A TEQIP III sponsored one week STTP on 'Laboratory Methods for Water & Wastewater Analysis and Air Quality Monitoring' was organized by Civil Engg. Dept. from 20th May to 24th May 2019. Pure water and air are backbone of healthy life and balanced, healthy ecosystems. In this era of development and Industrialization, a big threat of degradation of quality of water and air is prevailing. Similarly, treating wastewater properly is of prime importance too. This STTP was designed to give a sound knowledge and training of the various laboratory techniques for water & wastewater analysis and air quality monitoring.The STTP covered vast range of topics related to analytical techniques for water, wastewater and air quality. About 30 candidates including faculty, research scholars and M.Tech. students of

various colleges had registered for the STTP.The candidates were enlightened by various in house as well as external experts from NEERI. The in house faculty included Dr. M. V. Latkar, Dr. Kartik B. And Dr. D. H. Lataye. Practical training sessions were conducted in Environmental Chemistry laboratory and Air Pollution Control Laboratory. The experts from NEERI, Nagpur were Dr. K. V. George, Dr. Kanade and Dr. Anirban Middey.

Sthapatya

Editorial

It is a great pleasure to present before you the second issue of 'Sthapatya, the quarterly newsletter of Civil Engineering Department,VNIT-Nagpur.The current newsletter highlights the activities of our students and the achievements of faculties during the past three months.It also features visits by eminent persons from India and abroad to the

department of Civil Engineering-VNITNagpur.The dynamism of the department is clearly reflected through the awards that our faculties and students have bagged in their credit.The main intent of 'Sthapatya' is to disseminate information about our Department. We hope that the readers find the issue informative and useful.We are thankful to the faculty and staff of Civil Engineering Department for their valuable inputs,and we welcome suggestions and feedback that will help to improve further.

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

A newsletter from Civil Engineering Department, VNIT, Nagpur, Issue 2 MAY'19

Field Visit To Sitabuldi Metro StationM.Tech Students (CTM And TRE)

The Department of Civil Engineering organized a field visit to Metro Operation system at Sitabuldi Metro Station for Post Graduate Students of Construction Management and Transportation Engineering by Dr Srinivasan and Dr Raghuram. From this visit, the students have understand how a metro rail is operated by different signal system from control room to rail. In general, schedule of trains are loaded in the server of central control room and from here data is sent to trains through the Wifi. Beacons are installed on the track to locate the position of train. Each wagon when passes through the track transmits some rays on to the beacon and each beacon is numbered with the tag, when the rays fall on beacon they read the number and identify the position of trains. Each train position is sent to others trains with a +5 m correction on the front

and rear end of trains. In case of failure of beacons reading the data, axle counters are installed to locate the position of train. They count the number of axles passing through them and identify the position of train. Each control station is backed up with a sub control station and it is backed up with a station control room. Probability of failure all at once is 1 in 10^12. Maximum speed for which Nagpur metro designed is 80 kmph. Train follow the acceleration and deceleration curve to speed up and control the trains. In case of manual operation speed is limited to 25 kmph. Nagpur metro can be driverless but they are assigned with drivers and drivers are given 2 operations to perform. One is to close the doors of metro before departure and next operation is press the depart button. Beacons help in stooping the train in position with the marked points. In case of fire the train reduces the speed and stops in next station. Probability of unsafe failure is 1 in 10^9 hours (once in 100 years). In general we Indians design the system for to avoid the failures and thus provide backups whereas the foreign countries design a system efficiently so that no failures occurs.

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Dr. Ana Bras, Associate Professor, Department of Built Environment, Liverpool John Moore's University, UK visited VNIT on May 16-17, 2019 for the track development of on-going collaborative R & D Project funded under Global Challenge Research Fund Scheme of British

thCouncil. Half a day symposium was organized on 17 May in association with Indian Concrete Institute, Nagpur Chapter. I objective was to brief the field experts about the novel construction materials and understand the perception of filed experts about transfer of technology from Laboratory to Field. In all around 20 delegates participated in the event. The Indian Project Investigators Dr. R V Ralegaonkar, Dr. M. V Madurwar and Dr. V A Mhaisalkar participated and coordinated the event.

The first GIAN course of the Civil Engineering Department was conducted by the course co-ordinators, Dr. Magesh Madurwar and Dr. Rahul Ralegakar during May 06 to 11, 2019. The course was conducted on the topic “Global Perspective To Achieve Low Carbon Built Environment”. The topic mainly covered the concepts of carbon footprint, sustainable technologies, energy efficiency, and the waste minimization. Many innovative ways of learnings were incorporated in the course. Dr. Anil Kashayp, Head, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England,

Bristol was the foreign speaker invited for the event. Around 30 participants were registered for the course

Construction Industry Development Council recently honored Dr. Swapnil P Wanjari, Assistant Professor in Civil th

Engineering,Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur,with 11 CIDC Vishwakarma Awards 2019.

Visit of Dr. Ana Bras to VNIT On May 16-17, 2019 For Workshopwith ICI stakeholders

GIAN Course on Global Perspective to Achieve Low Carbon Built Environment

FACULTYACHIEVEMENTS

Dr Rajesh Gupta, Head, Department of Civil Engineering was invited as Moderator and conducted a session in ASCE-EWRI 2019 World Environmetal and Water Resources Congress at Pittsburgh, USA during 19-23 May 2019. More than 1000 deleagtes from all over the world attended the congress. Papers were presented in parallel sessions in 16 different tracks.

v Dr. Rajesh Gupta and his PhD Scholar Dr. R. D. Jadhao recived Dr. P. R. Bhave Memorial Prize for the best paper for his paper on Study of leakage reduction in water distribution network through pressure management published in April-June 2017 issue of Indian Water Works Association.

v Dr. Ashwini B Mirajkar presented her paper titled “Assessing impact of climate change on rainfall for a sub basin of Godavari using statistical downscaling” at World Environmental and Water Resources Congress-2019 held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA organized by American Society of Civil Engineers during 19-23 May 2019.

Dr. Mangesh V. Madurwar, assistant professor in the Department of Civil engineering has been awarded for “Building Energy Efficiency Higher and Advanced Network (BHAVAN)” Fellowship Program. The awarded fellowship is to be held at the University of Texas, at Arlington (UTA) for the duration of six months. Dr. Mangesh Madurwar will be visiting UTA from July to December 2019

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Dr. Rajesh Gupta and Dr. A B Mirajkar along with Research Associate Dr. Swetha Rathi and Research scholar Ms.Saranya C Nair attended and presented their papers in World Environmental and Water Resources Congress-2019 held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA organized by American Society of Civil Engineers during 19-23 May 2019

CONFERENCE ATTENDEDCONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

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Dr. Shweta Rathi and Dr Rajesh Gupta , of Civil Engineering Department presented their paper titled “Comparison Of Variance Of Pipe Flow-Series with other Surrogate Reliability Parameters” at World Environmental and Water Resources Congress-2019 held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA organized by American Society of Civil Engineers.

Ms. Saranya C Nair and Dr. Ashwini B Mirajkar,of Civil Engineering Department presented their paper titled “ Understanding the impact of Land Use - Land Cover changes in the climatic variability of Wainganga basin, Central India.” at World Environmental and Water Resources Congress-2019 held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA organized by American Society of Civil Engineers.

Tulshidas Jibhakate, M- tech student of WRE at World Environmental and Water Resources Congress-2019 held at

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA organized by American Society of Civil Engineers.

presented poster titled "Sediment deposition studies for jayakwadi (Nathsagar) reservoir, Maharashtra (India)"

RESEARCH SCHOLARS DEFENDED

v Ritesh Ingale, under the guidance of Dr. Anjan Patel successfully defended on his research entitled “Advanced Geotechnical Applications of Bender-Extender Elements and Interpretations” on 26 April 2019.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

v TEQIP-III Sponsored One-week Short Term Training Programme on Environmental Systems Modeling and Design During July 1-5, 2019. Co-ordinators: S R Dongre & Rajesh Gupta.

v Five Days Short Term Training Programme on Modelling Issues of Soil Structure Interaction Problem 08th 12th July 2019 at VNIT, Nagpur. Co-ordinators: S A Adhikary & A B Mirajkar.

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Student Name GATE

Score

1 Beeram Venkata Vijaya

Kumar Reddy 526

2 Nagineni Abhilash 4263 Ashish KrushnaraoDaf 3764 Nishant 5485 Vinod Meena 3006 Chetan Kumar Meena 2557 Indra Singh

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8 Ereddy Ramana Reddy 352

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Student Name GATE

Score9 Sushma Thota

337

10 SaiprakashValpadasu 63611 Rohit Sunil Dhanawade 64112 Kosuri Mamatha 54813 TelangSuhashyaHiraman 42214 Tanmay Sanjay Akkewar 49315 PadhyeKedar Vikas

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16 Pranay Dipak Nagpure

33317 Swapnil Naresh Naranje 250

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TESTING & CONSULTANCY PROJECTS

Testing and Consultancy Record March, April, May 2019 with amount more than 5 lakhs

Sr.No.

Date CE.NO. Name Of Faculty

Amount

1

01/03/2019

4272

A.G. Tawlare 5,90,000

2

25/03/2019

4322

A.G. Tawlare 5,07,400

3

25/03/2019

4323

A.G. Tawlare 11,80,000

4

15/04/2019

4352

V.S. Landge

9,26,890

5

25/04/2019

4368

D.H. Lataye

5,10,000

6

16/05/2019

4398/4399

A.G. Tawlare ,S.P. Wanjari

6,60,800

Total 43,75,090/-

Total Testing and Consultancy for the department from March 2019 to May 2019 is Rs.1,18,35,974/-

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

v1-5, 2019 Co-ordinators: S R Dongre & Rajesh Gupta.

v Five Days Short Term Training Programme on Modelling Issues of Soil Structure Interaction Problem 08th 12th July 2019 at VNIT, Nagpur Co-ordinators: S A Adhikary & A B Mirajkar.

TEQIP-III Sponsored One-week Short Term Training Programme on Environmental Systems Modeling and Design During July

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL ARTICLESAbhay Tawalare and Boeing Laishram, (2019) “Relational contracting in public sector construction organisations: Evidence from India”, International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, Vol. 5 (2), Pg. 206 to 221.

Abhay Tawalare, (2019) “Identification of Risks for Indian Highway Construction” WMCAUS 2018, Materials Science and Engineering 471 (2019) 102003.

Shweta Rathi, Rajesh Gupta, Nikita Palod and Lindell Ormsbee(2019). Minimizing the Variance of Flow Series using Genetic Algorithm for Reliability-based design of Looped Water Distribution Networks. Engineering Optimization

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CONFERENCE ARTICLES

CONFERENCE ARTICLESAiswarya A Kumar, M.V. Latkar “Application of biocementation to strengthen cement mortar”, International conference on global environmental changes and sustainable development- ICGECSD-19, Ref No. CGECSD/SE/ 12, ISBN: 978-93-88122-07-8, April 4-5 2019.

Gupta, R., Upadhyaya, V., and Sudhan, V.K. (2019). "Optimal Layout and Sizing of Pipe Distribution Network considering Steiner Points". ASCE-EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Pittsburgh, USA.

Nair, S. C., and Mirajkar, A. B. (2019, May). Understanding the Impact of Land Use—Land Cover Changes in the Climatic Variability of Wainganga Basin, Central India. In World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019: Groundwater, Sustainability, Hydro-Climate/Climate Change, and Environmental Engineering (pp. 356-365). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers.

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BoS meeting was conducted in the Department on April 26, 2019. Schemes of B. Tech. is modified. Also, schemes and syllabus of all PG prgrams were reviewed and updated. Professor J. T. Shahu, IIT Delhi, Dr. Pawan Labhasetwar, Senior Scientist, NEERI, Prof. B.S. Murthy, IIT Chennai, Dr. Kumthekar, Principal, GEC, Nagpur were invited as experts in BoS meeting.

BoS MEETING

thDr. Udit Jain, faculty of the department got married on Sunday, 19 of May 2019. Hearty congratulations and wishing you a wonderful journey ahead.

EDITORIAL TEAM

Dr. A B MirajkarAssistant Professor

email:ashmirajkar@gmail.com

Saranya C NairResearchScholar

Email :saranyanair@students.vnit.ac.in