In the first day of the Seventh Structural Engineering Convention which is held at Annamalai University on 08.12.10, we were able to meet many doyens in the field of structural engineering.
Dr.M.Ramanthan, Vice chancellor, Annamalai University inaugurated this great event. Prof.B.Palaniappan, Dean, FEAT delivered presidential address. Dr.N.Rajagopalan, Chief Technical Advisor (Bridges & Structures). L&T Ramboll, Chennai felicitated. In his speech he noted about the skill of the engineer which he mentioned as "enginivity". And he added that science + technology + enginivity + logic + .... = Engineering, an engineer should always think to utilize the science & technology to the society. Dr.Nagesh R. Iyer, Director, SERC, Chennai and Dr.B.Vijayarangan, Curtin University, Australia felicitated. Dr.C.Antony Jeyasehar, Prof & Head, Dept of Civil & Structural engineering, Dr.RM.Senthamarai, Professor, Dept of Civil & Structural engineering, Dr.A.Rajasekaran, Professor, Dept of Civil & Structural engineering were proposed the welcome note and vote of thanks.
In the keynote session Dr.Joseph Davidovits delivered his keynote address on geopolymer cement. Dr.N.Lakshmanan, Former Director, SERC, Chennai offered his speech on "Management and maintenance scheduling for infra-structural facilities- A road map. He talked about the techniques which are useful for practicing engineer. Dr.N.Rajagopalan offered his speech on "Challenges in Bridge Design and Construction". He talked about the challenges in the design and construction of bridges across the river Brahmaputra which has its width about 11.8km. Dr.Shen-En Chen from University of North Carolina delivered his keynote address on "Advances in Remote Sensing for Bridge Structural Health Evaluation". He talked about the evaluation of mass losses in bridges through remote sensing facility. Prof.B.K.Raghu Prasad, IISc, Bangalore offered his speech on "Limitations of Adomian Decomposition Method". Which was purely the application of mathematics in civil engineering problems.
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| Dr.Joseph Davidovits presenting his lecture. |
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| Prof. Shen-En Chen delivering his lecture |
In the afternoon session various papers presented by the delegates. The afternoon session was divided into three parallel sessions and they were taken place at Aumtec 71 hall, GJR hall and Conference hall simultaneously.
In addition to this event a Build Expo is inaugurated at Kalaiyarangam. It will be open for audience upto the end of the convention and timing will be 9.00AM to 8.00PM.
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