Basic Civil Engineering & Mechanics (BT-204) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

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 2

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 3

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

Unit 4

Graphical and Analytical Treatment of Concurrent and non- concurrent 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 5

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

Laboratory Experiments

To perform traverse surveying with prismatic compass, check for local attraction and determine corrected bearings and to balance the traverse by Bowditch’s rule.
To perform leveling exercise by height of instrument of Rise and fall method.
To measure horizontal and vertical angles in the field by using Theodolite.
To determine (a) normal consistency (b) Initial and Final Setting time of a cement Sample.
To determine the workability of fresh concrete of given proportions by slump test or compaction factor test.
To determine the Compressive Strength of brick.
To determine particle size distribution and fineness modulus of course and fine Aggregate.
To verify the law of Triangle of forces and Lami’s theorem.
To verify the law of parallelogram of forces.
To verify law of polygon of forces
To find the support reactions of a given truss and verify analytically.
To determine support reaction and shear force at a given section of a simply Supported beam and verify in analytically using parallel beam apparatus.
To determine the moment of inertia of fly wheel by falling weight method.
To verify bending moment at a given section of a simply supported beam.

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