ELEMENTS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
Theory 3 Hours / Week
Theory Exam 100 Marks
Term Work 50 Marks
1. Civil Engineering Material and Building Planning: Study of the properties, Uses of the
following engineering materials (I) Bricks, (ii) Stones, (Hi) Natural Aggregate and Artificial
Aggregate, (IV) Cement, (v) Mortar, (VI) Concrete and (vii) Steel. Site selection, principles of
planning, plinth area, carpet area; floor space index, cost of building and building byelaws.
2. Building and Road Construction:
a) Building Construction: Loads coming on structure, types of structure, load bearing structure
and framed structure. Function and Construction of the following elements:
i) Building Foundation: Isolated column footing, combined" footing cantilever or strap footing,
mat or Raft Foundation, Machine Foundation (2 hours).
ii) Building Superstructure: a) Masonry in superstructure and foundation in bricks and rubble,
English and Flemish bond of one and half brick wall, construction and precautions to, be taken
in brick masonry, coursed and uncaused rubble masonry, (3 hours).
iii) Lintels, RCC lintels, cast ill site and precast. (1 hours).
iv) Doors and windows, definitions and technical terms. Study of doors and windows in public
and residential building of following types battened, (edged and braced door, Paneled door and
flush door, paneled windows and glazed window, steel windows, Aluminum windows.
v) Stairs: Definitions of technical' terms. Different types of stairs used in residential 3nd public
building thumb rules for rise and tread relation. (2 hours).
vi) Floors: different types of floors used in residential, public and industrial building, tiled and
R.C.C. flooring. (2 hours).
vii) Plastering and painting: objectives and requirements, methods of plastering with cement
mortar, listing of various types of paints, painting of plastered surface door5 and grills.
viii) Flat R.C.C. Roof (1 hours).
b) Road Construction: Classification of roads, Rigid and flexible pavements, Typical Road
section, Camber Function of Camber.
1. Earthquake Engineering: Causes of earthquake. Changes in earth crust during earthquake,
technical terms related with earthquake such as focus. Epicenter, magnitude, intensity and
seismograph. Factors affecting damage, consideration of earthquake forces in design, General
construction aspects. Precautions to be taken during occurrence of an earthquake. (4 hours).
2. Elementary Surveying: a) Length measurement- Introduction, different instruments used for
length measurement, 20 m. chain, metallic tape. Ranging a line. B} Angular measurement - Use
of Prismatic compass, measurement of bearing and simple problems. c) Level measurement -
Definitions, study and use of Dumpy level, calculation of reduced levels using plane of
collimation- method Simple problems. (7 hours).
3. Water supply and Drainage: Water demand, introduction to treatment unit disinfection of
water, Population forecasting methods, Arithmetic 'increasing method. Geometrical increase
method, incremental increase method, simple problems, Drainage of water from building
construction of septic tank and soak pits. (4 hours).
4. Irrigation Engineering: Necessity, multipurpose irrigation projects benefit, typical section of
earthen and gravity dam. Introduction of Water Shed Management, building, roof top rainwater
harvesting. (3 hours).
Term work: Term work shall consist of sketches on 1/4 imperial size sheets. (Minimum 15
1 Foundation types 1 Sketch
2 Stone masonry 1 Sketch
3 Brick masonry 2 Sketches
4 Doors 2 Sketches
5 Windows 2 Sketches
6 Stairs 2 Sketches
7 Floors 2 Sketches
8 Roofs 2 Sketches
9 Machine Foundation 1 Sketch
10 Section through wall 1 Sketch
11 Flow Diagram of conventional Water & Waste water &
12 Section of dams 1 Sketch
13 Chair and compass survey 1 Sketch
14 Practical use of dumpy level 1 Sketch
List of Text Books:
1 Building and Construction Arora S. P. and Bindra S. P.
2 Highway Engineering Justo and Khanna
3 Elementary Seismology Richter C. F.
4 Surveying and leveling Duggal A. K.
5 Water Supply and Sanitary Engineering Birdi
6 Irrigation Engineering and Hydraulic Structures Garg S. K.
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