DECEMBER 2018 CO N T E N TS VOL 28/M05 Founder Chief Editor EDITOR’S NOTE Late Dr. Monoj Chatterjee Chairperson GLIMPSES OF “WHY STEEL?” SEMINAR AT VISAKHAPATNAM, 2018 Dr. Mrs. Jyotsna Chatterjee Managing Director SECTION : SEMINAR PAPER Sakuntala Chatterjee Chanda Steel-concrete Composite Construction Advisor (Finance & Accounts) & Life Cycle Costing - Debashish Dutta 1 Prodosh Jana Roy Editorial Consultant Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Partha Sarathi Bhattacharya Development Authority (VMRDA) - P. Basanth Kumar IAS 8 Content & Marketing Executive Gopal Ghosh Steel Structures – Satyajit Mohapatra 17 Joyanta Mani Sameer Kundu Steel Structures Accounts Advantages of steel structures in Civil infra structures – Abhai Sinha 24 Gobinda Roy Regional Office (Mumbai) Usage of Steel in Mass Transit Systems - K K Rao 25 Sumit Roy Design & Layout Narendra Nath Roy SECTION : ARTICLE Spark Steel & Economy Processes Routes for HRC Production - Sanat Bhaumik 32 Research Centre Pvt. Ltd. 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It appears that the expectation of a prolonged turnaround in the global steel market fuelled by consumption growth, higher levels of production and capacity utilisation and rising steel prices has been cut short and the happenings in the next few months on which there is a great deal of uncertainty would determine the fate of the steel industry for 2019 and beyond that. Meanwhile, India's steel sector consolidation will drive improvement in the industry’s capacity utilisation levels and mute the pressure on profitability. India will be the brightest spot for the steel sector over the next 12-18 months, according to Moody's Investors Service. The first half of the calendar year 2019 will be a strong period for the steel industry globally, said TV Narendran, managing director of Tata Steel. He also added that apart from some concern on trade flows, the fundamentals are strong and growing in China, India, US and Europe is good. Asian steel demand will remain steady over the next 12 months to June 2019, because solid growth in 2018 will offset a likely softening in 2019. Demand in the ASEAN region is expected to resume its growth momentum backed by infrastructure programmes in 2019 and onwards. Risks are largely related to rising trade tensions between the US and China, currency volatility and political instability. India has already committed US$94 b to infrastructure up to 2020, which will see robust steel production and usage growth rates. Throughout 2019, Steel Scenario Journal will regularly cover various topics connected to steel awareness among end users, case studies of steel usage in numerous projects connected to infrastructure, housing, roads, mass transit systems, etc. We start our editorial calendar with a focus on various Public Enterprises which has played an important role in giving India its due momentum inspite of major economic crises and change in economic policies intermittently by various ruling governments. As we acknowledge the contribution of Public Sector Undertakings we cannot overlook the contribution by various Private Enterprises who have to lead the country to greate heights and gave India a recognition in the global development map. 2019 will remain a year of great expectations from all domains of the industrial sectors and steel will not be an exception. After a long dwelling crisis that was chocking the industry, by and large, this is the year to turn around and look forward. Let the whole fraternity come together to bring this major change in the mind set of users which is the only way of bringing the significant change in steel consumption in India. DECEMBER 2018 “Steel is the Future Metal” - the outcome of WHY STEEL? Seminar in Visakhapatnam Steel Scenario Journal in support of Ministry of Steel completed its 2nd Seminar on WHY STEEL in Visakhapatnam on 12th December. The Seminar was well attended from the user segment who are main users of the steel industry. Various departments from urban development, municipal corporation, Smart City, Panchayati Raj, architects, NHAI, builders from Indian Building Congress, CREDAI, Airport Authority and town planning were all present in the Seminar to discuss various pertinent issues concerning steel usage in their Sakuntala, Editor - Steel Scenario various projects. Though the users understood the requirement to use steel in more quantity in various projects, they have major challenges in terms of cost of the project going up, difficulties in finding the adequate quantity and quality of steel for various projects. President of Indian Building Congress Shri Abhai Sinha spoke about the requirement to use more of steel in various building projects and WHY STEEL should be used and should be the future metal for building construction. The Seminar started with a Keynote Address by Shri Debashish Dutta from INSDAG who spoke about “Steel Concrete Composite Building & LCA”. He emphasized on the solution for the building industry through Steel- Concrete Composite. This is applicable not only to rural houses but also in urban houses for a cost-effective way of building sustainable houses. The Seminar was divided into another three Sessions, “Usage of Steel in Infrastructure, Usage of Steel in Urban & Rural Houses and Usage of Steel in Public Utilities & Mass Transit System”. The Session had very senior representatives from various segments as well as steel producers who deliberated on various projects happening under their departments and the requirement of steel for these projects. Shri P Basant Kumar, Commissioner VMRDA gave a detailed presentation of the various projects that are in pipeline and the steel museum they have constructed in record time with steel replacing concrete. During the Seminar Session discussion, Airport Authority Director Shri G Prakash Reddy, requested steel producers to submit a quotation and time frame for a three-tier car park project for the Visakhapatnam Airport. The outcome of the Seminar was very impressive with many user segment organisations and state government departments requesting steel producers to come for further discussions to be part of the projects in the state. It is in-evident, that the mission of WHY STEEL was achieved to a great extent in this Seminar. DECEMBER 2018 GLIMPSE P. Basanth Kumar, VMRDA S OF “ WHY S TEEL? Prashant Mishra, NHAI ” Niranjan Reddy, Panchayat Raj & Rural Dev. Satyajit Mohapatra, Essar Steel P. Murali Krishna, R&B Circle, Vizag Debashish Dutta, INSDAG K. V. L. Sreeram, Amaravati City Dev. Corp. A. Prabhu, SAIL ATNAM, 2018 AKHAP K.K. Rao, Vizag Profiles T VIS SEMINAR A Pradeep Mittal, Indian Building Congress G. Prakash Reddy, Airport Authority of India Abhai Sinha, Indian Building Congress Col. Harsha, Smart City - Vizag P. Koteswara Rao, CREDAI, Vizag K. V. L. Sreeram, Amaravati City Dev. Corp. Ar. Y. Narasimha Rao, IIA - Vizag DECEMBER 2018 DECEMBER 2018 Section : SEMINAR PAPER Steel-concrete Composite Construction & Life Cycle Costing by - Debashish Dutta, Assistant General Manager, INSDAG • India transforming from developing to developed country • Upsurge in construction activities • Recent statistical studies show Indian subcontinent and Far East becoming more vulnerable to natural hazards • Proper selection of technology helps building our nation with more sustainable & durable construction & structures could withstand natural calamities • Popular method of selection followed abroad Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) • From value of LCC, function of construction w.r.t. strength, durability, longevity, disaster resistance etc. i.e. Life Expectancy could be well assessed • From LCCA, Scientific evaluation of different proposals would be easier • LCCA may indicate lesser LCC even when direct construction cost is more • If fast track technology, Steel-Concrete composite methodology adopted, due to the lesser construction period, the saving in interest burden on borrowed capital & early generation of revenue also reduces Net Construction Cost, also LCC • Life Cycle Management is required to ensure Sustainable Growth, Hollistic Development and upgradation towards more scientific living DECEMBER 2018 1 Section : SEMINAR PAPER ADVANTAGES OF STEEL-CONCRETE COMPOSITE • Steel-Concrete composite construction more resistant CONSTRUCTION against accidental loads • Composite sections have higher stiffness compared to only • Effective utilisation of materials viz. concrete in compression and steel in tension steel construction and hence experience lesser deflection than the non-composite steel sections • High