Sthapatya

From HODs Desk

Greetings from the department of Civil Engineering, VNIT,

Nagpur. We are delighted to announce the launch of our quarterly newsletter “STHAPATYA”, which is intended to portray the tidings of departmental

activities, news and achievements.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the faculties, staff and

students for their progressive efforts to the

betterment of our department and look

forward the same. Hearty congratulations to the

editorial board for bringing up this

informative issue.

Editorial

It is a great pleasure to present before you the first 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 faculty during the past three months. It also features visits by eminent persons from India and abroad to the department of Civil Engineering-VNIT Nagpur. The dynamism of the department is clearly reflected trough 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

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Dr. Rajesh Gupta Prof. & Head

VNIT and Green Ash Foundation have Organized National Conference on Technology Development on Fly Ash Utilization in India, during 11-13 Jan 2019 at VNIT Auditorium

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 'SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT'

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 , V N I T, Nagpur in association with over 15 various esteemed Government & private organizations, Educational Institutes, Professional Bodies, etc. of National

Repute has organized a National Conference on 'Sustainable Infrastructure nd rdDevelopment and Management' on 22 -23 February. The chief guest for the

inaugural function of the above was Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Director, CSIR- NEERI, while Shree Vishram Jamdar, Chairman, VNIT Presided over the function, in the presence of Dr. P. M. Padole the Director, VNIT, along with organizers the Head, Civil Engineering Department, Dr. Rajesh Gupta, Professor & Principal Convener, Dr. Rahul Ralegaonkar, Professor & Convener and Dr. Mangesh Madurwar, Assistant Professor & Secretary. Dr. V A Mhaisalkar, Professor, Environmental Engineering was also felicitated in recognition to his contribution and service rendered to the Institute by him, who will be retiring in February 2019.

SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAM (STTP) ON “DESIGN O F E X P E R I M E N T S F O R E N G I N E E R S A N D RESEARCHERS” SPONSORED BY TEQIP III

T h e D e p a r t m e n t o f C i v i l engineering, VNIT, Nagpur organized a five-day Short Term Training Program (STTP) on Design of Exper iments for Engineers and Researchers from 10th-14th December 2018. The STTP was sponsored by the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP III). The STTP was Co-ordinated by Dr. Karthik Balasundaram (VNIT, Nagpur) and Co-coordinated by Dr. Sanjay Bhandari (SATI, Vidisha) and Dr. Sareesh Chandrawanshi (SATI, Vidisha). The event commenced with the inaugural function on 10th December, presided by honourable Chief Guest Dr. P. M. Padole, Director VNIT, Dr. Aware, TEQIP III Co-ordinator, and Prof. V.A. Mahisalkar.

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INDIAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE STUDENT'S CHAPTER

Indian Concrete Institute Student's Chapter

was installed on December 1st, 2018. Er.

Vivek Naik, President ICI and Chief Guest,

Er. Manoj Kawalkar, Vice-President ICI and

Er. P S Patankar, Chairman, ICI, Nagpur

Local centre were present during the event.

The students were addressed by all three

guests highlighting importance of use of

concrete in construction industry, novel

concrete design and challenges associated

with it. Dr. Rajesh Gupta, Professor & Head

congratulated the students for this professional initiation and extended gratitude to the industry experts for sharing

technical inputs with VNIT. Dr. Rahul Ralegaonkar, Professor & Associate Dean (Training Placement) expressed his

concern for the students to have better internships through such professional collaborations. Dr. Mangesh Madurwar,

Assistant Professor & Faculty Coordinator (ICI-VNIT Student Chapter) promised the experts that VNIT students will be

actively involved for ICI activities.

REFRESHER COURSE ON “COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF PIPELINES AND PIPE NETWORKS FOR WATER SUPPLY AND SEWERAGE SYSTEMS”

The Civil Engineering Department has conducted a

refresher course on “Computer Aided Design of Pipelines

and Pipe networks for Water Supply and Sewerage

Systems” during 6th to 12th Dec, 2018. The course was

sponsored by CPHEEO and about 26 participants were

registered for this course, including field engineers and

design engineers from water supply and sewerage boards

from different parts of our country. The lectures were

delivered by both, in-house faculty members from Civil

and Applied mechanics department, as well as experts

from NMC, NEERI, and also from consulting firms etc.

The lectures covered analysis and design aspects of water

distribution and sewer networks. The laboratory sessions

were dedicated to hands on experience on various

softwares in the field including EPANET, Watergems,

LOOP, BRANCH, ARCGIS etc. In addition a field visit to

water treatment plant of Kanhan and sewage treatment

plant of Bhandewadi was arranged for the benefit of the

participants.

A TEQIP III SPONSORED ONE-WEEK STTP ON 'IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE'

A TEQIP III sponsored one week STTP on 'Impacts of Climate

Change' was organized by Civil Engg. Dept.from 17th Dec. to 21st

Dec.2018. Dr. M. V. Latkar was coordinator of this training

program.The STTP covered vast range of topics related to climate

change. The candidates were enlightened by various in house as

well as external experts. Dr. M. V. Latkar, Dr. B. Karthik, Dr. S. R.

Dongre and Dr. V. A. Mhaisalkar were amongst the in house

faculty who delivered lectures on various topics, Dr. Chakrabarti,

former Director NEERI, delivered his lectures on natural drivers of

climate change and paleoclimatology. Climate modelling was

explained in a very simplified manner by Dr. Middey from NEERI.

Dr Krishnamurthi, Chief Scientist, NEERI, talked about CO2

sequestration by microalgae. Dr Roy, Scientist from GSI, Nagpur; presented a case study. Dr Trupti Mishra, Associate

Prof., IIT Bombay, gave an in depth knowledge about socio-economic assessment of climate change vulnerability.

Likewise, Dr J. S. Pandey, Chief Scientist, NEERI and Dr. Kunchala, Associate Prof., IIT Delhi too imparted a great deal of

knowledge to the participants.

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SELF SPONSORED TRAINING PROGRAM ON 'LEVERAGING INFORMATION MODELING FOR CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT'.

Department of Civil Engineering conducted five days (December 3-7, 2018) STTP on 'Leveraging Information Modeling for Construction Engineering and Management'. In view of sustainable construction engineering it was felt to increase the horizon and collaborate with global key players from industry. VNIT, Nagpur in association with Autodesk professional decided to disseminate the knowledge of Information Modeling amongst the stakeholders for improving the designs, better visualization of the drawings, analyzing the alternate designs for optimizing the resources. Dr. P M Padole Director, VNIT, Nagpur highlighted the importance of software modeling in construction Industry. Dr. R V Ralegaonkar, Professor, Civil Engineering & program coordinator

briefed the program outline and possible outcome of the training. Dr. M V Madurwar proposed the vote of thanks. Other professors Dr. V A Mhaisalkar, Dr. Jatin Bhat, Associate Dean, Industry Institute Interaction Cell, Dr. Ashwin Dhole were also present during the event.

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Ÿ A Training program for field engineers from Irrigation Department on "Surge Analysis and Design of Surge Protection System in Lift Irrigation Schemes", on 28th February, 2019 was coordinated by Dr. Rajesh Gupta

Ÿ One-week short term course on road safety audit and road safety awareness was conducted with the support of TEQIP III. Dr. Ankit Kathuria and Dr. Udit Jain were the course coordinator for the same. The course was organized to give all stakeholders a hands-on experience on road safety audit by conducting onsite group exercises.

thŸ The 37 five-day training program on Road Safety was organized by the Civil Engineering Dept at VNIT Nagpur for

Asian Institute of Transport Development (AITD), Delhi. AITD has a Special Consultative Status with United Nations and has been tasked to train Government officials all across India in Road Safety by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH). This course was conducted from 21-25th Jan 2019 and 52 participants were awarded the certificate of completion from the MoRTH. The course coordinators were Dr. Udit Jain & Dr. B.R. Kadali.

Ÿ On the occasion of 79th Annual Session of Indian Roads Congress, Public Works Department (PWD), Government of Maharashtra, in association with Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur organized the 1st Indian Roads Congress - Young (IRC–Y) Conference on 27th and 28th of October 2018 in the Civil Engineering Department, VNIT Nagpur.

SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAM (STTP) ON DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS SPONSORED BY TECHNICAL EDUCATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME (TEQIP III)

The Department of Civil engineering, VNIT,Nagpur has organized five days STTP on Design and Evaluation of Flexible Pavements during December 3 to 7 ,2018, sponsored by Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP III). The event commenced with the inaugural function presided by honourable chief guest Dr. U. C. Sahoo, from IIT Bhubaneswar, Dr. P. M. Padole, Director VNIT, Dr. Aware, TEQIP III Co-ordinator, Dr. Rajesh Gupta, head Civil engineering department and Dr. V. S. Landge .

A CPHEEO sponsored refresher course on “water treatment plant design” was conducted by Dr. V A Mhaisalkar and Dr. D H Lataye during Jan 3-9,2019

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Indian Water Works Association recently honored Dr. Ajay R. Tembhurkar, Professor in Civil Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, with prestigious “ IWWA- Jalseva Puraskar” for commendable work towards promoting the sustainability of the water supply system during the last 3 years at 51st Annual Convention of Indian Water Works Association, held at Indore during 18th – 20th Jan 2019.

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS

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Dr. Yashwant B Katpatal, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering was invited for International Event 'AGU Fall Meeting' on 10-14 December in Washington, D.C. where he delivered talk on the topic “Response of Humidity and NDVI based Vegetation to different ENSO Events in Venna River Basin, Central India”. He was also a Judge for evaluating outstanding presentations at this international event. Almost 20,000 scientists and engineers participated in this event

ON GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

Best safety Management Practices in Nagpur Metro ProjectA guest lecture on the topic “Best safety Management Practices in Nagpur Metro Project” was conducted at

thVNIT on 7 Feb' 2018 by Swamynathan Subramanian. This guest lecture catered the students to expose, perceive and understand about the various safety hurdles and precautionary measures in a metro construction project with some live examples. This presentation also offered a brief glimpse on skills and qualifications to pursue career in metro industry especially for aspiring safety professionals. On the eve of road safety week demarcated by MoRTH, safety awareness quiz was also conducted through an online application and the top 3 winners were congratulated with goodies by Nagpur Metro.1. PAVAN MOHANRAO GUNJATE, 3rd Year Undergraduate

2. PANJABI SAURABH DATTARAJ, 3rd Year Undergraduate

3. Dr. KARTHIK, Faculty, CED

EXPERT TALK ON PERFORMANCE BASED DESIGN OF BIO COMPOSITES FOR RETROFITTING AND REFURBISHMENT OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT BY DR. ANA BRAS

Outcome

The nature of deem-to-satisfy standards in buildings and structural performance results in a lack of insight over their consequences. By defining the performance of a structure or a constructive solution, it will become possible to select the best retrofit and refurbishment measure for a certain purpose (such as to improve respective service life or even to minimise sick building syndrome) using bio-based composite solutions. Practical examples of the implementation of probabilistic models of performance will be presented, namely for the best repair option of the concrete of a quaystructure exposed to an aggressive marine micro-environments.

Ø Development of blended self-healing bio concrete for prefab housing system for India whilst solving waste problems, (Jointly with Liverpool John Moores University, UK)-Funded by-Global Challenge Research Fund- British Council-UK, January-December 2019 (PI-R V Ralegaonkar, Co-PI- M V Madurwar& V A Mhaisalkar).

Ø Design and Development of Sustainable Low Cost Toilet Unit (Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, Mumbai) (PI-R V Ralegaonkar, Co-PI- M V Madurwar& V A Mhaisalkar).

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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Dr. Shweta Rathi, Research Associate, CED ,won the “BEST PAPER AWARD – HYDRO International 2018 held at NIT Patna during 19-21 December 2018.

Ankur Kapoor, research scholar of Civil Engineering won the Best Paper Award for his paper titled “Analytical Expression for Measurement of Discharge Using Conical Obstruction in A Small Rectangular Channel' in 23rd HYDRO Conference- HYDRO International 2018 held at NIT, Patna during 19-21 December 2018

Dr. Shweta Rathi, Research Associate, CED, receiving Brijnandan Sharma young E n g i n e e r A w a r d f o r outs tanding career and substantial work for IWWA in 51st Annual Convention of IWWA during Jan, 2019.

Ms. Saranya C Nair PhD Scholar and Dr. A B Mirajkar, Assistant Professor in CED have won fir s t p r i z e i n pos t e r presentation for their work in “Hydrological modelling of Wainganga basin using SWAT” on Research Scholar Day, 2019 at VNIT, Nagpur

Mr. Shekhar Saxena, PhD S c h o l a r a n d D r A . R . Tembhurkar, Professor in CED have won the Best Paper Award in “Construction Technology & Management” at National Conference on 'Next Frontiers in Civil Engineering- Sustainable & Resilient Infrastructure' held

th stduring 30 Nov to 1 Dec 2018 at IIT Bombay.

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v Prof. R.V Ralegoankar is Awarded with Visiting Professorship at Liverpool John Moores University UK for 3 years starting from 2019.

v Dr. Rajesh Gupta received “SHRI KENCHA RADDY MEMORIAL PRIZE” for best article in IWWA Journal-July-September 2017 on “Optimal Sensor locations with dual objectives of regular monitoring and contamination detection in water distribution network of BWSN” in 51st Annual Convention of IWWA during Jan, 2019.

v Dr. Udit Jain, Asst. Professor in the Civil Engineering Department received the Best Paper Award under the “Transport Planning” theme for one of the research papers presented at the International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects Conception to Execution (TIPCE) 2019 Conference organized by IIT Roorkee in January 2019. The title of the paper was “Modal Shift in Urban Areas after Introduction of App based Cab Services: A Case Study of Noida”. The award also comes with a gift voucher of EUR 100 (100 Euros) from Springer which can be used to access e-books and papers published by Springer.

v 15th World Conference on Road Transportation gave 50 awards (across globe) of registration fee waiver for attending the WCTR conference to be organised in Mumbai in May 2019. Dr. Ankit Kathuria was among one of the awardee receiving a fee waiver of INR 14000/-. The award was given only to selected authors having their papers in category A and B after review. By category A and B it means the paper is recommended to be published in a reputed transportation journal (SCI/Scopus).

Mr Shekhar Saxena, PhD S c h o l a r w o r k i n g u n d e r s u p e r v i s i o n o f D r A . R . Tembhurkar, Professor in Civil E n g g re c e i v e d 2 n d B e s t Research Work for his research titled “Impact of Use of Steel Slag as Coarse Aggregate and Wastewater on Fresh and H a rd e n e d P ro p e r t i e s o f Concrete” on Research Scholar Day, 2019 at VNIT, Nagpur

Ÿ Dr. Shweta Rathi, Research Associate, working in Civil Engineering Department, won “WOMEN RESEARCHER AWARD” in 101st International Research Awards in Engineering, Science & Management” in 2018.

Ÿ Dr. Shweta Rathi received “SHRI KENCHA RADDY MEMORIAL PRIZE” for best article in IWWA Journal-July-September 2017 on “Optimal Sensor locations with dual objectives of regular monitoring and contamination detection in water distribution network of BWSN” in 51st Annual Convention of IWWA during Jan, 2019.

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EXPERT LECTURES/INVITED TALKS

Ÿ Dr. Anjan Patel was invited to deliver expert lecture on the topic "Application of Piezoceramic Bender/Extender Elements in Geotechnical Engineering " for AICTE sponsored QIP Short Term Training Programme on "Recent Advances in Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering" organized by Government College of Engineering, Amravati.

Ÿ Dr. Rajesh Gupta was invited to deliver a lecture on "Analysis and Design of Water Distribution Networks" in the Short Term Training Course on "Advances in Urban Water Engineering and Management" under CEP+QIP scheme organized by IIT, Mumbai, on January 10, 2019.

Ÿ Dr. Rajesh Gupta was invited to deliver a lecture on "Fuzzy Parameters in Analysis of Water Distribution Networks", in the International Workshop on "Fuzzy Logic in Civil & Environmental Engineering" Organized by CSVTU, Bhilai, on January 25, 2019.

Ÿ Dr. Rajesh Gupta was invited to deliver "Late Shri D. V. Date Memorial Lecture" by Indian Water Works Association, Nagpur Centre on the topic "Leakage Reduction in Water Distribution Network through Pressure Management" on February, 8, 2019.

Ÿ Dr. Rajesh Gupta was invited as Chief Guest of Inaugural Function and Delivered expert lecture on "Optimization - An Introduction" in the STTP on Application of Soft Computing Techniques in Research, organized by Government College of Engineering, Jalgaon on February 25, 2019.

RESEARCH SCHOLARS DEFENDED

Ÿ Aashish A Mehta, under the guidance of Dr. Anjan Patel successfully defended on his research entitled “Effects of Grain Morphology on Some Engineering Properties of Sands” on 22 January 2019.

Ÿ S. S. Hastak, under the guidance of Dr. Rajesh Gupta successfully defended on his research entitled "Critical assessment of service delivery with the change in mode of water supply from intermittent to continuous in Nagpur City and preparation of water safety plan", Awarded by Nagpur University in January 2019.

Ÿ Shashi, under the guidance of Dr. R V Ralegaonkar successfully defended on her research entitled “Development of Sustainable Construction Materials Using Blended Boiler Ash” on 25 February 2019.

Ÿ Aju Mathew George research scholar in the department of civil engineering under the guidance of Dr. A. R. Tembhurkar has successfully defended the PhD thesis titled "Development of Adsorbent from Herbs, Barks and Roots for Defluoridation" on February 21st 2019.

Ÿ Arpan A Deshmukh, research Scholar in the department of civil engineering under the guidance of Dr. A D Vasudeo has successfully defended the PhD thesis titled “Determination of the characteristics of hydraulic jump on crushed rough bed” on Feb 23rd 2019.

STAFF RETIREMENT

Ÿ CHETNA SRIVASTAVA, (Enrollment No: BT16CIV019) achieved MITACS Globalink Research Internship in Canada through Govt. of India program for her project titled “Assessment of seismic vulnerability of non-structural components in a building” in the University of Ecole de Technologie Superieure (ETS) – Montreal under the guidance of Prof. Rola Assi.

Ÿ SHIVANI GANDAGE, (Enrollment No: BT16CIV066) achieved MITACS Globalink Research Internship in Canada through Govt. of India program for her project titled”Computer-Aided Analysis of Concrete Buildings (New)” in the University of Ryerson- Toronto, under the guidance of Prof. Serhan Guner.

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GIAN course titled “Global Perspective to Achieve Low Carbon Built Environment” is proposed tentatively from May 6 – 11, 2019. Dr. Anil Kashyap, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of West England (UWE Bristol) is coming to conduct the course. Dr. M V Madurwar and Dr. Rahul Ralegaonkar are the host faculty from Civil Engineering Department, VNIT Nagpur.

H. Gavali and R. Ralegaonkar (2018) Design feasibility of load bearing masonry building for energy efficient construction, ICE- Energyhttps://doi.org/10.1680/jener.18.00013

Shashi, and R. Ralegaonkar (2018) Development of Low Thermal Conductivity Walling Material Using Industrial By-product, Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier, 204, December 2018, Pages 767-777 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.338

Agrawal, M. L., Gupta, R., Agrawal, P. (2018). "Optimal upgrading of distribution network for 24x7 water supply". J. of Indian Water Works Association, 50 (4), October-December 2018Jain, U. and Rastogi, R. (2018) "Development of Guidelines for Selection of Pedestrian Crossing Facilities", Journal of Indian Roads Congress, Vol. 79, Issue 4.

Bhutange, S.P., Latkar, M.V. & Chakrabarti, T., ‘Role of biocementation to improve mechanical properties of mortar’, Sādhanā 44: 50, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-018-1023-7.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

BOOK CHAPTERS

Ÿ Anjan Patel – “Geotechnical Investigations and Improvement of Ground Conditions,” ISBN -9780128170489, Publisher-Elsevier Science & Technology.

Ÿ Vijay, R., Lingote, D., Sharma, A. and Gupta, R. (2018). "Development of GIS-based Noise Simulation Module for Point Sources: N-Dhwani". Geospatial Infrastructure, Applications and Technologies, Springer Singapore, 329-338.

UPCOMING EVENTS

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCE ARTICLES Ÿ Santapuri Satyananda Reddy, Hindavi R. Gavali,

and Rahul V. Ralegaonkar (2018) Reuse of industrial by-product for sustainable construction material, 30 November – 1 December 2018 International Conference on Next Frontiers in Civil E n g i n e e r i n g : S u s t a i n a b l e a n d R e s i l i e n t Infrastructure, IIT, Bombay, India.

Ÿ Sandeep Tembhurkar, Vasudha D. Katare, Vasant Mhaisalkar, Rahul Ralegaonkar, and Mangesh V. Madurwar (2018) A Low-cost and Mobile Community Toilet Block Design for Better Rural India International Conference on Next Frontiers in Civil Engineering: Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, IIT, Bombay, India.

Ÿ Nilesh Vaidya, Kunal Shelote, Rahul Ralegaonkar (2019) Value Analysis of Walling Material- A Sustainable Way. National Conference on

Sustainable Infrastructure Development and Management, 22-23 February, 2019, VNIT, Nagpur.

Ÿ Kunal Shelote, R Jajodya, H R Gavali, M V madurwar, S Gadve, Rahul Ralegaonkar (2019) Experimental and computational analysis of energy efficient plaster. National Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure Development and Management, 22-23 February, 2019, VNIT, Nagpur.

Ÿ Rathi, S., and Gupta, R. (2018). "Genetic Algorithm for the Minimization of Variance of Pipe Flow-Series for Looped Water Distribution Networks", ISH Annual Conference organised at Patna, during 19-21 December 2018.

Ÿ Gupta, R., Saini, P., Bade, K., and Gulalkari, R. (2019). "Importance of Layout in optimal design of Sewer Networks." Annual Convention of IWWA, Indore, January 18-20, 2019.

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Ÿ Praveena, F., and Gupta, R. (2019). "Design of Irrigation Pipe Distribution Network using WaterGEMS". Annual Convention of IWWA, Indore, January 18-20, 2019.

Ÿ Sreetu, S., and Gupta, R. (2019). "Fuzzy Analysis of Water Distribution Network using Jaya Algorithm". Annual Convention of IWWA, Indore, January 18-20, 2019.

Ÿ Pandey, P., Dongre, S. R., and Gupta, R. (2018)."Uncertainty in Water Demand in Analysis and Design of Water Distribution System". Annual Convention of IWWA, Indore, January 18-20, 2019.Bhatia, R., Jain, U. and Singh, E. (2019) "Modal Shift in Urban Areas after Introduction to App Based Cab Services: A Case of Noida", Proceedings of the International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects Conception To Execution (TIPCE) 2019, IIT Roorkee, January 7-10, 2019.

Ÿ Sharma, A., Kathuria, A., Parida, M. Sekhar, R. (2019), Determinants of Public Transport Quality of Service. International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Project- Conception to Execution.

Ÿ Rajaram, P.A. , Mot i ram, S .C. , Ja in , N. , Nandagawali, M.G., Kathuria, A., Jain, U. (2019), Road safety audit for a stretch in Haryana: A proac t ive measure towards Vis ion Zero . International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Project- Conception to Execution.

Ÿ Gaurav Rangari and Ashwini B Mirajkar, Optimal Reservoir Operation using traditional methods: D y n a m i c P r o g r a m m i n g a n d N o n - L i n e a r Programming, International conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources 'HYDRO 2018',

organized by NIT, Patna during 19-21 December 2018

Ÿ Gajghate, P., Mirajkar, A.B., and Shaikh, U.,(2019). “Network Design Of Irrigation Water Distribution System Upstream Of Micro Irrigation For Distributary, India – A Case Study”. 9th International Micro Irrigation Conference (9IMIC) pg:377-382. January 16-18, 2019| Aurangabad, India.

Ÿ Adhikary, S., and Deoda V. (2018). Design spectra and amplification factors for India seismic code. 16th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering.

Ÿ Tidke, A. R., and Adhikary, S. (2018). Damage demand evaluation of concrete gravity dam using time-history analysis. 16th Symposium on Earthquake Engineering.

Ÿ Bhatia, R., Jain, U. and Singh, E. (2019) "Modal Shift in Urban Areas after Introduction to App Based Cab Services: A Case of Noida", Proceedings of the International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects Conception To Execution (TIPCE) 2019, IIT Roorkee, January 7-10, 2019.

Ÿ Jibhakate T.M, Mirajkar A.B,(2019) “Sediment deposition studies for Jayakwadi (Nathsagar) Reservoir,Maharashtra”, National conference on E n v i r o n m e n t p o l l u t i o n c o n t r o l a n d management,Page no.39,March 1-2,2019| College of engineering, Pune

Ÿ Krishnan V.U, Mirajkar A.B, (2019) “Drought Analysis In Marathwada”, National conference on E n v i r o n m e n t p o l l u t i o n c o n t r o l a n d management,Page no.40,March 1-2,2019| College of engineering, Pune

Ÿ Indian patent has been filed (No.- 201821045997, dated 06/12/18) entitled “Sustainable alkali-activated bricks and method of preparation thereof” Publication date- 25/01/2019 by Rahul V Ralegaonkar

Dr. A B MirajkarAssistant Professor

Email: ashmirajkar@gmail.com

EDITORIAL TEAM

Dr. Udit JainAssistant Professor

Email : uditjain@civ.vnit.ac.in

Saranya C NairResearch Scholar

Email : saranyanair@students.vnit.ac.in

PATENTS