CE-302 · Construction Materials/Official Syllabus
Construction Materials (CE-302) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Stones, Brick, Mortar and Concrete
- Stones :Occurrence
- Classification of Rocks
- varieties
- Characteristics and their testing
- uses
- quarrying and dressing of stones
- Deterioration of Stones
- Retardation of Decay of Stones
- Preservation of Stones
- Artificial Stones
- Brick : Manufacturing
- characteristics
- Classification and uses
- Improved brick from inferior soils
- Hand molding brick table
- Clay-fly ash brick table
- Concrete : Ingredients
- Grades of Concrete
- Concrete Production
- Special Concrete
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Unit 2
Timber ,Glass , Steel and Aluminium
- Timber: Important timbers
- their engineering properties and uses
- defects in timber
- seasoning and treatment
- need for wood substitutes
- Plywood
- Particle Board
- Fibre Board
- Applications of wood and wood products
- Plaster Boards
- Adhesives
- types of Gypsum Board and their uses
- Glass: What is glass
- Nature of Glass
- Structure of Glass
- Macro Molecular Structure
- Main Oxides in Glass
- Thermal and Optical Properties
- Effect of Coating
- Steel : Physical Properties of Structural Steel
- Grades of Steel
- Aluminium : Properties
- Forms
- Uses
- Advantages
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Unit 3
Flooring , Roofing ,Plumbing and Sanitary Material
- Flooring and Roofing tiles
- Types of Flooring – Marble, Kota stone , wood etc.
- Type of Roofing
- P.V.C. materials
- CI
- GI
- Asbestos pipe
- Stone ware pipes
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Unit 4
Paints, Enamels and Varnishes
- Composition of oil paint
- characteristic of an ideal paint
- preparation of paint
- covering power of paints
- Painting: Plastered surfaces
- painting wood surfaces
- painting metal Surfaces
- Defects
- Effect of weather
- enamels
- distemper
- water wash and colour wash
- Varnish
- French Polish
- Wax Polish
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Unit 5
Miscellaneous ConstructionMaterials
- Bitumen
- Tar and Asphalt their characteristics and uses
- Ultra Poly Vinyl chloride Pipes
- Thermal and sound insulating materials
- water proofing materials
Reference Books
- The science and Engineering of Materials — Donald R Askeland, Pradeep P Fulay, Wendelin J Wright — Cengage Learning
- Building Materials — S K Duggal — New Age International
- Building Materials — P C Vaghese — PHI Learning
- Engineering Materials — S.C. Rangwala — Charotar
- Concrete Technology — M S Shetty — S. Chand Technical
- Concrete Technology — A M Neville, J J Brooks — Prentice Hall
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