Training
programme
on
“Quality Assurance of Dams”
A training programme on “Quality Assurance of Dams”
to the middle management level engineers of NTPC was organized
during 8th March to 16th March 2004. Five days training programme
scheduled from 8th March to 12th March 2004 was conducted
at CSMRS and two days training programme on 15th and 16th
March 2004 at Tehri dam. A total of 20 NTPC engineers attended
the training and benefited by it. The senior officials of
NTPC, Shri S.P.Singh, GM(QA&I), Shri Dave, GM(Civil) and
Dr.S.N.Mandal, AGM(QA&I) attended the inaugural session.
Training at CSMRS
A total of 20 lectures
were delivered during the occasion out of which 9 lectures
were delivered by 8 invited speakers from various other organizations
and 11 lectures were delivered by 8 CSMRS senior officers.
The list of the lectures delivered and the speakers are given
below.
Invited lectures:
Speakers |
Topic |
| Dr.Sharda, Senior Geologist, GSI |
Geotechnical problems of dam foundation |
| Shri Ramesh Kumar, DD, CWC |
Foundation treatment of Earth and Rockfill dam |
| Shri Manohar Khushalani, Director, CWC |
Instrumentation in Earth and Rockfill dam |
| Shri O.S.Maurya, DGM(QC)THDC |
Quality control aspects of Tehri Dam |
| Shri Mahavir
Bidasaria, Ferro Concrete Const.(I) Pvt.Ltd., Indore |
Treatment of Unconformity zone and curtain grouting
in Foundation of Almatti Dam on Krishna River (Karnataka) |
| Grouting Technology for rehabilitation
of Tiller Earthen Dam in Madhya Pradesh |
| Prof.T.Ramamurthy |
Material Characterization of Rockfills for High Dams |
| Shri S.C.Mittal,Chief Engineer,NHPC
|
Concrete Faced Rockfill Dams |
| Dr.Naresh Kumar, Deputy Director,
CWC |
Design aspects and quality control guidelines for
Earth and Rockfill dam construction |
CSMRS lectures:
Speakers |
Topic |
| Shri Murari Ratnam, JD |
Durability Problems in Concrete – Case Histories |
| Shri S.K.Babbar,CRO |
Foundation Soil Investigations for Earth and Rockfill
Dams |
| Quality Control aspects of Earth
and Rockfill dam |
| Shri N.Chandrasekaran, CRO |
Quality control aspects of Concrete dams |
| Steel Fibre Reinforcing Shotcreting |
| Shri D.N.Bera, SRO |
Laboratory Investigations for Soils |
| Ms.R.Chitra,SRO |
Stability analysis of earth and rockfill dams |
| Setting up of quality control laboratory
|
Shri N.P.Honkandwar, SRO
|
Strength and Deformation Characteristics of Rockfill
Materials |
Shri Mahabir Dixit, SRO
|
Identification of Rockfill Quarries and Modelling
of Rockfill Materials |
| Shri K.Sai Prasad, RO |
Design aspects and quality control guidelines for
Earth and Rockfill dam construction |
In addition, the trainee officers were taken to the following
CSMRS laboratories and demonstration of the laboratory testing
were shown.
Training at Tehri dam site
The trainee officers were taken to the Tehri dam site.
A team of CSMRS officers comprising of SRO(S-III), SRO(Gsy),
SRO(RF-II) and ARO(S-I) accompanied the trainee officers
to Tehri dam site. The officers were taken to the following
places.
-
Construction
site along dam axis
-
Clay borrow
area (Koti borrow area and stock piles
-
Quality control
laboratories of soil and concrete.
-
Inspection Gallery
-
Grouting Gallery
-
View point –
Cross section and plan of the dam were shown and lay out
of various structures were explained.
-
Power house
In addition, the following tests were also demonstrated
to the officers at site.
Discussions were also held regarding the quality control
aspects of the construction materials such as clay core,
fine filter, coarse filter, shell and rip rap.
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