectonics published in four yearly blocks of 2001–2004, 2005–2008 etc. in the ISET Journal.

“ISET V.H. Joshi Award” – Certificate and award money for the best paper in Soil Dynamics published in four yearly blocks 1997–2000, 2001–2004, 2005–2008 etc. in the ISET Journal.

 

“ISET Hanumantacharaya Joshi Award” – Certificate and award money for the best paper in Structural Dynamics published in four yearly blocks 1997–2000, 2001–2004, 2005–2008 etc. in the ISET Journal.

“ISET Arbinda Mukhopadhyay Award” – Certificate and award money for the best paper dealing with “Theoretical Aspects of Earthquake Technology” published in four yearly blocks 1997–2000, 2001–2004, 2005–2008 etc. in the ISET Journal.