Applied Mech Dept News 1985-86

1 ) Summer School Winter School Short Courses etc
A whiter school on 'Design of Industrial Structures' has been sanctioned by ISTE for the Month of November 1986 Dr. M. R. Shiyekar and vice-prin H. U. Kulkarni are the Co -ordintors of this proposed Winter School.

Dr. M. R. Shiyekar attended the International Conference on Finite Element Computational Mechanics held at I. I. T. Bombay during 2 to 6 of December 1985,

Dr. M. R. Shiyekar was appointed as a Member of Structural Mechanics Committee in Off-shore Mechanics and ARCTIC Engg Divn. of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, U. S. A. and he was also invited to attend the meeting at Tokyo. (6)

2 ) Lectures Delivered -
Dr. M. R. Shiyekar delivered lectures in Computer programming for BASIC Course as well as Shivaii University Certificate and Diploma Course, arranged by the Electronics Dept.

3 ) M. E. Dissertations—
The following projects are under investigation,-
1) Behaviour of structural brick shells.
2) Use of stone grit in concrete as a substitute for sand.
3) Analysis and design of different types of folded plates.
4) Analysis and design of Industrial bents.
5) Finite element analysis of plate bending.

4) Consultancy -
The Department is offering consul-tancy and testing services to the Public Works Department in the field of slabs. piles and undertaking the routine testing works of various building materials.

Date : 3-4-1986 Dr. K. T. Kirshnaswamy Head of the Appl. Mech. Dept.