Concept Videos: Types of Footings

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Today I am posting a video of the different types of footings. The video shows the animation of some of the types of footings available and their pros and cons. Hope you find this video useful.

Research Article: A Study on the Early UCC Strength of Stabilized Expansive Soil Admixed with Industrial Waste Materials

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It has been a long time since I have posted here. I am finding it increasingly difficult to find time to keep my blog updated with new posts. But I still do have the passion to post material for the benefit of the students. So after a long time, I have found some time to post a research article of mine! hope you find it useful.

Concept Video: Liquefaction

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Today, I would like to show you a video regarding soil liquefaction.

International Conference on Engineering Materials and Processes (ICEMAP) 2017

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A post after a long time!!! This time about an international conference to be held at Tagore Engineering College. The first International Conference on Engineering Materials and Processes (ICEMAP) was held in the year 2013 and was a grand success with around 400 papers presented in the conference.

Conference Article: Effect of Micro Ceramic Dust on the Plasticity and Swell Index of Lime Stabilized Expansive Soil

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I have another conference article for your benefit! Here is a conference article from the National conference on Recent Advances in Science, Engineering and Management, NC'RASEM 2015 held at Tagore Engineering College on the 20th of March 2015.

Direct Link to the blog 'Chachu's Imagery'

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You all might have noticed that there has been a spurt of activity in my blog posts recently. That is because I have found some time to pay attention to my blog, that has been dormant close to a year now. I have decided to make some changes to my blog to give my readers some more useful information. I have added two new pages to my blog. One is the Concept Videos page, the first post of which I had posted earlier.

Concept Video: Construction of a Reinforced Column Foundation

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Here is my first of posts in a new category called as Concept Videos. I had intended to open such a page for sharing concept videos for students for a long time to enable them to understand principles and concepts in Geotechnical Engineering. I will initially share videos related to subject areas of soil, foundation and ground improvement. Based on viewers response, I will branch out further to bring more videos to enable easy understanding of field practices as well.

Conference Article: A Comparison of Soil Texture Distribution and Soil Moisture Mapping of Chennai Coast using Landsat ETM+ and IKONOS Data

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I am back again, this time with a conference article. Here is a paper that was published in the conference proceeedings of the International Conference on Water Resources, Coastal and Ocean Engineering (ICWRCOE' 15). The article has been published in Aquatic Procedia, the proceedings journal published by Elsevier and is available in Science Direct.

Journal Article: Effect of Phosphogypsum on Strength of Lime Stabilized Expansive Soil

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Long time, no post!!! Was really kept engaged due to my official, educational and personal duties and responsibilities. So could not really find time to even post... Hopefully, the second half of the year will provide me with more opportunities to post more frequently. In the mean time, I have published some more papers which I would like to share with you.

Journal Article: Strength and Index Properties of Phosphogypsum Stabilized Expansive Soil

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Here is one more of my papers for the research collection.

Citation: James, J., Lakshmi, S.V., and Pandian, P.K., (2014), "Strength and Index Properties of Phosphogypsum Stabilized Expansive Soil", International Journal of Applied Environmental Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 2721-2731

Happy New Year 2016!!! And More...

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I have been completely inactive with regard to my blog for close to 6 months now. I would like to change that in the new year. First let me wish you all, a very Happy and Successful New Year 2016! I know you all will be busy writing your semester examinations, so wishing you all success in that as well. Every time I write a post, I usually want to post something useful. So this time around as well, I would like to give you something beneficial. The upcoming semester is going to be very short, especially, the final semester students are going to find themselves in a tight spot due to very limited time for their projects. In this regard, I would like to suggest one broad area of research that has some practical relevance. 

Journal Article: Engineering Performance of Lime Stabilized Soil Admixed with Natural Materials

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Here is another article for the research collection.

Citation:

James, J., Lakshmi, S.V., Pandian, P.K., and Vanitha, S., (2014), "Engineering Performance of Lime Stabilized Soil Admixed with Natural Materials", International Journal of Applied Environmental Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1209-1217

I would like to just put up the abstract as the paper details are already given in the citation format given above instead of cluttering the post with too much details as I have been doing in earlier posts with research tag. Also for posts with research  tag, there no longer will be a download counter. (As it is a bit tedious to set it up and I am not finding the time to do it as well.)

Journal Article: Effect of Lime on the Index Properties of Rice Husk Ash Stabilized Soil

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Here's another addition to the research collection.

Journal Article: Performance Study on Soil Stabilisation using Natural Materials

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Here is another of my journal publications. This is related to the effect of utilizing natural materials in stabilization of soil.

Citation:

James, J., and Pandian, P.K., (2013), "Performance Study on Soil Stabilisation using Natural Materials", International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 01, pp. 194 - 203

Performance Study on Soil Stabilisation using Natural Materials

JIJO JAMES and P. KASINATHA PANDIAN

Department of Civil Engineering, Tagore Engineering College, Chennai-48

Email: jijo_blitz@yahoo.co.in, pknp2020@gmail.com

Journal Article: Cost Effective Bricks in Construction: A Performance Study

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This is my first post related to Research. This post is about a journal article published in the International Journal of Applied Engineering Research regarding use of waste materials in manufacture of bricks. This was the very first paper that I had published along with my colleagues then. I am sharing this now so that students and faculty alike have better access to research articles. Hope you find this useful. Your feedback is welcome. Please use the comments section below or contact me via e mail.

Citation:

Vijayaraghavan, C., James, J., Marithangam, S., (2009), "Cost Effective Bricks in Construction: A Performance Study", International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 327-334

Cost Effective Bricks in Construction: A Performance Study

C. Vijayaraghavan1, Jijo James2 and S. Marithangam3

1 Asst. Professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Tagore

Engineering College, Rathinamangalam, Vandalur Post, Chennai, Tamil

Nadu. PIN: 600 048 India

E-Mail: Vijayaraghavan_c@yahoo.com

2,3 Lecturer in Civil Engineering, Tagore Engineering College Rathinamangalam,

Vandalur Post, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. PIN: 600 048 India

2 E-Mail: jijo_blitz@yahoo.co.in

3 E-Mail: smarithangam@yahoo.co.in

Nanomaterials in Civil and Electronics Engineering

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Here is a copy of the presentation that I gave at the Regional Training Institute, Southern Region, C.P.W.D., in a training programme held for Junior Engineers of Civil and Electrical wings of the department on the 13th of February 2015. I had already given a similar presentation in an earlier training programme in the same centre but this presentation improves upon it with applications of nanomaterials in electronics engineering being added to that. hope you find this useful.

Blog Recommendation: Chachu's Imagery

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I would like to introduce to all of you a new blog for notes and subject material for students of Civil Engineering. Enter... 

Soil Mechanics Syllabus - Regulation 2013

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Wishing you all a Happy New Year and Prosperous Pongal 2015! This is my first post of the new year and I will start with the syllabus of Soil Mechanics of the new regulation 2013. With the new semester having started, I guess you all would have got a taste of the new subjects in this semester. I have been absent from my blog for quite a while now. Hope, I am more regular in the new year with more posts and the idea that I had planned last year, concept videos for the subjects. Here's hoping to materialise the ideas in the current year, All the very best for the new semester!!!

Solved University Question Papers - Foundation Engineering

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It has been a really  long time since I posted here. I was busy with my studies and work and so couldn't work much for my blog. And presently, it seems that this state will continue for some more time.

AU Question Papers - Ground Improvement Techniques

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This is an update for the university question papers in the subject of Ground Improvement Techniques. I am posting two more recent question papers in the subject. This being an elective paper, question papers are a bit hard to come by. I am making my efforts to get you all the papers possible.