CIVIL ENGINEERING
PAPER – II
1. Construction Technology,
Equipment, Planning and Management:
1.1 Construction Technology:
Engineering Materials:
Physical properties of construction
materials with respect to their use in construction - Stones, Bricks and Tiles;
Lime, Cement, different types of Mortars and Concrete. Specific use of ferro
cement, fibre reinforced C.C, High strength concrete. Timber, properties and
defects – common preservation treatments.
Use and selection of materials for
specific use like Low Cost Housing, Mass Housing, High Rise Buildings
1.2 Construction:
Masonry principles using Brick,
stone, Blocks – construction detailing and strength characteristics.
Types of plastering, pointing,
flooring, roofing and construction features.
Common repairs in buildings.
Principles of functional planning of
building for residents and specific use – Building code provisions.
Basic principles of detailed and
approximate estimating - specification writing and rate analysis – principles
of valuation of real property.
Machinery for earthwork, concreting
and their specific uses – Factors affecting selection of equipments – operating
cost of Equipments.
1.3 Construction Planning and
Management:
Construction activity – schedules-
organization for construction industry – Quality assurance principles.
Use of Basic principles of network –
analysis in form of CPM and PERT – their use in construction monitoring, Cost
optimization and resource allocation.
Basic principles of Economic
analysis and methods.
Project profitability – Basic principles
of Boot approach to financial planning – simple toll fixation criterions.
2. Surveying and Transportation
Engineering :
2.1 Surveying:
Common methods and instruments for
distance and angle measurement for CE work – their use in plane table, traverse
survey, leveling work, triangulation, contouring and topographical map. Basic
principles of photogrammetry and remote sensing.
2.2 Railway Engineering:
Permanent way – components, types
and their functions – Functions and Design constituents of turn and crossings –
Necessity of geometric design of track – Design of station and yards.
2.3 Highway Engineering:
Principles of Highway alignments –
classification and geometrical design elements and standards for Roads. Pavement
structure for flexible and rigid pavements - Design principles and methodology
of pavements. Typical construction methods and standards of materials for
stabilized soil, WBM, Bituminous works and CC roads. Surface and sub-surface
drainage arrangements for roads - culvert structures. Pavement distresses and
strengthening by overlays.
Traffic surveys and their
applications in traffic planning - Typical design features for channelized,
intersection, rotary etc – signal designs – standard Traffic signs and
markings.
3. Hydrology, Water Resources and
Engineering:
3.1 Hydrology:
Hydrological cycle, precipitation,
evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, overland flow, hydrograph, flood frequency
analysis, flood routing through a reservoir, channel flow routing-Muskingam
method.
3.2 Ground water flow:
Specific yield, storage coefficient,
coefficient of permeability, confined and unconfined equifers, aquifers, aquitards,
radial flow into a well under confined and unconfined conditions.
3.3 Water Resources Engineering:
Ground and surface water resource,
single and multipurpose projects, storage capacity of reservoirs, reservoir losses,
reservoir sedimentation.
3.4 Irrigation Engineering:
(i) Water requirements of crops:
consumptive use, duty and delta, irrigation methods and their efficiencies.
(ii) Canals: Distribution systems
for canal irrigation, canal capacity, canal losses, alignment of main and distributory
canals, most efficient section, lined canals, their design, regime theory,
critical shear stress, bed load.
(iii) Water logging: causes and
control, salinity.
(iv) Canal structures: Design of,
head regulators, canal falls, aqueducts, metering flumes and canal outlets.
(v) Diversion headwork: Principles
and design of weirs of permeable and impermeable foundation, Khosla’s theory,
energy dissipation.
(vi) Storage works: Types of dams,
design, principles of rigid gravity, stability analysis.
(vii) Spillways: Spillway types,
energy dissipation.
(viii)River training: Objectives of
river training, methods of river training.
4. Environmental Engineering:
4.1 Water Supply:
Predicting demand for water,
impurities of water and their significance, physical, chemical and
bacteriological analysis, waterborne diseases, standards for potable water.
4.2 Intake of water:
Water treatment: principles of
coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation; slow-; rapid-, pressure-, filters;
chlorination, softening, removal of taste, odour and salinity.
4.3 Sewerage systems:
Domestic and industrial wastes,
storm sewage–separate and combined systems, flow through sewers, design of sewers.
4.4 Sewage characterization:
BOD, COD, solids, dissolved oxygen,
nitrogen and TOC. Standards of disposal in normal watercourse and on land.
4.5 Sewage treatment:
Working principles, units, chambers,
sedimentation tanks, trickling filters, oxidation ponds, activated sludge process,
septic tank, disposal of sludge, recycling of wastewater.
4.6 Solid waste:
Collection and disposal in rural and
urban contexts, management of long-term ill effects.
5. Environmental pollution:
Sustainable development. Radioactive
wastes and disposal. Environmental impact assessment for thermal power plants,
mines, river valley projects. Air pollution. Pollution control acts.
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