Earthquake Safety Day 2073

Khwopa College of Engineering (TU) and Khwopa Engineering College (PU) jointly organized the three days program on the occasion of Earthquake Safety Day (2nd-4th Magh). Mass rally, model competition, photograph and slogan competition etc. were mainly included in the program.

Model presentation was done in Datattre, Bhaktapur where 40+ models related to earthquake were presented. Chairman of Nepal Majdoor Kishan Party, Mr. Narayan Man Bijukchhe was the chief guest of the program.

The model presented by me and my group was entitled " Dharahara will Rise Again".

Dharahara will Rise Again

POKHARA (HYDRO) TOUR 2017

Short memory on Pokhara Tour !!

Tour Introduction

We, final year students of Khwopa college of Engineering went to Pokhara for the hydropower tour to visit 4 different hydropower projects on 19th-23rd Poush. The four hydropower projects were
i) Marsyandhi Hydropower
ii) Upper and Lower Modi
iii) Seti Hydropower
iv) Fewa Headwork

Bus (4 for 96 students)

All about Melamchi Drinking Water Project

Introduction

Melamchi Drinking Water project is designed and is now in construction phase to provide fresh water to Kathmandu and meet the daily demand of around 350 ML.
It was started on 28th November, 2001.
ADB approved the proposed project restructuring, after 6 years (2008) of implementation and proposing the removal of identified obstacles in implementation, in February 2008. After the restructuring, the Project has now been revised to a total of $317.3 million and a completion date of June 2013. The cost will be jointly funded by several agencies such as: ADB (Loan 1820-NEP) – $137 m, JBIC – $ 47.5 m, JICA – $18 m, NDF – $10.5 m, OPEC – $13.7 m, and GoN – $ 90.6 million.

This project is subdivided into three sub projects for making the work easier and to complete it in time. They are:

Sindupalchowk Tour

We (Me and Harry B.C.) started the tour early morning at 8 a.m. We took bus from Gatthaghar and headed towards Barabise. There wasn't a single empty seat but fortunately cabin was empty. We travelled upto Barabise sitting on the cabin. On the way we were surprised to see the scale of Jiri Landslide which actually is much bigger than what we see on TV and paper. 

At Barabise Bazar

Seventh Semester Guides and Notes

IOE NOTES AND TUTORIAL DRIVE LINK 

( All the below pdf are inside this drive link ) 

The subjects with their respective notes/guides  for seventh semester are as follows:

1) Hydropower Engineering

•  A year in Review fiscal year 2015/2016 (Click)
• Hydropower Development Policy 2001 (Click)
• Electricity Act 2049 (Click)
• Syllabus for Civil Engineer Level 7 (click)
• Syllabus for Civil Supervisor Level 5 (click)

2) Estimation and Costing
( coming soon )

3) Project Engineering
( coming soon )

4) Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC)
( coming soon )

5) Transportation Engineering
( coming soon )

5) Elective I
i) Rockslope Engineering
ii) Transportation Engineering
iii) Bridge
iv) Structural Dynamics

SOME TIPS FOR SURVEY CAMP

Before Survey Camp

1) Carry your laptop. Don't fear of losing and breaking or anything like that.
2) Install Microsoft Office (Excel is needed) , Autocad and DTM ( Digital Terrain Modeling) in your laptop. (GIS is optional )
3) Learn the basic of Excel like addition, subtraction, multiplication ,division etc. by putting formulas. Also, learn the conversion of Degree, Minute and Second in excel.
4) Carry some painkiller, water bottle and torch light.

In Survey Camp

Traversing

1) In traversing, don't make so many legs. Around 14-16 legs are sufficient.
2) Please make the calculation of the data properly. Try to do all the table calculation in Excel.
3) Don't try to cheat while making calculation and plotting because it will be rechecked with plane table surveying. You will have to do again if the legs are not oriented perfectly.

Fly levelling

Fly levelling of around 1-2 km should be done making closed loops. Also, fly levelling should be done to transfer the RL to each major and minor station of your traverse.
Its not that easy as before because the terrain will be steep and you have to maintain that 2-0.6 limit.

***** So, to be on that limit ( 2 - 0.6m ) many students try to go sideway to set up auto lable and lose their time. They only way you can do it quick and fast is going straight down and covering small horizontal distance. *****

Detailing

Take as much as points as you can. Its best if you can take more than 1000 points. Take more points of the slopes, house corners and side of road (left and right).
Don't take nearer points while detailing. Near points within small height difference is useless as u will be plotting in small scale later.

After Survey Camp

1) Divide the work with the group members.
2) Try to plot the total station data in GIS and compare the contour with autocad-DTM.

For making topographic map with the Total Station data by Auto CAD and DTM,
Watch this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFaEbOveB4A

HOW FAR I HAVE REACHED WITH MY 5 RESOLUTIONS OF THE YEAR 2073 ??

Well, it's wonderful to write in blog after long time !!
I had made five resolutions for the year 2073 on the very first day of this year. I wanna give a brief summary of what I have done and achieved till this date.

1) Gas and Petroleum Pipeline System in Nepal (GPPS)
I studied about both the Gas and Petroleum Pipeline System and its design process. I watched lots of documentries of biggest pipeline network on earth. Its not that easy as said to construct pipelines in Nepal. Its takes a lot of time, money and materials.
Watch ALASKA PIPELINE, its the best documentry.

Many people think it's impossible but I seriously don't think its impossible. In addition to this Petroleum and Gas are very much necessary to grow and build this nation for centuries to come though we have huge potential in hydropower.
Raxual-Amlekjung  ( Phase 1) petroleum pipeline is going to start after some days. I am going to link my research with this phase if it starts on time. And in phase 2 ( Amlekhjung-Kathmandu), I wish to work being an Engineer not as observer.

Also, Solid Waste Management Project is going on. The main aim of this project is to conclude whether we can generate the gas for economical use by processing the waste collected from KTM valley or not.

2) Politics and social work
College life don't give much time to involve in any political and social events. Though I managed to be the part of the Dr. KC campaign against corruption and Educational Revolution.

Also I tried to raise the voice with a tag " पुनर्निर्माण कहाँ पुग्यो सरकार ?? ". I made some videos and urged other to do the same which was my unsuccessful try. I will be back again with this issue soon.
Also, I will continue to go in any campaign and programs which are for good cause for the rest of the year.

3) Literature
I wrote some poems and recorded 2-3 in videos. It was nice to hear the beautiful comments and appreciation from friends and  families.
About my " Upanyas", I haven't started yet. I have made a rough draft of it. I will start it after the vacation and by the end of Falgun, it should finish.

4) Videos, blog and Youtube
Growing in Youtube is so hard. I have already made more than 40+ videos but all of them with double digit views. Acutally I haven't shared my youtube videos so extensively, haven't requested to suscribe my channels and forced anyone to view any videos. Also, the contents of my videos are random, they are of low quality and most of them are very short. There are so many reasons .....
SUSCRIBE HERE

Blogging is good. Its the place where I share my ideas. I will keep doing this untill I'l have a personal website.
Facebook is good place to show your work and creation. Its hard if there is no support from the friends and families.
To my friends : To share my videos is like " मुटु माथी ढुंगा राखी, share गर्नु पर्या छ " !!!
My videos got 0 share from friends and families though some of them were good and informative.
No hard feelings, now you people (my friends) will no longer be my friends, you will be my family.
A COMMON MAN family !! I wish to get maximum support from all of you in coming days.

5) www.weworkforfree.com
This is the concept that always rings around me. I always think about this but I haven't got the best output yet with a clear idea.
I will work on it with more research and calculation. For this I need a group of people who are willing to work for free for some period of time. They should be good at graphics designing, web designing and other computing aspects.
Making site and starting the work is later part.

ITS GOOD. TILL NOW, ITS BEEN A LEARNING PHASE. NOW, THE ACTUAL WORK HAS TO BE STARTED.LET'S KEEP GOING.
I WANT TO THANK ALL MY FRIENDS AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAS BEEN HELPING ME AND GUIDING ME.
PEACE !!

Components of Plate Girder

Plate girders are essentially the I beam fabricated mainly by the plate. Angle section are usually used to connect the flange plate and web plate. While in welded connection flange plates are directly welded with the web plate.

The components of the Plate Girder are:
1) Web Plate
2) Flange Plate and their Curtailment
3) Flange angles
4) Web Splice plates
5) Flange Splice plates
6) Longitudinal or horizontal stiffners
7) Transverse or vertical stiffners
8) Bearing stiffners
9) End bearing

Top 10 facts about Nepal

1) Nepal is only the country having unique traingular flag in the world.
2) 60% of internate users in Nepal surf the internate with speed 256kbps which is the second lowest in the world.
3) Binod Chaudary is only Billionare of Nepal having worth $1.3 billion.
4) Kathmandu has more UNESCO world heritage sites than any other city in the world. It has 7 heritage sites at around radius of 15KM.
5) Nepal has never won the official Olympic Gold medal.
6) Nepal was never colonized so Nepal doesn't celebrate Independance Day.
7) Elephant Polo game was originated in Nepal.
8) 8 of 10 tallest mountains lies in Nepal. All are above 8000m.
9) Unlike other countries Nepal has Saturday as Public holiday, not Sunday.
10) Lumbini, Nepal is the Birth Place of Buddha, not India.

भाडाकुडि कुड़ी खेल !!!

-Bishwas Thapa

धेरै खेल खेलियो
धेरै रेल चडियो
तर त्यो बच्चामा खेल
र चढेको रेलमा जस्तो आनन्द केहीमा आएन !!!!
एक दुइ रुपैयाको नोट पनि नभएको  बेला
हामी गेरुलाको पाच सय हजारका नोट गन्थयौ
अनि पसलमा गए जसरि किन्थौ माटाका भाडाहरु
अनि वुन्थयौ माटोमा नै  नया सपना
माटो कै एक धर्को सिन्धुर लगाएर
खिच्थे हाम्रा फोटाहरु कागज कै क्यामरा बाट
तिमीले पकाए जसरि पाक्थे माटाको खानाहरु
अनि तिम्रै हातले खुहाये जसरि खुयौथेयौ
अनि म खाए जसरि खान्थे !!!
हाम्रा बच्चाहरु हुन्थे
बा !!! आज चोकोलेट ल्याइदिनु  ल ..
भन्दा गेरुला नोट लिएर लक्टो चोकोलेटमा ढुंगा हालेर लाहुथेय !!!
कागजको ढुंगा मा सयेर गर्थौ
हामी एउटा नया जीवन पार गर्दै
तिम्ले पानी छाप्थौ
तर ...............
आजकाल  त्यो पानी ले मलाई हरेक रात मा बिउजाउछ
त्यो काल्पनिक खेलबाट !!!!