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Issue No: 2 Year : 2016

MESSAGE FROM HOD Civil Engineers have a significant role in the development of any

nation. Our department from inception has been trying earnestly to equip our

students to become social engineers who can give significant contribution in

nation building. At the civil engineering department, we all envision our

graduates to be a self-reliant civil engineer who has all cognitive, practical and

transferable skills that allow him/her to express his ideas clearly and

continuously update his/her knowledge to cope with the fast pace of emerging

new breed of structures. Finally, we, the staff of the department promise to

extend our full thrust to ensure that the mission of our department is

understood and implemented by them, which will help them in their future

careers and to play the role of the real ambassadors of the Civil engineering

discipline, locally and internationally. May God Almighty bless them all with

courage and wisdom to face and win all challenges they may face.

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PEO 1 Our graduates excel in professional career and/or higher education by acquiring knowledge in mathematical, computing and engineering principles, pertaining to the current global scenario in Civil Engineering. PEO 2 Our graduates undertake Civil Engineering challenges and present optimal and facilitative solutions, through coordinated team work. PEO 3 Our graduates make sound ethical decisions that adhere to environmental preservation and sustainable development, while engaging in life long learning.

To impart holistic and research

oriented education in civil

engineering, in conformity with

global standards while adhering to

environmental sustenance.

Vision

Train and equip graduates to take up civil engineering profession.

Extend knowledge and expertise for the development of the community.

Motivate students for higher studies and research.

Foster continuous learning process.

Create responsible professionals, capable of initiating sustainable engineering practices.

Mission

Programme Educational

Objectives (PEOs)

Staff Editor

Adarsh S

Assistant Professor

Student Editor

Arjun S

Final Year, Civil

Department of Civil Engineering

TKM College of Engineering Kollam-5

Article : Munroe Island A Sustainability Challenge Page 2

Faculty Achievements Page 3

Ongoing Doctoral Research Page 3

Faculty Publications/ Presentations Page 4

R & D Grant Received Page 5

FDP/ Training Attended Page 5

Events Page 6

Workshops/ FDPs organized Page 7

Invited Talks Page 8

Students Activities and Achievements Page 10

Prof. Gouri Antherjanam Head of the Department

Munroe Island : A Sustainability

Challenge

The Kallada River in Kerala originates from the Kulathupuzha Hill ranges in Western Ghats. The river flows through the high lands, midlands and lowlands of Kollam district and finally joins the Arabian Sea through the Ashtamudi Estuary. The sediment yield in the river might have been rich owing to the heavy rainfalls at that time. The western coast of India is devoid of major deltas. The steep slopes down the Western Ghats and the energetic coastal dynamics along the west coast are the reasons. The marine transgression that occurred ten thousand years back raised the sea level three to four meters above the present level. Thorough mixing of the clay dominated sediments and the sea water occurred. It caused flocculation of the sediments which were in the suspension state in Kallada river water. A sediment deposit sloping towards sea was formed by the precipitated sediments at the river mouth. Age of sediments studied by different authors indicate that the delta formation started about twelve thousand and five hundred years ago. It should have completed around five thousand years ago. Studies indicate that the riparian vegetation existed at that time was also buried under the sediments and that has increased the organic carbon content of the sediments. The delta side bordering the Kallada River started starving of sediments due to the reduction in the river sediment influx from the river due to human intervention such as dam construction and river sand mining. Hundred years back, people migrated from the main land to the island and now the total population is about ten thousand. The island was once a tourism destination. The traditional industries like coir disappeared from the island. Pokkali cultivation was once unique to this island. Transport facilities are meager in the island. Now, the island is facing the threat of sinking and continuous settlement. Subsidence of land and residential buildings and tidal influx into the houses pose a challenge awaiting technical solution. The Department of Civil Engineering in the TKM College of Engineering has undertaken a study on the problems in the island. The people of the island are eagerly waiting for the results of the study.

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Dr. Udayakumar J, Assistant Professor in Geology

Article

Munroe Island, Way to Peringalam Higher Secondary School

1. Prof. Mohammed Asim: “Role of Key Stakeholders in Time, Cost and Quality Performance Concrete”

6. Prof. Kavita Madhu: “Modelling and Analysis of Heterogeneohus Traffic Conditions on an Urban Mid-Block Section”

2. Prof. Sajida Razaque: “Investigations on the Static and Dynamic Behaviour of Laterite Interlocking Building Block Masonry”

7. Prof. Rekha Ambi: “Behaviour of Finned-Pile Under Combined Loading Conditions”

3. Prof. Sulphia Beevi: “ Study on Structural Performance of Hybrid Fibre Reinforced High Performance Concrete”

8. Prof. K P Ramaswamy: “Acid Attack in Cement Based Materials: Mechanisms, Test Methods and Role of Binders”

4. Prof. Adarsh S: “Multiscale characterisation of hydrological time series using mathematical transforms”

9. Prof. Muhammed Siddik A: “Development of Standards for Environmental forensic investigations and its applications to case study”

5. Prof. Amal Azad Sahib: “Advanced characterization and stabilization of Kuttanad clay”

10. Prof. Chinsu Mereena Joy: “Design and Analysis of Three legged Articulated Type Supporting Structure for Offshore Wind Energy Turbine”

Faculty Achievements

Ongoing Doctoral Research

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The Kerala Engineers’ Association honoured Prof. (Dr.) S. Suresh as the best

engineering professor. He was selected from among an elite group of teachers for the

first ever prestigious award. He is currently the Dean of Post Graduate Courses of the

institution.

Dr. Benny Joseph was awarded Ph.D in Civil Engineering from Cochin University of

Science and Technology in January 2016.

Dr. Sajeeb R. and Prof. Amal Azad Sahib have been selected as members in Technical

Expert Committee, Kollam Corporation.

Dr. I. Bushra and Dr. M. Nazeer have been approved as research guides in the

University of Kerala in September, 2015

1. Janga Reddy M, Adarsh S (2016). Time Frequency Characterization of Subdivisional Scale Seasonal Rainfall in India Using Hilbert-Huang Transform. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Springer 30(4): 1063-1085

2. Adarsh S, M. Janga Reddy (2015). Trend Analysis of Rainfall in four meteorological Subdivisions in Southern India Using Non Parametric Methods and Discrete Wavelet Transforms. International Journal of Climatology, Wiley Interscience 35(6): 1107-1124

3. Adarsh S, M. Janga Reddy (2015). Gravitational Search algorithm for probabilistic design of HBPS canals. ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Taylor & Francis 21(3): 290-297

4. Swarnalatha K, Ayoob S (2016). Adsorption Studies on Coir Pith for Heavy Metal Removal. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, Taylor & Francis 9(4):259-265

5. Ghosal PS, Gupta AK, Ayoob S (2016). Multivariate Optimization Of Process

Parameters In The Synthesis Of Calcined Ca‒Al (NO3) LDH For Defluoridation Using

33 Factorial, Central Composite And Box–Behnken Design. Journal of Environmental

Science and Health, Taylor & Francis 51(1) : 86-96

6. Ghosal PS, Gupta AK, Ayoob S (2015). Effect of Formation pH, Molar Ratio and

Calcination Temperature on the Synthesis of An Anionic Clay Based Adsorbent

Targeting Defluoridation. Applied Clay Science Elsevier 116-117: 120-128

7. Adarsh S, M. Janga Reddy (2016). Analysing the multiscale variability of streamflow and suspended sediment concentration using Time Dependent Intrinsic Correlation. CEASIDE 2015, Govt. Engg College Thrissur December 9-11 2015, Published in Procedia Technology by Elsevier 24: 54-61

8. Mathew SA, M. Nazeer (2016). Strength and Chemical Durability of PC-Slag-RHA Ternary Blended Concrete Mixes. International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology 5(3): 79 - 82

9. NS Potty, M. Sirajuddin (2015). Study on Emperical Seismic Codal Guidelines for Masonry Buildings in Kollam, Kerala, India. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (JESTEC), Taylor’s University, Malaysia. 10(7): 865-877

10. Gouri Antherjanam, Adarsh S, Philipose MC (2015). A Comparison of Landslide Susceptibility Zonation of Poonjar Sub-watershed, Kerala by Certainty Factor and Physically Based Methods. Asian Journal of Engineering and Technology 3(6):544-549

11. Gouri Mohan L, Lal SS, Rasheed KKA, Koshy RZ (2015). Theoretical Study on constitutive modeling of frozen soils. International Journal of Applied Science 1(13): 582-585

12. Adarsh S, M Janga Reddy (2015). Multiscale Analysis of Suspended Sediment Concentration Data from Natural Channels Using Hilbert Huang Transform. Aquatic Procedia by Elsevier 7(4): 780-788

13. Leslie R, Abhillash R, Saraswathy B (2015). A New Procedure to Include Torsional Effects in Pushover Analysis of Torsional Buildings. Asian Journal of Engineering and Technology 3(4): 459-466

14. Philip V, Anitha Joseph, Chinsu Mereena Joy (2015). Three Legged Articulated Support for 5MW Offshore Wind Turbine. Aquatic Procedia by Elsevier 7(4): 500-508

15. Adarsh S, Sreelakshmy S, Pavithra CP (2015). Derivation of Intensity Duration Frequency Curve Based on Multivariate Empirical Mode decomposition and Scaling Theory. International Conference HYDRO 2015, December 17-19 2015, IIT Roorkee ID:355

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Faculty Publications/presentations

Prof. Adarsh S, Prof. Muhammed Siddik A. QIP short term course on “GIS for Civil

Engineers” 23-27 May, 2016, IIT Bombay.

Prof. Muhammed Siddik A. Workshop on “Instruments for environmental quality assessment” NIT, Calicut, 19-21 November,2015.

Prof. Muhammed Siddik A. FDP on “Potentials of interdisciplinary research”, College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram 23-27 November 2015

Prof. Chinsu Mereena Joy. FDP on “ Dynamic Analysis and Design of Ocean Structures” 21-25 September 2015, IIT Madras

Dr. Sudhi Mary Kurian. FDP on “Research methodology” at College of Engineering, Adoor, 16-20 November, 2015.

Dr. Anitha Joseph. Workshop on “Design Engineering”, LBSITW, 29-30 December, 2015.

Dr Bindu S, Dr M Sirajuddin. FDP on “Precast construction practices in India”, February 16-20 2016, IIT Madras.

Hakkim I, Shaji MB, Davood M, Remi N Meera, Zajina Z. Three day workshop on “Effective Management & Maintenance of Electrical Supply System and UPS, Electrical

16. Adarsh S, M Janga Reddy (2015). Multifractal Description of Daily Streamflows of Mahanadi Basin using Arbitrary Order Hilbert Spectral Analysis. Interntational conference HYDRO 2015, December 17-19 2015, IIT Roorkee ID:141

17. Muhammed Siddik A, Varghese, GK, Babu JA (2015). Environmental Forensics in India-Four year after the National Green tribunal Act, 2010. "International conference on Environmental forensics (IENFORCE2015)", August 2015, conducted by Environmental Forensic Research Center, University Putra Malaysia, Putra Jaya, Malaysia. Above paper was published in International Journal, "Procedia Environmental Science" (Elsevier)

18. Seema K. Nayar, Lalu Mangal (2015). Community Management in Rural Water Supply: The Stakeholders’ Perspective. 36th IAHR World Congress held at the World Forum, the Hague, the Netherlands from 28th June to 3rd of July, 2015.

19. Shilpa KP, Sulphia Beevi U (2015) An Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of High Performance Concrete With Hybrid Glass Fibre. National Conference on System, Energy and Environment, Government Engineering College Kannur. ISBN-978-93-85477-10-2, pp. 1-6

20. Soumya Shaw Nawaz, Sulphia Beevi U (2015) The Effect of Polypropylene And Carbon Fibres On High Performance Concrete. International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (Sp. Publication) pp. 45-52.

21. Seventeen Faculty Members contributed research papers in the International Confernce ICMSC2015 held at TKMCE during December 9-11 2015

22. Prof. Amal Azad Sahib delivered a lecture on “Motivation- Need of the Hour” as Visiting Faculty, in College of Engineering, Trivandrum on 2nd July, 2015

FDP/Training Attended

Prof. Adarsh S, Prof. Muhammed Siddik A (2016) An investigation into the percolation of

rainwater on permeable pavements using rainfall simulator, under TEQIP, 1.28 Lakhs.

Prof. Adarsh S, Prof. Muhammed Siddik A (2016) Developing sub-daily IDF curves for

urban cities in Kerala meteorological subdivision using Multivariate empirical mode

decomposition and scaling theory. The Institution of Engineers IE (India), 0.5 Lakhs.

R & D Grants Received

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The Department of Civil Engineering organized the 3rd International Conference on Modeling and Simulation in Civil Engineering, ICMSC 2015, from December 9 – 11, 2015. ICMSC, held biennially at the Department of Civil Engineering, is a platform for sharing, debating and promoting ideas on modeling and simulation in civil engineering. Dr. Bindu S. and Dr. Anu V. Thomas were the coordinators of the conference. The Conference was inaugurated by Dr. Gangan Prathap, Honorary Professor, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University and former Vice Chancellor, CUSAT. Forty one selected papers in various streams of civil engineering were presented during the conference. The keynote lectures were delivered by Dr. P. K. Aravindan, former Professor, IIT Madras, Prof. Devdas Menon, Professor, IIT Madras, Prof. K. C. Iyer, Professor, IIT Delhi, Prof. Tom V. Mathew, Professor, IIT Bombay, Prof. P. Basak, Professor, NIT Jamshedpur and Prof. Zulkifli Bin Yusop, Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. A panel discussion on ‘Sustainable Transportation Systems’ with Prof. Tom V. Mathew, Professor, IIT Bombay, Prof. Samson Mathew, Professor, NIT Trichy, Dr. B.G. Sreedevi, Director NATPAC and Dr. Reebu Zachariah Koshy, Professor, TKM College of Engineering, Kollam as panelists, was held.

Dr. Gangan Prathap inaugurating ICMSC 2015

A bridge design contest was organized by the department in September 2015, for which twelve teams registered. To familiarise the procedure, a workshop on bridge design is arranged on the first day. On the second day, the design exhibition and evaluation were made. The teams secured first three places were recommened for IBCC (India’s Biggest Civil Championship)2016 bridge design competition scheduled to conducted at IIT Bombay.

Events

Bridge Design Contest 2015

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International Conference ICMSC 2015

A workshop on “Concrete for Present and Future” from 25-27 June,2015 was coordinated by Prof. Benny Joseph and Prof. Haseena R.

AICTE Sponsored (QIP) Short term Course on ‘Advanced Techniques for Sustainable Water Resources and Environmental Management was coordinated by Prof. Adarsh S and Prof. Mohammed Siddik A during 15-20 February, 2016. Dr. Lakshman Nandagiri (Professor, NIT Surathkal) inaugurated the programme. Distigushed faculties like Dr KP Sudheer (IIT Madras), Dr. M Janga Reddy (IIT Bombay), Dr. Raaj Ramsankaran (IIT Bombay), Dr Gorge K Varghese (NIT Calicut) etc. were among the resource persons for the course.

Dr. Lakshman Nandagiri, inaugurating the AICTE (QIP) Short term course on ‘Advanced Techniques for Sustainable Water Resources and Environmental

Management’

TEQIP sponsored short term course “Tropical landscape design” 8-14 March 2016. Dr. B Sunil Kumar, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering coordinated the programme jointly with Dr KG Santhoshkumar and Prof. Ayyappan KA of Department of Architecture TKMCE Kollam.

Workshops/FDPs Organized

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Sri. Althaf Hussain, Senior Project Manager, HSL Ground Engineering P/L, Singapore addressed the students in June, 2015. He delivered a talk on “Career opportunities for Civil Engineers”.

Prof. S.K. Mohan, Professor, IIT Madras, gave a technical talk on “Biomimicry” in October, 2015

Mr. Rahul Leslie, Director, DRIQ Board, Kerala PWD, gave a technical presentation on “Applications of Finite Element Method in Civil Engineering” in October, 2015.

Mr. Somasekhar S., Deputy General Manager, Advisory Engineering, Bharat Petroleum, Kochi Refinery, delivered a lecture on “HR Practices in Kochi Refinery” in October, 2015.

Dr. Devadas Menon, Professor, IIT Madras delivered a talk on “Self Awareness” in December 2015.

Mr. George Abraham, Head-Business Development-Factories Buildings and Factories IC, Larsen and Toubro Ltd., Chennai gave a lecture on “Career Prospects in Construction Industry” in January, 2016.

Dr. Lalu Mangal, Former professor of the department gave a lecture on “Problems in Civil engineering construction” in January 2016.

Prof. U.C Ahamed Kutty, Structural consultant, kazhikode, gave a technical presentation on “Civil engineering – An Overview & Prefabricated Construction Practices” in February 2016.

Mr. Harikumar, Manager, Reinshaw Metrology Systems Limited, Pune, delivered a technical talk on “Modern Surveying Techniques” in January 2016.

Mr. Sreeganesh V Nair, LEED: AP& GRIHA Evaluator& Trainer, gave a lecture on “Opportunities in Civil Engineers” & “Energy and Environmental Concerns In Buildings”, in February 2016.

Invited Talks

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IE(India) Students Chapter

IE (India) Students’ chapter organized an invited talk on ‘Cities and Floods’ by Dr. E.K. Bhass, Head of the Department, Sree Buddha College of Engineering Pattoor and former professor of TKM College of Engineering.

Ms. Rukku Chandran, Ms. Jesna fathima and Ms. Sruthi V Roy of C6

received R&D UG project grant for the project Developing sub-daily IDF

curves for urban cities in Kerala meteorological subdivision using

Multivariate empirical mode decomposition and scaling theory from The

Institution of Engineers IE(India).

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Bhoomithrasena Club

World Environment Day was celebrated on the 5th of June, 2015 by Bhoomitrasena Club. An Awareness Programme on Environmental preservation and an essay competition were conducted. Trees were planted in the campus.

A Biogas Plant was installed near Canteen with fund availed from Bhoomitrasena Club.

Civil Engineering Association

Mrs. M. Pennamma, Chief Engineer Buildings, Kerala PWD, inaugurated

the Civil Engineering Association for the academic year 2015-16 on

October 29 2015. She delivered a talk on “Application of Theoretical

Knowledge in Practice”. Following the talk, an inter semester technical

quiz competition CIZZLE’15 was also organized.

The poster and oral presentation on the project works by the final year

students was held on April 21, 2016.

Student Activities and Achievements

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Publications by Students

Priyanka pandey, Vipin Shaji, Rohit Ranga Prasad, Mukesh Yadav, Santhy K.S (2016)

Reliability Analysis of Isolated Column Footings using Monte Carlo Simulation.

International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, 7(4) : 62-68.

Sreelekshmy S, Pavithra CP (2015) Derivation of Intensity Duration Frequency Curve

Based on Multivariate Empirical Mode decomposition and Scaling Theory. International

Conference HYDRO 2015, IIT Roorkee, 17-18 December 2015. (Jointly with Prof Adarsh

S).

Mithun Murali M (2015) Review of Work Progress By Earned Value Analysis. National

conference RACE’15 at Younus college of Engineering, Kollam. (Jointly with Prof

Mohammed Asim).

Nayana Narayanan (2015) Investigation On Strength Properties Of Ternary Blended

Concrete In Aggressive Condition. National Conference on technological Trends

(NCTT2015), September 2015, College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram (Jointly with

Dr. M Nazeer).

Shilpa KP (2015) An Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of High Performance

Concrete With Hybrid Glass Fibre National Conference on System, Energy and

Environment, Government Engineering College Kannur. ISBN-978-93-85477-10-2,pp 1-6

(Jointly with Prof. Sulphia Beevi U).

Soumya Shaw Nawaz (2015) The Effect of Polypropylene And Carbon Fibres On High

Performance Concrete. International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology

(Sp. Publication) pp.45-52 (Jointly with Prof. Sulphia Beevi U).

Seventeen students contributed papers in the International Conference ICMSC2015 held

at TKMCE during December 9-11 2015.

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Students’ Achievements in Intercollegiate Events

Akbar Basheer (II Year), secured third place in the Kerala University Tennis Championship held at Sanskrit college, Thiruvananthapuram.

Anjaly P V (III year) was selected for Kerala University Football Team.

Anjaly P.V (III year) secured 2nd place -3000m, 2nd place-1500m, 3rd place - 800m running race at TKMCE Athletic Meet 2016.

Anoop Raj, Akshay RS, Anandu Sreerag, Sachin Venu and Bibin Benny (Final year) bagged the first place, Vipin Shaji, Rohit Ranga Prasad, Priyanka Pandey, Mukesh Yadav, Lekshmi Sudhakaran and Krishna Priya (Final year) got the second place and Veena S Suthan, Hari krishnan P., Chithu Babu, Alif Ray A. Rahim and Jerin Mathew (III Year) secured the third place in the Bridge Design Contest held at the college in September 2015,

Arjun Raaj (First Semester) bagged the first prize in FACE to FACE Competition and second prize in Inquisto Vitouso Competition conducted as part of Tathva ’15 at NIT, Calicut from October 29th to November 1st, 2015.

Devika Sharji (III Year), secured second place in the Kerala University Judo Women championship held at TKMCE.

Gopika Preetham, Sreehari S and Praveen BL, was the runner up in the Kerala University North zone intercollegiate Chess championship held at CET, Thiruvananthapuram.

Jithin Rocky, Mohammed Navas, Syed Mohammed Junaid, Kuru Moda and Shijith Raj, runner up in the Kerala University North zone intercollegiate Football tournament.

Kaveri Prathweraj OM, Sruthi V Roy and Anjali PV (III Year), secured third place in the Kerala University Judo Women championship held at TKMCE.

Lekshmi D, Veena S Suthan (III Year) secured First prize in the event “War Of Words” conducted as a part of NAKSHATRA 2016, national level Techno Cultural Festival at Saintgits College of Engineering, Kottayam.

Monica Shine (First Semester) bagged the first prize in Informals Treasure Hunt held as part of Tathva ’15 at NIT, Calicut from October 29th to November 1st, 2015.

Praveen BL (III year) was a member of the TKMCE chess team that won the second position in the Kerala University chess championship.

Veena S Suthan, secured First prize in JAM-English as a part of NAKSHATRA 2016 at Saintgits Kottayam.

Aleesha Fizal, Rahul Raju (III Year) secured third position in the event “CEA Quiz Quest 2016” conducted as a part of CEA FEST’16, a national level technical festival at IIT Madras.

Lekshmi D (III Year) secured first position in the event “Potential Professor” conducted as a part of CEA FEST’16, a national level technical festival at IIT Madras.

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