Kundan Meshram

Guru Ghasidas University · Department of Civil Engineering

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)...

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...

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...