Kundan Meshram

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• Doctor of Philosophy (Civil Engineering)
• Professor (Assistant) at Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya

This study aims to investigate the potential of waste marble dust powder (MDP) as a sustainable partial substitute for Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) in M30 grade concrete and to evaluate the effect of incorporating glass fibre (GF) on the mechanical properties of the concrete. OPC was partially replaced with MDP at varying levels of 0%, 5%, 10%, a...

This study evaluates the efficacy of garbage enzyme (GE) in bioremediation to reduce pollutants in sewage drains that discharge into the natural streams and rivers. Garbage enzyme is prepared with help of brown sugar, fruit, vegetable wastes, and water in the proportion 1:3:10 (by weight), which is then applied to the samples collected from various...

Soil is the base of any construction, so for any construction activity engineers cannot construct their structure on soil of less strength. It becomes very important to stabilize soil so that it can bear the load of the structure and keep the structure safe and sound. There are various waste materials, and rather than disposing of them, they can be...

The United Nations has given 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focusing on economic, social and environmental objectives. Goal 11- Sustainable Cities and Communities is important to utilize land resources properly for the development of cities. This is done to satisfy the requirements of the present and upcoming generations. The purpose of th...

In the present era marked by a growing global population and escalating resource demands, this research strives to investigate the significant impact of human activities on resource degradation, with a specific focus on the study of Raipur. The study illuminates the intricate relationship between changing land use patterns and their repercussions o...

The identification of agricultural lands is crucial for sustainable development in rural areas. In this paper, an augmented model that utilizes multimodal satellite-based data samples for identifying agricultural lands via incremental learning. The Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) is used for augmenting collected images and data samples to enhanc...

Effective River system management is essential for conserving water resources, improving agricultural productivity, and sustaining ecological health. Remote sensing is crucial for evaluating and tracking several elements of river systems. The study explores the incorporation of remote sensing into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Artificial...

The need for sustainable development has grown in response to global environmental, social, and economic challenges. Conventional computational methods frequently struggle to address the complex nature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), lacking the ability to balance global search with local optimization and failing to prioritize goals re...

Each day, the utilization of diesel engines in man-made system is expanding, and this pattern is anticipated to persist. The engine operating parameters are a crucial factor to consider when attempting to optimize the engine to meet the heightened performance and emission criteria. Modifying the engine speeds a combustion of waste plastics biodiese...

Geosynthetics have emerged as innovative, efficient, and cost-effective solutions for a myriad of engineering challenges in construction. This paper explores the extensive applications of geosynthetics in construction, encompassing liner systems for landfills, containment zone barriers, embankments, filters, pavement drainage systems, slope stabili...

To segregate the Titanium (Ti) from the reinforcements of the molten scrap of Titanium/Aluminum (Ti/Al) composite, application of ultrasonic vibration is known to be one of the sound techniques. Various studies have been looked at the effect of ultrasonic vibration on the melting process, however not much have been investigated with respect to the...

This article presents the outcomes of a research study focused on optimizing the performance of soybean biofuel blends derived from soybean seeds specifically for urban medium-duty commercial vehicles. The study took into consideration elements such as production capacity, economics and assumed engine characteristics. For the purpose of predicting...

To effectively address the pressing issues of urban development and environmental conservation, sustainable construction areas must be identified. In this paper, a proposal for a novel method for segmenting and analyzing satellite images to locate suitable construction sites is based on infrastructure monitoring and ground subsidence monitoring ope...

The use of Glass fiber reinforced polymer composite is well known in various mechanical as well as aerospace domain. However, GFRP poses a problem while machining the material owing to issues such as matrix deboning, fiber delamination, pull-out, tool life, and the creation of powder-like particles during the machining process. Present work combine...

Significant research is devoted to the transformation of Glycine max oil (soybean oil) into biofuel. An exhaustive investigation into the performance, combustion and emission analyses of glycine max oil biofuel (GMOB) in the context of optimization studies involving variable engine factors such as load, injector timing and so forth, has yet to occu...

In the present study, is primarily to develop a geometric design consistency analysis criterion for 2- Lane horizontal curves for 2-Lane Rural Highway that applies to Indian conditions. Road accidents result in significant social and economic issues. Studies targeted at geometrical design and safety aim to enhance road design and also to eliminate...

This research paper presents the design of an augmented deep learning model for the estimation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the analysis of satellite images. The proposed model is a fusion of VGGNet, ResNet, and Inception Net architectures, which are commonly used for image classification tasks. To improve the model's accuracy an...

In numerous sectors of civil engineering, machine learning has shown to be an efficient technique for resolving complex engineering problems. The availability of data, computing power, and the complexity of programming techniques have all expanded rapidly. As a consequence of these factors, the use of machine learning technologies in the fields of...

In the midst of escalating seismic activity on a global scale, the imperative of devising ingenious structural solutions looms large, driven by the necessity to safeguard the security and soundness of constructed environments. This study delves into an inventive avenue for bolstering seismic resilience, by ingeniously merging hydraulic dampers (HD)...

Embankment construction on clayey soil poses stability issues due to poor geotechnical characteristics. Encased stone columns can improve the soil and solve problems such as settlement, slope stability, and water pressure dissipation. This study aims to evaluate the effect of construction parameters on the performance of embankments built on clayey...

The purpose of this study is to calculate the characterized, normalized, and weighted factors for the environ�mental impact of a Li-ion battery (NMC811) throughout its life cycle. To achieve this, open LCA software is employed, utilizing data from product environmental footprint category rules, the Ecoinvent database, and the BatPaC database for...

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have paved their way into modern day traffic management scenarios. These scenarios include but are not limited to diverting traffic, identifying routes, identifying accidents and propagating them over the network, etc. Due to a large number of road-based maintenance, repair and new road building works, there...

Civil Engineering structures are constantly subjected to environmental forces and changes around the surroundings hence a strong need for assessment of the interaction and predictive measures that lead to pro-active actions towards the structural safety and health monitoring. Significant damage is caused to buildings and port infrastructure when so...

To study land use pattern with satellite images, there are many procedures for image processing. Like feature extraction from many images, image enhancement by removing noise, classification of images, and ultimately image interpretation. Image processing generally has to deal with many complex problems like time-dependent, noise removal, and makin...

Management of construction components is vital to the overall cost and quality of any construction site. A loosely monitored site might give moderate construction quality but might be very costly in terms of per‐unit rate, while a very tightly monitored site might be able to reduce on the per‐unit cost, but it might directly affect the construction...

The performance of pavement depends on the strength of sub-grade soil. In order to execute an effective and reliable pavement design, an accurate and representative material characterization technique is essential. Such a technique would be even more beneficial if it were simple and could be applied rapidly. In situ California bearing ratio (CBR) v...

Site inspection for quality checking, work progress, material unloading, etc., has to be done by site owners, architects, structural designers, waterproofing agencies, etc. In order to do this task, each of these parties has to do a large number of site visits, which adds to the site's cost. Moreover, due to so many people visiting the site, there...

A highly effective Green computing strategy is able to reduce wastage of natural resources by optimal usage of the computing device. This optimal usage includes but is not limited to, optimum power utilization, optimal fuel consumption, optimum load distribution, etc. Finally, all these optimizations must result in reduced carbon footprints, reduce...

In the present study, characterisation and quantitative microanalysis were identified for six expansive soils of which one is natural soil, i.e. black cotton (BC) soil and remaining soils were prepared by mixing of BC soil with different percentage of bentonite. The BC soil and prepared soil samples were characterised by the X-ray diffraction (XRD)...

In the present study, extensive research is imperative to address the destructive and hazardous vibrational properties of earthquakes, particularly in the realm of structural vibration control, focusing on the differentiation of various damper properties capable of mitigating seismic effects on buildings. By simulating motion responses using MATLAB...

Constructing over expansive soils often severely damage the structure due to high swell-shrinkage behaviour and loss of strength owing to fluctuating water content. Due to the above reasons construction on or using expansive soils is considered to be unsafe. The technique of such soil, improvement by installation of granular piles (also known as st...

Traffic congestion is caused due to an imbalance of transportation demand and supply.Traffic congestion is not only responsible for harming our health but also for not gaining fullpotential in our economic sector. Traffic congestion is an obstacle to the development of anycountry as it creates a huge amount of economic costs, discomfort cost, and a...

Now-a-days, road accident is not just a traffic problem but it became a social cause which needs an attention for its remedial measure. Road accident results in the heavy monetary loss and human loss which at last effect the growth of nation. Numerous research have been done in past on the analysis methods of road accident and those literature conc...

In the present study attempt has been made to know the impact of Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) on the performance of the RCC building. The seismic study of the structures reveals that the interaction of soil and foundation plays significant role within the damage of a structure. In practical work, buildings are generally designed with the idea o...

Because of colossal need by the general population, water must be put away and provided by their necessities. Water request isn't steady for the duration of the day. It changes hour to hour. To supply steady measure of water, we must store water. So, to full fill the open water need, water tank should be developed. Limit storehouses and overhead ta...

To reduce the overall cost of the project, it is highly recommend reducing the cost in different manner. To make economic structure, the cost cutting should be done in every construction stages. The dual systems in building structure consist of structural walls and moment resisting frames. The walls are made up of RCC, which is a costly material us...

The behavior of building depends upon its structural components and add on applied to it for high strength stability. Grade of concrete is the key components and plays a vital role in this regard. The current study summarizes the performance of different grades of concrete as on the stability factor in high rise buildings. The tall tower or high ri...

Overhead Water Tank had been the primary and the most fundamental piece of pretty much every task. Because of increment of population consistently, it is important to offer water request to the different purposes, for example, mechanical use, cultivating, residential use, for drinking reason and so on. The capacity of water is principal done by int...

In this present era of high rise buildings and skyscrapers it is obligatory to work on overall shape, plan and structure of building. The building performance under seismic loading is a constraint of various factors comprises of geometry, location and the way of earthquake forces transferred to the ground. The affected zones of higher chances of oc...

Clay bricks and mortar are the oldest walling material of construction industries of buildings. Due to preferable mechanical properties bricks are considered as prime source of masonry units that is used as walling material. On the other hand for pointing and plastering, cement mortar is the best material used in construction industries. Convention...

The main theme in this study is to show the different sizes used in Underground Storage Reservoir System with the comparative and thematic behavior of its components under loads, pressure and water weight. To show the economical underground water tank, total six USR cases viz. UT1, UT2, UT3, UT4, UT5, UT6 of water storage system were created starti...

Underground Water Tank had been the main and the most essential part of almost every project. Due to increase of population every day, it is necessary to provide water demand for the various purposes such as industrial use, farming, domestic use, for drinking purpose etc. The storage of water is foremost done by providing underground water tank. Th...

Seismic analysis is most important tasks to know the behavior of structure under action of earthquake loading. Different system is generated to reduce the effect of earthquake loading. TMD (tuned mass damper) arrangement is one which is used to decrease the sensations s of the steel structures. Further with the appearance of response spectrum analy...

Frame structural system also known as dual structural system, such type of buildings behaves very well when exposed to seismic forces. Commonly shear wall are provided up to the full height of building. From the past research it is found that the effect of shear wall in top most storey in resisting horizontal load is very less most of the load is t...

Seismic analysis is most important tasks to know the behavior of structure under action of earthquake loading. Different system is generated to reduce the effect of earthquake loading. TMD (tuned mass damper) arrangement is one which is used to decrease the sensations s of the steel structures. Further with the appearance of response spectrum analy...

Shear wall show excellent performance under seismic forces, survey of building system during pre and post extreme earthquakes shows that life hazard due to building collapse is minimal. Shear wall is designed for ductility under repetitive loads. The shear wall meant to resist earthquakes should be designed for ductility where concrete frame is des...

The aim of the present study to explore the influence of Non Woven Coir (NWC)/coir fibre mixed with black cotton soil used in sub grade. For this purpose black cotton soil mixed with coir fibre in varying percentage of 0.15%-0.75%. In other case soil mixed with NWC of 0.15%-0.75% and sand of 3%-15% and properties of soil evaluated. The results of...

Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) is a bus based good quality, high capacity rapid transit system that delivered fast, comfortable and cost effective urban mobility. In a BRTS, vehicles travel in exclusive lanes, thus avoiding congestion, accident, air and noise pollution. There is provision of segregated right-of-way infrastructure, rapid and freque...

One of the key parameters for the performance of a pavement is uniformity of its sub-grade. In situ assessment for the uniformity of the sub-grade is commonly carried out by measuring the density of soil mass. Measurement of the density is done by cutting a core from the soil mass. According to ASTM D6951-09 (2009) the soil density may be estimated...

Expansive soils occurring in arid and semi-arid climate regions of the world cause serious problems on civil engineering structures. Such soils swell when given an access to water and shrink when they dry out. Each year, expansive soils cause in damage to houses, other buildings, roads, pipelines, and other structures. This is more than twice the d...

Use of plastic waste in the construction of flexible pavement is gaining importance because of the several reasons. Utilize this type of non- biodegradable material in bituminous mixes substantially improving the stability or strength, fatigue life and other desirable properties, even under adverse water-logging conditions. Therefore, the life of t...

The paper presents the results of laboratory study conducted on black cotton soil reinforced with a Iayer of Coir Geotextile (CGT ) plunger at different depths below the loading surface in the California Bearing Ratio test mould. The CGT layer was placed in two ways- directly embedded in the clay or in between the cushion of sand layers. The placin...

Genetic algorithms are search algorithm based on natural selection and genetics. It is first pioneered by John Holland in the 60’s and based on the Charles Darwin’s principle of “survival of the fittest”. The genetic algorithm method differs from other search methods in that it searches among a population of points and works with a coding of parame...

The Gouernment of India is taking up large projeus and incuring large expenses for the development of rural roads. A peiodic maintenance is essentialfor these roads. Hence, there is an urgent need of developing a pavement maintenance and managunent system for low volume roads. An attempt has been made in this paper to develop an Artificial Neural N...

Considerable length of roads planned to be constructed in India under various programmes require construction over poor subgrade soils. The performance of a road largely depends on properties of the subgrade soil. One such subgrade soil often encountered is the black cotton (BC) soil. It is inorganic clay of medium to high compressibility, high shr...

The population is increase day by day and from the beginning of this century the vehicle population is going on increasing. From the past studies they are increased to double within 5 year duration but the length of the road existing is not able to place this much of increasing traffic. Hence, mixed traffic conditions are arising and congestion wil...

In the present work ten rural roads in three different districts namely Indore, Dhar and Jhabua are selected. The length of each study section was fixed as 0.5 km. Each study stretch was further divided into 10 sections of 50 m each. Detailed surveys have been carried out on all the ten road sections. Road Inventory Survey includes properties of bi...

Coir, being a biodegradable and environment friendly material, can virtually replaceable by any of the modern polymeric substitutes. With the diversification of the products and evolvement of new technologies for the production of fibers, the export of coir products has been increased tremendously. The demand for coir geotextiles is increasing. The...

Flaky and elongated particles have larger specific surface area which results in higher demand of cement paste in cement concrete mix. These particles impede compaction or break during rolling and decrease the strength of pavement layer. The effect of different percentages 0 to 50% of Combined Flaky and Elongation Aggregates (CFEA) for Pavement Qua...

EverFE is a user-friendly 3D finite-element analysis tool for simulating the response of jointed plain concrete pavement (JPCP) systems to axle loads and environmental effects. EverFE is useful for both concrete pavement researchers and designers who must perform either complex nonlinear or simple linear stress analyses of JPCP. With help of this d...