A Synopsis Report

On

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION AND PREDICTION OF EFFICIENCY FACTOR WITH COST ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ADDITIVES

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements

for the degree of

MASTER OF ENGINEERING

in

CIVIL ENGINEERING

(With specialization in Construction Engineering and Management)

by

AFROZ NAEEM KHAN

(Roll No: 15CEM07)

(Registration No: ANJUMAN-24)

Under the guidance of

Dr. R. B. MAGAR

Department of Civil Engineering

School of Engineering and Technology

Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus

Plot No. 2 & 3, Sector-16, Near Thana Naka, KhandaGaon,

New Panvel, Navi Mumbai-410206

2016-2017

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION AND PREDICTION OF EFFICIENCY FACTOR WITH COST ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ADDITIVES

SYNOPSIS

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements

of the degree ofMaster of Engineering in Construction Engineering and Management

by

Afroz Naeem Khan

Dr. R. B. Magar (H.O.D. and Guide) Dr. Abdul RazakHonnutagi (Director, AIKTC) Afroz Naeem Khan (Candidate) (Registration No. Anjuman 24)

Department of Civil Engineering

School of Engineering and Technology

Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus

Plot No. 2 & 3, Sector-16, Near Thana Naka, KhandaGaon,

New Panvel, Navi Mumbai-410206

2016-2017

Table of Contents

Introduction……………………………………………………………………………… Brief Review of the Literature…………………………………………………………... Statement of the Problem………………………………………………………………... Aims and Objectives…………………………………………………………………….. Scope of the Proposed Work…………………………………………………………….. Experimental Programme……………………………………………………………….. Results and Discussion………………………………………………………………….. Conclusions……………………………………………………………………………… Summary……………………………………………………………………………….... Scope for Future Work…………………………………………………………………... Scheme of the Chapterization…………………………………………………………… List of Publication and Conferences…………………………………………………….. References………………………………………………………………………………..	1 1 2 3 3 3 5 7 8 8 8 8 8

List of Figures

Figure	Name	Pg. No.
1	Variation in compressive strength	5
2	Variation in efficiency factor for M40	5
3	Variation in efficiency factor for M35	5
4	Variation in efficiency factor for M30	5
5	Variation in efficiency factor for M25	5
6	Variation in efficiency factor for M20	6
7	Architecture of neural network	7
8	Actual and predicted efficiency factor by ANN for M40	7

List of Tables

Table	Name	Pg. No.
1	Reference mix of fly ash at different level of replacement	4
2	Compressive strength and k-value at different replacement level of fly ash	4
3	Regression statistics	6