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BT-204 · Basic Civil Engineering & Mechanics/Official Syllabus

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

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Unit 1

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
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Unit 2

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
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Unit 3

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
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Unit 4

Forces and Equilibrium

  • 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
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Unit 5

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

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.

Reference Books

  • Basic Civil Engineering — S. Ramamrutam, R.Narayanan — Dhanpat Rai Pub.
  • Applied Mechanics — Prasad I.B. — Khanna Publication
  • Surveying — Punmia, B.C. — Standard book depot
  • Elements of Civil Engg & Engg. Mechanics — Shesha Prakash, Mogaveer — PHI
  • Mechanics of stricture — S.P,Timoshenko — East West press Pvt.Ltd.
  • Surveying — Duggal — Tata McGraw Hill New Delhi
  • Building Construction — S.C. Rangwala — Charotar publications House, Anand
  • Building Construction — Grucharan Singh — Standard Book House, New Delhi
  • Global Positioning System Principles and application — Gopi — TMH
  • Engineering Mechanics: Statics & Dynamics — R.C. Hibbler
  • Engineering Mechines- statics dynamics — A. Boresi, Schmidt — Thomson’ Books
  • Engineering Mechanics — R.K. Rajput — S.Chand & Co.
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