Syllabus for the post of Assistant Executive Engineer/ Assistant Engineer (Civil)
Civil Engineering Materials and Construction –
Traditional materials : Stone, brick, tile-roofing and flooring, steel, timber, lime, cement, their manufacture, properties and codal requirements. Mortar, cement concrete, properties, specifications and tests for quality control. Reinforced concrete, fibre reinforced concrete and ferro-cement applications. Paints, enamels, varnishes, tar, bitumen, asphalts, properties and use.
Modern Materials :plastics, rubber, polymer, fibre, reinforced plastics, manufacture, properties and use. Introduction to composites and smart materials.
Building Construction : Foundations; Stone Masonry; Brick Masonry- Rules for bonding, stretcher and header bonds and English Bond; Doors and Windows; Staris – proportioning and designing of different types of staircases for residential and commercial buildings; Different types of roofs. RC Constructions – Lintels and sunshades, beams, one-way and two-way slabs.
Plastering and pointing : types, preparation, properties, uses and defects. Formwork for construction. Damp proofing.
Solid Mechanics, Structural Analysis –
Solid Mechanics : Fundamentals of force system. Concept of Rigid body and deformable bodies. Free body diagrams. Centroid and moment of inertia of plane areas. Simple stress and strain. Hooke’s law. Mechanical properties of materials. Elastic constants. Simple flexure theory, Bending stress and shearing stress, distribution across sections. Deflection of beams, Macaulay’s method for deflection of statically determinate beams. Compound stresses – analytical method, graphical method – Mohr’s circle of stresses. Torsion, transmission of power through hollow and solid shafts. Beams of uniform strength. Combined bending and torsion. Strain energy. Columns & struts. Elastic stability of columns. Bending moment and shear force diagrams for simply supported beams, cantilever beams and overhanging beams. Analysis of simple trusses.
Structural Analysis : Definition of statically determinate and indeterminate structures. Deflection of beams : moment area method, conjugate beam method, strain energy method and unit load method. Rolling loads and influence lines for statically determinate beams and bridge trusses. Three hinged arches, cables and suspension bridges. Analysis of indeterminate beams, frames and trusses : consistent deformation method, slope deflection method, moment distribution method, Kani’s method. Plastic analysis of simple beams and frames.
Concrete Technology, Reinforced Concrete Structures, Steel Structures, PSC structures
Fluid Mechanics, Hydrology & Water Resources Engineering
Hydraulic Structures
Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
Transportation Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Surveying
Bridge Engineering
Estimation, Costing and Specifications
Construction and Project Management
Environmental Studies
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