CEST Club of NIT Rourkela

Civil Engineering: How it came to be Civil Engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the various works.  Civil Engineering as a separate educational field has come into existence only in the 19th century, however, the practice of construction dates back much further. Early humans lived like nomads, moving from place to place in search of food and water. However, according to researchers, some 12,000 years back humans abandoned this nomadic lifestyle and started agriculture. As the saying goes "Necessity is the mother of invention", as humans started settling down they needed shelter to protect themselves against harsh weather conditions. So, they started occupying the caves and thus began human civilizations. Sumer, located in Mesopotamia, is the first known complex civilization. Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans without any for...

  Intro : -  An Advanced Underground Subway is essentially a facility that connects many busy places via a common route. It carries several small shops that can be used for industrial functions on both facets of the walkway. It additionally has an underground automobile parking facility which enables the people for better management of vehicles.   Inspiration: -   The proposal of Subway is in tune with the requirements of sustainability, it promotes tightly closed pedestrian movement and because of this circuitously promotes walkability in a city. It represents social fairness and makes street crossing invulnerable for college kids and senior citizens. This makes our life easy and travels safer. Benefits: - 1. It connects some of the busiest places within a region by decreasing the extent of pedestrian visitors above the floor. 2. This decreases the want for Traffic signals in the areas lying above the subway as the bulk of the pedestrian traffic uses the Subwa...

Starting From stone age days to stepping into the 21st century, Taking shelter in a small cave to living in a luxurious Skyscraper, Civilization has evolved a lot. With all the technical advancement, we are capable of doing things, which were beyond the scope of our imagination a century ago. Despite all this development, we still can’t conquer natural disasters. Earthquakes are one of the most devastating forces, in which the seismic waves traveling through the ground can annihilate buildings, take lives, properties, and can cost a tremendous amount of money and resources to restore normalcy. Why Does The Building Collapse? Buildings are generally prepared to handle vertical forces from their weight and gravity, they cannot handle side-to-side forces transmitted by earthquakes. This flat load during quakes vibrates floors, columns, bars, and the connectors that hold them together. The difference in movement between the foot and top of buildings creates extraordinary stretch, ca...

The auspicious Ratha Yatra or the chariot festival is marked in June every year. The three deities travel on wooden towering temple shaped rathas which are newly made every year. The carpenters carrying out this noble work belong to the family that has the hereditary rights for this construction. There are no specific written instructions, instead, the method of work and knowledge is followed from generations after generations. These architectural marvels are made out of love and labour of 200 carpenters, blacksmiths, painters, and tailors with a deadline of 58 days.  Nearly 4000 wooden logs are required of the construction of chariots and this is aided by the Odisha government's plantation program to replenish the forests. The delivery of the wooden logs are carried out by the Odisha government free of cost and they are transported in front of the Jagannath temple office on the occasion of Vasant Panchami that is Saraswati Puja in January or February. The logs are cut i...