Saturday, April 23, 2011

Civil Engineering Preliminary

Civil Service Civil Engineering Preliminary Syllabus
PART-A
1 Engineering Mechanics: Units and Dimensions,SI Units,Vectors,Concept of Force, Concept of particle and rigid body. Concurrent, non-concurrent and parallel forces in a plane,  moment of force and Varignon’s theorem, free body diagram, conditions of equilibrium, principle of virtual work equivalent forces system.
First and Second Moments of area, Mass moment of Inertia
 Static Friction Inclined plane and bearings
 Kinematics and Kinetics: Kinematics in Cartesian ad polar co-ordinates, motion under uniform and non-uniform acceleration, motion under gravity.kinetics of particle Momentum and Energy principles,D’ Alembert’s principle, Collision of elastic bodies, rotation of rigid bodies, simple harmonic motion.
2. Strength of Materials: Simple Stress and Strain, Elastic constants, axially loaded compression members, Shear force and bending moment, theory of simple bending, Shear Stress distribution across cross sections, beams of uniform strength, Leaf spring, Strain Energy in direct stress bending and shear.
 Deflection of beams: Macaulay’s method, Mohr’s moment area method, conjugate beam method unit load method. Torsion of Shafts, Transmission of power, closecoiled helical springs, Elastic stability of Colums: Euler’s, Rankine’s and Secant formulae. Principal Stresses and Strains in two dimensions, Mohr’s Circle. Theories of Elastic Failure, Thin and Thick cylinders: Stresses due to internal and external pressures-Lame’s equation.
 3. Structural Analysis: Analysis of pin jointed plane trusses, deflection in trusses. Three hinged and two hinged arches, ribs shortening, temperature effects, influence lines in arhes.Analysis of propped cantilevers, fixed beams, continuous beams and rigid frames. Slope deflection, moment distribution Kani’s method and Matrix method: Force and Displacement methods. Rolling loads and influence lines for determinate beams and pin jointed trusses.
Part-B
Geo-technical Engineering: Types of soil, field identification and classification, phase relationships consistency limits, particle size distribution, Classification of soil, structure and day mineralogy
Capillary water and structural water, effective stress and pore water pressure, Darcy’s Law, factor affecting permeability, determination of permeability, permeability of stratified soil deposits
Seepage pressure, quick sand condition, compressibility and consolidation, Terzaghi’s theory of one-dimensional consolidation, consolidation test. Compaction of soil, optimum moisture content Proctor Density.
Sub-surface exploration, methods of boring, sampling, types of sampler, field tests.
 Shear strength of soils, Mohr-Coulomb failure theory, shear test, Earth pressure at rest, active and passive pressures, Rankine’s theory,Coulomb’s wedge theory, earth pressure on retaining wall
Bearing capacity,Terzaghi and other important theories, net ad gross bearing pressure, Immediate and consolidation settlement.
Load carrying capacity of pile groups
Stability of slope-Conventional method of slices, stability numbers.
 Transporation Engineering: highway alignment, choice of layout and capacity of highways, location survey, geometric design of highways-various elements, curves, grade separation and segregation traffic, intersection design, highway materials and testing sub grade and pavement components, types pavements , road drainage, elements of airport engineering
Railway engineering-elements of permanent track-rails, sleepers, ballast and rail fastenings tractive resistance, elements of geometric design-gradients and grade compensation on curves, and transition curves and vertical curves, stresses in railway tracks, points and crossings, signaling and interlocking , maintenance of railway track. Culverts and small bridges
 Part-C
 Fluid Mechanics: Fluid properties, fluid statics, forces on plane and curved surfaces, stability of floating and submerged bodies.
 Kinematics: Velocity, streamlines, conticuity equation, accelearations, irrotational and rotational flow, velocity potential and stream function, flownet, separation.
 Dynamics: Euler’s equation along streamline, control volume equation , continuity, momentum, energy and moment of momentum equation from control volume equation, applications to pipe flow moving vanes, moment of momentum , Dimensional analysis
Boundary layer on a flat plate, drag and lift on bodies. Laminar and Turbulent Flows. Laminar and specific energy and specific force, critical depth, Friction factors and roughness coefficients, flow in transitions, free overfall, weirs, hydraulic jump, surges, gradually carried flow equations , surface profiles moving hydraulic jump.
Part-D: environmental Engineering
 Water Supply: estimation of surface and subsurface water resources, predicting demand for water impurities of water and their significance, physical , chemical and bacteriological analysis, water borne diseases, standards for potable water.
 Intake of water: Pumping and gravity schemes, water treatment: principles of coagulation flocculation and sedimentation; slow-, rapid-, pressure-, filters; chlorination, softening, removal of taste odour and salinity
Water storage and distribution: Storage and balancing reservoir types, location and capacity Distribution systems: layout , hydraulics of pipe lines , pipe fittings, valves including check and pressure reducing valves. Meters, analysis of distribution systems, leak detection, maintenance of distribution systems, pumping stations and their operations
 Sewerage systems: Domestic and industrial wastes, storm sewage-separate and combined systems flow through sewers, design of sewers , sewer appurtenances, manholes, inlets, junctions , siphon pluming in public buildings.
 Sewage characterization: BOD, COD, solids, dissolved oxygen, nitrogen and TOC.Standards of disposal in normal water course and on land
 Sewage treatment: working principles, unit’s chambers, sedimentation tank, tricking filters, oxidation ponds, activated sludge process, septic tank, disposal of sludge, recycling of waste water.
Construction Management: Elements and principles of Activity on Arrow (AOA) and Activity on Node (AON) networks and work breakdown structure.Interfaces.Ladder networks. Activity time. Time computations ad floats.ATC and PTC trade-off. Work study and sampling .Scheduling principles material schedules.ABC and EOQ analysis of inventory. Budgeting with barcharts.Working capital PERT, probability of completion
Elements of Engineering Economics, methods of appraisal, present worth, annual cost, benefit cost, incremental analysis. Economy of scale and size. Choosing between alternatives including levels of investments .Project profitability.

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