DOCTORAL THESES (Civil Engg): Recent submissions

  • CONSOLIDATION INDUCED SOLUTE TRANSPORT THROUGH CLAY DEPOSITS 
    Singh, Rakesh Pratap (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-06)
    Small strain one dimensional consolidation theory, based on many simplified assumptions is applicable effectively to thin layers only. Theory of large or finite strain one dimensional consolidation takes into account the ...
  • ENHANCED TRANSVERSE MIXING OF POLLUTANTS IN STREAM WITH SUBMERGED VANES 
    Sharma, Himanshu (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-04)
    Streams have been used for the disposal of various industrial and municipal wastes since long time. Quantitative understanding of mixing of such pollutants in streams is a matter of concern in recent years for the effective ...
  • PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND MICROBIAL COMMUNITY DYNAMICS OF VERMIFILTRATION 
    Arora, Sudipti (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-07)
    The present study was designed to determine the effect of earthworms and microbial community dynamics on the removal of pathogens and organic matter degradation during wastewater and solid waste treatment by vermifiltration. ...
  • EFFECTS OF CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPES ON RESPONSE OF TALL BUILDINGS UNDER WIND LOADS 
    Raj, Ritu (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-10)
    Tall buildings are replacing low-rise buildings in almost all the cities. The purpose of construction of high-rise buildings is to accommodate many flats and offices on a small plot area. Wind is one of the important loads ...
  • ORGANIC MICROPOLLUTANTS IN THE RIVER YAMUNA AND RANNEY WELLS IN CENTRAL DELHI 
    Kumari, Soma (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-12)
    Due to prevalent use of pharmaceuticals, pesticides, herbicides, personal care products, hormones, petroleum hydrocarbons, and industrial chemicals, surface water bodies get polluted. In conventional drinking water ...
  • DEVELOPMENT AND CALIBRATION OF ENTRY CAPACITY MODEL OF MODERN ROUNDABOUTS 
    Ahmad, Abdullah (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-07)
    Traffic conditions in India are highly heterogeneous due to variety of vehicles with different static and dynamic characteristics sharing and operating at same road space. Roundabouts are a type of intersections which ...
  • SCOUR AROUND SPUR DIKES AND BRIDGE PIERS FOUNDED IN COHESIVE SEDIMENT MIXTURES 
    Lodhi, Ajay Singh (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-04)
    One of the major considerations in the design and construction of a bridge is the scour around its foundation. Many of the bridge failures have been attributed to the scour or the undermining of hydraulic structures (i.e. ...
  • INTEGRATED SETTLER AND ANAEROBIC FILTER BASED ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEMS 
    Sharma, Meena Kumari (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-07)
    In most of the developing countries, the rapid population growth in association with the developmental works has put the water resources under a great stress while increasing the generation of wastewater. Due to financial ...
  • BOND BEHAVIOUR BETWEEN RECYCLED AGGREGATE CONCRETE AND DEFORMED STEEL BARS 
    Princ M, John Robert (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-09)
    Bond of deformed steel bars, having diameters in the range of 8 mm – 25 mm, embedded in recycled aggregate concrete made with coarse recycled concrete aggregate has been investigated with the help of pullout and a selected ...
  • EFFICACY OF RIVERBANK FILTRATION IN HILLY AREA 
    Ronghang, Medalson (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-08)
    Riverbank filtration (RBF), a natural filtration process, is in practice in several parts of the world. The quality of the filtered water mainly depends on the aquifer characteristics and quality of the source water i.e. ...
  • PHOTOGRAMMETRIC MAPPING WITH TOTAL STATION 
    Kumar, Sushil (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-10)
    “Photogrammetric Mapping with Total Station (PMTS)” is a research work carried out for the purpose of integrating a powerful processing component with robotic total station and a photogrammetric system. Primary objective ...
  • MODELING CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT THROUGH POROUS MEDIA USING ASYMPTOTIC DISPERSIVITY 
    Abegaze, Teodrose Atnafu (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-06)
    The quality of subsurface water can be affected by natural processes, nonpoint agricultural and urban runoff, waste-disposal practices and industrial discharges etc. The most challenging task for groundwater hydrologist ...
  • STUDIES ON FACTORS AFFECTING VERMIFILTRATION FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT 
    Kumar, Tarun (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-03)
    Pollutants removal through ecological system is regarded as the most viable means of decentralized wastewater treatment, as even at present there is a large gap between generation and treatment of wastewater which ...
  • THEORY AND DESIGN AIDS FOR SUSPENSION BRIDGES WITH REVERSE CABLES 
    Rathore, Manish Kumar (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-05)
    This thesis presents the nonlinear deflection equation of suspension bridges, which was originally developed by Joseph Melan in 1888 and is still current, in a non-dimensional form. This equation is linearized so that ...
  • CATALYTIC WET OXIDATION OF WASTEWATER USING DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE NANOCATALYST 
    Anushree (Dept. of Paper Technology iit Roorkee, 2016-05)
    Catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) using heterogeneous catalyst is a promising advanced oxidation process (AOP) for the treatment of complex industrial wastewaters. The drastic operating conditions during CWAO are ...
  • STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF POLYMER MODIFIED ASPHALT BINDERS AND MIXES 
    Saboo, Nikhil (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-12)
    With the ever increasing demands of traffic and temperature imposed on highways, it has become mandatory to find alternative means, either in terms of design or use of better materials, to tackle these issues. Modification ...
  • SOFT COMPUTATION BASED INDIAN TOPOGRAPHIC MAP UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM (ITMUS) 
    Ganpatrao, Nikam Gitanjali (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-06)
    A topographic map is an important source of information for geospatial planning and analysis. Apart from conventional uses, nowadays topographic maps have been extensively used for the development of automated Geo-information ...
  • LONG TERM CHANGES IN IRRIGATION WATER REQUIREMENT 
    Chakraborti, Shiulee (Dept. of Water Resources Development & Management IIT Roorkee, 2014-06)
    It is widely believed that the impact of climate change on agriculture has become one of the important issues in water resource management. The available water resource would be altered by change in rainfall pattern and ...
  • FUZZY HYBRID APPROACHES FOR SOFT CLASSIFICATION OF SATELLITE IMAGES 
    Dwivedi, Rakesh Kumar (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-05)
    This study is intends to provide an exhaustive treatise on hybrid soft classification algorithm design, analysis and testing using multi-spectral remote sensing imagery. Satellite image classification is a complex process ...
  • BEHAVIOUR OF UNDERGROUND EXCAVATIONS IN SQUEEZING GROUND CONDITIONS 
    Dwivedi, Rama Dhar (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-06)
    Increase in population has broadened the supply-demand gap for energy. It has forced mankind to construct more number of hydro-electric power projects. On the other hand, large traffic has increased load on the roads and ...