Previous Experience/Positions held

Previous Experience / Positions held

• Design Engineer, Technotile Construction Division, Tiruvalla 1/10/1994 - 30/4/1995
• Structural Engineer, Jayachandran Murali and Associates, Trivandrum 1/10/1995 - 6/8/1997
• Assistant Engineer, Irrigation Department, Govt. of Kerala 27/4/1999 - 17/12/2003

Experience under DTE:

Areas of Interest:

• Design of steel and R C structures
• Structural Dynamics
• Earthquake Engineering

Courses Handled

• Analysis & Design of EQ Resistant Structures
• Repair & Rehabilitation of buildings
• High Rise Structures
• Construction Technology & Management
• Theory of structures V
• Design of Steel Structures
• Structural Analysis
• Finite Element Method

Publications:

International Journal

1. Salini Theres N Kurien, Jiji Anna Varughese and Divya K K (2013) "Fatigue Analysis of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer Bridge Deck Panels", International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2(1), December 2013.
2. Jiji Anna Varughese, Nirmal George and Anjana Sagar (2014), "Hydrodynamic Effect of Elevated Water Tanks under Seismic Excitation", Ingenious technologies and sustainable developments in civil engineering, pp.155-160 October 2014.
3. Rajalekshmi, Harinarayanan and Jiji Anna Varughese (2015), " Study of torsion effect on building structures having mass and stiffness irregularities", International journal of engineering research and technology, Vol.4, Issue 6, June 2015.
4. Jiji Anna Varughese, Devdas Menon and A Meher Prasad (2015) " Displacement-based Seismic Design of Open ground storey Buildings" Journal of Structural Engineering & Mechanics, Technopress, Korea Vol 54(1), pp. 19-33, April 2015.
5. Jiji Anna Varughese and Sreelekshmi N (2016) "Seismic behavior of concrete gravity dams", Advances in computational Design, Technopress, Korea, 1(2) pp 195-206, April 2016.

National - Refereed Journal

1. Jiji Anna Varughese, Devdas Menon, and A. Meher Prasad (2012), "Comparison of Force-based and Displacement based methods for seismic design of buildings", Journal of Structural Engineering, SERC, Chennai, 39 (1) pp 107-112, April-May, 2012.
2. Jiji Anna Varughese, Devdas Menon, and A. Meher Prasad (2012), "Review of displacement-based seismic design methods of RC regular frames", Journal of Structural Engineering, SERC, Chennai, June-July 2012.
3. Jiji Anna Varughese, Devdas Menon, and A. Meher Prasad (2014), " Load distribution patterns for displacement-based seismic design of RC framed buildings", Journal of Institution of Engineers (A series), 95(4), pp211-219, December 2014.
    

International - Conference proceedings

National - Conference

1. Jiji Anna Varughese, Devdas Menon, and A. Meher Prasad (2010), "Comparison of Force-based and Displacement based methods for seismic design of buildings", pp II-1085-1091, 7 th SEC, Annamalai University, Chennai, 8-10 Dec.2010,.
2. Jiji Anna Varughese, Devdas Menon, and A. Meher Prasad (2013), "Effect of Design Ductility and Flexibility on Yield Rotation of RC Frames", pp 1-3,NATCON 2013 at R.I.T., Kottayam 18-19 January 2013.
3. Jiji Anna Varughese(2013), "Performance-based seismic design of RC framed buildings",pp H1-H9, 2 nd National Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering, Saint Gits College of Engineering, Kottayam 6-7 Sept. 2013.
4. Rajalekshmi K R, Jiji Anna Varughese, Harinarayanan S (2014), Seismic Effects on Irregular Buildings-State of the Art", pp.No.32-36, 3 rd National Conference on Emerging Technologies, GEC BH, Thiruvananthapuram, Aug.1-2 2014.
5. Aswani, Isha, Jiji Anna Varughese (2023), "Seismic Performance Evaluation of a Building Using Dynamic Methods", National Conference on Materials, Structures and Environment, NSS, Palakkad, 16-17 June 2023.

Book / Monogram

1. Jiji Anna Varughese, Devdas Menon, and A. Meher Prasad (2018), "Seismic design philosophy- from force-based to displacement-based design" Advances in Indian Earthquake Engineering & Seismology, Springer book (2018) 273-289, Chapter 13

Other Responsibilities held:

• Department Advisory Board Member, GEC Barton Hill Thiruvananthapuram
• Head of the Department (CE) at RIT Kottayam from 17/03/2025 to 16/09/2025
• Convener, SHE, RIT Kottayam from July 2022 to September 2025
• Department P.G. Coordinator 2023-2025 at R I T Kottayam
• Member, IQAC Audit Team at RIT 2023-2025.
• Chairman, Doctoral committees at GEC Thrissur and TKM College of Engineering, under KTU
• Manager, CCE, GEC Barton Hill November 2018- July 2021
• Department Accreditation coordinator at GEC Barton Hill during 2018-19
• Nodal Officer (R&D), under TEQIP II at GEC Barton Hill May 2015 - July 2021
• Organizing Secretary for the 4 th National Conference on Emerging Technologies 2015 (NCET 2015) at GEC Barton Hill during September 2015
• Department Accreditation coordinator at RIT Kottayam during 2013-14
• Department coordinator for IIIC at RIT Kottayam during 2013-14

Other Academic Activities