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Concrete Cafe

Grouting Gym

Gravel Garden

Seismic River

Tension Tower

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Patrons

Dr. Jitendra B. Patil - Campus Director

Mr. Rajesh Dubey

- H.O.D., Civil

POST BEARERS

Mr. Vighnesh Pandit - General Secretary

Mr. Shubham Sawant

- Joint Secretary

Mr. Chirag Shetty - Treasurer

Mr. Rahul Patil

- Technical Head

Mr. Pranav Tawale - Event Head

Mr. Praneeth Hegde

- Public Relation Officer

Mr. Sanket Darekar -Hospitality Head

Mr. Rohan Mahale -Discipline Head Mr. Chirag Gangani -Logistics Head

EDITORS

Mr. Jay Jagada

Ms. Neha Jagdale

Ms. Bhagyashree Keny

FACULTY ADVISORS

Mr. Sagar Butle

Mr. Shreyans Dodia

Mr. Asir Khan

Department Vision

To excel in every area of Civil Engineering, inculcate research oriented study to explore hidden talent.

Providing Opportunity to display creativity, out of the box thinking & innovativeness, aimed at providing cutting edge technology for sustainable development.

Department Mission

Providing qualified, motivated faculties to deliver the content

using updated teaching methodology, inviting industry experts from various areas to disseminate subject knowledge in Civil Engineering.

Motivating students to undertake the Research Oriented studies, participate in competitions at all levels, grasping new techniques and methods which can be improved on further.

Conducting and participating in seminars, workshops and training programs with a view to make the students industry ready and improve their employability factor for global career ahead.

To create quality professionals capable of planning, designing and analytical skills for better infrastructural development in the field of Civil Engineering.

Gol Gumbaz

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Editor’s Desk

We are pleased to present the November 2019 Edition of Benchmark. The

highlights of this edition are Industrial Visit to Bhandardara Dam and other

seminars conducted in the month of October. A beautiful article about the

architectural marvel “Gol Gumbaz” is also included.

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Gol Gumbaz

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Overview Photos The Gol Gumbaz is the mausoleum of King

Mohammed Adil Shah, Sultan of Bijapur. The construction of the tomb, located in Vijayapura (formerly Bijapur), Karnataka, India, was started in 1626 and completed in 1656. The name is based on Gola gummata derived from Gol Gombadh meaning

“circular dome”. It follows the style of Indo-Islamic architecture. The Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur in Karnatak was built in the 17th century A.D. This grand building houses the burial of Mohammed Adil Shah of Bijapur.

Even a slight whisper by a person standing in this gallery can be heard everywhere and if somebody claps from here its echo can be heard many times.

History and Descreption:-

The structure is composed of a cube, 47.5m on each side, capped by a roof 44 m in external diameter. Eight intersecting arches created by two rotated squares that create interlocking pendentives support the dome. At each of the four corners of the cube, is a dome capped octagonal tower seven storeys high with a staircase inside. The upper floor of each tower opens on to a round gallery which surrounds the dome. The dome is one of the largest domes constructed before the modern era & the largest in existence when it was built.

Inside the mausoleum hall, is a square podium with steps on each side. In the middle of the podium, a cenotaph slab on the ground marks the actual grave below, “the only instance of this practice” in the architecture of the Deccan sultanates. In the middle of the north side, ‘a large semi-octagonal bay” protrudes out. With an area of 18000sq ft, the mausoleum has one of the biggest single chamber spaces in the world. Running around the inside of the dome is the whispering gallery where even the softest sound can be heard on the other side of the mausoleum due to the acoustics of the space.

There is a museum within the complex. The museum was established during British rule in 1892.

It was the burial place for the Sultan along with his two wives- Taj Jahan Begum, Aroos Bibi, his mistress Rambha, his daughter and grandson. The Gol Gumbaz was planned as a single mammoth structure, and till date remains one of the biggest domes in the world. The foundation of the tomb is rested on the bedrock.

The style of architecture of the building is taken from Deccan Indo – Islamic styling and is inspired by the Taj Mahal in Agra.

Delaware Aqueduct (New York City)- longest pumping tunnel. It extends upto

137 km in length, and is longest in the world.

DID YOU KNOW?

Plan of Gol Gumbaz

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Bhandardara Dam

The department of Civil Engineering (UCoE) organized a two days industrial visit to Bhandardara Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant (9th October-10th October 2019) for B.E. & T.E. Civil Engineering students. The visit was organized keeping in mind the University guidelines and recommendations on syllabus for the B.E. & T.E. Civil undergraduates. The on-site Dam engineer provided an informative guidance which followed a practice based learning approach for the students, sharing his knowledge from the field.

History:

The dam of Bhandardara (also known as the “Wilson Dam”) was built during the British period by Sir Arthur Wilson, Chief Engineer of the British Empire in India. The dam is famous for its natural scenery and is a very attractive tourist destination in the state of Maharashtra.

In 1907, the British conducted a survey of the area for irrigation and the project was sanctioned by August 1907 and later completed by 3rd April 1910. The dam is constructed on river Pravara and lies between the Kalsubai mountain range in the North and Baleshwar mountain range in the South. The average elevation of the area is between 900 m-1050 m and the natural dam receives heavy rainfall (average of 508.9 mm) during season. The capacity of this dam was further increased in the year 1921 and its irrigation was extended up to the Shrirampur Tahasil. In 1925, a supporting wall was erected to increase the capacity of the reservoir.

Purpose:

- Mainly for irrigation and supply of water for agriculture (holds three sugar factories, four paper mills and a cotton mill with an approximate 40 village study area)

- Multipurpose project: also a Hydroelectric Power Generator and supplier of drinking water

The journey commenced at 7 am and all the students checked in the hotel and after lunch they were taken to visit the hydroelectric power plant.

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Industrial Visit Photos

Bhandardara Dam

Water Turbine

Penstock

Scratch Your Head !!

1) Cohesionless soils are called ?

Sands

Silts

Clays

Silts & clays

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Continued….

The tour was conducted in the batch of 20 students inside the turbine station. The instructor showed each and every part of the plant along with its uses which are:

Hydroelectric Power Plant

The water flowing comprises of kinetic and potential energies. In the Hydroelectric Power Plant this potential energy is utilized to produce electricity.

There are eight important components of the Hydroelectric Power Plant:

Sr. No.

Component Technical Details. Description

1 Dam Height 250-ft. & Cost Rs. 70.86 Lakhs in

1907

Located where the height of Pravara River is sufficiently high to get the maximum possible

potential energy from the water.

2 Water

reservoir

Gross Storage 312.63 MCM (Million Cubic

Meter)

The place behind the dam where the water is stored.

3 Intake or

control gate

Size Of Gate 2.90 X 4.87 Meters with Hoist

Capacity of 50 Ton

The gates built on the inside of the dam. The water from the reservoir is released and

controlled through these gates

4 Penstock Dia.: 3 Meters,

Length.: 319.8 Meters

A long pipe or shaft that carries the water flowing from the reservoir towards the power

generation unit.

5 Water turbine

Vertical Francis Turbine, Speed:

428RPM, Head: 69 Meters

The water flowing from the penstock is allowed to enter the power generation unit

that comprises of the turbines and generator

6 Generators 3 Phase Synchronous Generator, Rating 12

MW

Electricity is produced here. The shaft of the water turbine rotates and produces alternating currents in the coil of the

generator

7 Transformer Capacity: 17.5 MVA Voltage is stepped up by means of

Transformer

8 Tailrace At RL-670.50M Water that has been used to rotate the

turbine blades and shaft leaves the power generation unit through this pipeline

As the day schedule was completed the students headed back to the resort for some

recreation. Next day the last stop was to visit the spillway gate of the dam after visiting and gaining knowledge about it the students did some fun activities such as boating on the river.

To Conclude

The entire basin map of river Pravara was studied initially. A thorough understanding of the theoretical knowledge of an actual dam site was carried out. The Over flow, non-Overflow sections of the dam were drawn and an analysis of the maintenance of the gates of the dam through the moving or lifting of girders was done. Learning of the Spillway details and their operating system and the intake of water from U/S of the dam to power station by penstock pipe was investigated. Details of the power station i.e. turbines and their working were studied at a greater extent.

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It gives us immense pleasure to inform on behalf of Department of Civil Engineering that

following students from Final Year (Civil) got placement in ELEATION – Pune as Trainee Engineers

with a package of 3.8 LPA.

- PRATHAMESH RAVINDRA MUNDYE

- BHAVIN RATIBHAI CHAUHAN

- JAY NAGJI PARMAR

- TUSHAR GUNVANT CHOTALIYA

- VARAD UMESH GADGIL

One of TE student got paid Internship offer in the same company,

- MAYUR SANKPAL

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Placement Update

Accomodation: Yash Resort, Bhandardara, Nashik

Number of students for Visit: 93

Faculty in charges:

Mr. Asir Khan, Ms. Mitali Poojari, Ms. Shilpa Patil, Mr. Nikhil Sontakke, Mr. Shreyans Dodia,

Mr. Swapnil Wani

Group Photo: Students & Faculty members

DID YOU KNOW?

The tallest turbine in the world: Vestas V164 in Belgium has rotor tips that reach over 220 meters (722 feet) above the ground.

Seminar on “System Analysis Program”

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Scratch Your Head !!

2) Chemical Weathering of Soil is caused due to?

Oxidation

Hydration

Carbonation

All of these

Seminars are a vital part of the Department of Civil Engineering so as the trend goes on. A seminar on fundamentals of S.A.P. was organized by ACES and Dept. of Civil Engineering under IQAC on 18th October 2019.

Objectives of SAP seminar:

1. Give information on what SAP stands for? 2. How does it work? 3. What is ERP? 4. What are the typical challenges faced?

SAP ERP is an enterprise resource planning software developed by the German company SAP SE. SAP ERP incorporates the key business functions of an organization. The latest version of SAP ERP (V.6.0) was made available in 2006 & the most recent Enhancement Package (EHP8) for SAP ERP 6.0 was released in 2016.

Business Processes included in SAP ERP are Operations (Sales & Distribution, Materials Management, Production Planning, Logistics Execution, and Quality Management), Financials (Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Financial Supply Chain Management), Human Capital Management (Training, Payroll, e-Recruiting) and Corporate Services (Travel Management, Environment, Health and Safety, and Real-Estate Management).

It helps in:

Identifying optimal land and planning the construction product portfolio. Ensuring raw material spikes are mitigated to best possible. Mitigating project and cost over-runs. Delivery of milestones agreed upon. To ensure smooth fund flows etc.

Seminar also described the major loopholes, different modules of SAP. An active discussion among the students was carried out regarding the problems faced by an entrepreneur as well as the well established companies and what kind of solutions can be undertaken to solve the issues. The resource person of the seminar also explained the enterprise resource planning as well as the optimal utilization of any company directors.

The seminar was found to be very fruitful for the students of T.E and B.E. which provided adequate information about System Analysis Process.

Students Interaction during the SAP ERP Seminar

with Resource Person Mr. Pankaj Mishra.

Scratch Your Head !!

3) Soils are derived from?

Igneous Rocks

Metamorphic Rocks

Sedimentary Rocks

Any of these

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Around 125 students in Vidya Vikas Education Trust’s Universal College of

Engineering were taught to make Solar Lamps at a Workshop organized by The

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) where students were given hands on experience on

assembling a Solar Lamp.

The workshop was conducted on 2nd October, 2019 to commemorate 150th

Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi all over the world in 180 countries, targeting 1

million students who will be ‘Solar Ambassador’ of the world. The workshop was

conceptualized by IIT Mumbai under Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) of Government of

India. In this workshop students were made aware about the importance of Solar Urja

(Energy) and its sustainability.

Eight teaching faculties of Universal College of Engineering acted as trainers

to teach students assembling of lamps. Among 125 students, 60 students of

Department of Civil Engineering actively participated in the workshop. Faculty

coordinators were Mr. Sagar Butle & Mr. Swapnil Wani from Department of Civil

Engineering.

Innovation Cell under Department of Electronics and Telecommunication

extended their support in conducting the workshop successfully.

UBA Solar Workshop

Students & Faculty co-ordinators displaying assembled Solar Lamp

DID YOU KNOW?

The first self-proclaimed Civil Engineer was John Smeaton who constructed the Eddystone Lighthouse.

CANVAS

ANSWERS to “Scratch Your Head”

1) Sands

2) All of these

3) Any of these

Captured By

- Tejal Pawaskar

(B. E. Civil)

Captured By

Department of Civil Engineering wishes

“All the Best “

to all the students appearing for the Mumbai

University Nov-Dec 2019 Semester

Exams!!

“Don’t think about what can happen

in a month. Don’t think about what

can happen in a year. Just focus on

the 24 hours in front of you and do

what you can to get closer to where

you want to be.”

- Eric Thomas

“Strength does not come from

winning. Your struggles develop your

strengths. When you go through

hardships and decide not to

surrender, that is strength.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

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"The secret of health for both mind

and body is not to mourn for the

past, worry about the future, or

anticipate troubles, but to live in the

present moment wisely and

earnestly."

- Buddha

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