DOCTORAL THESES (Civil Engg): Recent submissions

  • FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED PLATES AND SHELLS 
    Taj M. N. A., Gulshan (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-04)
    Functionally graded materials (FGMs) are advanced class of engineering composites constituted of two or more distinct phase materials described by continuous and smooth varying composition of material properties in the ...
  • STUDY ON REACTIVE SOLUTE TRANSPORT THROUGH POROUS MEDIUM 
    Swami, Deepak (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-03)
    Since last few decades, due to anthropogenic activities, ground water contamination has been one of the major topics of concern. Toxic chemicals, viruses, bacteria and other pathogens present in industrial effluents, sewage, ...
  • PERFORMANCE PREDICTION MODEL FOR BITUMINOUS MIXES 
    Aodah, Haider Habeeb (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2013-10)
    Bituminous mixes are used as wearing and base course layers in a pavement structure to distribute stresses caused by wheel load and tire pressure also to protect granular material layers (base, subbase) and subgrade layer ...
  • POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT USING MULTILEVEL INVERTER BASED HYBRID POWER FILTER 
    Mahajan, Vasundhara (Dept. of Electrical Engineering iit Roorkee, 2013-12)
    Modern civilization has become reliant on the unremitting supply of clean electrical power. But the power supplied by the grid and transmission system may not be always clean and continuous. Therefore, it necessitates the ...
  • AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF MEAN FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF RADIAL TURBULENT FLOW BETWEEN PARALLEL PLATES 
    Goyal, Sudhir Kumar (1986)
    The characteristics of radial turbulent flow between parallel plates had been recently investigated (1) without varying the parameter D/d i.e the ratio of the plate diameter and the supply pipe. The aim of the present study ...
  • DESIGN OF CONCRETE PAVEMENTS OVERLYING FOUNDATIONS OF DIFFERENT ELASTICITIES 
    Vaswani, N. K. (1964)
    tiothod to (a) above had to be abandoned as two soil scmplos were teken fbr each roading of all the cells in the container and in all about BO to 0 coil scnplos had to be takon within the lit itod area of the soil availablo. ...
  • CORRELATRON OF Co.B.R. W11TH SHEAR STRENGTH OF CEMENT SLUMMED SORLS 
    Mujumdar, V. S. (1962)
    An attempt bas been made to correlate two important factors in the design of soil-cement pavements, namely, California Bearing Ratio and Shear Strength. Three mixes A, B and C were prepared using locally available Ranipur ...
  • INVESTIGATION OF RIGID PAVEMENT BEHAVIOUR UNDER STATIC LOADS BY MODEL TESTS 
    Saraf, C. L. (1962)
    As accurate prediction of Rigid Payment behaviour seder static loads Is lopertent from tear design point of view. Model experiments can be emp-loyed to arrive at such objectives. Ike pretest levestigations were carried ...
  • THE EFFECT OF ANGLE ON SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION IN CANAL OFF-TAKES 
    Gupta, Ram Swaroop (1962)
    This thesis reports the experimental studies conducted to investigate the effect of the angle of offtake en sediment distribution in channels. The main channel flume was 3 feet wide and 20 feet long and the offtake channel ...
  • ALL WEATHER LOW COST ROADS FOR INDIA 
    Sharma, Hariom Prakash (1962)
    I. Topics For Further Investigations . Hi American Tentative limits of Particle Size Distribution for Bases and Surfacing 111101111111111 i 1=11.11•• iii ii -do- -do- British fracticsv v. ii -do- -do- Swedish Practici ...
  • DEFORMATION CHAIRACTERSTIC OF COFIESIONLESS SORLS DUE TO VEBRATIONS 
    Gupta, Rajendra (1962)
    Attempt has been made to study the possibility of testing cohesionless soil samples under vibrations on a small shaking table in which amplitude and frequency could be adjusted. The veriables considered include fre-quency ...
  • ANALYSIS OF SEMI-RIGID PAVEMENTS 
    Singh, Kulwant (1972)
    Pavements are generally classified in two categories. Flexible and Rigid. Flexible pavements consists of a series of layers with the highest quality material at or near the surface(1). The load carrying .. p capacity ...
  • MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR TRIP INTERCHANGES 
    Kumar, Jitendra (1972)
    Present day need is t9 plan for the future. Trans-portion system of a town or region is similar to the arteries of the human body. Highway net work planning is an, important part of the Transportation Planning. In highway ...
  • SEGREGATION OF CYCLE TRAFFIC AT SIGNALISED INTERSECTION-,-- 
    Isaac, P. K. (1971)
    Pedal cycles that constitute more than 50 percent of vehicles on roads of urban areas of India contribute to about 25 to 27 percent of fatal road accidents due to their slow speed and instability in a mixed traffic condition ...
  • EFFECT OF PLUNGER-MOULD DIAMETERS ON CBR VALUES OF SUBGRADE SOILS 
    Mehndiratta, H. C. (1971)
    The experimental study reported herein has been designed to evaluate the influence of plunger and mould diameters on the CBR value of subgrade soils. The experimental project includes studying this effect on three types ...
  • DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR OF ONE STOREY FRAMED BRICK SHEAR WALLS 
    Singh, Satya Pal (1971)
    A study has been made of the behaviour of one storey reinforced concrete framed brick shear walls. Three such models and one P.C. frame without infill, were tested to determine stiffness, frequency of vibration, damping ...
  • OPTIMUM DESIGN OF CONCRETE GRAVITY DAM SECTION CONSIDERING. EARTHQUAKE FORCES 
    Agarwal, Rajendra Kumar (1979)
    With the object of studying the relationships between the upstream and downstream slopes of concrete gravity dams, the earthquake inertia forces developed and the resistance offered by the sections, several sections with ...
  • DEVELOPMENT OF A PORTABLE COMPOSITE WATER PURIFICATION PLANT FOR A BRIGADE GROUP 
    Agarwal, Major Suresh K. (1970)
    Fighting over the ages has been mants most favourite passtime, motivated primarily by his unsati-able hunger for power, wealth and territory. And a fighter must essentially, among other things, drink his water to be able ...
  • DETERMINATION OF BITUMEN COi\ITPIT OF BITUMINOUS MIXES BY RADIO-ACTIVE ISOTOPES 
    Narayanan, R. (1969)
    To achieve the proper quality of work in bituminuous Pavements it is necessary that exact desired quantities of bitumen should be used. This obviously require a constant field checks, which will give results in a very short ...
  • EFFECT OF OVERHEATING OF BITUMEN AND AGGREG ATES ON ADHESION AND STRIPPING 
    Agarwal, B. D. (1970)
    In this Imesti ottani, influence of high tanporaturaa of bitumen and aggregates on adhesion and stripping is studied. Voricup cocabinationa of bitumen and aggregate tomporaturos hello boen tried. Stability afoot as specified ...