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CIVIL REMARKS The News Bulletin from Sri Sairam Engineering

College

Department of Civil Engineering Shaping Minds…Reshaping India…

Vol: 6 | June’14 – May’15

Contents Vision

Mission

Industrial Visits

Project Expo 2015

Guest Lectures Organized

Technical Symposium

MOU

Courses on Training using

STAAD PRO Architecture

Paper Published /

Presented

FDP

Student Articles

Skill Upgradation

Faculty Members

Students

Awards & Achievements

Academic

Co- Curricular

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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D e p a r t m e n t o f C i v i l E n g i n e e r i n g – C I V I L R E M A R K S

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ACADEMIA: A CONFLUENCE OF IDEAS SEMINARS / WORKSHOPS / PROGRAMMES

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 HYDRAULIC

RESEARCH STATION

SSEC-CE Third Year Students has visited for the

HYDRAULIC RESEARCH STATION at Poondi,

Chennai on 11, 13 & 14th August, 2014. This

Institute of Hydraulics and Hydrology, Poondi was

established as an Irrigation Research Station in 1944

at Poondi, a small village in Tiruvallur District, 60

KM from Chennai, adjoining Poondi reservoir

constructed across Kosasthalaiyar River for

providing drinking water supply to Chennai city.

There was uniform growth from 1944 to 1995 in the

development activities. But after the implementation

of Water Resources Consolidation Project from 1996

onwards,

there is rapid growth not only in providing

infrastructure facilities but also in research activities.

Activities of Water Resources Department (WRD)

involve tank system modernisation by restoring and

repairing water bodies and improving canal irrigation

system through repair and rehabilitation.

Under the project 5220 Tanks, 725 Anicuts and

8788.50 Km length of Supply Channels are being

rehabilitated for a value of Rs 1766.96 Crore. All

students were benefited.

GOVERNMENT MUSEUM AT EGMORE

SSEC-CE has arranged Industrial Visit for the

Second Year Students to GOVERNMENT


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MUSEUM at Egmore, Chennai on 25th September,

2014 & 1st October, 2014. The museum complex

consisting of six buildings and 46 galleries covers an

area of around 16.25 acres (66,000 m²) of land. The

objects displayed in the museum cover a variety of

artifacts and objects covering diverse fields including

archeology, numismatics, zoology, natural history,

sculptures, palm-leaf manuscripts and Amravati

paintings.

Located close to the main museum entrance gates on

Pantheon Road, the museum theatre is a rare

specimen of the Italianate style of architecture,

inspired by Classical architecture and developed in

1802 at Britain by John Nash. However, the theatre

was built by the British in the late 19th century when

this style was no longer popular in England. The

structure has a high plinth and is accessed through a

tall flight of stairs. It is primarily a semicircular

structure with a rectangular wing at the rear. The

latter wing now houses some of the galleries of the

museum. The main hall is accessed through a

verandah with a row of columns linked by

semicircular arches. The walls and columns are

embellished with floral and geometric designs.

The huge main hall was initially designed for staging

theatrical performances. It has around 600 seats and

a commodious stage and the actors' dressing rooms

adjoin this stage.

The museum has been using the theatre for its own

cultural and academic programs such as art

workshops, lectures and conferences. It also rents the

hall for various cultural performances, mainly

dramas. The hall has witnessed several plays

including those of Shakespeare.

PROJECT EXPO 2015

Project Expo 2015 was conducted on 18th March,

2015 in which our final year students presented

their project work. The judges were Dr. V.

Ramalingam, Director, Green Roofing’s Pvt

Ltd, Chennai and Dr. V. Thamilarasu,

Professor, SRM University Chennai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archeologyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numismaticshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoologyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_historyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculptureshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscripthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amravatihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italianatehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdomhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdomhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englandhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare


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GUEST LECTURES ORGANIZED

Association of Civil Engineers has organized

Guest lecture on “Role of architecture in

construction Industry”, the event was

inaugurated by Chief Guest Mr.N.Sundara

Narayanan, Chief Consultant, Civil Engineering

Enterprises Chennai, on 23 September 2014 at

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 “Environmental issues for

Sustainable development”, lecture was

presented by Dr.A.Abdul Rahman, Head,

Centre for research, CSIR-SERC Chennai on 17

February 2015 at Auditorium. The Chief Guests

was honored with a shawl and memento by Dr.

C.V.Jayakumar, Principal & Professor. S.

Kandasamy, HOD/Civil.

NATIONAL LEVEL TECHNICAL

SYMPOSIUM

Association of Civil Engineers has organized “A

National Level Technical Symposium

SAIPERLUSTRO’14” on 22nd August 2014 at

Sigma auditorium. The event was inaugurated by

Chief Guest Er.R.Eswaran, Chief Engineering

Manager, L&T Chennai & Dr.K.Ravichandran,

Scientist, Central Water Board, Chennai. The Chief

Guests was honored with a shawl and memento by

Dr. C.V.Jayakumar, Principal & Professor S.

Kandasamy, HOD/ Civil. After that The Chief Guest

delivered an inaugural address and gave a speech on

"Opportunities for Civil Engineers". After that event

like Paper Presentation, Poster Presentation, CADD

Contest, Quiz Competition and code cracking were

conducted.


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There was wide spread participation of students from

various Engineering Colleges across Tamilnadu.

Finally Chief Guest distributed certificates and prizes

to the winners of various competitions. The event

concluded with rendering vote of thanks by

Mr.M.Lakshmi Kanthan, final year student.

MOU SIGNED WITH CADDAM

TECHNOLOGIES – JUNE ’14

SSEC - CE has signed an MOU with CADDAM

TECHNOLOGIES, Chennai to train our

students in advanced software.

The main aim of to provide training and

development by experts, to create custom

Training programs and execution plans that focus

on Engineering Career, experience over

awareness, and ultimately build knowledge based

communities rather than purely completing

training.

COURSE ON TRAINING WORKSHOP USING

“STAAD PRO” SOFTWARE

Course on Training workshop using “STAAD PRO”

software for Third year & Final Year Civil

Engineering. The training was carried out by

Mr.G.Nagendran, Director, CADDAM

Technologies, Chennai. The main premise of the

training was to give the advanced method of analysis

& design.

The commercial version, STAAD.Pro, is one of the

most widely used structural analysis and

design software products worldwide. It supports

several steel, concrete and timber design codes.

It can make use of various forms of analysis from the

traditional 1st order static analysis, 2nd order p-

delta analysis, geometric non-linear analysis,

Pushover analysis (Static-Non Linear Analysis) or

a buckling analysis. It can also make use of various

forms of dynamic analysis from modal extraction to

time history and response spectrum analysis.

In recent years it has become part of integrated

structural analysis and design solutions mainly using

an exposed API called Open STAAD to access and

drive the program using a Visual Basic macro system

included in the application or by including Open

STAAD functionality in applications that themselves

include suitable programmable macro systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softwarehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-Delta_Effecthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-Delta_Effecthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckling


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PAPER PUBLISHED / PRESENTED

Prof.S.KAndasmy, has published a paper

“Economical, Social & Environmental aspects of

Chennai metro rail” in Science direct – IISC,

Bangalore, 2014.

Dr.M.Tholkapiyan, has published a paper

“Monitoring of ocean surface algal blooms in

coastal and oceanic waters around India” in the

Journal of Environ Monit Assess (Published

Springer International Publishing Switzerland),

December 2014

Balambal Usha, AP has published a paper

“Climate Variability and its impacts on runoff in

the Kosasthaliyar sub-basin, India” in the Journal

of Earth Sciences Research Journal, Vol 18,No.

1, March,2014

R.Pamila, AP has published a paper “Study On

Biosorption Of Heavy Metals In Leachate Using

Tamarind Husk at Kannadapalayam dumpsite” in

International Journal Of Innovative Research In

Science, Engineering &Tech.- Vol 3, January

2015.

Balambal Usha, AP has published a paper

“Rainfall variability over smaller spatial scale” in

MAUSAM 65, 2014.

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

SEC - CE has conducted a six days Faculty

Development Programme (FDP) on “MECHANICS

OF SOLIDS” from 25th May, 2015 to 30th May,

2015. The six days FDP programme was scheduled

within the institute premises along with presence of

all the faculty members from various colleges (about

30 No.s). The aim of FDP was to provide

opportunities to faculty members and research

scholars to enrich their teaching skill and research in

the field of teaching-learning. There were various

other informative sessions held by eminent faculty

members.

The programme will include all disciplines of Civil

Engineering, such as structural engineering, water

resources engineering, environmental engineering,

soil mechanics and foundation engineering, irrigation

and water management, irrigation soil and water

quality, traffic and urban planning, and remote

sensing and GIS.

The duration of the programme is for six days, from

25th May, 2015 to 30th May, 2015. Various topics

will be covered by resource persons from various


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Engineering Colleges & Industries.

In the welcome address Dr.S.Senthil Selvan,

Professor, SRM University, Chennai.announced the

theme of the FDP. Session II was conducted by,

Dr.T.V. Ramachandra, Professor, Department of

Civil Engineering IISC, Bangalore who conducted a

session on resilience and compound bars.

There were various other informative sessions held

by eminent faculty members. One such session was

conducted by Dr.P.Vasanthi, Professor, B.S.Abdur

Rahman University, Chennai highlighted the shear

force and bendind moment diagram of statically

indeterminate structures.

On the last day Mr.S. Elangovan, Professor & Head,

Valliammai Engineering College, Chennai gave the

Valedictory address giving the entire summarization

and crux of the FDP session and the learning which

we have taken and must implement in our teaching.

Later Ms.R.Pamila ,Assisstant Professor gave the

vote of thanks.

STUDENTS ARTICLES

SELF CONFIDENCE: FIRST STEP TO

SUCCESS

“Self confidence is the first requisite to great

undertakings”

- Samuel Johnson

This world, in which we live, is a very competitive

one. It is popularly described as a rat race, full of

competent people and the fittest of them survives.

Success is not a cake walk. One has to face lots of

hardships and obstacles to taste success. The most

important aspect in achieving success is self

confidence. However, people are ambitious but not

confident enough to go for it. In fact, most of them

don’t know how to go about it or are terrified to take

risks in their lives.

Self confidence is not something which can be

achieved in a day or two. Let us understand that we

are not born with it. It’s the situation we face,

motivation from others and self motivation that make

us truly confident. Hence those of us who feel that

we lack confidence, have no reason to be upset.

There are 3 kinds of people. One, who dream big but

do not have any idea how to pursue it. The second,

who are over confident and end up ruining their

opportunities. Lastly, the ones who are confident and

have talent. This segment knows what they want

and how to move further. For attaining a goal, it is

important to strive for it and work on the strategies

relentlessly. It is necessary to make proper planning


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and follow up. We will come across ups and downs

but should not lose focus and give up. Work hard

throughout and be focused until the desired result is

achieved.

Since hard work is involved, it is imperative that we

do not lose hope or be disheartened. Knowing who

you are and what your strengths are, is an area that

requires your utmost focus. However, it depends on

how we perceive it. Everybody has flaws, but we

have to shine through them. Don’t lose hope, be

patient, take care of oneself and work hard. The

puzzle will fall in place.

- K.Jeya Preethi II Year Civil

SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION UNDER

THE EFFECT OF HIGH GROUNDWATER

TABLE

This paper gives an account of a study performed for

the raft foundation of a commercial building of

considerable height and area. A raft 175 m long was

designed without due consideration to the buoyancy

effect due to high groundwater table as the building

is near the sea. Although the raft was designed as an

uninterrupted system, the designer used different,

and insufficient, thicknesses for the foundation in

order to lower costs. A 3D study was subsequently

undertaken to analyze the settlements of the raft

using finite elements. There was reasonable

agreement between the computed and the measured

settlements. However, the front block of the raft was

observed to float as soon as pumping for lowering of

the groundwater table was halted. This instigated the

analyzers to tie this portion of the raft to the

surrounding piled curtain that was used for

excavation of the foundation pit, by means of

reinforced concrete beams. The computations show

that the heave of the floor was restrained at

acceptable levels. It is planned to stop pumping in

the near future and compare the computed and

measured vertical movements.

Although it required considerable time and effort,

reasonable results could be obtained in the three-

dimensional analysis of a complicated raft-

superstructure system under the influence of

floatation effects with the following results.

The system was analyzed as built in the first phase of

computation. A heave of 170 mm was predicted

following an excavation of 8.0 m for the raft. The

maximum settlement of 76 mm under B Block was

obtained as 76 mm prior to the application of the

uplift force. This prediction was found to be

consistent with the measured settlement.

Pumping was halted after the application of the

proposed stabilizing measures and readings of the

movements were recorded to see whether the

recommended system performed satisfactorily.


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It show that there is a close agreement between the

computed values and the measured vertical

movements.

- D.Divya Priya IV Year Civil

SKILL UPGRADATION - FACULTY

MEMBERS

Ms.K.Anitha, AP has attended one day seminar

on “Genetically modified Technology in

Agriculture” on 13th September 2014 at CLRI,

Chennai.

Ms.J.Harini, AP & Ms.P.Hemavathy, AP has

attended two days workshop in “Recent

Advances in Structural Engineering (RACE

2015) on 7th & 8th May, 2015 at CSIR – SERC,

Chennai.

Ms.V.Karthika, AP has attended National level

Faculty Development Program on “Engineering

& Management Teaching Strategies for

Excellence” held on 29th & 30th December, 2015

at SSEC, Chennai.

Mr.S.Sivakumar, AP has attended National

level Faculty Development Program on

“Engineering & Management Teaching

Strategies for Excellence” held on 29th & 30th

December, 2015 at SSEC, Chennai.

SKILL UPGRADATION - STUDENTS

T.K Krishnadesikan, & S.Bharathidasan

students of third year has participated in

International Conference on “Carbon Fibre

Reinforced Gypsuim Building” February, 2015.

S.Bharathidasan & Arun students of third year

have presented a paper in National level

Technical Symposium on 20 & 21st September,

2014 at Sona College of Technology.

S.Priyanka has attended a workshop on

“Seismic Analysis & Design” on 12th August,

2014 at Meenakshi Sundarajan College of

Enginering.

E.Sathish has participated in “CADD” in

National level Technical Symposium on 12th

August, 2014 at Meenakshi Sundarajan College

of Engineering.

Rohith Sundaresan & E.Sathish have

participated in “Surveying, REHABILITO” in

National level Technical Symposium on 12th


of Engineering.

C.Shalin has participated in “Surveying,

REHABILITO & CADD” in National level

Technical Symposium on 12th August, 2014 at

Meenakshi Sundarajan College of Engineering

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS - ACADEMIC

Preetham Rajan N & Nagabharathi K have

participated and got First Prize in

“REHABILITO” in National level Technical


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Symposium on 12th August, 2014 at Meenakshi

Sundarajan College of Engineering.

Praveen Dass & VR.Suraj have attended a

National level Technical Symposium and got

First prize in paper presentation on 12th August,

2014 at Meenakshi Sundarajan College of

Enginering.

Rohith Sundaresan & E.Sathish have attended

and got second prize in “QUIZ” in National level

Technical Symposium on 12th August, 2014 at

Meenakshi Sundarajan College of Engineering.

S.Priyanka has attended a National level

Technical Symposium and got third prize in

paper presentation & Model making on 12th


of Enginering.

M. Jegatha, K.M.Monisha, E.Srimathi &

T.Thamarai Selvi students of final year got first

prize in “Project Expo, 2015” for the project

titled “Solid Waste Management In Slaughter House”

which was guided by our department faculty

Ms.K.Anitha. The project was awarded by the

Chief Guests Dr. V. Ramalingam, Director, Green

Roofing’s Pvt Ltd, Chennai Dr. V. Thamilarasu,

Professor, SRM University, Chennai.

N. Elakiya & S.Nithiyaa Sri students of final year

got second prize in “Project Expo, 2015” for the

project titled “Comparison and Performance

Evaluation Of Low Cost And Natural Available

Materials (Coagulants) For Water Treatment ” which

was guided by our department faculty Ms.R.Pamila.

The project was awarded by the Chief Guests Dr. V.

Ramalingam, Director, Green Roofing’s Pvt Ltd,

Chennai Dr. V. Thamilarasu, Professor, SRM

University, Chennai.

K.R.Aravind Ram, A.Arunkumar, S.Dayalvignesh

& U.Vignesh students of final year got third prize in

“Project Expo, 2015” for the project titled

“Sustainable City” which was guided by our

department faculty Ms.R.Eswari. The project was

awarded by the Chief Guests Guests Dr. V.

Ramalingam, Director, Green Roofing’s Pvt Ltd,

Chennai Dr. V. Thamilarasu, Professor, SRM

University,Chennai.

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS -

COCURRICULAR

Benjamin Leffoy has actively participated & got

third prize in Zonal level High Jump (Atheletics)

N.Ranjith Kumar has actively participated &

got second prize in Zonal level 10,000 mtrs

running competition (Atheletics)

N.Ranjith Kumar has actively participated &

got First prize in Half Marathon.

S.Praveena has got third prize in 5km walk

event.

Dharani Selwin has got third prize in Javlene

throw event.


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THE MOMENT OF ACHIEVEMENTS

“Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose”

SEC - CE is proud to inform that 10 students of Batch 2010 -2014 has secured University Ranks in Anna

University Examinations.

Mr.M.Lakshmi Kanthan secured GOLD MEDAL in Anna University Published Rank list of 2013 - 14 passed out

students.

LAKSHMI KANTHAN

M DIVYA ANANDHI T

VENKATA

RAMANAN K SUGANYA R

GOLD MEDALIST RANK- 4 RANK- 13 RANK- 17

RAGHAVENDRAN S BHAVANI J NAVIN A S VINOD KUMAR R

RANK- 27 RANK- 36 RANK- 39 RANK- 39

VENUGOPAL R ANITHA P

RANK- 41 RANK- 43

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: S.Naveen Kumar - IV Year Civil, T.Vijay Amirtharaj - IV Year Civil

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