Jai Krishna was an eminent civil engineer from India

India

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 with specialisation in earthquake engineering

Earthquake engineering

Earthquake engineering is the scientific field concerned with protecting society, the natural and the man-made environment from earthquakes by limiting the seismic risk to socio-economically acceptable levels...

. He served University of Roorkee  for many years and rose to become its Vice Chancellor.

Early life

Jai Krishna was born on jan 27, 1912 at Muzaffarnagar, in UP state. He got Bachelor in Science degree from Agra college and then studied engineering at Thomason College of Civil Engineering (now University of Roorkee) passing with honours in 1935. As a student Jai Krishna won awards like Thomason Prize, Cautley Gold Medal and Calcott Reilly Memorial Gold Medal. He received his Doctoral Degree in Civil Engineering from University of London

University of London

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Jai Krishna joined Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1939 as Lecturer and became Professor and the Vice Chancellor in 1969.

Contribution

• Starting of a teaching and research program in Earthquake Engineering at University of Roorkee in 2045
• Introducing courses on Soil Mechanics in 1948 and on Structural Dynamics in 2045

• Formulation of Indian Standards for Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures that was brought out by the Indian Standards Institution (now Bureau of Indian Standards).

• Developed earthquake resistant design of a large number of major and important engineering projects in India.

• Initiated work on design, fabrication and installation of structural response recorders and accelerographs in India to collect data.

• Set up the School of Research and Training in Earthquake Engineering,at University of Roorkee.

Awards

• Bhatnagar Award of CSIR 1966,
• National Design Award (1956) of the Institution of Engineers (India),
• Moudgil Award of Indian Standards Institution (1945),
• International Award of Japan Society of Disaster Prevention (1958) and
• award for life time contributions in Earthquake Engineering by Indian National Academy of Engineering (1955)
• Padma Bhushan
  Padma Bhushan
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Jai Krishna was awarded Honorary Degrees of Doctorate by Agra University and the University of Roorkee.

Professional fellowships

He was a Fellow of many professional bodies and academies including .

• Indian National Science Academy
  Indian National Science Academy
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• Indian National Academy of Engineering,
• Institution of Engineers
  Institution of Engineers
  The Institution of Engineers is the national organization of engineering professionals in India. IEI has over 0.5 million members from 15 engineering disciplines in 99 centres/chapters in India and overseas; it is the largest multi-disciplinary engineering professional society in the...
  
   (India),
• American Academy of Engineering,
• Third World Academy of Sciences and
• International Association of Earthquake Engineering - President during the period 1977-1980.
• Indian National Academy of Engineering- its founder President.

He died on August 27, 1999 in Roorkee

Roorkee

Roorkee is a city and seat of a municipal council in Uttarakhand, in far northern India. It is located on the banks of the Ganges canal on the national highway between Delhi and Dehradun. Roorkee is known for Roorkee Cantonment, one of the country's oldest cantonments, and the headquarters of...

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