Volume 1

International Conference on

Advances in Architecture and

2 Civil Engineering

June 21st-23rd, 2012

M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology

Vidya Soudha, MSR Nagar, Mathikere,

Bangalore - 560 054, Karnataka, India.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1

MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES

Concrete - Materials

S.No. Paper ID Title/Author Page No.

01 SAM 101 Green Concrete - An Emerging Trend in India 01 -04

Shwetambara Verma ,Dr. Arun Kumar and Dr. Baboo.Rai

02 SAM 107 An Experimental Study on Self Compacting Concrete 05-10

H. Ravi Kumar, KU. Muthu and N.S. Kumar

03 SAM 111 Comparative Study on PSC And OPC with Partial Replacement of 11-16

Different Pozzolanic Materials

B. Damodhara Reddy, S. Aruna Jyothy, I. V. Ramana Reddy and M.

Bhargava

04 SAM 118 Effect of Supplementary Cementious Materials on Bond Strength of 17-21

High Performance Concrete

Gopinatha Nayak, Kiran K. Shelly, B N Sowbyath Raj and Akshaya

05 SAM 125 Effect of Different Chemical Treatment on the Mechanical 22-26

Properties of Natural Fibre Reinforced Composites

Tara Sen, B.S. Shubhalakshmi and H.N. Jagannatha Reddy

06 SAM 126 Study of Effect of Admixture and Partial Replacement of Ingredients 27-29

on Concrete

Mukesh B. Patel and S.D. Charkha

07 SAM 140 Studies on Shrinkage Behaviour of NSC, SCC & HSC Concretes 30-34

H.S. Ravikumara, S. Ramanji and R. Prabhakara

08 SAM 147 Accelerated Test ofConcrete Beam in Coastal Environment 35-39

Poornachand Pandit, Akshatha Shelly, Mahesha, Shivprasad Naik, Katta

Venkataamana, K.S. Babunarayan, Indrani Gogoi and Chinnagiri Gowda

09 SAM148 Experimental Study on Self Cured Cementitious Composites 40-44

Radhakrishna, T. Venu Madhav and B. Bhavana

10 SAM150 Strength Development in Fly Ash Based Ternary Cement Concrete 45-49

B .G. Anand Kumar, Radhakrishna and Ajay R. Anand

11 SAM152 Tyre Rubber as Aggregate in Concrete a Possible Outlet for Used 50-55

Tyres

Neela Deshpande, Nitish Desai, Payal Shah, Priyanka Kale and YogeshBhandalkar

12 SAM158 An Experimental Study on FaL-G Mortar and Concrete 56-61

RadhaKrishna, P.S. Niranjan, P. Prithvi Raj and Vitta Sanket Kumar

13 SAM160 Effect of Polyester Fibers as Filler Material on Compression and 62-65

Flexural Strength of High Strength Flyash Concrete

K.N. Vishwanath and Raghu

14 SAM 167 Comparing Study of Behavior and Strength Characteristics Between 66-71

Nano Concrete with and Without Nano Materials and Crushed Rock

Powder

N. Lokesh Kumar.B.M. Baswakiran, Amir Khan, Mahendar Singh andK.

Angamuthu

15 SAM 168 Recent Advances in Recycled Aggregate Concrete- A Review 72-76

G. Mithun Murthy and M. Venu

16 SAM 169 Compressive Strength Properties of Lime Fly Ash Block Masonry 77-83

C. Satish Chandra and Dr. P. Prasanna Kumar

17 SAM 171 Flexural Strength of Hollow Concrete Block Prisms Under Normal 84-88

Stress

Dr.S. Raghunath , Mangala Keshava,M.N. Hemanth Kumar andS. Manish

18 SAM 172 Effects of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete over Control Concrete at 89-93

Low Volume Fraction

Vikrant S. Vairagade, Tejas R. Patil and Kavita S. Kene

19 SAM 175 Study on Paving Blocks Incorporating Fly Ash and Pond Ash 94-97

Dr.S. Kandasamy, K. Vidhya, M. Poorani andS. Sujithra

20 SAM 177 Repeatability of Rheological Parameters of SCC (Slag As Filler)

Using Direct Shear Box 98-104

R. V. Ranganath, R.C. Nandish, S. Girish andB.S. Santhosh

21 SAM 182 Determination of Bingham Parameters of Fresh Portland Cement 105-111

Concrete

S. Girish, B.S. Santhosh, L. Shobha and G.S. Vinay Kumar

22 SAM 183 Evaluation of Fatigue Strength of Recycled Aggregate Concrete for 112-118

Pavement Construction

Dr. Shkanth M. Naik, Dr.B.V. Venkata Subramanya, Dr.R. Sathyamurthyand Nagendra Prasad

23 SAM 189 Characterization of Pond Ash as Fine Aggregate in Concrete 119-125

Bharathi Ganesh, H. Sharada Bai, R. Nagendra and B.K. Narendra

24 SAM 198 Effect of Normal and High Strength Concrete Made Out ofRecycled 126-129

Aggregate

T.S. Saveetha and M. Sujitha

25 SAM207 Earthship - Scrap Materials Recycling in the Building Design 130-132

Dhyashree, C. Pradeep, B.G. Jagadeesha Kumar and C. Mithun

26 SAM208 Permeability Characteristics of HVFA Concrete 133-137

Dr.K.P. Nagaraja, Dr.K. U. Muthu and Dr.A. Veeraragavan

Structural Concrete

27 SAM 103 Flexural Strength of Fibre Reinforced Self Compacting Concrete

One-Way Slabs

T. Geetha Kumari, Dr.C.G. Puttappa, Dr.C. Shashidar, Dr.K.U. Muthu, H.S.

Naveen Kumar and Aaron Vaz

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28 SAM 116 Shear Behavior of High Strength GPC/TVC Beams 142-145

R. Mourougane, C.G. Puttappa, C. Sashidhar and K.U. Muthu

29 SAM 141 Short Term Deflection of Steel Fibre Reinforced Self Compacting 146-149

Concrete Beams

M. Vijayanand

30 SAM153 Study of Effect of Bar Diameter on Corrosion Using Acoustic 150-153

Emission Technique

Shilpa V. Patil, Prem Kankariy, Akash Kadam, T. Vijesh and Sunil Kumar

31 SAM 165 Bond and Anchorage Length of Deformed Reinforcing Bars in 154-161

Tension Outlook and Way Forward for Advanced Formulations

Maruful Hasan Mazumder, Raymond lan Gilbert and Zhen-Tian Chang

32 SAM 199 Tension Stiffening Effect on NSC, SCC and HSC 162-168

R. Prabhakara, Shyam Dutt Shukla, Rajat Ranjan, Ujwal Kumar and Vivek

Singh

33 SAM200 Inplane Shear Strength of Normal, High Strength and Self 169-173

Compacting Concrete Using Push-Off Specimen

Nadar Nissar Shaikh, Mohammed Zeeshan, Mohammed Muzaffar Saba, S.B.

Nirmala and R. Prabhakara

34 SAM201 Shear Behavior of High Strength SCC Beams 174-178

H. Narendra, Dr.K.U. Muthu, J. Anitha and R. Yamuna

35 SAM205 Analysis of Flexural Behaviour ofSingly and Doubly Reinforced 179-184

High Strength Concrete Beams Using ANSYS

H.R. Manjunath, K.R. Kavya, Kalyani Rao, M.R. Prakash and R.

Prabhakara

Concrete - Structural Steel, Composite & Timber

36 SAM 130 Performance ofCold Formed Steel Concrete Composite Beams 185-189

Under Flexure

T. Valsa Ipe, Dr.H. Sharada Bai and K. Manjula Vani

37 SAM 163 Stiffened Web in Axial Compression and Shear 190-194

Archana S. Wagaj, Pratibha M. Alandkar andDr. MukundR. Shiyekar

38 SAM 178 Comparative Study of Concrete Filled Tubes with Hollow Double 195-199

Skinned Composite Columns in-Filled with SelfCompactingConcrete

Dr. S. Prabhavathy and D. Surendar

39 SAM190 Block Shear Analysis of Tension Member 200-203

A. Mohamed Nainakkan Subuhan and Dr.P. Jayabalan

40 SAM 195 Experimental Investigation on FRP Jacketted CFST Sections Under 204-208

Axial Compression

M. Saranya, T. Karthigaipriya, G. Sathya, V. Muthukumar andDr.M.C.

Sundarraja

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41 SAM206 Experimental Study on the Seismic Resistance Capabilities of

Dhajji-Dewari Frames

MohammadAdil Dar, Jayalakshmi Raju, A.R. Dar andA.H. Shah

209-212

Retrofitting/Health Monitoring of Structures

42 SAM 117 Strengthening of Post-Tensioned Concrete Beams by Glass Fibre- 213-214

Reinforced Polymer

Vasthala, Jagannatha Reddy and Revnnasidheshwar

43 SAM 124 A Review of Different Composite Systems used for Strengthening of 215-221

RC Slabs

B.S. Shubhalakshmi, Tara Sen and H.N. Jagannatha Reddy

44 SAM 162 Strengthening of Beam Column Joints for Earthquake Resistant 222-226

Structures

Manpreet Kaur and Roshan Lai

45 SAM 173 Performance Evaluation of FRP Composite Ferrocement Sandwich 227-233

Slabs

N. Nandhini, V. Srinivas andS. Ashok Manikandan

46 SAM 194 Flexural Strengthening of Artificially Degraded HSS Tubular 234-238

Members Using FRP Composites

V. Sindhuja, N. Nirkunal, P. Sriram andDr.M.C. Sundarraja

47 SAM204 Evaluation ofConcrete Structures with Ultrasonic Pulse Echo 239-242

A. Teena Xavier, P. Srinivasan and S. Ashok Manikandan

Analysis of Structures

48 GET 103 Non-Linear Analysis ofFooting on Consolidating Soil Using Finite 243-246

Element Method

A. Krishnamoorthy andSan/ay S. Rao

49 GET116 Numerical Analysis of Interaction Between Twin Tunnels with 247-249

Horizontal Alignment

S. Mahalakshmi, S. Hema, Anusha MShetty, Bhosale Sanjay, N. Srilatha

and Dilip Kumar

50 SAM108 Seismic Design of Support Structure 250-253

N. Srujana, R. Ramesh Babu and Katta Venkataramana

51 SAM110 Non-Linear Analysis of Multistoried Infilled Reinforced Concrete 254-259

Frame with Soft Storey and Window Openings

V. Indumathy and Dr.B.P. Annapurna

52 SAM113 Nonlinear Seismic Analysis ofReinforced Concrete Cylindrical 260-265

Barrel Vault Structures

R. Pathak, A. Melani, R.K. Khare and V.K. Shukla

53 SAM 123 Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers for Response Control ofBase 266-269

Isolated Plane Frame Structure

KiranK. Shetty, Krishnamoorthy, Gopinatha Nayak and Nivedita K. Ramesh

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SAM 129

SAM131

SAM 133

SAM 137

SAM 139

SAM151

SAM 179

SAM 185

SAM 186

SAM 187

SAM191

SAM 196

SAM 197

SAM202

SAM 203

Dynamic Behavoir of R.C.C Frame Subjected to Lateral Load

D. Sathies Kumar, Dr.S. Suresh Babu and G Shankar

Pushover Analysis for an Elevated Water Tanks

N. Vinay, Dr. Gopi Siddappa and Dr.G.S. Suresh

A Study on Efficient Outrigger Structural Systems for Tall Buildings

Kiran Kamath. N. Di\ya and Asha U Rao

Study of Optimizing Configuration of Multi-Storey BuildingSubjected to Lateral Loads by Changing of Shear Wall Location

Ashish S. Agrawal and S.D. Charkha

Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Frame Structure with

Masonry Infill Walls

V. V. Diware and A.C. Saoji

Delamination and First Ply Failure Study of Corhposite Conoidal

Shells Using the Finite Element Method

Kaustav Bakshi and Dipankar Chakravorty

Analytical Study of Seismic and Wind Response of Symmetric and

Asymmetric Base Isolated Building

C.D.R. Balaji, K. Vasanth and R. Premkumar

Load Resisting Systems

Vinayak M Bhat and Dr.N. V. Ramana Rao

An Innovative Method for Solving Beam and Truss Problems

Utsav Parakh, Nafisa Nalwala, Dr.B.K. Raghu Prasad and Dr. P. V.

Ramana

Seismic Performance of the Soft Storey Reinforced Concrete

Buildings

J. Prakashvel, C. UmaRani, K. Muthumani andN. Gopalakrishnan

Evaluation of Seismic Response Modification Factors for RCC

Frames by Non Linear Analysis

Prashant Sunagar and S.M. Shivananda

Study and Comparison of Different Wind Codes with Indian Codes

on a Particular Low Rise Structure

Dr. Rajesh Goyal, Abhilash Shukla and Anand Singh

Non-Linear Instability Analysis of Plates

Aravind HBhashyam and B. Suguna Rao

Housner Intensity and Specific Energy Density for EarthquakeDamage Assessment from Seismogram

G.S. Sandeep and S.K. Prasad

Pushover Analysis for the Effect of Opening on Seismic Behaviour

of Infill Frames

N.B. Chandrashekar and S.K. Prasad

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275-281

282-286

287-289

290-293

294-298

299-304

305-310

311-315

316-321

322-327

328-330

331-334

335-338

339-342

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69 SAM209 Cracking Load and Deflection ofInfilled Frames Using Pushover 343-348

Analyses

Srividya, Kalayani Rao, Kavya and R. Prabhakara

70 SAM210 Analysis and Design of Reinforced Cement Concrete Bridge 349-353

Aaron Darius Vaz, H. Ajaysimha, S. Deepak, Noothan Kaliveer and T.

Geetha

Geotechnical

71 GET101 Analysis of Embankment on Soft Soil with Vertical Drains 354-358

A. Krishnamoorthy and Sonu Rajan Idicula

72 GET 102 Effect ofCement and Lime on Geotechnical Properties of Problem 359-362

Clay Stabilized with CRP

Dr. Purushotham G. Sarvade andPrashant R. Shet

73 GET104 Prediction of Compression Index of Cohesive Soil Using Neural 363-366

Network Approach

YeetendraKumar, K. Venkatesh and Vijay Kumar

74 GET105 Seismic Performance of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Slopes 367-377

N. Srilatha, G. Madhavi hatha and C. G. Puttappa

75 GET 106 Utilization of Industrial Waste for Soil Stabilization 371-373

K.A. Patil, B.M.Patil and L.K. Kokate

76 GET107 Effect of Change in Properties of Soil by Using Fly Ash and Lime 374-377

D. Sivakumar, V.R. Rathish and Subhasdeep Das

11 GET111 Parametric Study on Soil-Raft - Frame Interaction 378-383

Dr.D. Daniel Thangaraj and Dr.K. Ilamparuthi

78 GET113 Stabilization of Lithomargic Clay by Using Sodium Chloride Salt 384-386

R. Manjunath, K.S. Vinay, R. Raghu, N.A. VarunRaj and P.R. Vibish

79 GET114 Stabilization ofBlack Cotton Soil Using Ground Granulated Blast 387-390

Furnace Slag

K. V. Manjunath, Himanshu Shekhar, Manish Kumar, Prem Kumar and

Rakesh Kumar

80 GET115 Stabilization ofRed Soil Using Ground Granulated Blast Furnace 391-395

Slag

K. V. Manjunath, Bipin Kuma, Kuldeep Kumar, Md. Imran and Navin

Kumar Mahto

Construction Management/Water Resources & Environmental

81 CON 105 Application of Fuzzy Set Theory in Contractor Selection: A BuildingProject Case Study

/. Thamizhanban

82 ENV102 Assessment of Ambient Air Quality in an Industrial Cluster at

Coimbatore during June 2011 - December 2011

R. Chandrasekaran, M. Isaac Solomon Jebamani, C. Vaidyanathan, N.

396-401

402-406

Veerasekar and S. Muneeswaran

83 ENV103 Assessment of Ambient Air Quality Status during May - December 407-413

2011 in Commercialized and Urbanized Zones ofCoimbatore (India)

S. Muneeswaran, M. Isaac Solomon Jebamani, S. Rajeswaran and R.

Chandrasekaran

84 ENV105 Finger Millet (Ragi) Husk as a Low Cost Adsorbent for Removal of 414-418

Cu(II) from Electroplating Effluents

Rudre Gowda, A.G. Nataraj and N. Manamohan Rao

85 ENV 106 Treatment of Canteen Waste Water Using Up-Flow Anaerobic 419-422

Sludge Blanket Reactor

C. Usha, B. Umadevi and Dr.N. Balasubramanya

86 ENV110 Holistic Approach to Minimize Waste Water Effluent Discharge into 423-426

River Systems

Dina Zaman. D. Sarika and Sagar S. Kolapkar

87 ENV 112 Emission Inventory for Sulphur Dioxide from Major Indian Coal 427-430

Power Plants

Md Sadiq Nawab, Omar Farooq Wani and Md Rehan Sadique

88 ENV117 Mass Transfer Limitations for Reduction of Chromium (VI) By High 431-434

Carbon Iron Filings (HCIF)

Gaurav Kr YadavandAlok Sinha

89 ENV 118 A Study on Flexi Mobile Digester Using Cow Dung for Energy 435-438

Production

C.J.Sangeetha, C. Bala Murali Krishna, M.G.D.M. Cox and T.C.A. De

Haas

90 ENV 119 Investigations on Waste Degradation in a Partially Anaerobic 439-441

Flushed Reactor iew

B. Umadevi and N. Balasubramanya

91 ENV120 Study of Groundwater Contamination Due to a Dump Yard: A Case 442-446

Study of Vamanjoor Dump Yard, Mangalore, India

Donal Nixon D 'Souza, P.S. Aditya, S. SavithaSagari, Deepanshi Jain and

Dr.N. Balasubramanya

92 HYD 102 Experimental Verification of Characteristics of Hydraulic Jump in a 447-450

Horizontal Gradually Expanding and Rectangular Channel

V.C. Agarwal, R. K. Srivastava and Vikas Srivastava

93 HYD107 Rainfall-Runoff Modeling By Using Artificial Neural Network 451 -455

D.P. Lakal and Dr.K.A. Patil

94 HYD 108 Use ofGIS and Remote Sensing to Access the Impact of 456-460

Urbanization on Surface Runoff in Patiala

T.S. Brar, R.K. Jain andD. Khare

95 HYD 109 Vertical Accuracy Assessment of Air Borne Laser Scanner Data for

ChennaiCity 461-464

D. Rajesh

96 HYD 110 Variable Source Area Rainfall - Runoff Modeling: A Case Study on 465-468

Poondi Basin -Tamil Nadu

H.S. Govardhana Swamy andDr.B. V. Mudgal

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Pavement Materials

97 TRA104 Evaluation ofBitumen Film Thickness for Mixes Subjected to Short 469-474

Term Ageing

Krishnamurthy, R.S. Jaya, N. Paniraju, N. Vinay, M. Shivraj and M. Sreerak

98 TRA 105 Laboratory Evaluation of Permanent Deformation Characteristics of 475-481

Bituminous Mixes Using Different Binders

T. Chiranjeevi, R. Simhachalam, D.S.N.V. Amar Kumar and K.B. Raghuram

99 TRA112 Evaluating the Effect of Polymer Modification on Physical and 481 -484

Rheological Properties ofConventional Bitumen

Maninder Singh, Praveen Kumar and M.R. Maurya

100 TRA 114 An Overview of Paving Bitumen Grading System- In Indian 485-488

Scenario

Apparao Gandi and Gawala Rajesh

101 TRA 122 Permeability Study on Fly Ash and Rice Husk Ash Admixes with 489-493

Subgrade Soil for Pavement Construction

Aditya Kumar Anupam, Praveen Kumar and G.D Ransinchung R.N

102 TRA 145 Performance Study of Addition of Fly Ash in Bitumen and 494-497

Bituminous Mix Design

A. Talati Vaishakhi and V. Talati Ashish

Traffic Engineering

103 CON108 Adaptability ofVirtual Reality for Assessment ofTransportation 498-505

Corridors: Testing the Walking and Driving Experience

Praveen K. Maghelal

104 TRA 106 Pedestrians' Behavioural Analysis During Road Crossing 506-510

B. Raghuram Kadali and Dr.P. Vedagiri

105 TRA 110 Parameters Affecting the Driver Behavior-Studies at Bangalore and 511-515

New Delhi

Niranjan G Hiremath, G. Kavitha and Dr. Neelima Chakrabarty

106 TRA 113 Road Traffic Crash Prediction on Inter-Urban National Highways 516-520

C. Naveen Kumar, M. Parida and S.S. Jain

107 TRA 118 Traffic Data Collection and Processing for Calibration of Simulation 521-525

Model

A. Gowri and R. Sivanandan

108 TRA 120 Congestion Quantification Measures and their Applicability to 526-533

Indian Traffic Conditions

S. Vasantha Kumar andR. Sivanandan

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Highway Engineering/Railways

109 CON 112 Economical Analysts Feasibility for a Road Construction Using 534-537

Demolished Building Waste Materials

S.M. Naik, B. V. VenkataSubramanya. R. Sathyamurthy and N. NagendraPrasad

110 TRA107 Performance Criteria for Rural Road Pavements 538-541

Sarfaraz Ahmed and K.S. Reddy

111 TRA119 Soft Computing Applications for Urban Pavement Maintenance 542-547

Management System

Yogesh (J. Shah, Dr.S.S. Jain. Dr. Devesh Tiwari and Dr.M.K. Jain

112 TRA124 Development of RDBMS for Urban Transport Planning 548-554

C. Naveen Kumar, M. Parida and 5.5. Jain

113 TRA129 Analysis of Rutting for Selected Road Stretches 555-560

V. Hemanth Kumar and M.K. Harikeerthan

114 TRA 131 Evaluation ofPavement Condition of PMGSY Roads in Selected 561 -564

Stretches of Mangalore District

K. Kiran Kumar and Dr. S.N. Suresha

115 TRA146 Review of the Existing Rolling Motorway, A Case Study of Ro-Ro 565-568

Operated by Konkan Railways

Donal Nixon D 'Souza, Rahul Sinha, Varun Menon andAravind Bhashyam

116 TRA 147 Sustainable Transportation Solution for MSR1T to Reduce Vehicular 569-571

Carbon Footprint

Divyashree, C. Pradeep and B.G. Jagadeesha Kumar