Multi-storeyed buildings with open (soft) ground floor are inherently vulnerable to collapse due to earthquake load, even then their construction is still widespread in the developing nations. An investigation has been performed to study the behavior of the columns at ground level of multi-storeyed buildings with soft ground floor as satellite bus stop and shear walls subjected to earthquake loading. The structural action of masonry infill panels of upper floors has also been taken into account by modeling them as diagonal struts. Shear wall is one of the most commonly used lateral load resisting in high rise building. In this study building is modeled with different shapes of shear wall with top and bottom soft storey. Static and dynamic analysis is carried out by using ETABS 2015. The comparison of these models for different parameters like Storey shear and storey displacement is carried out.

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An handwritten alphabetical character recognition system using multilayer feed forward neural network is described in the paper. A new method, called, diagonal based feature extraction is introduced for extracting the features of the handwritten alphabets. Fifty data sets, each containing 26 alphabets written by various people, are used for training the neural network and 570 different handwritten alphabetical characters are used for testing. The proposed recognition system performs quite well yielding higher levels of recognition accuracy compared to the systems employing the conventional horizontal and vertical methods of feature extraction. This system will be suitable for converting handwritten documents into structural text form and recognizing handwritten names.

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Soil is all naturally occurring relatively unconsolidated earth material, organic or inorganic in character that lies above the bed rock includes different materials like silts, clays, gravels etc. It is universally available material of various types with different physical, chemical and organic properties. Foundation is a part of structure which transmits load of super structure to the sub soil. Geotechnical engineers face various problems while designing the foundations on highly compressible clayey soil due to poor bearing capacity and excessive settlement. Thus bearing capacity is one of the important aspects of soil engineering. The bearing capacity of the soil put forth by scientists like Prandtl (1921) Terzaghi (1943), Meyerhoff (1963), Hansen (1970), Vesic (1973), etc. In the project the bearing capacity of silt clay loam can be studied under static load in metallic tank. The prototype structure of working foundation is prepared and tested under cyclic load of various vertical load and eccentricities of a size of square and circular footing. The effect on bearing capacity of soil due to inclusion of reinforcement into the soil at various positions is also to be analyzed.

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Sediments formed by erosion processing the catchment area of stream flow downstream along with the river. When water from the river is in stagenant condition behind the dam, the suspended particles from the water settles along the bed of reservoir. Depending on the topography of the reservoir, intensity of rainfall, type of soil and other conditions the percentage of sedimentation varies. The dam losing its water storing capacity as sediments from dam reservoir starts accumulating and thus the dam fails to serve the purpose for which it was built. Thus periodic removal of dam sediments is necessary to serve the purpose for which dams are built, namely for storage of water. Dredging involves removal of accumulated sediments from bottom of dam reservoir. The aim of this study was to determine the use of the dredged sediments from Tilari Dam reservoir in construction industry. This dam is situated in Dodamarg Taluka, in Maharashtra and is the largest one in Dodamarg Taluka of Kolhapur and has lost its water storing capacity by 11% due to sediment accumulation. To determine the optimum manufacturing procedure to obtain the best product a detailed experimental work was carried out. The main focus of this study was manufacturing bricks from dam sediment and to study the effect of firing temperature and two additives, namely stone dust and bottom ash on the mechanical and physical properties of bricks. A preliminary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was also included in this study highlighting both positive and negative, as well as short term and long term impacts of removal of sediment from Tilari dam reservoir.

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Security is the major concern in day to day life. People often loose their life because of poor security. The accidents which occur cannot be minimized but the effect of the accident can be minimized. This system is based on detection and alert of accident using GSM and GPS module. The GSM acts as an output and the GPS acts as an input to the microcontroller. So to provide security to the vehicle we use this system which can be fitted into the vehicle. It uses an accelerometer sensor to detect an accident. An accelerometer monitors the acceleration of the vehicle. It will detect the dynamic acceleration resulting from shock, motion or vibration. If the deceleration is greater than the threshold value it will send the data to the microcontroller. Then the microcontroller will compare the received data with the threshold value and after comparison it will send the message to the given number via GSM. The controller will also send the location which is detected by the GPS module. So this detected location is sent to the authorized user when an accident have occurred, so that the person can be able to help the people who have met with an accident. So this system will help the identification and rescue of vehicles that have met with an accident.

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One of the major disasters occurring in the world is flooding. To monitor the water conditions such as water level and velocity of flow, wireless sensor network system architecture for real time monitoring has been developed. The main aim of the proposed work is to send real time information of flooding to the concerned welfare authorities so that suitable action could be taken. This system architecture is composed of sensor network, processing/ transmission unit and a server. Sensors are distributed in rivers so that changes of the water level can be effectively monitored. In this paper monitoring the water related data like water level and flow rate in rivers and flood conditions is done using arduino UNO processor will process the data and GPRS/GSM SIM 900a module is used to transmit measured data to the LCD display and if the values measured are different from the normal values alerts are generated and sent as an SMS through the GSM modem. This wireless sensor network system could remotely monitor the real time data of water condition in the identified areas.

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Technology plays a major role in healthcare not only in sensory devices but also in communication, recording and display device. In this project the application of IoT in the field of healthcare is explained .There are many uses of IoT in this field such as medical fridges, RFID technology for healthcare. However, the diversity of the objects in IoT causes the heterogeneity problem of the data format in IoT platform. Meanwhile, the use of IoT technology in applications has spurred the increase of real-time data, which makes the information storage and accessing more difficult and challenging. In this paper applications of IoT based on healthcare is shown.

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In this modern era where we are residing the need is also increasing with the increment in the technology and facility. In this way nanotechnology is one of the most important technology through which we can get rid of most of the vitals problem which commonly people like farmers, tribal peoples are facing through. So this paper is focusing on the application of nanotechnology in water treatment which is the one basic thing without which we could not reside. According to the survey it is mentioned that we people by 2020 could not get the pure water and now a day’s also 60% of the people is taking in impure water as a basic component. There are conventional technologies which are affordable and can be produced locally for effective removal of contaminants from water and wastewater. However, there are several challenges with regards to the cost and the removal efficiency of certain pollutants, most especially, the persistent organic pollutants and endocrine disruptors by these conventional technology. Environmental nanotechnology viz. nanotechnology and/or nanotechnology combined with conventional technologies are able to treat organic and inorganic contaminants to acceptable levels. There is currently intense scientific interest in nanotechnology for water and wastewater treatment; nevertheless, there are concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanoparticle. So in the following paper we will be describing the methods of hospitalizing the water and the ways taking different samples. So here we will target some area and we will decipher that how the implementation of nanotechnology will enhance the life span as well as lot of parameters which is directly hike the components of human surroundings.

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Usually the service life of pavement on weaker sandy subgrade is affected due to their low density and compressibility behaviour. These sandy soil possess low strength, CBR value. Hence seasonal changes affect properties of these sandy soil adversely. Stabilization techniques using granular material and polymer is listed in literature for improving properties of these types of soft subgrades. This paper discusses the performance of stabilized soft sandy soil for suitability as subgrade using Moorum as granular material and polymer. Dynamic cone penetration test and CBR tests are carried out in laboratory on composite sandy soil with varying polymer content and the results are presented. There is considerable reduction in optimum moisture content by adding polymer. Considerable improvement in both index & engineering properties.in soaked CBR, Maximum dry density and optimum moisture content with granular material and polymer is observed. In this paper an attempt was made to assess the effectiveness of sandy soil blended with granular material and polymer for sand stabilization by studying the subgrade characteristics.

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In case of an unfortunate event of accident of a submarine, it is required to provide some pressurized suit, which will be used by submariners to escape from the sunken submarine. Before releasing from a depth of 180m, the suit is inflated and its internal pressure is adjusted to match the external hydrostatic pressure at that depth .After release, submariner wearing the suit starts ascending up due to positive buoyancy. The speed of ascend is required to be maintained at around 3m/s to suit human physiology. After reaching a depth of 100m (from surface), the speed is required to be limited to 1m/s. Suit is for individual escape .As these devices are critical to save the lives of users, a lot of prudence has to be exercised in designing the equipment. The objective of this project is to estimate added mass and drag coefficient of suit which may be used to simulate the trajectory of the escape suit. The two parameters chosen to be determined here have considerable importance on the motion of submariner. Whenever acceleration is imposed on the fluid flow either by acceleration of submariner or accelerating externally, additional fluid force will act on the body surface in contact with fluid. These inertial forces are characterized as added mass. The work includes meshing of the flow domain, flow solution and post processing of results. The software used are ANSYS ICEM CFD, ANSYS FLUENT and MATLAB.

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In field of Robotics, number of research on Snake-like Robots for their motion adaptability has been done. It’s a revolutionary era in which the robots are not specifically designed to mimic the convectional type motions related to automobiles, instead represents the motion of animals and creatures in our environment. In this paper an overview of advantages of 3D-snake-like robot over conventional mobile robots in our environment for movement in most difficult and undulating terrains such as dessert, water, cave and tree etc. has been discussed which can adapt to many configurations. The studied and designs for various types of locomotion on ground or in air has been discussed. Most importantly, the experiments performed on Chrysopelea Paradisi (Flying Snake) have been discussed for its computational analysis. In this, various experimental results extracted from different Research is presented. The validation is provided for the mobility of this robot through various publications.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) [1] is a system which connect many devices by using Internet. The IOT is concept in which the different operational devices are connected with each other. The device has unique identifier address which is provided by IP protocol. Mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that have unique identifier address are connected with each other by using IoT. The device can transfer data to other device with help of IoT. IoT[10][4] or internet of thing is a technology that connect any physical device with other physical device by using Internet. Industrial Automation system using IoT is a system that uses computers or smart device to control basic functions i.e. turn ON devices or OFF device. The industry automation system that allows user to control industry appliances, machines by using internet and web server. The system uses a microcontroller for processing all user commands. The ESP8266 [7] modem is used to connect the system with the user by using web page. The user gives the command that received by ESP8266 modem. The ESP8266 receive the command and send to the Atmega microcontroller. The microcontroller then operate the loads as per user command. LCD shows device state on a display. The graphical user interface is designed to operate the industry devices using image icons.

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What are ADHOC networks? MANET means Mobile Ad hoc Network - the Collection of mobile nodes that dynamically form a temporary network for communication within the nodes. This network has the capability to configure itself every time when a mobile node changes its location. This type of network has attractive features such as its low transmission power to conserve energy, increase throughput, and reduce delay. However, it suffers from many constraints, including limited resources, and the use of insecure wireless communication channels. Hence any type of intruders can attack the communication at any time, especially the routing mechanism between the nodes. Unattended installation of sensor nodes in the environment causes many security threats in the Ad-hoc networks. The security of the DSR and AODV protocol is vulnerable to different types of attacks. The base research by Dubey et.al [3] developed an intrusion detection and prevention system on AODV protocol. This research had a major drawback that it allowed a packet loss of minimum 5 to 6% which is quite high and also the methodology increased the energy consumption in network thereby reducing the lifetime.

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