Journal of the Association of Engineers, India

U. P. Mullick

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Standardisation of machines can help marketability through reduction in C. I. F. cost, by increasing handling and storage facilities, and labelling arrangement and through standardisation, designs, specifications and raw materials and processed materials quality in use in the machines and through standardisations and interchangeability, in power and performance.

Standardisation of Plants Units comprises 'Packaged' plants and conventional plants through similar process, crate sizes and control panel rationalisation and arrangements can also reduce the cost of plants, increase interchangeability of machine component and machine, and help saving foreign exchange.

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U. P. Mullick

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The dies used in these sections do not fall in the category of ordinary machine tools like, wrench Spanner, and other 'Tools box' tools for which an annual depreciation of 10% is allowable.

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U. P. Mullick

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Preamble :

To reduce building costs for middle and low income housing, slum replacement and industrial housing, experiments have been conducted in India covering last several years on methods of reducing construction costs, on different items like room size, height of rooms, nature, depth, width and thickness of foundation, thickness and nature of wallss, floors, size and nature of doors and windows, staircase, roofing, flooring ancilleries, etc. as well as on method of layout of blocks lengthwise, and height wise and in isolated units.

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U. P. Mullick ¹

Affiliations
1 Hope Johnstone & Son, Consulting Engineers, Calcutta, IN

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In view of the rising industrial productions, and increasing of sizes in administration and educational requirements and publication increases from year to year, manufacture of indigeneous papers of all kinds and news print papers assumed great importance in India.

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U. P. Mullick ¹

Affiliations
1 Hope Johnstone & Son, Calcutta, IN

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Prestressed concrete, or rather more properly, 'pre-compressed' Concrete, is a latest development of reinforced concrete. Under full working load in reinforced concrete structures, the concrete is fractured and its tensile zone does not contribute to the strength of the structure, its resistance to tension being only about 1/10th to 1/15th of that in compression. Further the elongation of the reinforcement, both for mild steel and for high tensile steel, when stressed to 18,000 lbs/sqin is 0.06% (e=t : Es=18×10³ : 30×10⁶=0.06%). The surrounding concrete cannot bear the strain, and long before this working load is reached, the concrete is fractured.

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U. P. Mullick ¹

Affiliations
1 Hope Johnstone & Son, Calcutta

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Industries in India were comparatively few in varieties prior to 1939. Only cotton, jute and to some extent steel predominated the field. The once exporter country with export surplus in early British period had during the British regime become a predominantly importer country, till World War II. The steel industry however found a foothold in the period of the World War I when the requirements of the Mesopotamian campaign helped to expand Tisco's business to some extent. But soon after the end of the World War I the business slumped with shrinking demand and severe competition of foreign steel.

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U. P. Mullick

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Since 1942 the building industry in India has suffered a heavy set back. The world war extending from 1939 to 1945 and the after-war inflationary period continuing well beyond the fifties, together with the Government of India's heavy programme of construction works under the 1st five year Plan under implementation have all contributed to a heavy curtailment of the building industry's activities in the private sector. Scarcity of important building constructional materials like, cement, mild steel rods and rolled steel joist sections, and scarcity and high prices of other building materials generally contributed to slowing down of building programmes, with the result that acute housing shortage is now being felt all over the country. The partition of India, and the heavy influx of refugees and evacuees into the Indian Union and the question of their proper resettlement, accommodation of workers, government servants, and the masses of the general public have together presented a formidable problem that requires proper tackling and careful thought.

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U. P. Mullick

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One of the special subjects under consideration of the United Nations Conference on Environmental Control is study of air pollution by sulphur in air and precipitation. The published report of the Swedish study presented to the Conference was presented in September, 1971. Great Britain and U. S. A. are also understood to be considering the possibility of starting similar investigations. It will be well if India follows suit, and takes such a study as well covering the India area.

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U. P. Mullick ¹

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1 India Society of Engineers, IN

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It is a great pleasure to welcome you all to this afternoon session (S-3) on ‘‘Engineering Equipment”, and I hope this distinguished gathering of engineers & technologists, with the help of your deep technical knowledge and experiences will make a success of the session.

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