NLC Graduate Trainee Civil Engineering Syllabus

NLC Graduate Trainee Civil Engineering Syllabus

Engineering Mechanics –
System of forces, free-body diagrams, equilibrium equations – Internal forces in structures – Friction and its applications – Kinematics of point mass and rigid boy- Centre of mass- Euler’s equations of motion – Impulse-momentum- Energy methods – Principles of virtual work.

Solid Mechanics –
Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate beams – Simple stress and strain relationships- Theories of failures – Simple bending theory, flexural and shear stresses, shear centre- Uniform torsion, buckling of column, combined and idrect bending stresses.

Structural Analysis –
Statically determinate and indeterminate structures by force/ energy methods – Method of superposition – Analysis of trusses, arches, beams, cables and frames – Displacement methods : Slope deflection and moment distribution methods; Influence lines – Stiffness and flexibility methods of structural analysis.

Construction Material and Management
Construction Materials : Structural steel – composition, material properties and behavior – Concrete – constituents, mix design, short-term and long-term properties – Bricks and mortar; Timber; Bitumen. Construction Management : Types of construction projects – Tendering and construction contracts- Rate analysis and standard specificatins – Cost estimation – Project planning and network analysis – PERT and CPM.

Concrete Structures
Working stress, Limit state and Ultimate load design concepts- Design of beams, slabs, columns- Bond and development length – Prestressed concrete- Analysis of beam sections at transfer and service loads.

Steel Structures –
Working stress and Limit state design concepts- Design of tension and compression members, beams and beam – columns, column bases – Connections – simple and ecentric, beam- column connections, plate girders and trusses- Plastic analysis of beams and frames.

Soil Mechanics –
Origin of soils, soil structure and fabric – Three-phase system and phase relationships, index properties – Unified and Indian standard soil classification system- Permeability- one dimensional flow, Darcy’s law – Seepage through soils – two dimensional flow, flow nets, uplift pressure, piping-Principle of effective stress, capillarity, seepage force and quicksand condition- Compaction in laboratory and field conditions -One- dimensional consolidation, time rat eof consolidation – MOhr’s circle, stress paths, effective and total shear strength parameters, characteristics of clays and sand.

Foundation Engineering –
Sub-surface investigations – scope, drilling bore holes, sampling, plate load test, standard penetration and cone penetration tests- Earth pressure theories – Rankine and Coulomb- Stability of Slopes – finite and infinite slopes, method of slices and Bishop’s method – Stress distribution in soils – Boussinesqu’s and Westergaards’s theories, pressure bulbs – Shallow foundations – Terzaghi’s and Meyerhoff’s bearing capacity theories, effect of water table – combined footing and raft foundation; contact pressure – Settlement analysis in sands and clays-Deep foundations – types of piles, dynamic and static formulae, load capacity of piles in sands and clays, pile load test, negative skin friction.

Fluid Mechanic –
Properties of fluids, fluid statics – Continuity, momentum, energy and corresponding equations; Potential flow, applications of momentum and energy eqations – Laminar and turbulent flow – Flow in pipes, pipe networks- Concept of boundary layer and its growth.