The B.Tech Civil Engineering curriculum’s cornerstone subject, Basic Civil Engineering & Mechanics, gives students a thorough knowledge of the core ideas and ideas in civil engineering. Students can use this course as a launching pad to explore more complex material and specialised fields of civil engineering. It lays the foundation for a prosperous career in civil engineering by covering important subjects relating to building materials, surveying, structural analysis, and mechanics.
1. Explain the essential theories and ideas of civil engineering to the class, focusing on the value of engineering principles in building and infrastructure development.
2. Gain a fundamental grasp of the characteristics and behaviour of building materials such concrete, steel, and wood, as well as their advantages and disadvantages in the construction of structures.
3. Educate students on surveying concepts and methods, such as topographic mapping, land measurements, and layout design, to help them precisely create project borders and contours.
4. Give students a practical understanding of structural analysis concepts so they may analyse and evaluate the stability and behaviour of diverse structural elements under varied loading circumstances.
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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
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.
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.
UNIT 4:
Forces and Equilibrium:
Graphical and Analytical Treatment of Concurrent and nonconcurrent 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:
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.
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
