INSEE Cement, a leading Cement manufacturing industry in Sri
Lanka organizes INSEE-IESL Concrete Challenge for the 6th consecutive year
partnering with IESL, the apex
body for professional engineers in Sri Lanka.
Furthering its vision of
building brighter futures for Sri Lanka, this competition calls for innovative
concrete mix designs from the final year students of state engineering
universities; University of Moratuwa, Peradeniya, Ruhuna, Jaffna, South Eastern,
Jayawardanapura and Open University of Sri Lanka.
Among the objectives of the INSEE CONCRETE CHALLENGE, provision
of an exposure to work with concrete and, use of knowledge and thinking ability
to come up with solutions with the available resources are mainly focused.
This
also aids in imparting practical and theoretical knowledge for a required
design by fulfilling the cost and material optimization aspects.
The intra-university challenge for Civil Engineering students
of university of Moratuwa was successfully held on 17th and 18th
of August 2019 with the participation of 24 groups. This was organized by INSEE Company in
collaborating with Civil Engineering Society of University of Moratuwa.
Expanding
the limits of this vast opportunity, the applications were opened for level-2
students as well, gifting them an immense experience.
The event was organized with the supervision and assistance
of staff coordinator Dr. H.M.Y.C. Mallikarachchi and the instructor coordinators
Mr. Vishnu Punithavel and Ms. Sujeeka Nadarajah.
The competition was
held under a set of guidelines and restrictions.
The participants
were called by groups of five and they were supposed to submit a concrete mix
proposal including all the aggregates and their proportions that they expect to
be used. On 15th of August the competitors were organized a workshop
to have a basic idea on correct procedure in calculating constituents and the methodical
order in mixing them.
On 17th and 18th the groups were called to try out their proposals. The slump test and wet density test were done - cubes were casted and 7 days later, the cubes were tested for compressive strength.
The winners were selected following a specific selection
criterion, where points were allocated for low cost, optimum material usage and
test results of the tests underwent.
The best three groups were selected; the first winners were from
17’ batch while the second and third from 15’ batch. They will be representing University
of Moratuwa in INSEE Inter University Challenge – 2019. This experience with
countless memories and plenty more knowledge remarked a special page in Civil
Diary of all the participants.
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