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Comparative Study on C and D Waste and Industrial Waste to make M-Sand Concrete in an Aggressive Environment

Construction and demolition (C and D) waste generation and handling issues have been in focus to achieve sustainable goals. This project comparative studies on C and D waste concrete and Industrial waste concrete in an Aggressive environment. Owing to growth in construction in India, it is appropriate to link generation of C and D waste with the growth. C and D waste in India in 2010 may be estimated as 24 million tonnes. This paper provides an overview of the construction industry in India and gives some statistics about the volume of C and D waste. The main applications of fly ash are then discussed, with particular reference to disposal as well as to civil engineering, chemical industries, agricultural, environmental and soil stabilization applications of fly ash. In future fly ash can be used as a substitute for materials and it remains a potential low-cost adsorbent for the future.

Published by: S. Arulkumaran, P. Thirumal Valavan, K. Mohan Raj

Author: S. Arulkumaran

Paper ID: V3I3-1224

Paper Status: published

Published: March 27, 2018

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Design of Flexible Pavement: A Case Study

Although several studies observed pavement responses after flooding, no detailed quantification has been done to date. This paper has estimated “Design of flexible pavement’s” with the help of “IRC-37, 2012” This was shown through the traffic design v/s thickness of pavement, study of Traffic volume, Traffic count, and calculates traffic design with the help of IRC-37, 2012. (Use IS code formulae), CBR of strong pavement built to high standard is the most flood – resilient, which may be adopted as a pre-flood strategy. Results obtained using CBR in Year 1 over the probability of flooding, and the loss in road strength and service life as well as flood consequences provided similar results. Road authorities should consider changing their roads to flood-resilient pavements in the future.

Published by: A. V. Hankare, P. B. Bhujbal, A. B. Shinde, R. G. Wagh

Author: A. V. Hankare

Paper ID: V3I3-1232

Paper Status: published

Published: March 27, 2018

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Power Generation by Hybrid VAWT System for Highway Applications

The rapid growth of renewable energy generation is increasing to meet the demand of electricity. In this paper, the generation of electricity is achieved by using vertical axis wind turbine using the force created by moving vehicles. For that purpose wind turbines are placed at the centre of the highway for the generation and utilization. There are two types of axis is available in wind turbines, horizontal and vertical axis. Horizontal axis is commonly used but it is not applicable for highway applications. There are some types of turbines are available in vertical axis. In this paper, two types of turbine blade model is made as hybrid in VAWT (Vertical Axis Wind Turbine) which increases the efficiency in wind energy utilization. Due to this hybrid model, drag and lift are increased and rotate automatically even in low wind speed. The power generated by this VAWT can be utilized for highway applications, and then the excess power will be injected to grid or local area. The power is stored in the battery bank which is placed under the windmill and utilized at the night time for lighting purpose on the highway. Q-Blade software is used to design the blade shape and the efficiency improvement is verified by Q-Blade.

Published by: Menaka. R, Mohan. K, Muthu Vijay. P, Ranjith. I, Ragul. D

Author: Menaka. R

Paper ID: V3I3-1233

Paper Status: published

Published: March 27, 2018

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Experimental Study on Concrete by Partial Replacement of River Sand with Sea Sand

The rapid growth in development of construction industry is leading to an increase in utilization of natural resources like river sand due to which there has been a much scarcity of availability for construction. This overuse should be balanced by introducing certain abundantly available other natural materials which can be replaced to the river sand. The sea sand seems to have certain similar properties and can be used as a constituent of concrete. This can reduce the river sand replenishment and decrease various ecological imbalances. The fast growth in industrialization has resulted in tons and tons of by-product or waste materials, which can be fly ash, crushed stone dust, silica fume, and granulated blast furnace slag, steel slag etc. The use of these by-products not only helps to utilize these waste materials but also enhances the properties of concrete in fresh and hydrated states. In the present work, a series of tests were carried out to make comparative studies of various mechanical properties of concrete mixes prepared by using Sea Sand. If some of the materials are found suitable in the concrete making, cost of construction can be cut down. So in the present study, an attempt has been made to assess the suitability of Sea sand in concrete making. Cubes and beams were cast and tested for compressive strength and flexural strength after 7 days and 28 days. The Sea sand is replaced in percentages of 0%, 20%, 30%, 40%.

Published by: Dr. K. Chandramouli, B. Maheshbabu

Author: Dr. K. Chandramouli

Paper ID: V3I3-1234

Paper Status: published

Published: March 27, 2018

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Effect of Graded Motor Imagery on Upper Limb Function in Stroke Patients-A Case Study

Background and purpose-GMI is a dynamic state during which the representation of a specific motor action is internally reactivated within working memory without any overt motor output. The imagery of movement activates largely the same brain areas that are activated when movement is actually performed. Motor impairment after stroke is a major cause of permanent disability. Recovery of the upper extremity is crucial in order to perform activities of daily living but is often variable and incomplete. It is proven that prolonged passive movement therapy in stroke patients neither improves performance nor induces cortical plasticity. And an early initiation of active movement becomes difficult due to lack of motor performance. Graded motor imagery (GMI) can be used to bridge this gap between passive therapy and active therapy. The method-a descriptive case study was carried out on two patients screened from the community and selected through purposive sampling. They were given graded motor imagery (GMI) for 5 days a week for 4 weeks 60 minutes per session along with conventional therapy for 30 minutes. The outcome measures were Fugl Meyer assessment of sensorimotor function after stroke (FMA) and The Chedoke arm and hand activity inventory (CAHAI) which were administered to the patient before and after the intervention period of 4 weeks. Result-for FMA the one-tailed p-value is 0.0155 which is statistically significant at 95% confidence interval. For CAHAI the one-tailed p-value is 0.0155 which is statistically significant at 95% confidence interval. Discussion- GMI is known to stimulate the premotor area, supplementary motor area, cingulate area and parietal cortical area as well as basal ganglia and cerebellum by inducing cortical plasticity leading to improvement in motor function which goes in accordance with our result. Conclusion-upper extremity function shows significant improvement after graded motor imagery along with conventional therapy on FMA Scale and CAHAI scale.

Published by: Rutu Parikh, Dr. Sumitra Sakhawalkar, Dr. Sayli Paldhikar, Dr. Snehal Ghodey

Author: Rutu Parikh

Paper ID: V3I3-1222

Paper Status: published

Published: March 24, 2018

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Customers Perception for taking Life Insurance: A Critical Analysis of Life Insurance Sector in Nagpur

Human life is a most important asset and life insurance is the most important type of insurance which provides financial protection to a person and his family at the time of uncertain risks or damage. Life insurance provides both safety and protection to individuals and also encourages savings among people. The present study was selected with an objective to analyze the preferences of customers while life policy investment decision-making. Various reasons to take insurance policies have been discussed in the paper. The data for the study has been collected from both primary and secondary sources. The study area is limited to Nagpur District of Maharashtra. The paper concludes with that most of the respondents take insurance policies for 'Savings' and 'Wide risk coverage'.

Published by: Sandeep Deshmukh

Author: Sandeep Deshmukh

Paper ID: V3I3-1228

Paper Status: published

Published: March 24, 2018

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Migration and Sustainable Development- Study of Delhi

India is praised for the diversity of cultures and tradition. In nowadays, India has been facing a terrible problem of extreme overpopulation which is mainly due to migration. But the areas most affected by this huge rise in population are the metro cities. The research focuses on the movement of individuals from one place to another for different reasons in an inescapable marvel (The Indian Express, 2015). Due to increased migration, Delhi has now a number of slums and unauthorized areas and creates too big a burden on infrastructure and services. Migration consists literacy rate, employment, job seekers and vehicles owned by migrants. The study focuses on these parameters and how these impact the annual growth rate of Delhi. Analyses show that there is a negative correlation between migration and sustainable development.

Published by: Akansha Aggarwal

Author: Akansha Aggarwal

Paper ID: V3I3-1225

Paper Status: published

Published: March 24, 2018

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Conservation of Species and Fishery Subsidy: Relevance of the Global Initiative of SDG 14

Fishery Subsidies is detrimental to fishery stock because of unsustainable fishing. Fishery stock is depleting because of the human intervention. This may lead to massive harmful effects on mankind because of the booming of Jellyfish. Fishery Subsidies has been identified as the key factor for the depletion of species across the globe because of rising industrial fishing. There has been a great divide between developed and developing countries in terms of providing fishery subsidies over the last few decades it has far-reaching consequences on industrial and artisanal fishing. The objective of the study is to show that rising fishery subsidy has led to increasing the threatened species in both developing and the developed countries. The study runs OLS regression models to justify the objectives.

Published by: Anannya Mohanty

Author: Anannya Mohanty

Paper ID: V3I3-1221

Paper Status: published

Published: March 24, 2018

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Cloak Encryption in Apache

The tremendous growth of mobile devices has a pre-generated new form of security flaws. The manifest-based permission in Android devices is one of the hefty security threats among all.We propose cloak protocol based encryption. We use exterior apache server for generating CSPRN and also we make use of the session id which will be very helpful in tracking user sessions and it will be difficult for the hackers to crack the file. For multiple user registrations, we define a new way of two-dimensional graphical authentications using a one-time password with the session ID to keep track of users. With this, the user can securely transceiver messages.

Published by: V. Adithya , R. Ramya , D. Vignesh Kumar , M. Madava Krishnan

Author: V. Adithya

Paper ID: V3I3-1220

Paper Status: published

Published: March 24, 2018

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Assessment of Consumers’ Perception for Services offered by Hotels in Delhi-NCR

The objective of the current study was to examine the perception of visitors regarding services offered by hotels in NCR area. 200 regular hotel visitors in Delhi NCR were approached and their respective perception regarding services was assessed by servqual scale using stratified convenient sampling method. Statistical tools like factor analysis, t-test and one way ANOVA were used to analyze data with the help of SPSS. Affluent male consumers with a higher level of income were found to be lesser satisfied with services offered by hotels. In a nutshell, it can be said that demographic variables like age, gender, income, education, and occupation brings significant variation in perception of hotel visitors for all the dimensions of service quality namely tangibility, assurance, empathy, responsiveness and reliability. It is apparent that visitors are not very much satisfied with the services offered by the hotels. So visitors may be left with great grievances with the quality of services offered and may be prompted not to visit that particular area. So it is advised to marketers to look into the matter and do a close introspection of services offered by them in order to improve service quality and provide a greater degree of customer satisfaction.

Published by: Dr. Krishan Kumar Paliwal, Dr. Ankur, Dr. Sandeep Kumar

Author: Dr. Krishan Kumar Paliwal

Paper ID: V3I3-1173

Paper Status: published

Published: March 24, 2018

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