PROFILE OF APPLIED MECHANICS DEPARTMENT

The department of Applied Mechanics is one of the seven academic departments, which was established in 1961. The department teaches Engineering Mechanics and Strength of Material as core subjects at First and Second year levels to all the students of the college. In addition, the department teaches subjects relevant to Structural Engineering and Geotechnical Engineering to Civil Engineering students. Also the department offers Post Graduate and Doctoral programme in Structural Engineering.

Research programmes at post-graduate and doctoral level are being conducted in areas such as computer-aided analysis and design using finite element method, artificial intelligency for design of RC elements, Fibre reinforced concrete, geosynthetics and reinforced earth, use of steam cured concrete, polymer concrete etc.

The department is equipped with state of the art laboratories like concrete lab, mechanics of solids lab, computer lab, heavy structure lab and prestressed lab etc. Also the computer lab is having latest PIII Hardware with STADD III/STARDYNE/STRUDS WIN/CADS/GT STRUDAL etc. professional level softwares for the analysis and design of (buildings) structures. In addition the department is having 100 t. loading frame.

The staff of Applied Mechanics Department have published about 130 research paper/reports at National and International levels. The faculty is actively involved in Administrative and other academic activities like conducting conferences, seminars, Summer/Winter School, students chapter, NSS, NCC, L & D, Continuing Education, Mindbend, CHRD etc. The department has organized to conferences (one international) and two fifteen days workshops in the filed of Structures & Geotechnical Engineering. Some staff members have received awards for writing out standing research papers. Also the staff members have visited foreign countries to represent papers at international level. Two faculty members are pursuing doctorate programmes at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. The faculty members have also written books on Engineering Mechanics. A number of testing & consulting projects involving investigations, analysis & design have been under taken for many Government, public sector and private oragnisations. The projects completed so far includes challenging problems of design of machine foundations, design of high mast tower, dynamic analysis of overhead RC water tank, repairs & strengthening of structures, stability checking of industrial buildings & jetty, soil investigation for high rise structure, stability analysis of earthen dam etc.

The faculty members are actively involved for Industry Institute Partnership programmes. The department is providing technical guidance to the surrounding industries such as ONGC, GAIL, L & T, Reliance etc. in the field of Structural & Geotechnical Engineering.

The faculty members are constantly improving their knowledge & skill and provides upto date, latest (state of the art) knowledge to the students and professional in the field of structural & geotechnical engineering.

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING:

  • Infrastructure Facilities

    1. Heavy Testing:

      • Test frames of 100 t. capacity

      • Load indicator

      • Fressinett prestressing system

    2. Laboratory Testing:

      • 50 t, 100 t and 200 t universal testing machines

      • Impact and torsion testing machines

      • Experimental stress analysis on two dimensional model analysis set up.

      • Compressing testing machines (220 t. digital)

      • Core drilling machines

      • Hardness testing machines (digital)

      • Fatigue testing machines

      • Vibration tables

      • Shock pulse analyser

    3. Instrumentation:

      • Ultrasonic concrete tester

    4. Field Testing:

      • Non-destructive testing of building components, water tank etc.

      • Rehabilitation & repairs of damaged buildings.

      • Load test on structural components.
         

  • Thrust Areas of Research:

    • Computer aided analysis & design

    • Fibre reinforced concrete

    • Folded plates & shells structures

    • Finite element analysis of structures

    • Prestress concrete elements

    • Neural network for design of RC elements

    • Renovation and rehabilitation of structures

    • Non-destructive testing of structures

    • Analysis and design of machine foundations

    • Concrete technology

    • Cable stayed bridges

  • (A). STABILITY CHECKING:

    1. Stability of Jetty:

    2. High Mast Tower:

    3. Shaft Supported Tank:

    4. Telecommunication Tower:

    5. Ladder for LPG Tank:
       

  • (B). STRUCTURAL DESIGN VARIFICATION:

    1. Township:

    2. Overhead Tank:

    3. Steel Structure:

    4. High Rise Building:

    5. Large Gate:
       

  • (C). PRESTRESS CONCRETE:
     

  • (D). VIBRATION TESTING:

    1. Vibration Floor Assessment:

    2. Machine Foundation:

    3. Turbo Machine Frame Foundation:

    4. Impellor Machine Foundation:

    5. Wind Oscillation of Ladder for LPG Tank:

    6. Fatigue Due to Vibration:

    7. Turbine Blade Checking:

    8. Damages in Box Drain Below Flyover:
       

  • (E) DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL PRODUCT / TECHNIQUE:

    1. Precast RCC Biogas Plant:

    2. Ferrocement Roof:

    3. Ferrocement Bio-gas Plant:

    4. Optimum Content of Admixture in Concrete:

    5. Fiber Reinforced Concrete:

    6. Low Density and High Density Concrete Development

    7. Concrete at Elevated Temperature, Autoclaving, Technique, Ultrasonic and

    8. Rebound Hammer Testing etc.

    9. Ionite Block Testing:
       

  • (F) REHABILITATION:

    1. Staff Quarter:

    2. Hospital Building:

    3. Seismical Damaged Structure:

    4. High Rise Structure:

  • (G) MIX DESIGN OF CONCRETE:

    1. Irrigation Project:

    2. Bridge Project

    3. For Building Super Structure and Sub Structure:
       

  • (H) ASSESSMENT OF FIRE DAMAGED STRUCTURE:

    1. Chimney:

    2. Industry:

    3. Core Sample Testing of RCC Element:

    4. In Lab:
      (I) STRUCTURE WITH NUCLEAR RADIATION:
      (J) STRUCTURAL FORENSIC TESTING:
      (a) Cyclone Damaged Structure:
      (b) Cast Steel Pipe Damaged:
      (c) Clarification of Concrete Strength:
      (d) Earthquake Damage Structure:
      (e) Tank Collapse:
       

  • (K) COMPLICATED LAB TESTING:
     

  • (L) SERVICES OFFERED AFTER RECENT 26TH JANUARY 2001, EATHQUAKE:

    1. T.V. Public Awareness Programme:

    2. Local News Paper Articles:

    3. Public Awareness Speech:

    4. Helped to “AUDA”:

    5. Damaged Assessment at Bhuj, Anjar and Bhachau:

    6. Distributing Food Grain and Other Materials:

    7. Checking College Building:

    8. Checking South Gujarat University Building:

    9. Checking Free of Cost Various Private Buildings:

    10. Stability of New Court Building:

    11. Worked in High Power Committee for New Court Building:

    12. Work in D.C.R. Amendment Committee:

    13. Report for Collapsed “Harekrishna Apartment”:

    14. Earthquake Damaged Industrial Building:
       

  • (M) BUILDING DESIGN IN OUR CAMPUS:

    We have given free of cost structural design for our various college building like:

    1. Computer Centre

    2. Electronic Department

    3. Library Building

    4. Computer Department

    5. Chemical Department

    6. Extension of various department

    7. Dome for underground tank of 65 ft. diameter.

    8. College Guest House.

    9. Production Department

    10. Extension and repairing of Workshop.

    11. Machine Foundation Design.

    12. Prestress Concrete Building

    13. Heavy Structure Lab

    14. Rehabilitation of Hostel – 1.

    15. Rehabilitation of Mechanical Department

    16. Rehabilitation of Electrical Department
       

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING:

  • Infrastructure Facilities

    1. Heavy Testing:

      • Standard penetration test

      • Dynamic cone penetration test

      • Plate load test

      • Block vibration test

      • Electrical resistivity test

      • Seismic refraction test

      • Nuclear density & moisture test

      • Pressuremeter test

    2. Laboratory Testing:

      • Multi unit consolidation testing device with Data logger for Pore pressure measurement

      • Programmable monotonic cyclic triaxial testing (MTS) system

      • Triaxial test system with electronics Data logger

      • Motorized direct shear testing device (reversal type)

      • Compaction test set ups

      • Swell pressure test device

      • Electronic metler & digital balances

      • Facilities for testing of rigid, flexible and reinforced water retaining walls

      • Seepage study using earth dam models

      • Universal permeameter

      • Cone penetrometer

    3. Instrumentation:

      • Data acquisition system

      • Accelerometers

      • Vibration meters

      • Amplifiers

      • Earth pressure cells

      • Velocity pick-ups

      • Wave velocity meters

      • Recorder
         

  • Areas of Research:

    1. Investigation & exploration of soil strata

    2. Ground improvement techniques

    3. Rock mechanics

    4. Soil dynamics

    5. Soil-structure interaction

Faculty:

Sanction:

UG - 12
PG - 03

Existing - 12 + 2 Ad-hoc

              

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