Civil Engineering — 6th Semester Syllabus

Unit 1.0: Introduction to Energy Science

Scientific Principles And Historical Interpretation To Place Energy Use In The Context Of Pressing Societal • Environmental And Climate Issues • Introduction To Energy Systems And Resources • Introduction To Energy • Sustainability & The Environment

Unit 2.0: Energy Sources

Overview Of Energy Systems • Sources • Transformations • Efficiency • And Storage • Fossil Fuels (coal • Oil • Oil-bearing Shale And Sands • Coal Gasification) Past • Present & Future • Remedies & Alternatives For Fossil Fuels Biomass • Wind • Solar • Nuclear • Wave • Tidal And Hydrogen • Sustainability And Environmental Trade-offs Of Different Energy Systems • Possibilities For Energy Storage Or Regeneration (Ex. Pumped Storage Hydro Power Projects • Superconductor-based Energy Storages • High Efficiency Batteries)

Unit 3.0: Energy & Environment

Energy Efficiency And Conservation • Introduction To Clean Energy Technologies And Its Importance In Sustainable Development • Carbon Footprint • Energy Consumption And Sustainability • Introduction To The Economics Of Energy • How The Economic System Determines Production And Consumption • Linkages Between Economic And Environmental Outcomes • How Future Energy Use Can Be Influenced By Economic • Environmental • Trade • And Research Policy

Unit 4.0: Civil Engineering Projects Connected With the Energy Sources

Coal Mining Technologies • Oil Exploration Offshore Platforms • Underground And Under-sea Oil Pipelines • Solar Chimney Project • Wave Energy Caissons • Coastal Installations For Tidal Power • Wind Mill Towers • Hydro Power Stations Above-ground And Underground Along With Associated Dams • Tunnels • Penstocks • Etc

Unit 5.0: Nuclear Reactor Containment Buildings

Nuclear Reactor Containment Buildings And Associated Buildings • Design And Construction Constraints And Testing Procedures For Reactor Containment Buildings • Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage And Disposal Systems

Unit 6.0: Engineering for Energy Conservation

Concept Of Green Building And Green Architecture • Green Building Concepts (Green Building Encompasses Everything From The Choice Of Building Materials To Where A Building Is Located • How It Is Designed And Operated) • LEED Ratings • Identification Of Energy Related Enterprises That Represent The Breath Of The Industry And Prioritizing These As Candidates • Embodied Energy Analysis And Use As A Tool For Measuring Sustainability • Energy Audit Of Facilities And Optimization Of Energy Consumption

Unit 1.0: Definition of Productivity

Definition Of Productivity • Impact Of Productivities On Construction Duration And Costs

Unit 2.0: Measuring Productivities of Construction Equipment, Staff and Labour

Measuring Productivities Of Construction Equipment • Staff And Labour And Typical Benchmarks For The Same

Unit 3.0: Productivity Analysis from Daily Progress Reports

Productivity Analysis From Daily Progress Reports • Lean Construction Concepts Of Value Adding Activities • Non-value Adding Activities And Non-value Adding But Necessary Activities

Unit 4.0: Productivity Measurements by Special Lean Construction-oriented Field Methods

Productivity Measurements By Special Lean Construction-oriented Field Methods Such As Work Sampling • Takt Time Analysis • Foreman Delay Surveys

Unit 5.0: Productivity Improvement Measures

Productivity Improvement Measures Such As Value Stream Mapping • Location Based Management Systems • Good Housekeeping • Etc

Unit 6.0: Use of Specialist Software for Productivity Studies

Use Of Specialist Software Such As Vico For Productivity Studies

Unit 1.0: Introduction to the Concepts and Applications of Environmental Systems Analysis

Introduction To The Concepts And Applications Of Environmental Systems Analysis

Unit 2.0: Application of Mathematical Programming and Modeling

Application Of Mathematical Programming And Modeling To The Design • Planning And Management Of Engineered Environmental Systems • Regional Environmental Systems • And Environmental Policy

Unit 3.0: Economic Analysis

Economic Analysis • Including Benefit-cost Analysis And Management Strategies

Unit 4.0: Concepts of Tradeoff

Concepts Of Tradeoff • Non- Inferior Sets • Single And Multi-objective Optimization

Unit 5.0: Practical Application to Case Studies

Practical Application To Case Studies To Convey An Understanding Of The Complexity Of Actual Design Practice

Unit 6.0: Practical Application to Case Studies

Practical Application To Case Studies To Convey An Understanding Of Data Collection Challenges Of Actual Design Practice

Unit 1.0: Design & Maintenance of Canals

Design Of Canal Based On Tractive Force Approach • Maintenance Of Unlined Channels (Based On IS 4839 – 1979 Part – I) • Maintenance Of Lined Channels (Based On IS 4339 – 1979 Part – II)

Unit 2.0: Design of Canal Outlets, Canal Headworks

Design Of Canal Outlets • Canal Headworks Selection Of Site For Storage & Diversion Head Works Weir Or Barrages • Divide Wall • Scouring Sluice Or Under Sluices • Fish Ladder

Unit 3.0: Dams

Dams Gravity Dams • Earth & Rock Fill Dams • Buttress Dams & Arch Dams • Spillways & Outlet Works

Unit 4.0: Canal Regulation Works

Canal Regulation Works Head Regulator • Distributary Head Regulator • Cross Regulators Necessity Of Channel Falls • Types Of Falls & Design Of Vertical Drop Fall/Sharda Type Falls

Unit 5.0: Cross – Drainage Works

Cross – Drainage Works Types Of C – D Works Aqueducts • Siphon Aqueducts • Super Passages • Siphon Super Passages • Level Crossings • Inlet & Outlet • Fluming Of Channels & Design Of Channel Transitions

Unit 6.0: An Introduction to River Basis Development

An Introduction To River Basis Development

Unit 1.0: Role of Reliability in Civil Engineering

Role Of Reliability In Civil Engineering • Historical Background • Random Events • Random Variables • Model Uncertainty

Unit 2.0: Common Probabilistic Models

Common Probabilistic Models • Important Statistical Parameters And Their Estimations • Normal • Lognormal • Extreme Value Distribution

Unit 3.0: Fundamental Concept of Structural Reliability

Fundamental Concept Of Structural Reliability • Derivation Of Stress-strength Interface Equation • Graphical Representation • Cornell Reliability Index • Reliability And Failure Probability Computations For Simple Linear Functions

Unit 4.0: Second Moment Concepts

Second Moment Concepts • First Order Second Moment Theory • Hasofer-lind Transformation • Linear And Non-linear Limit State Functions • Solution Schemes • Geometric Interpretation Of Solution Scheme • Rackwitz-fiessler Transformation

Unit 5.0: First Order Reliability Method

First Order Reliability Method • Stochastic Models For Material Strength And Loads

Unit 6.0: Reliability Assessment

Reliability Assessment Of Structural Component And Simple Civil Engineering Structures

Unit 1.0: Influence of Constituent Materials

Examines The Influence Of Constituent Materials (cements • Aggregates And Admixtures) On The Properties Of Fresh And Hardened Concrete

Unit 2.0: Recycled Aggregates

Recycled Aggregates Recovered From Construction And Demolition Wastes • M-sand • Light-weight Aggregates

Unit 3.0: Use of Fly Ash and Fibre-reinforced Concrete

Use Of Fly Ash In Concrete • Fibre-reinforced Concrete With Various Types Of Metallic And Nonmetallic Fibres

Unit 4.0: Various Types of Concrete

Various Types Of Concrete Such As Self Compacting Concrete • High Performance Concrete • Etc • Mix Design • Handling And Placement Of Concrete

Unit 5.0: Effect of Re Vibration of Concrete

Effect Of Re Vibration Of Concrete

Unit 6.0: Behavior of Concrete Under Various Types of Loading and Environment

Behavior Of Concrete Under Various Types Of Loading And Environment • Test Methods

Unit 1.0: Basic Introductory Concepts

Basic Introductory Concepts Structural Systems • Elements • Joints • Stability • Equilibrium • Compatibility • Indeterminacy • Types Of Loading

Unit 2.0: Force-displacement Relation

Force-displacement Relation • Free-body Diagrams • Analysis Of Forces In Statically Determinate Structures Trusses (including Compound And Complex Trusses) • Beams And Frames (including Internal Hinges) • Cables And Three Hinged

Unit 3.0: Stability of Walled Structures

Stability Of Walled Structures

Unit 4.0: Influence Lines for Beams and Trusses

Influence Lines For Beams And Trusses Under Moving Loads • Criteria For Maxima

Unit 5.0: Work and Energy Principles

Work And Energy Principles Principle Of Virtual Work • Potential Energy And Clastingliano's Theorems • Complementary Energy Theorems • Reciprocal Theorems And Mueller Breslau's Principle With Applications

Unit 6.0: In Statically Determinate Structures

In Statically Determinate Structures Unit (dummy) Load And Energy Methods • Moment Area And Conjugate Beam Methods • Williot-mohr Diagrams • Introduction To Matrix Methods For Determinate Structures Flexibility & Stiffness Methods

Unit 1.0: Introduction, Origin and Classification of Soils

Introduction • Origin And Classification Of Soils • Soil Weight Volume Relationships • Index Properties Of Soil • Soil Structures And Clay Minerals

Unit 2.0: Effective Stress Principle

Effective Stress Principle • Surface Tension And Capillarity • Permeability Of Soils • Darcy's Law • Test For Determination Of Permeability • Engineering Use Of Permeability • Factors Affecting Permeability

Unit 3.0: Seepage Analysis

Seepage Analysis • Flow Nets • Flow Through Dams

Unit 4.0: Effective Stress Distribution in Soils

Effective Stress Distribution In Soils Under Hydrodynamic Conditions • Quick Sand • Piping • Prevention Of Piping Failures • Compressibility And Consolidation Consolidation Process Spring Analogy • Definition • Measurement Of Consolidations Determination Of Void Ratio At Various Load Increments • Terzaghi's Theory Of One Dimensional Consolidation • Determination Of Coefficient Of Consolidation • Analysis Of Consolidation Data

Unit 5.0: Vertical Stress Below Applied Load in Soils

Vertical Stress Below Applied Load In Soils (Boussinesq • Westergaard • And Graphical Solutions) • One And Two- Dimensional Cases

Unit 6.0: Compaction Characteristics

Compaction Characteristics • Water Content – Dry Unit Weight Relationships • OMC • Max • Dry Unit Weight Field Compaction Control • Soil Stabilization

Unit 1.0: Introductory Concepts in Transportation Decision Making

Introductory Concepts In Transportation Decision Making Overall Transportation Project Development • Budgeting • Financial Planning • The Process Of Transportation Project Development • Models Associated With Transportation Impact Evaluation

Unit 2.0: Transportation Costs

Transportation Costs Classification Of Transportation Costs • Transportation Agency Costs • Transportation User Costs • General Structure And Behavior Of Cost Functions And Road Pricing

Unit 3.0: Estimating Transportation Demand and Supply

Estimating Transportation Demand And Supply Supply Equilibration • Dynamics Of Transportation Demand And Supply • Elasticity Of Travel Demand And Supply • Classification Of Elasticity

Unit 4.0: Vehicle Operating Costs

Vehicle Operating Costs Fuel Costs Maintenance And Spares • Depreciation Crew Costs Value Of Travel Time Savings Accident Costs

Unit 5.0: Economics of Traffic Congestion

Economics Of Traffic Congestion Pricing Policy • Economic Analysis Of Projects Methods Of Evaluation Cost-benefit Ratio • First Year Rate Of Return • Net Present Value • And Internal-rate Of Return Methods

Unit 6.0: Indirect Costs and Benefits of Transport Projects

Indirect Costs And Benefits Of Transport Projects • Financing Of Road Projects Methods – Private Public Partnership (PPP) Toll Collection • Economic Viability Of Design-build-operate-transfer Schemes – Risk Analysis – Value For Money Analysis Case Studies

Unit 1.0: Introduction

Introduction Definition Of Basic Terminologies • Role Of Infrastructure In Economic Development • Types Of Infrastructure • Measurement Of Infrastructure Capacity • Bases For Quantification Of Demand And Supply Of Various Types Of Infrastructure • Indian Scenario In Respect Of Adequacy And Quality

Unit 2.0: Infrastructure Planning

Infrastructure Planning Goals And Objectives Of Infrastructure Planning • Identification And Quantification Of The Casual Factors Influence The Demand For Infrastructure • Review And Application Of Techniques To Estimate Supply And Demand For Infrastructure

Unit 3.0: Use of Econometric, Social and Land Use Indicators

Use Of Econometric • Social And Land Use Indicators And Models To Forecast The Demand And Level Of Service Of Infrastructure And Its Impact On Land Use • Critical Review Of The Relevant Forecasting Techniques • Infrastructure Planning To Identify And Prioritize Preferred Areas For Development

Unit 4.0: Integration of Strategic Planning for Infrastructure

Integration Of Strategic Planning For Infrastructure At Urban • Regional And National Levels • Case Studies In Infrastructure Planning

Unit 5.0: Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management Concepts • Common Aspects Of Urban And Rural Infrastructure Management Systems • Pavement And Bridge Management Systems • Integrated Infrastructure Management

Unit 6.0: Case Studies

Case Studies • Emerging Trends In Infrastructure Overview Of Public-private Sector Participation In Infrastructure Projects • Understanding Stakeholders' Concerns • Regulatory Framework • Risk Management In Infrastructure Projects • Public Policy For Infrastructure Sectoral Overview Highways • Railways • Waterways • Airports • Urban And Rural Infrastructure Roads • Housing • Water Supply • Sanitation – Case Study Examples

Unit 1.0: Maintenance and Repair Strategies

Maintenance And Repair Strategies Maintenance • Repair And Rehabilitation • Facets Of Maintenance • Importance Of Maintenance • Various Aspects Of Inspection

Unit 2.0: Assessment Procedure for Evaluating a Damaged Structure

Assessment Procedure For Evaluating A Damaged Structure • Causes Of Deterioration • Strength And Durability Of Concrete Quality Assurance For Concrete – Strength • Durability And Thermal Properties • Of Concrete – Cracks • Different Types Causes – Effects Due To Climate • Temperature • Sustained Elevated Temperature • Corrosion – Effects Of Cover Thickness

Unit 3.0: Special Concretes

Special Concretes Polymer Concrete • Sulphur Infiltrated Concrete • Fibre Reinforced Concrete • High Strength Concrete • High Performance Concrete • Vacuum Concrete • Self-compacting Concrete • Geopolymer Concrete • Reactive Powder Concrete • Concrete Made With Industrial Wastes

Unit 4.0: Techniques for Repair and Protection Methods

Techniques For Repair And Protection Methods Non-destructive Testing Techniques • Epoxy Injection • Shoring • Underpinning • Corrosion Protection Techniques – Corrosion Inhibitors • Corrosion Resistant Steels • Coatings To Reinforcement • Cathodic Protection

Unit 5.0: Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Structures

Repair • Rehabilitation And Retrofitting Of Structures Evaluation Of Root Causes • Underpinning & Shoring • Some Simple Systems Of Rehabilitation Of Structures • Gunting • Shotcreting

Unit 6.0: Non Destructive Testing Systems

Non Destructive Testing Systems • Use Of External Plates • Carbon Fibre Wrapping And Carbon Composites In Repairs • Strengthening Of Structural Elements • Repair Of Structures Distressed Due To Corrosion • Fire • Leakage • Earthquake – Demolition Techniques – Engineered Demolition Methods – Case Studies

Unit 1.0: Aircraft Characteristics Related to Airport Design

Aircraft Characteristics Related To Airport Design

Unit 2.0: Airport Configuration

Airport Configuration Runway Configurations • Relation Of Terminal Area To Runway Orientation

Unit 3.0: Geometric Design of the Airfield

Geometric Design Of The Airfield - ICAO And FAA Design Standards • Runways • Taxiways

Unit 4.0: Holding Aprons and Aprons

Holding Aprons And Aprons Planning And Design Of The Terminal Area- Apron – Gate System • Size And Number Of Gates

Unit 5.0: Aircraft Parking Configurations

Aircraft Parking Configurations • The Passenger Terminal System

Unit 6.0: Airport Lighting and Marking

Airport Lighting And Marking Air Traffic Control • Airport Planning And Air Travel Demand Forecasting • Structural Design Of Airfield Pavements

Unit 1.0: Development, Engineering, Design and Construction of High-speed Rail (HSR)

Development • Engineering • Design And Construction Of High- Speed Rail (HSR) Passenger Transport Systems With Particular Emphasis On The Unique Engineering Elements Of HSR Technology

Unit 2.0: Key Elements of HSR Systems

Key Elements Of HSR Systems

Unit 3.0: Key Elements of HSR Subsystems

Key Elements Of HSR Subsystems Including Core Systems (trains • Power • Signal • Communication And Control)

Unit 4.0: Track System and Civil Infrastructure

Track System And Civil Infrastructure (earthwork • Bridges • Viaducts And Tunnels)

Unit 5.0: Basic Design and Construction of HSR Stations

Basic Design And Construction Of HSR Stations

Unit 6.0: Basic Design and Construction of Rolling Stock Maintenance Facilities

Basic Design And Construction Of Rolling Stock Maintenance Facilities