Unit I
Building
Materials & Construction
Stones, bricks, cement, lime,
timber-types, properties, test & uses, laboratory tests concrete
and mortar Materials:
Workability, Strength properties of Concrete, Nominal proportion of
Concrete preparation of concrete,
compaction, curing.
Elements of Building
Construction, Foundations conventional spread footings, RCC footings,
brick masonry walls, plastering
and pointing, floors, roofs, Doors, windows, lintels,
staircases – types and their
suitability
Unit – II
Surveying & Positioning:
Introduction to surveying
Instruments – levels, thedolites, plane tables and related devices.
Electronic surveying instruments
etc. Measurement of distances – conventional and EDM
methods, measurement of
directions by different methods, measurement of elevations by
different methods. Reciprocal
leveling.
Unit –III
Mapping & Sensing:
Mapping details and contouring,
Profile Cross sectioning and measurement of areas,
volumes, application of
measurements in quantity computations, Survey stations,
Introduction of remote sensing
and its applications.
Engineering
Mechanics
Unit - IV
Forces and Equilibrium: Graphical
and Analytical Treatment of Concurrent and nonconcurrent
Co- planner forces, free Diagram,
Force Diagram and Bow’s notations,
Application of Equilibrium
Concepts: Analysis of plane Trusses: Method of joints, Method
of Sections. Frictional force in
equilibrium problems
Unit – V
Centre of Gravity and moment of
Inertia: Centroid and Centre of Gravity, Moment Inertia of
Area and Mass, Radius of
Gyration, Introduction to product of Inertia and Principle Axes.
Support Reactions, Shear force
and bending moment Diagram for Cantilever & simply
supported beam with concentrated, distributed load
and Couple.
Reference Books:
1. S. Ramamrutam &
R.Narayanan; Basic Civil Engineering, Dhanpat Rai Pub.
2. Prasad I.B., Applied
Mechanics, Khanna Publication.
3. Punmia, B.C., Surveying,
Standard book depot.
4. Shesha Prakash and Mogaveer;
Elements of Civil Engg & Engg. Mechanics; PHI
5. S.P,Timoshenko, Mechanics of
stricture, East West press Pvt.Ltd.
6. Surveying by Duggal – Tata
McGraw Hill New Delhi.
7. Building Construction by S.C.
Rangwala- Charotar publications House, Anand.
8. Building Construction by
Grucharan Singh- Standard Book House, New Delhi
9. Global Positioning System
Principles and application- Gopi, TMH
10. R.C. Hibbler – Engineering
Mechanics: Statics & Dynamics.
11. A. Boresi & Schmidt-
Engineering Mechines- statics dynamics, Thomson’ Books
12. R.K. Rajput, Engineering
Mechanics S.Chand & Co.
List of
suggestive core Experiments:
Students are expected to perform
minimum ten experiments from the list suggested
below by preferably selecting
experiments from each unit of syllabus.
1. To perform traverse surveying
with prismatic compass, check for local attraction and
determine corrected bearings and
to balance the traverse by Bowditch’s rule.
2. To perform leveling exercise
by height of instrument of Rise and fall method.
3. To measure horizontal and
vertical angles in the field by using Theodolite.
4. To determine (a) normal
consistency (b) Initial and Final Setting time of a cement
Sample.
5. To determine the workability
of fresh concrete of given proportions by slump test or
compaction factor test.
6. To determine the Compressive
Strength of brick .
7. To determine particle size
distribution and fineness modulus of course and fine
Aggregate.
8. To verify the law of Triangle
of forces and Lami’s theorem.
9. To verify the law of
parallelogram of forces.
10. To verify law of polygon of
forces
11. To find the support reactions
of a given truss and verify analytically.
12. To determine support reaction
and shear force at a given section of a simply
Supported beam and verify in
analytically using parallel beam apparatus.
13. To determine the moment of
inertia of fly wheel by falling weight method.
14. To verify bending moment at a given section of a
simply supported beam.
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