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CIVIL REMARKS The News Bulletin from Sri Sairam Engineering

College

Department of Civil Engineering Shaping Minds…Reshaping India…

Vol: 5 | June’13 – May’14

Contents Vision

Mission

Industrial Visits

Project Expo 2014

Guest Lectures Organized

Student Articles

Students Articles

Skill Upgradation

Faculty Members

Department Achievements

Dr.C.V.Jayakumar Principal - SSEC

Prof.S.Kandasamy HOD - Civil Engg.

The truly educated individuals are capable of doing new things: they have the

ability to generate ideas & turn them into the reality. Today’s values based

education is an approach to prepare them for the practice at the professional

level & sure the Department of Civil Engineering offers the value in all aspect.

And sure this would be in high aspiration to showcase their work. I wish all

them the very best.

Welcome to the eighth issue of Concrete News, which highlights the achievements of the Civil Engineering Department at Sri Sairam Engineering College. Academic year 2014 -15 was a semester of great achievements and carried on the momentous journey of the department Vision. As always, this year also saw our students bringing laurels to the institute by winning prestigious awards and prizes in various competitions. Once you read it, I’m sure you’ll find them more than deserving of such an honor for the achievers.

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SEMINARS/CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/TRAINNING / PROGRAMMES

ACADAMIA: A CONFLUENCE OF IDEAS

Department of Civil Engineering - CIVIL REMARKS / JUNE ’13 – MAY ’14

VISION

To create competent Civil engineers with ethical

values and social responsibility accomplishing

societal needs and skill development in

sustainable infrastructure development through

innovative and responsible use of technology

with a sense of humanity.

MISSION

To create and provide a platform for

continuous learning and sharing of knowledge

in modern technological developments.

To encourage research activities with well-

equipped laboratories to exhibit their true

potential.

To inculcate ethical and moral values to

become responsible engineers and better

human being.

INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO L&T

MANAPAKKAM

SEC-CE has arranged Industrial Visit for the

Second Year Students to L&T CAMPUS at

Manappakkam, Chennai on 5th February 2014.

L&T's Construction's Headquarters at

Manapakkam in Chennai is acknowledged as an

'Outstanding Corporate Green Campus'. It is

spread over 27 acres, amidst scenic eco-friendly

surroundings with ample greenery. Almost every

concrete structure in the campus has won

prestigious awards for excellence in construction

and has green features which add to its aesthetic

value.

The Holck-Larsen Centre is a corporate museum,

the two storied elliptical structure with a built-up

area of 12,000 sq.ft (1,115 sq.m), is a one of its

kind museum in the country. Designed as an oval

glass enclosure, the building has a 6.1m high

spider glazing system with 12mm thick

toughened glass all around. A huge oval concrete

roof terminates the two-floor building. It is

treated as a penthouse with a terrace garden, a

lobby and a well-appointed auditorium. A

freestanding staircase connects the ground, first

floor and terrace. A unique feature of its

landscape comprises two large water bodies with

cascades and parasol-shaped structures around the

periphery which acts as both seating

arrangements and as effective rain water

harvesting structures.




SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT,

NESAPAKKAM

Our department students from III Year, visited

the sewage treatment plant, Nesapakkam,

Chennai, on 23rd January, 2014. The students got

the opportunity to visualize the primary,

secondary and tertiary treatment processes & got

the chance of attaining practical knowledge about

the subject.

Sewage treatment is the process of removing

contaminants from wastewater, primarily from

household sewage. It includes physical, chemical

and biological processes to remove these

contaminants and produce environmentally safer

treated wastewater. Sewage treatment generally

involves three stages, called primary, secondary

and tertiary treatment.

The students have participated in the site-visit and

the site-visit has performed in two shift for the

benefit of the students and for the better

understanding of the working of the plant. After

reaching there the students were made to closely

examine all the units and machineries. The

students took a round of the site with the

supervising faculties.

They were introduced to various grit chambers,

settling tank and screens and they observed the

working of the sewer treatment plant. The

wastewater system for the city has been divided

into five drainage zones. These zones of macro

systems covering the entire city had independent

zonal collections, conveyance, treatment and

disposal facilities. Zone–IV is the smallest of the

macro systems lying to the Southwest of the City.

The areas covered are Ashok Nagar, Saidapet,

Jafferkhanpet, K.K. Nagar and Nesapakkam. The

wastewater generated in this Zone is conveyed to

the treatment plant at Nesapakkam (Zone–IV

Plant) which was commissioned in the year 1974

for the capacity of 23 MLD. The Zone IV

commissioned with 40 MLD capacities in 2006

and with 54 MLD capacities in 2014.




PROJECT EXPO 2014

Project Expo 2014 was conducted on 28th March,

2014 in which our final year students presented

their project work. The judges were Mr.

Arumuga Perumal, Technical Manager, Ready

Mix Concrete India, Chennai and Dr. R.Ganesh,

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,

Velammal Engineering College, College.

SEMINAR & GUEST LECTURES

ORGANIZED

Association of Civil Engineers has organized

two days AICTE sponsored national seminar on

“Environmental Issues and Sustainable

Development”. The event was inaugurated by

Chief Guest Er.S.SenthilKumar, Chairman, Ganga

Foundation, Chennai, xxx, on 11th & 12th

November 2013 at Sigma Auditorium. The

Chief Guests was honored with a shawl and

memento by Dr. C.V.Jayakumar, Principal &

Professor. S. Kandasamy, HOD/Civil.

Association of Civil Engineers has organized guest

lecture on “Practical Aspects of Concrete Mix

Design”. The event was inaugurated by Chief

Guest Er.G.Arumugaperumal, Manager, RMC

India, at Sigma Auditorium. The Chief Guests was

honored with a shawl and memento by Dr.

C.V.Jayakumar, Principal &

Professor . S. Kandasamy, HOD/Civil.

STUDENTS ARTICLES

FARMERS’ SUICIDES

Farmers committing suicide can be a truly

embarrassing situation for any society. The issues

compelling the farmers to commit suicide are

required to be paid attention immediately, as the




farmers toil tirelessly to produce grain for us

without which we can’t survive. In recent times

the statistics have depicted an alarming rate of the

incidents of farmers committing suicide in India

which has become a matter of grave concern. If

we fail to give timely attention to this growing

issue, the situation may get even worse and the

nation will have to pay very grave socio-

economic costs.

The students are required to properly understand

the reasons why the farmers are taking such

drastic steps like committing suicide. They are

also required to delve deeply into this matter of

grave concern to reach a solution. Here we are

providing articles on the issue of farmers’ suicide

while recommending solutions at the same time

in 300, 500, 600 and 800 words in simple

language. These are equally useful for the

students as well as the other people.

- S. Gautham, III Year Civil

DESIGN OF PRECAST BUILDING FOR

RAPID CONSTRUCTION

This paper gives an account of a study of rapid

construction technique using precast members is

proposed in which design of hybrid structural

frame, consisting of cast-in-situ footing and

column, partially precast and partially prestressed

beam, and prestressed precast hollow core slab is

undertaken. The site under construction at

Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai is considered for study

purpose. The project aims to study the

construction of Precast and cast-in-situ building

and designing the same to compare the results.

Although, pre-stressed precast concrete buildings

however utilized all through the world has not

discovered its legitimate spot in Indian

construction scenario. Regardless of its incredible

points of interests like speed, quality, and

economy in development it is yet to become

regular with architects, builders, and Government

organisations. In spite of the fact that it has gotten

to be standard item for metro, mono rails, bridges,

and infrastructure projects on account of its

intrinsic advantages over traditional construction.

The current practice in India is the cast-in-situ

(CIS) reinforced concrete structures. The other

construction methodology is using structural

steel. In general, most residential and commercial

projects are CIS in nature.

Steel structures are restricted to industrial

projects. The ratio between CIS and steel

structures is approximately 70:30. The third




construction is using precast concrete. Most of us

have played with Lego toys as a child. We can

envision the future of construction just the same.

With the economic contribution of about 11% in

the nations GDP, construction industry seeks a

rapid development in its technology, which is

also required to keep up its growth phase. In this

line, Indian construction industry now marches

towards high-rise construction in housing &

commercial buildings. Especially, for commercial

and residential building construction, precast is

increasingly seen as an economic, and high

quality option.

The present economic growth demands faster

construction without losing quality aspects and

without project delay, project cost outfit in labour

shortage or similar related construction

uncertainties. One of the only real disadvantages

to CIS concrete is the high amount of labour it

requires. Builders must first construct forms for

the structure they plan to cast and then install the

forms and mix the concrete, pouring the concrete

& waiting time to remove the forms all takes time

that extends the length of a construction job and

results in more hourly pay for work crews,

dependency on workmanship, environment and

other factors. Even advanced techniques like

aluminium forms takes 12-14 days slab cycle

time. This further justifies the use of precast

technology.

- S. Deepika III Year Civil

SKILL UPGRADATION - FACULTY

MEMBERS

Ms. R.Pamila& Ms. A.Sujaatha, attended

workshop on “Environmental Vigilance on Water

and Energy Resources” at SRM University,

Kattankulathur, Chennai, on 22nd March,2014.

Ms.A.Sujaatha, AP has attended Training

Program on “Environmental Vigilance on Water

& Energy Resources” held on 22nd March, 2014

at SRM University, Chennai.




DEPARTMENT ACHIVEMENTS

SEC - CE is proud to inform that 7 students of Batch 2009 -2013 had secured University Ranks in Anna

University Examinations.

DYANA JOSELINE GAYATHRI K SRI DHARSHINI M SHANMUGA PRIYA D

RANK- 5 RANK- 25 RANK- 31 RANK- 32

TAMIL SELVAN KR NAVEEN KUMAR S RABIYATHUL BHASARIYA A

RANK- 41 RANK- 44 RANK- 30

Sri Sairam Engineering College (Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai & Approved by AICTE, New Delhi)

Sai Leo Nagar, West Tambaram, Chennai – 600 044, Tamil Nadu. India Editorial Team

Chief Editors: Prof.S.Kandasamy & Ms.R.Pamila,

Stduent Editors: A S Navin - IV Year Civil, S Raghavendran - IV Year Civil

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