CIVIL ENGINEERING: Recent submissions

  • SEDIMENT TRANSPORT IN CHANNELS: EFFECT OF INFILTRATION 
    Parashar, Swati (I I T ROORKEE, 2014-06)
    Sediment transport in channel is of practical importance in agricultural practice as it provides an opportunity to optimize the nutrient delivery to crops and optimization of water to be supplied to the field, so determination ...
  • REMOVAL OF ACETAMINOPHEN FROM AQUEOUS SYSTEMS 
    Prasenan, Aparna (I I T ROORKEE, 2014-06)
    Acetaminophen is one of the most popular pharmaceutical of the modern era and is used widely worldwide as an analgesic. Being an over-the counter pharmaceutical, its misuse is also common. Acetaminophen in large concentrations ...
  • BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF THIN WALLED BOX GIRDER 
    Hanumant, Ingewad Arun (I I T ROORKEE, 2014-06)
    Composite box beam is the basic building block. It can be used both as a compression member and flexural member. Over the past decade composites are gaining popularity in marine, aerospace and civil industry for numerous ...
  • DISINFECTION OF NATURAL WATER USING TITANIUM DIOXIDE 
    Malkani, Pallavi (I I T ROORKEE, 2014-06)
    Disinfection is practiced to kill pathogens and make water safe for drinking. Chlorine is the most widely disinfectant. Other disinfectants which have been used or are in use include ozone and ultraviolet radiation. Ozone ...
  • STABILITY ANALYSIS OF A LARGE UNDERGROUND CAVERN IN SQUEEZING GROUND CONDITION 
    Kasar, Swapnil (I I T ROORKEE, 2014-06)
    it is extremely difficult to construct a large sized structure in any difficult ground condition. For a proper understanding of the possible difficulties that could be encountered during the construction and service span ...
  • ASSESSMENT OF GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM STORAGE BASED HYDROPOWER SCHEMES 
    Anvesh, Gunjuluri (I I T ROORKEE, 2014-06)
    There is a growing interest and concern regarding Green House Gas (GHG) emissions as these are the major contributors of global warming. Carbon dioxide (CO.)) and Methane (CH4) are two main GHGs which get emitted from both ...
  • SEISMIC STABILITY ANALYSIS OF REINFORCED-SOIL WALLS 
    Kumar, Chandaluri Vinay (I I T ROORKEE, 2014-06)
    In recent years, reinforced soil is one among the few subjects that raised the imagination and general interest of the Civil Engineering. Need to improve the internal stability design of geosynthetic reinforced soil ...
  • DEVELOPMENT OF AN APPROACH FOR BUILDING EXTRACTION USING SATELLITE IMAGES 
    Susheela (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-07)
    The importance of increasing role of remote sensing and GIS technology in development of infrastructure has always posed varied challenges to the research community. Time and again, solutions have been provided by ...
  • GEOSPATIAL MODELING OF SNOW-MET PARAMETERS AND ESTIMATION OF ENERGY FLUXES 
    Gusain, Hemendra Singh (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-06)
    Surface energy fluxes of the cryospheric regions have many applications in climatology, hydrology, glaciology, snow avalanche forecasting and other snow/ice related studies. The components of the surface energy fluxes ...
  • STUDY OF SOME IMFORMATION EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING 
    Prabhu, N. (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-10)
    Remote sensing is an art and science of acquiring information about earth surface without actual contact with the earth surface. It gives data in the form of images which comprises of finite number of elements known as ...
  • CAPACITY ANALYSIS ON MULTILANE HIGHWAYS IN MIXED TRAFFIC CONDITIONS 
    Mehar, Arpan (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2013-12)
    Traffic conditions on Indian highways are highly heterogeneous due to variety of vehicles with different static and dynamic characteristics sharing and operating on common roadway width without following proper ...
  • PRIORITIZATION OF MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT DECISIONS FOR URBAN TRANSPORT NETWORK 
    Shah, Yogesh U. (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-07)
    Road infrastructure development is one of the major sectors contributing to the National economy. Maintaining these roads is one of the most important component of the entire road system and should not be neglected, ...
  • OPTIMAL PLACEMENT OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATION IN DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS 
    Kumar, Satish (Dept. of Electrical Engineering iit Roorkee, 2013-09)
    Objective of power system operation is to meet the demand at all the locations within power network economically and reliably. The traditional electric power generation systems utilize the conventional energy resources, ...
  • AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FIRE PERFORMANCE OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGED STRUCTURES 
    Shah, Asif Hussain (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-09)
    Fire is possibly the most severe environmental hazard to which the built infrastructure might be subjected to. The risk of fires in the aftermath of earthquakes is a credible extreme load in seismic regions around the ...
  • CAPACITY ANALYSIS OF URBAN ARTERIAL ROADS UNDER MIXED TRAFFIC CONDITIONS 
    Dhamaniya, Ashish (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-05)
    Urban roads in India are classified either on the basis of the number of lanes provided within an undivided or divided cross section or in accordance with their functions in the total urban road network. Besides the ...
  • BEHAVIOUR OF HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE EXPOSED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURES 
    Rahim A, Abdul (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2013-08)
    When the concrete is submitted to high temperatures, a series of physical and chemical changes take place, which result in a complex thermal behaviour in the multi-phase nature of hardened concrete. The unwanted heating ...
  • QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES FOR OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE DATA 
    Srivastava, Mohit (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2013-07)
    Remote sensing has made enormous progress in recent years. In order to extract useful information from remote sensing data, typically digital image classification is applied. The land use-land cover classes on the earth's ...
  • URBAN ROAD INFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (RIMS) USING GEOSPATIAL TOOLS 
    Gupta, Sandeep (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-06)
    With the development of any road network, the problems associated with the usage of roads arise. Some of the major problems are proper planning and maintenance of road network, including bridges, traffic jams, planning of ...
  • STRENGTH BEHAVIOUR OF JOINTED ROCKS REINFORCED WITH PASSIVE BOLTS 
    Srivastava, Lok Priya (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-02)
    Rocks encountered in civil and mining engineering structures are generally intersected by joints. The joints introduce planes of weakness, and sliding of blocks can occur easily along joint planes. Consequently, the jointed ...
  • SHEAR BEHAVIOUR OF STEEL FIBROUS CONCRETE BEAMS WITHOUT STIRRUP REINFORCEMENT 
    Gyanchand, Jain Kranti (Dept. of Civil Engineering iit Roorkee, 2013-12)
    Shear strength of longitudinally reinforced normalstrength and high-strength concrete beams containing either hooked-end or crimped-type of deformed steel fibres proposed to be used as minimum shear reinforcement has ...