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Important Information for Authors

UPDATE: 18 May 2020

Best Paper awards Announced

Day 1 FN

Paper ID 25:

Influence of Alkali resistant glass fiber on the reduction of plastic shrinkage cracking of self compacting concrete

Anju George, Abin Thomas C A (Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Mookkannoor)


Paper ID 35:

MODIFIED MAGNETIZIED WATER CONCRETE USING NANOSILICA

Punya Lal, Dr. Kavitha P. E (Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Mookkannoor)


Day 1 AN

Paper ID 86:

  • Analytical Study Of Timber-Concrete Composite (TCC) Beam Using Different Interlocking Joints

Sandra K.S, Reshmi P.R (Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering, Kadayiruppu)


Paper ID: 77

Experimental study of seismic response reduction effects on multi storey frames with particle damper

Athulya Vijay N Saji K P (Govt. College of Engineering, Kannur)


Day 2 FN

Paper ID: 199

Machine Learning Approach to Failure Mode Prediction of Reinforced Concrete Infilled Frames.

Ashish Manoj J, Asiya A, Dasari Navya, Ganeshkumar G, Robin Davis P (National Institute of Technology, Calicut)


Paper ID: 243

AHP model for performance improvement in LSGD projects

Ammu David, Shibi Varghese (Mar Athanasious College of Engineering, Kothamangalam)


Day 2 AN

Paper ID: 24

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON HYDROPHOBIC CONCRETE

Ahallya Raveendran, Jiji Antony (Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Mookkannoor)


Paper ID: 265

A Probabilistic Approach for Predicting the Fatigue life of concrete

Renju D R, Keerthy M Simon (NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad)

UPDATE: 11 May 2020

Instructions to Authors - Download pdf

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UPDATE: 28 April 2020

Trust you are keeping safe in this difficult time. Covid-19 has been unprecedented and has affected everyone across the world. We are thankful to you for your association with SECON 2020, despite the lock down.

The response to SECON 2020 has been really encouraging and the core committee of SECON has been trying to keep it live by working from home. The status of the papers has been sent as email to all corresponding authors.

Authors of accepted papers may please note the following:

Your paper shall be published subject to the following

  • The camera ready paper is submitted as per the instruction below on or before 5 May 2020.
  • The conference registration is completed online on or before 8 May 2020
  • The online payment of conference fee is successful
  • One of the authors makes the online presentation in the conference.


Authors may note the following points:


  1. Click here to submit the camera ready paper (.docx format) using the google form (not easy chair).
  2. While uploading the paper, the formatting must be strictly followed. The camera ready paper must be uploaded with all images in the docx format in the google form.
  3. All images must be separately uploaded in the google form. Ensure that the the image quality is minimum 300dpi
  4. Authors must ensure a low plagiarism score for your paper before uploading. Your paper will be rejected if the plagiarism score is high. It is preferred to use ithenticate and ensure that the score is less than 30%
  5. Please fill up the copyright form and upload it along with the camera ready paper. The copyright form should be signed and scanned.
  6. To register for the conference, please make the online payment of registration fee as applicable to you. A screenshot of the transaction details will be required for making the online registration. This is for tracking your payment.
  7. Registration link to the conference is now open.
  8. The last date for registration is 8 May 2020.


As informed earlier, the presentations will be conducted online using Google Meet. Ensure that you have the latest version of Google Chrome Browser Installed. The laptop should have a working camera and microphone. No other installation is required.

You will be given the slot for presentation ahead of the conference. The presentation schedule shall be shared shortly. Please include your phone number (whatsapp enabled) in the registration form. All information will be updated on the conference website, through corresponding author mail id and whatsapp group of authors.


You are welcome to attend any session other than your scheduled presentation as per the details made available on the conference website.



Dr. Kavitha P E, Convenor, SECON 2020


UPDATE: 3 April 2020

Trust you are keeping safe in this difficult time. Covid-19 has been unprecedented and has affected everyone across the world. We are thankful to you for your association with SECON 2020, despite the lock down.

The response to SECON 2020 has been really encouraging and the core committee of SECON has been trying to keep it live by working from home. The submissions and reviews have progressed well and hence we have decided to go ahead with the conference as per the initial plan.

Please note that presentations of SECON 2020 will be conducted in an online mode. The details of this will be informed to you in due course of time. Please find below a few important things for your information.


  1. There will not be any change in dates of SECON-2020. The conference will be conducted as planned on 14th and 15th May 2020.
  2. All abstract reviews (310 papers) have been completed and have been sent to corresponding authors.
  3. The reviewing process of full papers are underway and the corresponding authors will be notified on or before 20/4/2020 24/04/2020. You are required to make the corrections suggested by the reviewers and resubmit within a week.
  4. We are extending the full paper submission till 10/4/2020. However all authors are advised to submit the full paper as early as possible for the smooth conduct of the review process.
  5. Full papers which successfully complete the review process only will be considered for publication.
  6. Selected papers need to be submitted in the camera ready format along with the high quality figures and the copyright form duly filled by the corresponding author, on receiving the selection status of your paper.
  7. Authors can register for the conference after getting the final confirmation about your paper. Your final paper status will be informed through email. Registrations will close by 8/5/2020.
  8. Papers which are presented online only will be considered for publication.
  9. The paper will be considered for publication only if at least one of the corresponding authors register for the conference by paying the fee.
  10. Conference presentations and its reviews will be conducted online. The details will be informed to you through email.

Please contact us for any clarifications and doubts.Thank you for associating with SECON2020


Dr. Kavitha P E, Convenor, SECON 2020