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1 CT 501: CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY L T P : Credits : Roads classification, Geometrical features of roads, Construction of WBM, Black top and concrete pavements including grade and base courses. Equipments used for road construction, features of hilly roads. 2. Railways - Components of Railway tracks, Construction and Maintenance of tracks. 3. Bridge and Culverts - Types of bridges/culverts, criteria for selection of sites, Construction and maintenance of bridges/culverts. 4. Hydraulic Structures - Construction details of dam, construction details of canals/other hydraulic structures. 1. Highway Engineering, S K Khanna and C E G Justo, Nem Chand and Brothers, Roorkee, India, A Text Book of Railway Engineering, Arora & Saxena, Dhanpat Rai and Sons, New Delhi, Elements of Bridge Engineering, J Victor, Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, Irrigation Engineering & Hydraulic Structures, S.K. Garg, Khanna Publishers, Delhi, Text Book of Railway Engineering, B.L. Gupta, Standard Publishers, New Delhi

2 CT- 502: CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY L T P : Credits : Concrete: Importance, Production of concrete, operations involved, grades, Ingredients, yield of concrete. 2. Aggregates: Objectives, Classification, Characteristics and properties of aggregates; Cement: Objective, Composition, Varieties and respective advantages; Water: Quality, Mixing and Curing. 3. Properties of green and hardened concrete, Rheology and mix proportioning. 4. Admixtures: Objective, Types of admixture and compounds; Quality Control - Influencing Parameters, advantages, measure of variability and Statistical Quality Control. 5. Special Concrete - Ferro-Cement, Polymer Concrete Composites, lightweight & fibre reinforced concrete, Gunniting. 1. Concrete Technology, M L Gambhir, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, Concrete Technology, M S Shetty, S. Chand & Company, New Delhi, Concrete Manual: Laboratory Testing for Quality Control of Concrete, M L Gambhir, Dhanpat Rai & Sons, New Delhi, Concrete for Construction, V K Raina, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, Properties of Concrete, A. M. Neville, Longman, ELBS, London, IS: , B I S.

3 CT-503: GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 4 0 2: Formation and structure of soil: Introduction, formation of soil, general types of soil, structure of soil, soil particle size and shape, specific surface, composition of clay mineral, atoms and atomic bonds, structure of clay minerals, clay particle water relationship, soil mass structure. 2. Soil phase relationship: Introduction, mass volume relationship, weight volume relationship, determination of specific gravity and water content. 3. Index properties of soil: Introduction, shape and size of particles, determination of grain size distribution of soil. Sieve analysis, density index of cohesionless soil, consistency of clay soil. 4. Classification of soil: Introduction, the Unified soil classification system, AASHTO soil classification system, Indian standard soil classification system, application of soil classification. 5. Soil compaction: Introduction, factors affecting compaction, structure and engineering behavior of compacted cohesive soil. 6. Effective stress, capillary and permeability:introduction, principle of effective stress, capillarity in soil, permeability of soil,darcy s law, methods of determination of coefficients of permeability of soil, quick sand condition. 7. Seepage through soil: Introduction, flow net construction, determination of quantity of seepage, determination of seepage pressure, determination of uplift pressure, piping failure. 8. Compressibility of soil and consolidation: Introduction, components of total settlement, compressibility, time rate of consolidation, consolidation test and computation of settlement. 9. Shear strength of soil: Introduction, Mohrcircle of stress, Mohr Coulomb failure theory, measurement of shear strength, shear strength of cohesive and non cohesive soil. Reference 1. Principles of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, V.N.S. Murthy, UBSPD, New Delhi, Soil Engineering, Part I : Fundamentals & General Principles, Allam Singh & G.R. Chowdhary, C.B.S, New Delhi, Fundamentals of Geotechnical Engineering, B.M. Das, Brookes & Cole Publications, London, 1998.

4 CT-504: DESIGN OF RCC STRUCTURES L T P : Credits : 4 1. Introduction of Design Concepts; Working Stress Method of Design, Design of Rectangular and Flanged Beams for Flexure (singly and doubly reinforced). 2. Design of rectangular and flanges beams for bond, shear and torsion. 3. One-way, Two Way and Continuous slabs. 4. Axially and Eccentrically Loaded Short Columns; axially and eccentrically loaded long columns; Isolated Footings. 5. Limit State Method of Design for flexure, shear, torsion and compression. 1. Reinforced Concrete Design, S.N. Sinha, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, Design of RCC Structures, M L Gambhir, Macmillan India Ltd, Delhi, Reinforced Concrete, S.K. Mallick & A P Gupta, Oxford & IBH, New Delhi, Reinforced Concrete, Behaviour, Analysis and Design, P. Purushothaman, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, RCC Structures, B C Punmia, Ashok K Jain, and Arun K Jain, Laxmi Publications, Delhi, 1992.

5 CT-505: TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING 4 0 2: 05

6 CT-506: ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING L T P : Credit : 3 1. Introduction, estimation of quantity of water, per capita demand, designs period, population forecasting. 2. Sources of water and their suitability with regard to quality & quantity, storage capacity of reservoirs, water quality parameters, standards. 3. Treatment of water- screenings, sedimentation, coagulation and flocculation, filtration & disinfection, distribution system, methods of water supply and storage. 4. Sewerage system, estimation of quantity of sewage, dry weather flow (DWF), wet weather flow (WWF), variation in flows, Nomograms, hydraulic design of sewers, pumping of sewage. 1. Wastewater Engineering: Treatment, Disposal and Reuse, Metcalf & Eddy, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, Environmental Engineering Vol. I: Water Supply Engineering, S.K. Garg, Khanna Publications, Delhi, Environmental Engineering Vol II: Sewage Disposal and Air Pollution Engineering, S.K. Garg, Khanna Publications, Delhi, Water Supply & Sanitary Engineering, G.S. Birdi and J.S. Birdi, Dhanpat Rai Publishing Co., New Delhi, Environmental Engineering, Peavy, Tachobanoglous & Rowe, McGraw Hill International, N.Y., 1985.

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