TITLE OF THE SEMINAR

SEMINAR REPORT

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Diploma in

Civil Engineering under the Department of Technical Education, Government of
Kerala

by

NAME OF THE STUDENT

(Register Number)

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

CENTRAL POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
2022
 DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
CENTRAL POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
2022

Certificate

This is to certify that the Seminar Report entitled “Title of the

Seminar” is a bonafide record of the work done by Name of student
(Register No: 11 408 001) during the academic year 2022-23 under our
guidance and supervision towards the partial fulfilment of the
requirements for the award of Diploma in Civil Engineering under
the Department of Technical Education, Government of Kerala.

Guided by Head of the Department

Ms. Vinduja Vijayan Ms. Rajalekshmi G. R.

Lecturer in Civil Engineering Head of the Department
Dept. of Civil Engineering Dept. of Civil Engineering
CPTC, Trivandrum CPTC, Trivandrum
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I hereby express our sincere thanks to ……………………………………………….

(Enter all your acknowledgements here. Maximum one page.)

Name of student
 ABSTRACT
An abstract of your entire work should be provided here. Maximum of one page.
 CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES i

LIST OF TABLES ii

1. INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Floating Offshore Plateforms 1

1.1.1 Concepts of floating offshore platforms 1

1.1.2 Different types of 2

1.1.3 Response to waves 3

1.2 DEEP WATER MOORING LINES 5

2. CHAPTER 2 6

3. CHAPTER 3 8

4. CHAPTER 4 25

4.1 Subheading 26

4.1.1. Sub sections 26

4.2. Subheading 27

8. CONCLUSIONS 31

REFERENCES 35
LIST OF FIGURES

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LIST OF TABLES

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 1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 General
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1.1.1 Sub Heading
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 DIPLOMA SEMINAR GUIDELINES

General instructions
1. Binding : Soft bound (white colour)
2. Printing : Only on one side
3. Margin : left : 1. 5”
Right : 1”
Top : 1”
Bottom: 1”
4. Font : Times New Roman
5. Font Size : 12pt.
6. Spacing : 1.5 lines
7. Paragraph : Justified (without tab space for first line)
8. Page number: Bottom right alinged. The preliminary pages are numbered in roman
numerals (i, ii, etc). The first page of the Chapter 1 onwards shall be numbered in Arabic
numerals (1, 2, 3, etc).
9. Header : Right aligned - title of seminar (10pt) with bottom line ½ thick.
10. Footer : Left aligned - (Department of Civil Engineering, CPTC, TVM(10
pt.)) with top line ½ thick.
• Formats shall be strictly followed. To get the font details, open the format in MS
word 2003 or above.
11. Sequence of contents
The material should be placed and bound in following order:
Covering page
Certificate
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
……………
Conclusions
References
Tables and Figures shall be introduced at the appropriate places.
12. Acknowledgements
Acknowledgement is only a method to record the help and guidance received from
different persons. The wording shall be formal rather than flowery.
1.5 line spacing, 12 font size, Times New Roman (NOT bold).
13. Abstract
Abstract shall be a one page synopsis of the seminar work.
1.5 line spacing, 12 font size, Times New Roman.
14. Contents
The contents should list the chapter headings, sections and subsections of the different
chapters along with page numbers of each. The title ‘CONTENTS’ should be in caps,
bold, 14pt and centered.
15. Nomenclature
Listing of symbols and abbreviations shall be in the order : small, Caps, Greek letters.
Standard symbols and abbreviations shall be shown:
1.5 line spacing, 12 font size, Times New Roman.
16. List of figures and tables
It should indicate the number and captions of the figures and tables with page numbers.
The title ‘list of figures’ and ‘list of tables’ should be centered, bold, 14pt and in upper
case.
17. Numbering sections, subsections, equations, figures etc.
Suggested font sizes in report are given in the table below.

Details Font type Font size Alignment

Facing page Times New Roman Exactly follow the format given in the sample page

Chapter headings
14pt Bold
with chapter Times New Roman Centered
Upper Case
number on top
12pt Bold
Section headings Times New Roman Title Case Left justified
Subsection 12pt. Bold
headings Times New Roman Italics Title case Left justified
Adjusted on both left and
right and with 1.5 spacing for
text and double spacing for
Body of seminar Times New Roman 12 pt
equations. Spacing between
the paragraphs should be 6pt.
Use decimal numbering in the seminar report. If the chapter number is 2, the section
numbers will be 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 etc. The subsections in section 2.2 will be numbered as
2.2.1, 2.2.2 etc. Unless essential, it is not necessary to use numbers to lower levels than
three stages. Headings of paragraphs below the subsections may be bold faced and in
sentence case.
 Similarly, it is useful and convenient to number the figures also chapter-wise. The figures
in chapter 4 will be numbered Fig. 4.1, Fig. 4.2 etc. This helps you in assembling the
figures and putting it in proper order. Similarly, the tables are also numbered as Table
4.1, Table 4.2 etc. All figures and tables should have proper captions. Usually the figure
captions are written below the figure and table title on top of the table without any space
between the fig./table and the text.
Heading of tables and figures should be 12 font size, Bold, Sentence case, Times New
Roman.
Number consecutively any equations that have to be displayed separately from the text.
Centralize the equations and right justify the equation numbers. For example, the first
equation in chapter 3 shall be written as:
𝜕 𝜕𝜑 𝜕 𝜕𝜑
(𝑘 𝜕𝑥 ) + (𝑘 𝜕𝑦 ) + Q = 0 (3.1)
𝜕𝑥 𝜕𝑦

It shall be referred in the text as Eqn. (3.1).

Chapters should not end with a figure or a table.

18. References
References (Journals, Books and Conference Papers) shall be numbered in the order in
which they are referred to in the body of the report. They should be numbered as [1], [2],
[3] etc in the order in which they are referred to in the body of the report.
References to journal papers shall contain the Author(s), title of the paper, name of the
journal, volume number, issue number, particular pages (pp) and year of publication. If
there are more than three authors, it is enough to mention the name of the first author
followed by et.al
Conference papers shall mention the Author(s), title of the paper, name of the conference,
place where the conference was held, Date, month and year of the conference along with
the page numbers of the paper in Sthe proceedings of the conference.
References to books shall contain the Author(s), chapter title, title of the book, name of
the publisher, edition, year of publication and ISBN Number, if available.
For the listing of references in the ‘References’ section follow the conventions in
journals, as noted below.
Examples from ASCE referencing method is given below. Slight changes are made
in the formatting for a better appearance.
Journal References

Include year, volume, issue, and page numbers.

Stahl, D. C., Wolfe, R. W., and Begel, M. (2004). “Improved Analysis of Timber Rivet
Connections”, Journal of Structural Engineering, 130(8), pp.1272-1279.

Conference Proceedings and Symposiums

Include the publisher of the proceedings, and that entity’s location—city and state or city and
country. Only include the sponsor of the conference if it is part of the title of proceedings. If
there is no “publisher”, then the name and location of the sponsor are required.
Garrett, D. L. (2003). “Coupled Analysis of Floating Production Systems”, Proceedings of
International Symposium on Deep Mooring Systems, ASCE, Reston, VA, pp.152-167.

Books

Include author, book title, publisher, the publisher’s location, and chapter title and inclusive
page numbers (if a whole book is used, or pages here and there throughout, page numbers
need not be given). If no author is listed, alphabetize the entry by book title.

Zadeh, L. A. (1981). “Possibility Theory and Soft Data Analysis.” Mathematical Frontiers of
the Social and Policy Sciences, L. Cobb and R. M. Thrall, eds., Westview, Boulder, CO, 69-
129.

Reports

Same as for books, as above. For reports authored by institutions: spell out institution
acronym on first use, and follow with acronym in parentheses, if applicable. If subsequent
references were also authored by that same institution, use only the acronym. For reports
authored by persons, include the full institution name—no acronym—and its location.

Unpublished Material

Unpublished material is not included in the references but may be cited in the text as follows:
(John Smith, personal communication, May 16, 1983) or (J. Smith, unpublished internal
report, February 2003).

In Press Articles

As an exception to the “Unpublished Material” section above, in press articles (i.e., those that
have been accepted but have not yet been published) may be included in the references as
follows:

Dasgupta, G. (2008). “Stiffness Matrix from Isoparametric Closed Form Shape Functions
Using Exact Integration.” Journal of Aerospace Engineering, In press.

In press articles should be updated to include the actual publication information whenever
possible.

Web Pages

Include author, year of publication or last revision, title of “page,” title of the complete work,
Web address enclosed within angle brackets, and date in which the was material downloaded.

Burka, L. P. (1993). “A Hypertext History of Multi-user Dimensions.” MUD history,

<http://www.ccs.neu.edu> (Downloaded on Dec. 5, 1994).

CD-ROM

Include authors, copyright date, titles, medium, producer/publisher and its location, and
section, chapter, and page numbers if available.
Liggett, J. A. et al. (1998). “Fluid Statics”, Fluid Mechanics (CD-ROM), ASCE, Reston, VA,
Section 3.1, Chapter 2, pp.167-177.

(Above example et al. is used as there are more than three authors)

Thesis and dissertations

Include authors, copyright date, title, and the name and location of the institution where the
research was conducted. Note that some institutions use specific terminology; for example,
"doctoral dissertation" rather than "Ph.D. thesis".

Sotiropulos, S. N. (1991). "Statis Response of Bridge Superstructures Made of Fiber

Reinforced Plastic." M.S. thesis, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV.

19. Number of Copies: 2 copies – One personal copy and one for the department. (Guide’s
copy is optional subjected to the guide’s choice)
20. Total number of pages : 25 to 30 (Not compulsory, just a guideline)
21. Submission : The rough copy of the seminar report in the above format,
duly signed by guide and HOD should be submitted to the coordinator at least Two days
in advance of their presentation. Submission date of the fair copy shall be intimated
later.

For any further clarifications please contact,

Guide

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