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The Benchmark Issue 015: October 2019 Edition

Patrons Dr. Jitendra B. Patil - Campus Director

Mr. Rajesh Dubey - H.O.D., Civil

POST BEARERS` of Brasilia Mr. Vighnesh Pandit - General Secretary (Pg. – 02)

Mr. Shubham Sawant - Joint Secretary

Mr. Chirag Shetty - Treasurer

Mr. Rahul Patil - Technical Head Concrete Cafe

Mr. Pranav Tawale

- Event Head Seismic River

Mr. Praneeth Hegde - Public Relation Officer

Mr. Sanket Darekar Gravel Garden -Hospitality Head

Mr. Rohan Mahale -Discipline Head

Mr. Chirag Gangani Grouting Gym -Logistics Head Department Vision

EDITORS Canvas ➢ To excel in every area of Civil Engineering, inculcate (Pg. – 08) research oriented study to explore hidden talent. Mr. Jay Jagada ➢ Providing Opportunity to display creativity, out of the box Tension Tower thinking & innovativeness, aimed at providing cutting edge Ms. Neha Jagdale technology for sustainable development.

Ms. Bhagyashree Keny Department Mission Volume FACULTY ADVISORS ➢ Providing qualified, motivated faculties to deliver the content using updated teaching methodology, inviting industry experts Mr. Sagar Butle Village from various areas to disseminate subject knowledge in Civil Mr. Asir Khan Engineering. ➢ Motivating students to undertake the Research Oriented studies, participate in competitions at all levels, grasping new techniques and methods which can be improved on further. Editor’s Desk ➢ Conducting and participating in seminars, workshops and We are pleased to present the October 2019 Edition of Benchmark. In this Edition you all will find an training programs with a view to make the students industry article on ”Cathedral of Brasilia”. This edition is dedicated to the students of Department of Civil ready and improve their employability factor for global career ahead. Engineering for their achievements in “Tantrotsav 2K19” and it also highlights activities, and other ➢ To create quality professionals capable of planning, designing contribution of students & faculties of Department of Civil Engineering in the month of September. and analytical skills for better infrastructural development in the field of Civil Engineering.

Cathedral of Brasilia

Overview Photos ➢ The Cathedral of Brasilia is the Roman Catholic Cathedral serving Brasilia, , and serves as the seat of the Archdiocese of Brasilia. It was designed by Brazilian architect and projected by Brasilia structural engineer Joaquim Cardozo, and was completed and dedicated on May 31, 1970, the cathedral is a hyperboloid structure constructed from 16 concrete columns, weighing 90 tons each.

➢ Other notable elements of the Cathedral of Brasília include its Altar, which was donated by Pope Paul VI.

The four bells in the cathedral’s bell tower, meanwhile, were donated by Spanish residents of Brazil.

History and Descreption:-

➢ The corner stone was laid on September 15, 1958, The architecture of this Cathedral and the structure was finished on April 1, 1960, with only the roof structure visible above ground. Once the of Brasilia resembles a Crown. presidential term of ended, the This represents the crown of big push to finish many structures in Brasilia stalled. Although it is likely that Kubitschek intended the thorn worn by Jesus Christ. Cathedral as an “ecumenical cathedral” to be paid for by the state and open to all faiths, governments after that did not provide funding, and the building was` eventually turned over to the to complete. The Cathedral was consecrated on October 12,1968 (still with no roof), and was officially opened by Cardinal D. Eugenio Salles on May 31, 1977, and the cathedral was declared a national historic and artistic monument on July 15, 1990. ➢ The walls of the cathedral are coverd with hand- painted ceramic tiles. These tiles were designed by Athos Bulcao in 1977. The bell tower houses four bells that were donated by Spain. DID YOU KNOW? ➢ The cathedral sees some 1,000,000 visitors each year. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Brasilia, The Empire State building is major renovations were begun on April 21, 2012 to update and repair the building and infrastructure, and designed to be a lighting rod, address issues with the roof. The exterior glazing is being replaced, and the original stained glass it is struck by lightning more designed by Marianne Peretti (which used handmade glass and thus varied widely in thickness) is being than 100 times every year. replaced by uniform glass cut and assembled in Brazil from plates manufactured in Germany. In addition to the roof repairs, all marble surfaces have been polished, concrete repaired and painted, the angles in the nave have also been cleaned and re-mounted, To know more about and the bell mechanisms have already been replaced. The cathedral was open to the public during Cathedral of Brasilia, renovation. Scan the QR Code

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Page 03:- TANTROTSAV 2K19

As per the culture of Universal College of Engineering, every year Department of Civil Engineering along with Association Of Civil Engineering Students (ACES) and Student Council organized an intra-college technical fest on 21st September 2019, for the aspirants assembling from various engineering branches with a very high competitive spirit to participate and with the strong determination to include their achievements & accomplishments to their resumes. Tantrotsav aims to bring together opportunities for our students to come forward and showcase their talents and maximize their visions in the practical approach of education, something that is very important in today’s dialect of the engineering community. Students actively participated in all the events and presented their work. The event consisted with a total of 16 events planned and organized at its best of quality. Focusing on the types of events to include in Tantrotsav was decided by co-ordinators, keeping the interest and need of the engineering student into consideration, with little emphasis on

the fun full events behind the scenes.

The events that were highlighted consisted of the following gists:

IDEAZ CODE RED

Coding to its terminal test with the use of C The ultimate disaster challenge where one programming and PYTHON. is said to work on disaster responses and therefore find effective solutions and ideas to risk management.

BHOOMIKA AI-HACK

An important event wherein each team Event of problem statements of detect was provided with a problem statement to fraudulent transactions from credit cards which solutions on real time problems were and predict house prices, and finding to be gathered in a stated time. easy solutions to competitive situations.

CONC-REMIX AUTOMATE

An event to expose students to concrete Presenting a project based on home, technology and in turn produce the most industry and agriculture automation. economical base for a mixture of concrete, possessing maximum strength.

Scratch Your Head !! 1) The painting work is generally specified by:- ❖ Weight of the paint applied ❖ Labour used in the painting 3 ❖ Area of painted surface ❖ Number of coatings applied

Tantrotsav 2019 was concluded with the exciting prize distribution ceremony where the achievers were rewarded with certificates and medals under the presence of Chief Guest Mr. Shrikant Tukaram Varpe, who is a senior level professional strategic planner in project management and site management.

Following are the list of winners which participated enthusiastically in Tantrotsav 2019. Department of Civil Engineering, team ACES would heartly congratulate the winners.

EVENT NAME: URBANIA (CE 01) EVENT NAME: BRIDGE-IT (CE 02)

WINNERS :- 1) Vihar Raut WINNERS :- 1) Alifa Mansoori 2) Praful Rahate 2) Priyanka Patil 3) Vivek Prajapati 3) Sonal Jadhav 4) Rishab Trivedi 4) Shivani Jadhav RUNNER UP: 1) Hardik Jadav RUNNER UP: 1) Sayani Paul 2) Tushar Chotaliya 2) Parth Parmar 3) Mayur Patel 3) Yash Deolekar

4) Yash Rathod 4) Shubham Mehra

EVENT NAME: IDEAZ (CE 03) EVENT NAME: TREASURE HUNT (CE 04)

WINNERS :- 1) Mohini Kundu WINNERS :- 1) Bhavin Chauhan 2) Bhagyashree Keny 2) Dhruv Jadav RUNNER UP: 1) Sarvesh Sankhe 3) Mrudul Gohil 2) Vrushali Sawant 4) Dharmik Ahir

RUNNER UP: 1) Tushar Chotaliya

2) Hardik Jadav

EVENT NAME: CONC-REMIX (CE 05) 3) Mayur Patel

4) Yash Rathod WINNERS :- 1) Jigar Pandya

2) Rajkumar S. 3) Manav Patel EVENT NAME: BHOOMIKA (CE 06) 4) Rishikesh Pandey RUNNER UP: 1) Abhay Lodha WINNERS :- 1) Miraj Thakar

2) Dipesh Palyekar 2) Kasturee Kelbaikar 3) Aagam Shah 3) Silky Sharma 4) Riddhesh Mali 4) Amit Bharti RUNNER UP: 1) Jay Parmar 2) Manav Dharia 3) Vikas Giri

DID YOU KNOW?

The Channel Tunnel is one of the greatest civil engineering projects of the 20th century, it has an ultimate design capacity of 600trains

per day each way under the English Channel.

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EVENT NAME: CODERED (CO 01) EVENT NAME: WEBMANIA (CO 02)

WINNERS :- 1) Meet Bhanushali WINNERS :- 1) Neha Singh 2) Rahil Kothari RUNNER UP: 1) Hrishikesh Vaidya 3) Harsh Sangani RUNNER UP: 1) Jay Panchal 2) Raj Parekh 3) Dhruv Khara EVENT NAME: AIHACK (C0 03)

WINNERS :- Tanveer Ahmed EVENT NAME: ROBOTICS (EX 01)

WINNERS :- 1) Takshal Kadam 2) Ayush Chovatia RUNNER UP: 1) Jaideep Chauhan EVENT NAME: QUIZZE (EX 02) 2) Bhavin Gaikwad

WINNERS :- 1) Akshat Shah

2) Aayush Rajpurohit RUNNER UP: 1) Mohak Raut EVENT NAME: AUTOMATE (EX 03) 2) Gaurav Koladiya 3) Hardik Thakur WINNERS :- 1) Aditi Chaplot

2) Vishal Soni

3) Smith Parmar

EVENT NAME: I GIVE NEGATIVE RUNNER UP: 1) Satyam Gupta 2) Sanskar Pant FEEDBACK (EX 04)

WINNERS :- 1) Vaibhav Sawant

2) Sagar Nitore RUNNER UP: 1) Vishal Soni

I, there by stand as the General Secretary of the Association Of Civil Engineering Students and humbly express my appreciation for the student council, my team of ACES and the staff members that made this event a success to come. I would proudly say that in a short period of time each and everyone has worked very hard to make Tantrotsav 2019 a very huge success with 300+ students participating in the event. Moreover, I heartily congratulate the students for displaying an equally enthusiastic response in making this day memorable... Mr. Vighnesh Pandit

(General Secretary, ACES)

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Page-06:- Seminar on Pavement Design

Workshop on “Pavement Design” conducted by Dr. Vishal R. Thombare (Assistant Engineering Coastal Road in MCGM), organized by ACES (Association of Civil Engineering Students) in Universal College of Engineering on 17th September 2019. The workshop was attended by BE Civil final year students. The main objective of this workshop was to give a clear idea of pavement design conceptional knowledge to work in Transportation field. The seminar commenced at 11 am, by giving brief information about the pavement failure problems in Mumbai, as we know at present many metropolitan cities in the country including Mumbai faced the problem of addressing severe pavement distresses in the old flexible (bituminous) pavements after each monsoon incurring huge expenditure. Though cement concrete pavements, because of their long life and superior performance, greatly reduce the maintenance expenditure, often due to initial investment constraints this option is not chosen.

Although concrete pavements staged a comeback in Mumbai in 1990's and are now consider as a viable option to the bituminous pavements for certain set of conditions, the share of concrete in the total paved roads in the Mumbai is still low. Generally, the thickness of concrete pavements in Mumbai ranges between 280 mm to 350 mm. Though the design life of concr ete pavement is 30 years, it has been found that quite a few of them are in good service condition beyond their design life. Unlike concrete pavements, their bituminous counter parts required repeated repairs and maintenance. Further, the design life of these pavements is assumed to be around 10 years, after which they need upgradation and strengthening to cater to higher traffic. Here a new concept of Thin White Topping (TWT), Looking after repetitive repairs and maintenance in bituminous pavement and higher initial cost of concrete pavement, one viable strengthening/rehabilitation option that reduces the deterioration and higher initial cost is thin and Ultra-Thin White topping (UTWT) pavement over the existing bituminous pavements. The design life of Thin White Topping (TWT) is more than 20 years as compared to 10 years of bitumen pavement. With the use of higher grade of concrete the design thickness comes down to around 100 mm to 150 mm, which is almost half the conventional concrete pavement thickness. Moreover, the pavement can be opened to traffic at early age. Well designed and well-constructed concrete overlays require low maintenance and can have low life -cycle cost. Fast track paving UTWT projects use high early strength concrete mixes, to satisfy the specific needs of special applications such as durability, Modulus of elasticity and flexural strength. The concrete mix selected for a particular project is decided based on the traffic and loading conditions and the requirement of early opening to the traffic. Concrete mix design for white topping includes cementitious materials (cement, micro silica and fly ash), coarse aggregate, fine aggregate, air entraining agent, admixtures (water reducers and/or plasticizers), ratio. Fast-Track Paving white topping projects use high early strength concrete mixes. Today, it is possible, to produce such mixes using a low water-binder ratio with the incorporation of a superplasticizer and a variety of mineral admixtures such as silica fume, fly ash, high reactivity metakaolin, etc. The session was further proceeded with interaction with students by clearing their doubts & the session ended at 1pm.

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Guest Lecture

th A guest lecture was conducted on 19 September 2019, for BE(CIVIL) in Universal College of Engineering by Mr. Mihir Ayyanchira, Assistant Professor at MIT university, Panvel. He has delivered the lecture on “Opportunity of career in built environment”. He has presented the

student current scenario in civil engineering industry and expectation of

industry from upcoming engineers. He has discussed with the student that they have opportunity in planning, valuation and estimation, billing,

resource management. He had also explained the difference between

M.tech ( construction management ) and MBA program.

If the students work as site engineer they get around 12K to 15K salary and there is no substantial growth after 1 or 2 years while postgraduates are offered minimum 45K to 50K salary. He also

discussed the areas in which student can perceive their higher education for better future prospects. This seminar was quite informative for the students. DID YOU KNOW?

The Itaipu Dam, located at the Brazilian-Paraguayan

border, is the largest operating hydroelectric facility in terms of annual generating capacity.

A visit at Devkundi Village…

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is a flagship programme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, with the intention to enrich Rural India. The knowledge base and resources of the premier Institutions of the country are to be leveraged to bring in transformational changes in the rural development process.

In order to implement such an ambitious programme, as a Participating Institutions (PI) under technical stream through a challenge mode, Universal College of Engineering, Kaman has adopted five villages namely, Kaman, Belkadi, Deokundi, Pachavi Pada and Tepacha Pada and Tepacha Pada. In the first cycle of UBA programme for the year 2019-2020, as a Participating institution with coordination of Gram Panchayat, we have conducted village level and house hold survey at Devkundi village to understand the needs of villages to explore the possibilities of customizing existing technologies or need to develop a technology as per the local needs; by preparing and implementing action plan.

Scratch Your Head !! 2) The sea sand used in structures causes?

❖ Dampness ❖ Efflorescence

❖ Disintegration ❖ All of these

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“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think

they can do. You can go as far as your mind let’s you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

- Mary Kay Ash

- Sanket More S. E. Civil

Captured By

“If you’re not stubborn, you will give up

on experiments too soon. And if you are not flexible, you will pound your head

against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you are trying to solve”

- Jeff Bezoz

- Sanket More S. E. Civil Department of Civil Engineering wishesCaptured By

Happy Diwali &

Prosperous New Year

ANSWERS to “Scratch Your Head” 1) area of painted surface 2) All of these

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