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YEAR 2014

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Its hip, its hop! Its happening!!
Dear readers,
Here we are , with the third issue of CRUX with a whole
lot of happenings and breakthrough technologies in the
field of civil engineering. We feel extremely glad to know
that the articles are well appreciated and enjoyed by all
our aspiring civil engineers.
This time we take you to an educational journey of
solar roadways from the creative bridges to the unique
water treatment plants, serving the crying needs of potable water in different corners of world.
In view of the brilliant response that we have received, we have in store for you interesting readers articles to get an insight into an exciting concept, the
Dynamic Architecture a rotating building.
The placement season too has been so far good
and Its the last year of our dearly beloved final year
graduates. Wishing you all Great Luck for your future

seniors! Hope you all achieve great success in your

fields of expertise.
The resource source section has an overview of
some of the popular and useful designing, drawing and
analyzing tools and soft wares to help you get acquainted with and develop soft skills which are a must in todays industry standards.
So guys let your eyes do some reading ! because we
present to you a whole new platform of civil engineering
to dive into the CRUX !! official newsletter of our civil
engineering department.
-Editors desk

The H.O.D of Civil Engineering department Dr. Sudhir Kumar of MNIT had something to
say to his students. Lets take a look into what he awaits from his students.
I expect the students to actively participate in all of the departmental activities or the
institutional activities if possible. They should come forward for organizing the departmental events and develop a culture where every student gets a chance to manage, organize or participate in the departmental activities. Every student should have a capabilities like management, leadership etc.

FROM THE
DESK OF
H.O.D

Also, students should come forward with innovative ideas of projects and take a stand on
development of standards of laboratories. They should have regular interaction with the
alumni associations members for learning from their experiences.
I am yet to see students organizing departmental events such as conventions, seminars,
paper presentations, workshops etc.
In the matter of studies, every single student should have a mastery over at least one
instrument be it of any lab such that he is able to tell anything from working to construction of the instrument. Spending time in the lab for its development will definitely facilitate
such mastery as the student will always be surrounded by them.

Dr. Sudhir Kumar

(H.O.D.)
Department of Civil
Engineering,MNIT
Jaipur

A solar roadway is a road surface that generates electricity by solar power photovoltaics. The concept involves replacing highways, roads, parking lots, driveways, and sidewalks with solar panels and LED signage, that can be driven on. Parking lots, driveways, and eventually highways are all targets for the panels.

The use of Solar Energy

offers huge potential today.
The Advantages of SOLAR
CELL PANELLED ROADWAYS are: It is Renewable form of
energy and has a larger life
span.
It provides Military and
medical assistance in cases of emergency.
Solar roadways provide
On the go charging.

The main advantage of the solar roadway

concept is that it utilizes a renewable
source of energy to produce electricity.
The life span of the solar panels is around
3040 years, much greater than normal
asphalt roads, which only last 712 years.
In the event of an environmental disaster
or military emergency, solar roadways
would provide power when it is needed
most. As solar power is renewable, it obviously requires no external connection to an
artificial power source. Another advantage
of solar roadways is that they do not require the development of unused and potentially environmentally sensitive lands
since the roads are already there. Transmission lines could simply be run along already established roadways. With induction
plating embedded inside these roads, electric cars can be recharged while in motion
on top of these roads. This would reduce the costs and the time-inconvenience of
waiting at a charging station.
In spite of these advantages, initially, the start up and maintenance costs of building
such roadways and parking lots may be extremely high. Another issue to deal with is
the efficiency of solar panels. The average efficiency is currently 20%. Another disadvantage is that solar road panels cannot easily be constructed in the poorest developing nations due to the high initial start-up costs.

The St. Francis Dam was designed by William Mulholland, chief engineer for the
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. It was a curved concrete gravity
dam. By definition, a gravity dam is one where that depends upon the force of gravity to prevent it from being pushed aside by the water it contains. Essentially, the
force of the water behind the dam is pushing the dam to tip forward upon its toe.
The weight of the dam is acting against that, causing it to rotate downward into the
earth from the same point. But what caused the St. Francis Dam to fail was a limited
understanding of the geological foundation of the dam. In the 1920s, when the dam
was built, the technology wasnt available to properly determine the strength of the
paleo-mega-landslide rock formations that the left abutment rested upon. This was
the major contributing factor to the failure of this dam. Also, earlier in the day of the
failure, Mulholland examined a leak in the dam. Leaks in concrete dams are not
uncommon, and this one was found to be inconsequential. Since the failure of the
dam was mostly caused by the subterranean rock, the only way that that leak could
have been an indicator, would be if it was large enough to demonstrate the shiftin
of dams foundation .
The disaster resulted in a number of changes to civil engineering, specifically to the
area of dam design and construction, as new federal standards for the construction
of dams was implemented and an increased awareness of the geological factors in
civil engineering came to light from the failure of the dams foundation. Geotechnical
engineering can trace its roots to this disaster. Today, geologic input on dam design
and construction is commonplace. The importance of peer review of designs was
brought to light. Since this time, a project of this size has never been designed and
overseen by only one engineer. The lessons learned from this tragedy have helped
ensure that later projects are much less prone to failure.

Why did it fail?

Lack of redundancy.
Inadequate or badly positioned reinforcing.
Steel struts embedded too
far in concrete shell
Weakened concrete shell
support beams due to the
passage for ventilation
ducts.
Poor design and response
to temperature variations
that existed in the outer
metal part .

William Frazier Baker, also known as Bill Baker, is an American structural engineer who has dedicated his career to structural innovation. He is widely known around the
world for developing the buttressed core structural system and for his work on super tall
buildings. Baker is credited with the design of three out of four of the tallest buildings to
top-out in 2009: Burj Khalifa , Trump International Hotel and Tower and the Nanjing
Greenland Financial Center.
Born on October 9, 1953 in Fulton, Missouri, Baker obtained a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Missouri, and then held a brief tenure with
ExxonMobil. Later he completed his master's degree at the University of Illinois. He then
joined the architecture and engineering firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) in Chicago in 1981, eventually becoming a partner in1996 and now he is a licensed professional
engineer in 40 states.
In 1999, his next-generation, stayed-mast structural system for the proposed 7
South Dearborn, a 610-meter (2,000-foot) tall, 118- story tower built on only one acre, inAn American structural corporated structural engineering advances that demonstrated how modern wind engineerengineer dedicated to ing and materials can be used to achieve slender towers of unprecedented height. Baker
innovations in structural continues to push the boundaries of form and science with its neighbor, the twisting, 73engineering, Bill Baker story Infinity Tower.
is most widely recogHe is best known as the engineer of Burj Khalifa (Dubai, 2009). To support the
nised as the lead de- tower's record heights, he developed an innovative structural system "buttressed core" ,
signer of Burj Khalifa..
consisting of a hexagonal core reinforced by three buttresses that form a Y shape which
He is a fellow of ASCE, allows the structure to support itself both laterally and torsionally. It also eliminates the
IStructE and the memneed for column transfers, and moves loads in a smooth path from the tower's spine into
ber of National Academy of Engineering. its foundations.
Baker's expertise also extends to a wide variety of structures like the BroadgateBaker was the first
American to be award- Exchange House (London), and the GM Renaissance Center Entry Pavilion (Detroit). He is
ed the Pritz Leonhardt also regarded for his work on long span roof structures, such as the McCormick
prize for his achieve- Place North Building Expansion (Chicago), the Korean Air Lines Operations Center
ments in Structural En- (Seoul), the Korea World Trade Center Expansion (Seoul), and the Virginia Beach Congineering.
vention Center (Virginia Beach).
His belief that the exterior form of a high rise should be a direct expression of its
structural framework; where, in the best instances, great structural and architectural collaboration results in situations where one cannot describe the structure without the architecture, and the architecture without its structure.
Baker's many skyscraper projects include the AT&T Corporate Center (Chicago, 1989), Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago, 2008), Infinity Tower (Dubai, 2009), Pearl River Tower (Guangzhou, 2009), Nanjing
Greenland Financial Center (Nanjing, 2009), and the unbuilt 7 South Dearborn (Chicago, 2003) securing his international reputation as a structural innovator.
He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Institution of Structural Engineers
(IStructE) and the member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
In 2011, Bill Baker received an honorary doctorate in engineering from the University of Stuttgart and
an ASCE Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Lifetime Award for Design. On May 13, 2010, The Institution
of Structural Engineers, awarded Baker with the Gold Medal, the Institution's highest accolade. Baker was the first
American to be awarded the Fritz Leonhardt Prize For Achievement in Structural Engineering on July 11, 2009. On
November 20, 2008, Baker received the The Fazlur Khan Lifetime Achievement Medal from the Council on Tall
Buildings and Urban Habitat.

Can a skyscraper produce more energy than it consumes? It is designed to be

one of the most environmentally friendly buildings in the world. The building is designed with energy conservation in mind, including wind turbines and solar collectors,
photovoltaic cells, raised floors ventilation, and radiant heating and cooling ceilings. It
is arguably one of the most environmentally friendly buildings in the world.
Pearl River Tower is a 71-storey, 309.7 m (1,016 ft), clean technology skyscraper at the junction of Jinsui Road/Zhujiang Avenue West, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China. The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore,
Owings, and Merrill with Adrian D. Smith and Gordon Gill , as architects Its the first
ever building to combine structure with aerodynamics and the first to utilize a multitude
of energy efficient technologies in one single structure. With a design specific to its
environment, the Pearl River Tower symbolizes the future for super-tall building design.

Clean
technology
includes
recycling,
use of renewable energy , IT advancements, green transportation, electric motors, green chemistry,
and efficient lighting.
It is a means to create
electricity and fuels,
with a smaller environmental footprint to
minimise pollution.

Architecture and design

The design of the Pearl River Tower intends to set new standards for skyscrapers: a
high-performance structure designed in such harmony with its environment that it extracts energy from the natural and passive forces surrounding the building. Some of
the major accomplishments are in the nature of the formal and technological integration of form and function in a holistic approach to engineering and architectural design.
With a curved facade that faces directly into the wind, the Pearl River Tower in Chinas
Guangzhou City is shaped for performance.

Sustainability
Among its features are turbines that turn wind into energy for the HVAC system,
solar collector for more power generation, a rainwater collection system, part of which
is heated by the sun to provide hot water. The building is cooled, in part, through heat
sinks and vertical vents. The turbines do more than generate electricity, though. The
openings through which the wind flows help reduce the overall wind load on the skyscraper.
The Pearl River Tower is one of the first in a new generation of super smart buildings.
It will use less than half the energy of a conventional skyscraper and will harvest the
forces of nature to make energy of its own.

Of the Pearl River Towers accomplishments, many are related to the most innovative of sustainable design features including:
The tower is an example of Chinas goal to reduce the intensity of carbon dioxide
emissions per unit of GDP in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent as compared to the level of
2005.
The pearl tower is the largest radiant-cooled office building in the world.
In present times it is the most energy efficient super-tall building in the world with
over 90% of its energy requirements met by it on its own.

Factoids:

The building is designed to be 58% more energy efficient than requirements stipulated by local building codes.

At completion, the tower was designed to be the world's most energy efficient
super-tall tower ever built.

The building's orientation was dictated by the direction of the prevailing wind.

Features chilled ceilings and a roof lined with solar panels.

Building has two major mechanical floors where turbines generate electricity from
the wind blowing through the floors.

The aerodynamic reclining of outer surface ensures high velocity flow into the
turbines even at as slow wind velocities as 10kmph, so that the turbines installed are
always engaged in their task, i.e. to produce electricity.

2005

Design completion

2006

Ground breaking
ceremony

Nov.
2006

Work begins

2007

Public biding for

construction

2008

Building core
reaches ground level

2009

Reached 15th floor

Dec.
2009

Building reaches
upper turbine level

March
2010

Topped-Out

Asias first Signature Bridge being constructed across the Yamuna river at Wazirabad
promises to be one of the greatest attractions of Delhi. It was initiated with a plan of making this a landmark bridge, the surrounding areas are to be developed as tourist destinations.
Connecting east and west Delhi with an iconic bridge in the historical capital of India, it
symbolizes the rising aspirations of modern India. This extraordinarily engineered Signature Bridge, showcased in the midst of large water body, specifically landscaped with
wooden surroundings, will serve as a unique tourist destination.
The project is divided into two parts, approach and main bridge. The work on the approaches started in June 2008. The boomerang shaped pylon provides, to a substantial
extent the stress balance required for supporting the deck. It also contains elevators and
stairs for reaching the top of the pylon, where a visitors gallery for obtaining a full view of
Delhi is planned. The pylon shows two inclined legs rigidly connected to the deck which
meet at half height. The upper single leg of the pylon contains the cable stay anchorages
and the visitors gallery.
Signature
bridge-the
new symbol of DelhiNCR and its two approach roads, together
called the Wazirabad
bridge project (proposed
in 1997), includes a main
cable stayed bridge, the
western and eastern approach roads, pedestrian
subways, road signages,
landscaping and horticulture work. The proposed
bridge is being constructed across Yamuna, 600
meters downstream from
the existing barrage at
Wazirabad juncture.

Two high towers will be placed on the inner periphery of the carriageway to provide double support. The decks will be composite (steel and concrete) while the pylon will be of
steel. The composite deck consists of 2 main girders and cross girders at 4.5 m spacing
with 25 to 60 cm concrete slab on top.
The cable stayed bridge connects to National Highway 1 near existing T-point at Wazirabad on Western bank and Marginal Bund Road at Khajuri Khas on eastern bank of the
river Yamuna. A tourism and recreation project has been planned on 1,000 acres of land
alongside the bridge. Apart from a theme park for children, a water body is also being developed around this bridge for water-sports enthusiasts.
Once operational, the Signature Bridge will dramatically improve access between North
and West Delhi, with a free flow of traffic even in peak hours and ensuring that compensatory plantation is taken up to eliminate any loss to greenery.
One of the principal contractors of the project GAMMON INDIA has documented the project since its conception.

Salient features:
Graphics on bridge structure is featured for the
first time in the world. The pattern chosen reflects Indian culture and at the
same time symbolizes a modern and progressive India.
Sheer scale and dynamics of the bridge, clubbed with cutting edge technology used in designing it will make it a contemporary landmark for the city of
Delhi and also in the world.
On mega scale the project attempts to integrate and curb water pollution and
encourage the Yamuna water cleanup in turn, providing a water front worthy
of tourist activities.
The bridge has been designed as the tourist destination by developing area
around the bridge into public plazas and parks and made accessible to the
common public in general.
Once completed the bridge will help in changing the socio-economic and
cultural fabric of the area by attracting large number of tourists local, national and international.
But as is the case with projects of such a sheer scale the delay has caused the
project cost to escalate from original estimates of Rs 460 crores to a total cost of
Rs 1,131 crores to the government exchequer.
The web resource could be found out at

Type

Cable-Stayed bridge;
Twin composite decks

Total Length

575m

Main Tower

165m

Main Span

250 m

Design

Bow Shaped

Deck surface

20,800 m

Designer

Schlaich Bergermann
und Partner, Germany

Owner/Client

DTTDC

Hamburg's wastewater management system based on gravity sewers goes back to the
British engineer William Lindley. Gravity sewers require large amounts of water to
transport the feces together with other wastewater to the central wastewater treatment
plant.
In Germany however, the drinking water demand is decreasing, which lessens the flow
in the sewer line, and thus makes the transport of sewage to the sewage treatment
plant more difficult. There, 450,000 cubic meters of wastewater - equaling about
2.9 million population equivalents - is treated daily. This central plant is one of the largest and most modern in Germany.
After treatment the clean water is discharged into the river Elbe. Also nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen are removed. These nutrients are indispensible for agriculture, yet
harmful in water. Nutrients like phosphorus and potassium are only finite resources and
are usually not recovered in conventional wastewater treatment.
HAMBURG WASSER aims at closing these loops with energy-efficient technologies and
sustainable concepts. For this reason the company has developed the HAMBURG WATER Cycle as an innovative and holistic wastewater and energy concept, which effiThe HAMBURG WATER ciently can be integrated into the existing system. The HAMBURG WATER Cycle offers
Cycle (HWC) concept a concept for decentralized wastewater management recovering nutrients and generatprovides an innovative ing renewable energy.
method based on decentralized wastewater man- The HAMBURG WATER Cycle (HWC) concept provides a holistic approach to both the
agement
system
into energy supply and sanitation needs in urban areas. In this approach, the complimentary
Stormwater, Wastewater, areas of water and energy infrastructure become interdependent, simultaneously proand Black water, which is tecting water resources and utilizing wastewater to produce energy. Thus, it is possible
then treated according to to close the material cycles directly in the residential environment.
the
category
of The most critical component of the HWC is the separate treatment of the different
wastewater thus improv- wastewater streams, the so-called partial flow treatment. Storm water, wastewater from
the toilet, and wastewater from the kitchen and bathroom (when washing hands or using
ing the efficiency .
the washing machine for example) are separately collected and then separately treated.
In the end of the year 1999 a new concept for Hamburg's wastewater treatment plants was commissioned to cope with the additional load of 250,000
PE which has been connected to the existing plant serving 1.85 million
population equivalents. The new concept consists of an additional tank for
the storage of sludge liquor to avoid peak nitrogen concentrations in the
effluent of the plant. This solution has been developed within a study assessing a wide range of concepts with costs between initial 100 million and
the final construction costs of 1 million. Here the dynamic simulation
showed to be a very efficient planning tool. Within the first three years of
operation the chosen solution showed to be able to fulfil the requirements.
In 2002 the concept has been improved by a few more measures, mainly the equipment of one of the storage tanks
as a SAT tank for further cost effective nitrogen removal. For a further improvement of the treatment capacity additional measures are planned to be carried out within the next years.
In fluid mechanics, the Reynolds number (Re) is a dimensionless number that gives a measure
of the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces and consequently quantifies the relative importance
of these two types of forces for given flow conditions and so used to characterize different flow
regimes, such as laminar or turbulent flow: laminar flow occurring at low Reynolds numbers,
where viscous forces are dominant, which is characterized by smooth, constant fluid motion; while
the turbulent flow occurs at high Reynolds numbers and is dominated by inertial forces, which
tend to produce chaotic eddies, vortices and other flow instabilities . The Reynolds number is defined as :-

An owl's head, can twist so far round that it faces backward... but when the bird
wants to look forward again, it must turn its head back the way it came. And this is
not just a biological problem. Even human engineers have difficulty with it, which is
one reason why revolving buildingswith their need for water, sewerage, gas and
electrical connectionsare so rare. But that could now be changing. The simplest
approach to such a building is what might be called the owl solutionin other words,
incomplete rotation. This allows fixed but flexible connections to be used. Some
years ago Bill Butler, an amateur architect, used this trick in a house in Snow Creek,
California. Water and gas are delivered, and sewage removed, via vertical steel
pipes in the non-rotating base. Rubber hoses connect the uprights to their mates in
the mobile part of the building. The house's ability to rotate is thus limited only by the
length of the hoses at full stretch. In the case of Mr. Butler's dwelling, that allows it to
sweep out an arc of 120.
Rather than using rubber hoses to connect the stationary and moving parts of the
building, 3sixty's ingenious plumbing system employs horizontal ring-shaped pipes
made of steel. Or, rather, it employs two ring-shaped half-pipes that rotate with respect to one another (the lower one remaining fixed while the upper one revolves
along with the building). The joints between the half-pipes have rubber seals to stop
the contents from leaking, and each half-pipe has a vertical pipe connected to it, to
introduce or dispose off the fluid concerned. Electricity, meanwhile, is delivered via a
conductive brush that sweeps around a metal ring in the stationary base.
A couple of bespoke houses does not amount to a trend. But larger commercial deA rotating house that changes velopments are under construction, too. Constructed in April 2001 Suite Vollard in
its shapes around the hours of Curitiba, Brazil, built by Moro Construes Civis can be seen as major step in the
day , never having the exact direction. Each of the 11 apartments occupies an entire circular floor, and revolves at
shape twice in full 24 hours, the occupant's command, in either direction, once an hour.
the concept of dynamic struc- The Suite Vollard is a futuristic residential building in Curitiba, Paran, Brazil. It is the
ture finds its implementation world's first spinning building. Opened in 2001, the Suite Vollard was constructed by
around the world in many a Moro Construes Civis LTDA. The architect
attempts, the most aspiring of was Bruno de Franco. It was built in the Ecoville
them being currently adopted District in Curitiba, and has since became a fain Dubai (in the picture above). mous, well-known building in the city. The floors
The concept uses many a inno- each have double sheets of glass on the faade,
vative ideas. Earlier adopted tinted silver, gold, or blue, depending on the
rubber hoses and flexible con- floor. This provides "a spectacular effect" as the
nections are now replaced by floors rotate in opposite directions. The bottom
horizontally aligned connec- floors of the building are mostly an executive
tions, enabling a full 360 de- center. Each of the 11 floors, comprising the
gree rotation for the building. majority of the building, can rotate clockwise or
For more Read on.
counter-clockwise, with a full revolution of 360
degrees taking an hour. Each apartment was
sold for approximately Rs 15,000,000.00 ($US
300,000.00). The Suite Vollard apartment complex is named after Pablo Picasso's collection of etchings, the Vollard Suite, which was held on display
when the building was inaugurated.
The process of selecting suitable ingredients of concrete and determining their relative amounts
with the objective of producing a concrete of the required, strength, durability, and workability
as economically as possible, is termed the concrete mix design. The requirements of mix ingredients are :
a ) The minimum compressive strength required from structural consideration
b) The adequate workability necessary for full compaction.
c) Maximum water-cement ratio and/or maximum cement content.
d) Maximum cement content to avoid shrinkage cracking due to temperature cycle in mass
concrete.
Web resources:- web.iitd.ac.in/~bishwa/LEC_PDF_774/LEC10.pdf
http://elearning.vtu.ac.in/12/enotes/Adv_Conc_Stru/Unit3-MCN.pdf

In July 2014, I presented my research paper in the prestigious triennial Indoor

Air conference. It is a flagship conference of the International Society of
Indoor Air And Quality (ISIAQ) and was held this year in the University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong. It saw participation from 56 countries and gave me an
opportunity to interact with stalwarts in the field of Indoor air quality, pollutants and
health. It was wonderful to attend the sessions of Dr. William Nazaroff (University
of California Berkeley, California), Dr. Lidia Morawska (Queensland University of
Technology (QUT) Brisbane, Australia), Dr. David Cheong (NUS, Singapore) and
several others, whose papers I have liberally referred to, in my PhD research
work. I was awestruck to see the intense preparation of the organizers and commitment of scores of super zealous students who left no stone unturned to ensure
that the proceedings go smoothly. Around 1100 papers were presented at the
conference between 7th to 12thJuly 2014. Every session was conducted, sharp at
the scheduled time. There were poster presentations, group discussions, exhibition of air quality equipments and much more. Over all, the conference was a
great experience.
I seized an opportunity to sneak to the blissful Macau which has been on my
travel wish list, ever since Miss World competition was organized there. Hong
Kong boasts of the worlds largest fleet of ferries between HK, Macau and other
neighboring Chinese cities. The only words that come in the mind when you step
on the Macau Island is OH MY GOD!!!. It took me several pinches to believe that I
was actually moving in Venetian which I have adored in few Hollywood movies
(the civil engineer in me took less than a moment to recognize the sharp resemblance that Kingdom of Dreams, Gurgaon has with interiors of Venetian, Macau
ha ha ha). There are several other places of tourist interest in HK like the Disneyland, Madam Tussads wax museum, the Ocean Park, the Buddha
etc. which I couldnt explore because of shortage of time. However, the experience at The Peak is amazing. The view of Hong Kong up from The Peak and
the shopping opportunity there are truly enthralling. Hong Kong has most skyscrapers in the world, with 8000 buildings having more than 14 floors (almost double that of New York). Mongkok has the worlds highest population density with
an average of 1,30,000 persons per sq km. Fengshui plays a key role in shaping
architecture, business and lifestyle in HK. Language is a big issue as most people
speak only Cantonese and barely understand or speak English. Food is a also a
major issue, as we literally had to struggle for a vegetarian meal and often had to
be contented with only burger buns and cheese at Mc Donalds or bland Dimsums
and Tofu wraps. So my dear students, Honkong is calling with all its glamour, couture and wonderful business opportunities [remember, there is no visa required for
14 days]
MY BEST WISHES!!!!!!
-Dr. Nivedita Kaul
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering

DRAMA IS LIFE got 1st position in stage play as well as in street play at IITJodhpur. Member of the team from the civil department were: Shilpa Gulati,
Nikhil Gupta, Arpit Jain, Saurabh Khandhelwal, Mohit Dutt, Shantam Choubey,
Rizul Kumar.
Anshuman Tiwari: Won 2nd prize in the event PRAKRITI in neuron12.
Arnav Chauhan: Got A+ and was awarded a silver medal in a National Level Exam conducted by IARC in 2012 behalf of UNCSD regarding the Earth Summit
held in Rio de Janerio

Degree

Ph.D.

Subject

Board/ University

Soil Dynamics

Indian Institute of
Technology Roorkee
(Supervisor: Dr. B.K.
Maheshwari)

CGPA/
Division/
PercentClass
age
Thesis Title: Three Dimensional Seismic Behaviour of Soil-Pile Interaction with Liquefaction Awarded in November 2009

Year

2006-2009

M. Tech

Soil Dynamics

Indian Institute of
Technology Roorkee

9.64/10

1st Class

2004 - 2006

B.E.

Civil
Engineering

Jalpaiguri Govt.
Engg. College
(University of North
Bengal)

84.93%

1st Class
(Gold Medalist)

1998 - 2002

PRESENT STATUS:

RESEARCH ACTIVITY:
POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH: University of Bristol, U.K. (From April 2012 to July
2013)Topic: Study of Lateral Pile-Soil-Interaction in Seismically Liquefiable Soils

Working as Assistant
Professor in the Department
of Civil Engineering,
MNIT Jaipur

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION: IIT Roorkee

Topic: Three Dimensional Seismic Behavior of Soil-Pile Interaction with Liquefaction
M.TECH DISSERTATION: IIT Roorkee
Topic: Seismic Response of Concrete Gravity Dam including Dam-ReservoirFoundation Interaction
Date of Birth:
AWARDS:
11th September, 1980
1. Awarded EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, U.K.)
fellowship for post-doctoral research in University of Bristol, U.K.
2. Awarded Indian Service of Engineers Prize for obtaining the highest C.G.P.A. in M.Tech (Dept. of Earthquake Engg.)
3. Awardee of prestigious DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsamt Dienst) Masters Research Scholarship. This is the Student Exchange Sandwich Program between IITs and German Universities
4. Gold medalist in Bachelor of Civil Engineering, University of North Bengal.

In prefabricated
construction, most of the
building parts are
transported to the site,
lifted into place by
a crane and bolted
together

Prefabrication is the practice of assembling components of a structure in a factory or

other manufacturing site, and transporting complete assemblies or sub-assemblies to
the construction site where the structure is to be located. The term is used to distinguish this process from the more conventional construction practice of transporting
the basic materials to the construction site where all assembly is carried out.
An example from house-building illustrates the process of prefabrication. The conventional method of building a house is to transport bricks, timber, cement, sand,
steel and construction aggregate, etc. to the site, and to construct the house on site
from these materials. In prefabricated construction, only the foundations are constructed in this way, while sections of walls, floors and roof are prefabricated
(assembled) in a factory (possibly with window and door frames included), transported to the site, lifted into place by a crane and bolted together.
Advantages and characteristics
Short mounting period compared to capital projects
Year-round erection
Possibility of erection in areas where traditional construction is not possible or
difficult to perform
High degree of fabrication
Modern finishing materials, good workmanship
Operating temperature range +45C to -55C
Seismic and freeing/thawing resistance

Drafting & Designing

AutoCAD The most popular drafting software developed and sold by Autodesk is
also one of oldest drafting software in the industry. With its first release dated in December, 1982 the latest version of this flagship design program AutoCAD 2014 is the
28th release. While this software serves the basic purpose of drafting, more dedicated suite for civil engineering is AutoCAD Civil 3D. This package supports Building
Information Modelling (BIM) workflows along with drafting and documentation.

FreeCAD As the name suggests, FreeCAD is a free general purpose 3D CAD

modeller. Although this software is utilized by mechanical engineers the most, but it
also fits in civil engineering industry. This software is in beta stage but downloads are
available for all major platforms on its website.
Revit structure This product by Autodesk is capable of 4D BIM. The tem 4D refers
to the fourth dimension, time. It helps in designing the structure and visualizing it over
a duration of events and activity during the construction process. It vastly improves
the construction management and delivery of the project.

Structure Analysis Software

Designing and drafting models
have never been so easy, with
the advent of newer soft wares
and designing tools; the industry requires more and more
skilled job force, especially one
that is handy with many a soft
skills and analysis experts, to
easily conceptualize the on
field conditions in an AC office
with high tech equipment and
computers Here we describe a
few handy softwares in various
fields of civil engg. to grab a
good job offer (abroad or domestic) or a great research. If
you have any further queries
you can freely contact us
at :cruxmnit@gmail.com

STAAD The most widely used structural analysis and design software, it supports
traditional 1st order static , 2nd order p-delta & buckling analysis. With its direct links
to applications like RAM connections, STAAD.Foundation, STAAD.Tower etc. it helps
in in-depth analysis of structure.
SAP2000 & ETABS Developed by Computers and Structures, Inc. (CSI) these two
software are used worldwide for mathematical modelling of buildings. The most recent and tallest example is the Burj Khalifa, Dubai. These software are also capable of doing non-linear analysis of the structure.

Finite Element Modelling

These software package implements the finite element method for solving partial differential equations or aid in the analysis of finite element models.
ANSYS This is a popular CAE software widely used in automotive, aerospace, energy, electronics sector. It helps in making complex 3D composite parts and combining them into global assemblies. It also helps in computation of crack characteristics.

Abaqus FEA This software suite for finite element analysis and CAE consists of
four core productsCAE, CFD, Standard, Explicit; Combining all of them helps this
35 year old flagship to stay popular among academic and research institutions apart
from the regular industries.

Highway Design
Bentley InRoads & MXROADThe two infrastructure designing software are used for road and highway designing.
They help in Survey, data acquisition and terrain modeling. Geometric design, storm and sanitary sewer
layout and design and MXROADs integration with Google Earth makes these
two unique.

Others
LaTeX LaTeX helps the author to focus on the content instead of its visual
presentation. The familiar structure of chapter, section, tables, figure, etc are
used in this program. Wikipedia also uses LaTeX for the formulae and equations on its page.
MS Project A project management software designed in developing plans,
assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and
analyzing workloads.
Primavera- Launched in 1983, this software package provides project and
program management software for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression

and knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
As we all know that on every 5th of
September in the memory of Dr.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan we celebrate teachers' day .The year by
gone saw, as a mark of gratitude to
our beloved teachers the students celebrating teachers' day for two days
i.e 20th and 23rd of September 2013 .
For the evening of 20th September we had a tree plantation drive in our
civil department courtyard where we embarked our voyage of making the
campus green and clean. It was inaugurated by Prof. Sudhir Kumar, H.O.D. of Civil Engineering Department.
After that we had a sports eve for our teachers in which there was three match series of volleyball , badminton ,billiards and many more sports. It was followed by a cultural night celebration on 23rd of September, which
had lots of cultural activities for the teachers as well as for the students .The night included blend of music with
dance and melodious songs sung by the students. Alongside there were interesting games for the teachers.
All the teachers present there performed, too came out from their comfort zone of teaching and showed their
great talent and vocation through their
singing ,poem compositions skills and
a lot more . Here we have some
glimpses of the day of celebration.

MNIT, Jaipur is not just about technical skills

or opulent placements. Being a world leader
in higher education, students of this prestigious institution develop cognitive intelligence,
emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence
and most importantly social intelligence.
Showcasing their skills and a strong will to
contribute to the society, 60 bright students of
MNIT, Jaipur came together to form a social group - PANKH and participated in
REFORM'N'ATION, an event organized at the Techfest of IIT Bombay.
Spanning a period of two months the group conducted 100 tasks including Medical camp in Rajeev Nagar ,Awareness camps in the institute , Cloth collection
camp ,books and toys donation camp in Malaviya Nagar, street play at Jawahar
Circle and Gaurav Tower and received wide appreciation and encouragement
from all sections of the society. The initiative
started with an intent to win but with time metamorphosed with an intent to contribute. The whole Institute, from students to staff, dwelt deep into the mood of
social empowerment. And to everyone's surprise, a seemingly difficult task
turned out to be a blessing in disguise. These were one of the most memorable
moments for all those who were associated with it..
But this initiative will not have a substantial change in the society if this group of
60 students does not become a group of 600 and then the entire MNIT family.

Know Your LabsPart 2

Laboratories form an integral part of good technical education. And we are lucky to have
state of the art labs equipped with latest instruments and apparatus in our Civil Engineering
Department. This series explores the number and capacity of our labs.
Road Material Testing Lab
Transportation Engineering is one of the Core subjects for a civil engineer, especially when
its case of designing and constructing efficient transport networks. The concrete-mix design
and road materials testing play a very important part in determining the very functionality
and durability of the road as a whole. Our lab is furnished with all the latest possible equipments and is a hub for research scholars and industries and government organisations
which depend on it for testing and consultancy. To name a few state of the art instruments
and machines:
1. California Bearing Ratio Machine 2. Impact Testing Machine
3. Los Angeles Testing
4. Aggregate Impact Value Test
5. Marshall Test

A STUDY OF TEMPORAL VARIATION OF WATER INFLOW TO RAMGARH AND

BISALPUR DAM
Declining trend of water inflow is being observed in the dams of Rajasthan state, which is
impacting on the water supply planning of the state. Rajasthan is a semi arid state; it faces
acute water shortage in most of the years. The variation of water inflow in the dam creates a
5th International
very sensible situation for the Government of Rajasthan.
Conference on
rchitecture, Civil
A paper entitled "Helpline for water leakages: A solution to the water crisis." was published
& Environmental
and presented in the India Water Week-2013 organized by Central Water Commission, MinisEngineering ACEE
try of Water Resources, Government of India. Paper entitled "Feasibility analysis for construc11th October,
tion of new dams in Rajasthan State." was submitted to the Central Board of Irrigation and
2014, New Delhi.
Power, thereafter approval it was sent to the International Commission of Large Dams. The
paper was accepted for publication and presentation at ICOLD-2014 at Bali, Indonasia. Paper International Conentitled "Declining Trend of Water Inflow in the Dams of Rajasthan State" was published in
ference on SustainInternational Journal of Technology (2014) 1: 1421.
able Civil Infrastructure ICSCI
This research work is being conducted by Naveen Kumar Gupta (2011RCE7135) under guidOct 17-18, 2014.
ance of Dr. A.S.Jethoo, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Department, MNIT, Jaipur. Presently research scholar Naveen Kumar Gupta is working as Executive Engineer in
Water Resources Department of the Government of Rajasthan.
Credits:
Shreyash Gupta, IV Yr
Shashwat Bhardwaj, IV Yr
Chitresh Kashyap, IV Yr
Megha Chauhan, IV Yr
Shubham Goswami, III Yr
Pushkal Agrawal, III Yr
Neha Nande, III Yr
Kalzang A C Bhutia, III Yr

Faculty Coordinator:
Dr. Sandeep Chaudhary
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