Menon, D.; Sengupta, A. K. and Sarkar, P., “Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Multi-storeyed Buildings”, Proceedings of World Congress on Natural Disaster Mitigation, February 19-21, 2004, New Delhi. G Kumaran, Devdas Menon and K. Krishnan Nair, “Reliability analysis and design of PSC railtrack sleepers”, Proc. of Ninth Intl Conf. on ‘Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering’ (ICASP), San Fransisco, California, USA, July 6-9, 2003, pp: 1167-1174. Praveen Nagarajan and Devdas Menon, “Simplified Analysis of Deck Slabs Subject to Wheel Loads – An Assessment of Code Provisions”, Proc. of Intl Conference on ‘Innovations in Planning, Design and Construction Techniques in Bridge Engineering’, Hyderabad, April 25-27, 2003. S. Shamu, K.N. Singh, C. L. Rao and Devdas Menon, “Moment Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Beams using Fracture Mechanics”, Proc. of Intl Symposium. on ‘Experimental Mechanics’, Taipei, Taiwan, December 28-30, 2002. Srinivas, S., Devdas Menon, “Review of Live Load Modelling for Highway Bridges”, Proc. of Intl Conference on ‘Innovations in Planning, Design and Construction Techniques in Bridge Engineering’, Hyderabad, April 25-27, 2003. G Kumaran, Devdas Menon and K. Krishnan Nair, “Estimation of dynamic loading on railtrack sleepers”, Proc. of Second Intl Conf. on ‘Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics’, Busan, Korea, August 21-23, 2002, pp W6B: 1-8. A. Meher Prasad, Devdas Menon and K. Krishnan Nair, “Reliability of RC slabs using stochastic load combination models – a comparative study”, Proc. of Second Intl Conf. on ‘Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics’, Busan, Korea, August 21-23, 2002, pp T1B: 1-8. A. Meher Prasad, Devdas Menon and J. Phani Ramakrishna, “Computation of failure probability of building systems due to cyclonic winds”, Proc. of Second Intl Conf. on ‘Wind and Structures’, Busan, Korea, August 21-23, 2002, pp 127-134. A. Meher Prasad, Satyanarayana K., Devdas Menon, Koshy Varghese, V. Paul Christopher and Battu Sri Ramakrishna, “Real-time estimate of damage due to cyclonic winds”, Proc. of Second Intl Conf. on ‘Wind and Structures’, Busan, Korea, August 21-23, 2002, pp 135-142. G Kumaran, D. Menon and K. K Nair, “Dynamic response of railtrack sleepers to moving train loads”, Proc. of Fifth European Conf. on ‘Structural Dynamics’, EURODYN 2002, Munich, September 2-5, 2002. K. Krishnan Nair, A. Meher Prasad and Devdas Menon, “Stochastic load combination studies for RC buildings – a review”, in Proceedings of Intl Conf. on ‘Civil Engineering’, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 2001. Devdas Menon, “Reliability analysis of RC chimneys subject to along-wind loading”, in Proceedings of Eighth Intl Conf. on ‘Structural Safety and Reliability’, Newport Beach, California, June 2001, Balkema. K. Krishnan Nair, Devdas Menon and S.R. Gandhi, “Slope stability of embankments – a reliability study”, in Proceedings of Eighth Intl Conf. on ‘Structural Safety and Reliability’, Newport Beach, California, June 2001, Balkema. K. Krishnan Nair, A. Meher Prasad and Devdas Menon, “Reliability analysis of moment resisting RC portal frames – a load combination study”, in Proceedings of First M.I.T. Conf. on ‘Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics’, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, June 2001, Elsevier Science Publishers. T S Gopakumar, M Ameen, K Muraleedharan, T M Madhavan Pillai, Devdas Menon, M P Chandrasekharan and K B M Nambudiripad, “Clinical Experience with CREC Dynamic Wrist Fixator in Comminuted Wrist Fractures”, 2nd Intl Conf. on ‘Mechanics of Structures, Materials and Systems’, University of Wollongang, Australia, 14-16 February 2001, pp 265-270. G Kumaran and Devdas Menon, “Modelling of prestressed concrete railtrack sleepers subject to dynamic loads”, Intl Conf. on Mathematical Modelling, January 2001, Roorkee, Tata McGraw Hill, pp. 528-535. S Chatterjee, Devdas Menon and K Krishnan Nair, “Modelling of slope stability of embankments – an improved analysis”, Intl Conf. on Mathematical Modelling, January 2001, Roorkee, Tata McGraw Hill, pp. 591-600. H.S. Nagesh, Devdas Menon, M.P. Chandrasekharan, and T.M.M. Pillai, "Finite Element Analyses of Ilizarov Fixators", First Intl Conf. on ‘Advances in Structural Engineering & Mechanics’, August 1999, Seoul — in Proceedings of ASEM ’99, Vol. 2, pp. 1537-1542, Techno-Press. K.B.M. Nambudiripad and D.Menon, "A Simple Viscoelastic Model of Human Skin and its Application to Dermotaxis", First Intl Conf. on ‘Advances in Structural Engineering & Mechanics’, August 1999, Seoul — in Proceedings of ASEM ’99, Vol. 2, pp 1525-1530, Techno-Press. Devdas Menon, "Review of Codal Safety Provisions for RC Chimneys Subject to Wind Loading", Tenth Intl Conf. on ‘Wind Engineering’, June 1999, Copenhagen — in Wind Engineering into the 21st Century, Vol. I, Balkema, June 1999, pp 133–140. K.B.M. Nambudiripad, D. Menon and S. Sreechand, "Structural Evaluation of External Tibial Fixators in Orthopaedic Biomechanics", First Intl Conf. on ‘Engineering Computational Technology’, August 1998, Edinburgh, Scotland. K.B.M. Nambudiripad, D. Menon and N.V.P. Kumar, "A Fuzzy Failure Criterion in Student Evaluation", Intl Conf. on Civil Engineering, CSCE, June 1998, Halifax, Canada, Proceedings Vol. I, pp 1-10. Devdas Menon and Roshni V., "Globalization: The Notion of Progress versus the Reality of Entropy", Intl Conference on ‘Europe and South Asia: 500 Years’, Institute of Social Sciences (New Delhi), May 1998, Calicut and Cochin. P.S.Rao and D.Menon, "Uncertainties in Codal Recommendations for Across-Wind Load Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Chimneys", Ninth International Conference on ‘Wind Engineering’, January 1995, New Delhi — in Wind Engineering – Retrospect and Prospect, Vol. IV, Wiley Eastern Limited, 1995, pp 1859–1870. G Kumaran, Devdas Menon and N. Rajagopalan, “Optimal design of PSC railtrack sleepers as per RDSO specifications”, in Proceedings of National Conf. on ‘Trends in Prestressed Concrete’, IIT Madras, June 2001, pp 101-108, Allied Publishers Ltd. G Kumaran, Devdas Menon and K. Krishnan Nair, “Probabilistic assessment of safety of prestressed concrete railtrack sleepers”, in Proceedings of National Conf. on ‘Trends in Prestressed Concrete’, IIT Madras, June 2001, pp 109-120, Allied Publishers Ltd. N. Rajagopalan and Devdas Menon, “Behaviour of segmentally erected composite decks”, in Proceedings of National Conf. on ‘Trends in Prestressed Concrete’, IIT Madras, June 2001, pp 243-252, Allied Publishers Ltd. G Kumaran and Devdas Menon, “Dynamic response of prestressed concrete railtrack sleepers subject to harmonic excitation”, Proceedings of the National Symposium on ‘Advances in Structural Dynamics and Design ASDD’, SERC Chennai, January 2001, pp 83-90. Devdas Menon, “Dynamic analysis of wind loaded RC chimneys – need for improved codal provisions in IS 4998”, Proceedings of the National Symposium on ‘Advances in Structural Dynamics and Design ASDD’, SERC Chennai, January 2001, pp 641-648. Devdas Menon, "Improved Prediction of Along-wind Response of RC Chimneys", Proceedings of the National Seminar on 'Wind Engineering' NSWE-99, December 1999, IIT Kharagpur, pp. 15–23. Devdas Menon, M.P. Chandrasekharan, K.B.M. Nambudiripad, T.S. Gopakumar and Anish Bhanu, "Design of an Improved Dynamic Wrist Fixator", Proceedings of the Sixth National Conf. on ‘Advances in Biomechanics’, January 1998, Bhopal, pp. 153–158. K.B.M. Nambudiripad, Devdas Menon, T.S. Gopakumar and Anish Bhanu, "The Role of Viscoelasticity in Dermotaxis", Proceedings of the Sixth National Conf. on ‘Advances in Biomechanics’, January 1998, Bhopal, pp. 121–126. Devdas Menon, M.P. Chandrasekharan, K.B.M. Nambudiripad, T.S. Gopakumar and Anish Bhanu, "Design of an Improved Dynamic Wrist Fixator", Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on ‘Advances in Biomechanics’, January 1998, Bhopal, pp. 153–158. K.B.M. Nambudiripad, Devdas Menon, T.S. Gopakumar and Anish Bhanu, "The Role of Viscoelasticity in Dermotaxis", Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on ‘Advances in Biomechanics’, January 1998, Bhopal, pp. 121–126. D. Menon and P.S. Rao, "Stochastic Modelling of Structural Resistance Using Hermite Integration Technique", Proceedings of the National Seminar on ‘Recent Trends in Concrete and Steel Structures’, April 1997, IIT Madras, pp. 25–41. Sunil Kaimal and Devdas Menon, "Design and Development of a New Dynamic Wrist Fixator", Annual National Conference on ‘Orthopaedics’, January 1997, Calicut. T.S. Gopakumar, D. Menon, and K.B.M. Nambudiripad, "Dermotaxis — A Simple and Novel Method of Skin Closure", Proceedings of the Annual National Conference on ‘Orthopaedics’, December 1996, Calcutta. T.S. Gopakumar, D. Menon, K.B.M. Nambudiripad and S. Sreechand, "Structural Evaluation of Tibial External Fixators", Proceedings of the Annual National Conference on ‘Orthopaedics’, December 1996, Calcutta. P.S. Rao and D. Menon, "Safety Implications Underlying Working Stress Design Provisions in IS :4998", Proceedings of the National Seminar on Wind Loads — Codal Provisions, April 1994, S.E.R.C. Ghaziabad. D. Menon and B.T.S. Prabhu, "Structural Economy of Some Timber Species in Kerala", Proceedings of the Fourth Science Congress, February 1992, Thrissur. D. Menon, "Architects and Engineers — Scientists or Technicians ?", Proceedings of the First National Convention of Architectural Engg, February 1988, R.E.C. Calicut. D. Menon and T.S.Balagopal, "Structural Use of Coconut Shells in Buildings", Proceedings of the National Seminar on ‘Processing and Marketing of Coconuts’, April 1987, Bangalore. D. Menon, S.U. Pillai and T.S. Balagopal, "Utilistaion of Coconut Industry By-Products in Energy–Efficient Building Systems", Proceedings of the National Seminar on ‘Environment’, Institution of Engineers (India), April 1987, Nainital. D. Menon, T.S. Balagopal and S.U. Pillai, "Computer Program for Optimising the Form of Vault–Shaped Low–Cost Dwellings", Proceedings of the National Conference on ‘Computers and Society’, September 1986, Annamalai Univ.