The fundamental role of behavioral skills in crystalizing the budding managers

The mission and vision of Management education system had been exemplary in terms of evolving a true professional and efficient leader in every student and this pristine vision had been materialized and conceptualized in the vibrant ambience of a Gurukula. In continuation, the pupils were taught not only to earn their livelihood but also the humane principles for lifetime. Indeed, the Gurukulas adopted their own experiential learning pedagogy in order to train their pupils on various domains like interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills, and professional skills, and so on… However, their pedagogical delivery was never constrained only for creating monetary machines but to evolve a human being.To interpret in the words of Swami Vivekananda, “Man making was the mission of education but not machine making”. In this contemporaneous world of monetary appetite, the lives of the people are completely saturated and engulfed by the monetary avarice. Accordingly, the precious dimensions of life have been monopolized by the dominating dimension called the economic status.Consequently, the same tendency is percolated into the younger generation wherein their success rate is measured by the yardstick of economic success and having no consideration for the true professional fiber.Interestingly, the academic role, which is responsible for evolving holistic personality in a student, has been redefined and drifted towards the metamorphosed role of building monetary generating humanoids.In continuation, the students who witness the transit of student-hood to professional-hood invariably witness a serious crisis in the role-adoption.Moreover, their theoretical or knowledge expertise may not encompass the vast corporate dimension that include interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills, emotional intelligence, efficacy of communication skills, leadership skills and so on… Considering the subtle deficiencies and requirements of a professional, the paper suggests a few astute practices that are derived from the philosophies of Swami Vivekananda and other management gurus.Besides, the thoughts have been linked to the contemporaneous nomenclatures like emotional intelligence, transactional analysis, self-esteem etc… Moreover, the sagacious practices that are widely observed in the corporate corridors have been suggested in order to bridge the gap

Stress corrosion cracking of prestressing steel in sulphide medium

Stress corrosion cracking behaviour of colddrawn and stress-relieved prestressing steel of standard quality conforming to IS. 1785- Part I has been studied in H2S saturated aqueous solution with and w~thout chloride. The steel was found to be highly susceptible to cracking even under open circuit condition at room temperature.The suscept~b~litdye creased slightly with temperature in the range 3O0C- 80°C. The threshold stress was found to increase with pH of the medium from 15%of proof stress at pH 2.6 to 40 %of proof stress at pH 6.5. A limiting pH of 7 above which stress corrosion cracking did not occur was obtained for water- H2S system and the corresponding value in 3.5PbNaCI- H2S system was found to be 9. Cathodic polar~sationd ecreased the time to failure while anodic polarisation increased the time to failure. Application of tensile stress was,found to increase the corrosion rate and also the solubility of hydrogen. The strain rate was found to have profound influence on the cracking process and the susceptihlity was h~gha t very low stram rates. SEM fractographic studies revealed that the fracture mode was predominantly intergranular. All these observations could be understood in terms of a decohesion mode

Effect of intrinsic microscopic properties and suction on swell characteristics of compacted expansive clays

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The complex swelling mechanism in expansive clays during moisture ingress can be succinctly explained by an examination of their core mineralogy, microfabric, grain size and suction response. This note has attempted to investigate these influential factors on five different expansive clay samples to enable further understanding of swell behaviour. Laser diffractometry tests were performed on the expansive clays to determine the clay-sized particle structure

Limit analysis of annular slabs

Using square yield criterion and the associated flow rule, complete limit analysis solutions are presented for the collapse load of annular slabs with inner and outer edges either simply supported or clamped. For the simply supported case, a comparison is made with a previously published solution employing Tresca's yield criterion and its associated flow rules. That the collapse load obtained from a complete solution is in fact very close to that obtained from a solution which is only kinematically admissible is demonstrated in the clamped case

Flexural Strength of Modified Square Footings

The ultimate flexural strength behavior of isolated square tapered and beam-slab reinforced footings are presented. Yield line solutions are developed for generalized contact pressure distributions and the influence of taper, beam size, fillet size, negative moment capacity, and contact pressure distribution on the collapse load is brought out. In beam-slab footings the optimum relative beam capacity required to make the beam rigid is indicated. Results of experimental investigations on footings resting on sand reveal that tapered (with isotropic as well as with alternative reinforcement patterns) and beam-slab footings exhibit superior structural behavior in terms of normalized first crack load, collapse load, relative rigidity, relative efficiency, and failure mechanism

Limit Analysis of Slabs with Free Edge

The general method earlier developed by the writers for obtaining valid lower bound solutions to slabs under uniformly distributed load and supported along all edges is extended to the slabs with a free edge. Lower bound solutions with normal moment criterion are presented for six cases of orthotropically reinforced slabs, with one of the short edges being free and the other three edges being any combination of fixed and simply supported conditions. The expressions for moment field and collapse load are given for each slab. The lower bounds have been compared with the corresponding upper bound values obtained from the yield line theory with simple straight yield line modes of failure. They are also compared with Nielsen’s solutions available for two cases with isotropic reinforcement