Senthil Vadivel Thiyagarajan

• M.Tech., Ph.D
• Head of Faculty at Manav Rachna Educational Institutions

To increase productivity and avoid waste, the construction industry has started implementing Lean ideas and methodologies in construction projects. Due to a lack of awareness of lean practices in the preparation, design, and execution of building and infrastructure projects, lean practices are not very familiar among construction projects, which ar...

Beyond Words: The Art and Science of Communication explores the multifaceted nature of communication, blending scientific insights and artistic techniques to enhance personal and professional interactions. The book begins by emphasizing the critical role communication plays in all aspects of life, highlighting its dual nature as both an art and a...

Construction projects in metro areas often experience big delays, which make the projects take longer, cost more, and use resources less efficiently. Getting rid of these delays is necessary to make the project run more smoothly and waste less material, which is in line with the ideals of smarter production. This study’s goal is to find, examine, a...

Waste handling and management is the major issue stands in front of every country in the world. The most crucial waste to manage is Waste Tyre. In the recent development in transportation has produced larger vehicles and leads to enormous amount of waste tyres and managing the same became huge task. On the other hand, concrete is the major construc...

Concrete is widely used in civil engineering applications and the natural aggregates which used in concrete are scarce, but its demand is increasing. The disposal of rubber tyres poses a significant environmental challenge, as their decomposition releases harmful chemicals into the soil and water bodies over many years. Decomposition of tyres shoul...

Environment is made up of all that surrounds us. We are having direct and indirect connections with all the components of the environment for our survival and well-being. Due to various natural and anthropogenic causes, the quality of environment is getting degraded which in turn affecting our health. The balance of ecosystems is getting disrupted,...

In the World, India is considered as the second rapid mounting automobile industry and production of waste tyres is just a consequence of this. Tyres become scrap due to continuous frictional force between pavement surface and vehicle tyres. This continuous production and disposal of waste tyres creates several nuisances such as intensifying landfi...

Fibers in concrete are deemed best to increase the lifetime of concrete by avoiding propagation of cracks and doing it with natural fibers is priority in present day. In the current study, Olitorius and Capsularis Jute fibers were used in concrete to find out the manners of Jute Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC) which will be the green approach for c...

Sediment transport is considered a significant factor having great influence on the river morphology. It is also a major concern of hydraulic engineers during the construction of hydraulic structures including irrigation canals, dams, barrages, weirs or for navigation purposes. Hence, the study of sediment transport is very important to know about...

Students and teachers involved in online education are facing various challenges during this pandemic time. Students are being deprived in having the opportunity to interact with their teachers properly and this is hampering the knowledge sharing in many ways. Online education in pandemic through several virtual platforms is serving the purpose to...

In this pandemic time and online teaching-learning process, conventional chalk and talk method is not possible to continue education in engineering institutes. This situation influences the need to adopt some model based affective domain and psychometric domain of teaching-learning process. The thinking behind the Model based learning laboratory is...

The current research investigation has intended to reuse the agricultural waste products as effective construction materials. In this purview jute fibers are one among the agricultural waste material to dispose, since all jutes are not being utilized for making packaging bags or other products as end products cost is higher than polymer or polyethy...

Waste handling and management is the major issue stands in front of every country in the world. The most crucial waste to manage is Waste Tyre. In the recent development in transportation has produced larger vehicles and leads to enormous amount of waste tyres and managing the same became huge task. On the other hand, concrete is the major construc...

In today's world concrete is greatly used as a construction material. Concrete mainly composed of cement, fine aggregate and coarse aggregate. But both the cement production and aggregate extractions is not environment friendly. Due to the depletion of river sand the current study has experimented with bottom ash as sand replacer. The use of byprod...

Waste management is required to manage wastes from different resources to its final disposal to maintain a sustainable society. This includes collection of wastes from different resources, transport, scientific treatment and disposal of wastes with proper recycling, reuse and reduces the wastes. Wastes are of mainly solid, liquid, or gaseous in sta...

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Industrial by-products are getting attraction now-a-days because of its siliceous and alu-mina properties which will enhance the process of geopolymerisation during alkali activation. This will be two way benefits to the environment, one the solid waste can be managed effectively and in the other way the use of cement can be controlled. Based on th...

This article presents the influence of the Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) on the durability behavior of self-compacting fly ash concrete (M30 Grade). The RCA from local construction demolition site wereemployed as a replacement for natural coarse aggregate (0%-30%) in self-compacting concrete(SCC). The Viscosity modifying material used in this s...

Concrete is a composite material made from cement, water, fine aggregate and coarse aggregate. But present researchers are in interest of finding new cementing materials by waste materials or waste products produced from industries. Metakaolin is a cementitious material used as an admixture to produce high strength and is used for maintaining the c...

Water has a major role throughout the life of the concrete, because it is a critical component in the mixing, curing and hardening. Water obtained by the curing of concrete maintains satisfactory moisture content in order to achieve the desired properties developing the concrete microstructure and pore structure and hence improves its durability an...

Cement is the main constituent ingredient in concrete. Now days many investigations undergone for substitute of cement due to green houses effect and global warming .Many new products like rice husk ash, egg shell powder, baggage ash, etc are used as an effluent replacement material for cement. The new and Practical material for substitute of cemen...

Biomedical waste disposal practices are becoming important in both the developing and developed countries and need to be properly followed by the human being. An effective utilization of waste helps to have potent products like biofertilizer, bio-manure and also mineral resources like Ca, Mg, Fe, Co etc. The present study involves the treatment of...

This article presents the influence of the Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) on the mechanical properties of self-compacting fly ash concrete (M30 Grade). The RCA from local construction demolition site were employed as a replacement for natural coarse aggregate (0% - 30%) in self-compacting concrete (SCC). The Viscosity modifying material used in...

Among various building materials, concrete is the most widely used conventional material. Nowadays many scientists are on a hunt for a substitute material for constructionthat is eco-friendly and made from industrial waste products and offer sustainable development. In this study, cement was partially substituted by metakaolin of varying percentage...

The textile dyeing units operating in Tiruppur have provided Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) plants and the system has been in operation for the past ten years. Data on the quality of ground and surface water available with various government agencies such as Public Works Department, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and Central Ground Water Board for...

This article proposed for evaluating the performance of instructional tools used by the science teachers in technical education. This study appraised various instructional tools which improves academic and classroom behaviour of technical education students in Tamilnadu, India. The widely known survey method was used for appraising the efficiency a...

This paper intended to study the effectiveness of the instruction tools used by the technical education teachers specifically in mechanical engineering stream. The study sought to evaluate the instructional strategies and tools used to enhance the academic and classroom behavior of the polytechnic level mechanical engineering students in India. The...

I S S N 2 3 2 1-8 0 7 X V o l u m e 1 2 N u m b e r 2 6 J o u r n a l o f A d v a n c e s i n c h e m i s t r y 5725 | P a g e D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 6 w w w. c i r w o r l d. c o m Abstract This paper investigates the feasibility of utilizing the industrial by-product copper slag as a stabilizer in the expansion soil where swelling characteristics...

The main objective of this current study is to develop a cement free concrete material because of the green house effect during the manufacture of cement. It is reported that every one tonne production of cement emits one tonne carbon dioxide which causes global warming and in broad sense disturbs the entire ecological system. It results the promot...

This paper exhibits the improved performance of Rubberized Concrete Composites (RuCC) compared to the conventional concrete. Performance test have been carried out for analyzing the structural behavoiur of concrete composite replaced with chiseled waste truck tyre rubber as coarse aggregate with varied weight fraction between 2% and 10% of coarse a...

The concrete is made with any material wastes which are eco-friendly to make the pollution free called Green concrete. Green concrete is a revolutionary topic in the history of concrete industry. As we are all civil engineers we people plays important role in environmental aspects in the manufacturing of cement. To avoid the cement usage we need to...

Construction industry plays a vital role in the development of any country. The development of construction industry mainly depends on the quality of construction projects. Quality is one of the critical factors in the success of construction projects. The level of success of construction industry greatly depends on the quality performance. This re...

Tunnels are built in various sectors of infrastructure. Tunnels which are constructed in urban areas face lot of challenges. The tunnel needs to be constructed just below the buildings, bridges, flyovers etc. In this paper a TBM tunnel of 5.7m internal diameter is passing under an existing flyover. The tunnel is just passing between the pile groups...

Geopolymerization is a developing field of research for utilizing solid waste and by-products. It provides a mature and cost-effective solution to many problems where hazardous residue has to be treated and stored under critical environmental conditions. Geopolymer involves the silicates and aluminates of by-products to undergo process of geopolyme...

Copper slag is the waste material obtained from smelting and refining of copper. Copper slag is one of the materials that is considered as a waste which could have a promising future in construction Industry as partial or full substitute of aggregates. For this research work, M25 grade concrete was used and tests were conducted for various proporti...

The geopolymer concrete is the promising alternative material for the cement concrete which produces high strength, durability and lowering green house gases also. The recent studies of geopolymer concrete on its properties have also shown its suitability for various construction applications. This made the researchers to think about the utilizatio...

A substantial growth in the consumption of plastic is observed all over the world in recent years that has led to dumping of huge quantities of plastic related wastes in the environment. Recycling of plastic waste to produce construction material like concrete appears as one of the best solutions for the disposal of plastic waste. This paper involv...

In reinforced concrete design an important consideration that can be added to the requirements of strength and serviceability is ductility. This consideration is of importance to determine the amount of redistribution of moment that is possible in limited state design. Also, it is of importance in seismic design because to survive a severe earthqua...

In the construction industry we are struggling in selecting the best organization in the pretender stages. We select organization on the basis of lowest bid offered in a tender for particular contract having only the knowledge of reputation of work and the rate offered for the tender by the organization at the least we offer the contract to the org...

Resource management plays the vital role in engineering community because of the increasing population, life style and socioeconomic status the inherent use of resources made depletion to the natural sources and provokes us to manage wastes. Plastic is one among such waste which is the parts and parcel of our live in all the aspects. Hence recycle...

The main objective of solid waste management system is to effectively safeguard the public health, safety and welfare. Recycled materials are mostly used for non load bearing structures. Nevertheless, large numbers of industrial and municipal wastes can be utilized in the building industry. This paper focuses on existing practices related to the re...

The disposal of waste tyres is becoming a major waste management problem in the world at the moment. It is estimated that 1.2 billions of waste tyre rubber produced globally in a year. It is estimated that 11% of postconsumer tyres are exported and 27% are sent to landfill, stockpiled or dumped illegally and only 4% is used for civil engineering pr...

Water pollution is the major problem in today's scenario. The sources of water in all areas are polluted by domestic and industrial wastes, results in boring more well points and decreases the ground water sources too. The climatic change lead into failure of monsoon and made the water demand in water bodies. Henceforth recycle and reuse of waste w...

A global environmental issue expects to safeguard the natural resources and proposes for the recycling and reuse of wastes. One such burning waste management problem is disposal of tyre rubber. Efforts have been taken worldwide for the effective disposal and management of these rubber wastes. The authors already suggested the use of waste tyre rubb...

In recent years waste handling and management is the primary issue faced by countries all over the world. It is very challenging and hectic problem that has to be tackled in an indigenous manner. On the basis of statistical data provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 270,000,000 millions waste tyres are produced each year. The dispos...