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Syllabus for B. Tech (Civil Engineering) Up to Fourth year

B.Tech3rdYear 6th Semester

Theory Paper
Sl . No. Paper Paper Code Credit point
1 Principles of management HU-601 3
2 Highway & Transportation Engineering CE-601 4
3 Design of steel structure CE-602 4
4 Construction Planning & Management CE-603 3
5 Professional elective-I CE-604 4
6 Free elective-I CE-605 3

Practical Paper
Sl. No. Paper Paper Code Credit Point
1. Highway & Transportation Engineering Lab CE-691 2
2 Seminar CE-692 2
3 Detailing Of RC & Steel Structure CE-693 2
4 CAD Laboratory CE-694 2

Professional Elective-I
i) Prestressed Concrete- CE-604A
ii) Structural Dynamics &Eartquake Engineering –CE-604B
Free Elective-I
i) Operation Research- CE-605A
ii) Human resource management- CE-605B
iii) Material Handling –CE-605C

Principles of management
Code – HU- 601
Contact – 3L
Credits- 3

Module-I
1. Basic concepts of management: Definition – Essence, Functions, Roles, Level.
2. Functions of Management: Planning – Concept, Nature, Types, Analysis, Management by
objectives; Organisation
Structure – Concept, Structure, Principles, Centralization, Decentralization, Span of
Management; Organisational
Effectiveness.
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Module-II
3. Management and Society – Concept, External Environment, CSR, Corporate Governance,
Ethical Standards.
4. People Management – Overview, Job design, Recruitment & Selection, Training &
Development, Stress Management.
5. Managerial Competencies – Communication, Motivation, Team Effectiveness, Conflict
Management, Creativity,Entrepreneurship.
Module-III
6. Leadership: Concept, Nature, Styles.
7. Decision making: Concept, Nature, Process, Tools & techniques.
8. Economic, Financial & Quantitative Analysis – Production, Markets, National Income
Accounting, Financial Function
& Goals, Financial Statement & Ratio Analysis, Quantitative Methods – Statistical Interference,
Forecasting, Regression Analysis, Statistical Quality Control.
Module-IV
9. Customer Management – Market Planning & Research, Marketing Mix, Advertising & Brand
Management.
10. Operations & Technology Management – Production & Operations Management, Logistics
& Supply Chain
Management, TQM, Kaizen & Six Sigma, MIS.

Text book & Reference books

1. Management: Principles, Processes & Practices – Bhat, A & Kumar, A (OUP).
2. Essentials for Management – Koontz, Revised edition, Tata McGraw Hill (TMH)
3. Management – Stoner, James A. F. (Pearson)
4.Management - Ghuman, Tata McGraw Hill(TMH)

Highway & Transportation Engineering

Code: CE601
Contact: 4L
Credits: 4

Introduction to Highway Engineering: Importance of road in India. Characteristics of road

transport, Scope of highway Engineering. (Location and function), and modified classification of
road, Road patterns; Saturation System; JayakarCommitteeReport; highway financing ('pay as
you go method and credit financing method) and highway economics (quantifiable and non
quantifiable benefits to highway users, cost of vehicle operation, annual cost method, and
benefit-cost ratio method)

2 Highway Alignment: Requirements: factors controlling alignment; engineering surveys for

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highway alignment and location.

3 Highway Geometric Design:

3.1 Camber- definition, purpose, types, IRC – specifications.
3.2 Kerbs, traffic separators or medians, road margin, carriage way, road formation, right of way
3.3 Design speed- IRC – specifications
3.4 Gradient – definition, types, IRC specification.
3.5 Sight distances– definition, types, PIEV theory, IRC specification.
3.6 Curves–Necessity, types– horizontal, vertical and transition curves.design of transition
curves, curve resistance, set back distance, grade compensation and vertical alignment
3.7 Widening of roads on curves.
3.8 Super Elevation – definition, formula for calculating super elevation, minimum and
maximumvalues of super elevation, and methods of providing super elevation, design of super
elevation
4 Pavement design: Evaluation of soil subgrade, sub-base, base and wearing courses; design
factors for pavement thickness (including design wheel load and ESWL, strength of pavement
materials and plate load tests, and effect of climatic variations) Group Index and CBR, IRC
method of flexible pavement design; Westergaards analysis of wheel load stresses in rigid
pavements;frictional stresses and warping stresses; IRC recommendations for design of rigid
pavements; design of expansion and contraction joints. Benkelmen Beam Test, Fialure of
flexible and rigid pavements.
5 Pavement construction Technique: Types of pavement; construction of earth roads, gravel
roads, WBM, bitumen and cement concrete roads; joints in cement concrete pavements.

6 Traffic Engineering: Traffic characteristics, theory of traffic flow, intersection design, traffic
sign and signal design, highway capacity

7 Road Materials and Testing : Soil, Stone Aggregate,

Text & ReferencesBooks:

Sl.NoName Author Publishers
1 High Way Engineering Khanna& Justo Nemchand&Brothers, Roorkee
2 Principles of Transportation Engineering P. Chakraborty& A. Das PHI
3 Transportation Engineering- C.J Khisty& B.K Lall.
4 I.S Specifications on Concrete , Aggregate & Bitumen Bureau of Indian Standard
5 Relevant latest IRC Codes (IRC-37 – 2001, IRC 58 – 2002, IRC 73 - 1980, IRC 86 - - 1983,
IRC 106 – 1990, IRC 64 – 1990, IRC 15- 2002 Indian Road Congress

Design of Steel structure

Code: CE602
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Contact: 4L
Credits: 4

1 Introduction
Advantages and disadvantages of steel as construction material. Types of sections ,Grades of
steel(IS2062) and strength characteristics; Use of steel table(SP6-Part1); Types of loads on steel
structureand its I. S. code specification. (3L)

2 Materials and Specification :-Rolled steel section, types of structural steel , specifications (2L)

3 Structure connections: Riveted, welded and bolted including High strength friction grip bolted joints.–
types of riveted & bolted joints, assumptions, failure of joints ,efficiency of joints, design of
bolted,riveted & welded joints for axial load. (ii) Eccentric connection:- Riveted & bolted joints subjected
to torsion & shear, tension & shear,design of riveted, bolted & welded connection. (8L)

4 Tension members: Design of tension members, I.S code provisions. Permissible stresses, Designrules,
Examples. (6L)

5 Compression members: Effective lengths about major & minor principal axes, I.S code
provisions.Permissible stresses, Design rules, Design of one component, two components and built
upcompression members under axial load. Examples.Built up columns under eccentric loading: Design of
lacing and batten plates, Different types ofColumn Bases- Slab Base , Gusseted Base, Connection details
(6L)

6 Beams: Permissible stresses in bending, compression and tension. Design of rolled steel sections,
plated beams. simple Beam end connections, beam -Column connections. I.S code provisions (7L)

7 Plate girders: Design of webs & flanges, Concepts of curtailment of flanges – Riveted & welded
web stiffeners, web flange splices - Riveted, welded& bolted.(5L)

8.0 Gantry Girder: Design gantry girder considering lateral buckling – I.S code provisions. (5L)

Text & References:

Name Author Publishers

1 Design of Steel structures N. Subramanian Oxford University Press
2 Design Of Steel Structures - S.K.Duggal Tata Mc-GrawHill ,New DelhiNew Delhi
3 Design of steel structuresA.S.Arya and J.L.AjmaniNemchand& Bros.,
4 Design of steel structures, Vol. I & II Ramachandra
5 Design of steel structuresPasalaDayaratnam – A.H.Wheeler& Co Ltd. 1990
6 Design of steel structures B.S.Krishnamachar andD.AjithaSinha –Tata McGraw – Hill publishing
Co.Delhi.
7 Design of steel structures Ramamurtham
8 IS 800 – 2007(Latest Revised code) Bureau of Indian Standard
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9 S.P.: 6(1) – 1964 Structural SteelSectionsBureau of Indian Standard

Construction Planning & Management

Code: CE603
Contact: 3L
Credits: 3
Planning: Planning of building, Definition of aspect, prospect, roominess, grouping, circulation
privacy, Practical consideration. (2L)

2 Regulation and Bye laws : Introduction, Objective, Bye Laws in respect of side space, Back
and front space, Covered areas, height of building etc., Lavatory blocks , ventilation,
Requirements for stairs, lifts in public assembly building, offices (5L)

3 Fire Protection: Fire fighting arrangements in public assembly buildings, planning , offices,
Auditorium (3L)

4 Construction plants & Equipment: Plants & equipment for earth moving, road constructions,
excavators, dozers, scrapers, spreaders, rollers, their uses. Plants &Equipment for concrete
construction: Batching plants, Ready Mix Concrete, concrete mixers, Vibrators etc., quality
control (8L)
5. Fundamental of network: Introduction, Activity, Event ,Types, Dummy activity, Fulkerson
rule., Bar chart. Numerical Problems. (4L)
6. PERT Analysis: introduction, Time estimates- optimistic, pessimistic and most likely time,
Event time- Earliest occurrence time, latest occurrence time, Slack, types of slack, Probability of
completion of project, Probability table, Critical path, Numerical Problem. (5L)

7. CPM Analysis: Introduction, comparison between PERT and CPM, Time estimate of an
activity- Earliest occurrence time, latest occurrence time, Earliest start time, Earliest finish time,
Latest finish time, latest finish time, Float, types of float, critical path .Numerical problems.(5L)

8 Management: Professional practice, Defination, Rights and responsibilities of owner,

engineer,Contractors, types of contract (3L)

9 Departmental Procedures: Administration, Technical and financial sanction, operation of

PWD, Tenders and its notification, EMD and SD, Acceptance of tenders, Arbritation (4L)

Text & References:

Sl. No Name Author Publishers
1 Construction Planning, Equipments and methods Puerifoy, R.L. McGraw Hill.
2 Management in construction industry P.P.Dharwadkar Oxford and IBH Publishing company
New Delhi
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3 Construction Management, Critical path Methods in Construction, J.O.Brien Wiley

Interscience
4 PERT and CPM L.S. Srinath
5 Project planning and control with PERT and CPM’B.C.Punmia and K.K.Kandelwal
6.Constructionequipments and its management S.C.Sharma
6 National Building code BIS

Prestressed Concrete
Code: CE604-A
Contact: 4L
Credits: 4
1.Introduction of Prestressed concrete: Materials, prestressing system, analysis of prestress
and bending stress (5L)

2. Losses: Types of losses and their numerical Problems. (6L)

3. Shear and torsional resistance: design of shear reinforcement, design of reinforcement for
torsion shear and bending. (5L)
4. Deflections of prestressed concrete members: Importance, factors, short term and long term
Deflection (4L)

5.Limit state design criteria: Inadequacy of elasticand ultimate load method, criteria for limit
states, strength and serviceability. Design of sections for flexure: methods by Lin and Magnel
(7L)

6.Anchorage Zone stresses in post tensioned members: Stress distribution in end block,
anchorage zone reinforcement (5L)

7.Composite construction of prestressed and in-situ concrete: Types, analysis of stresses

Statically Indeterminate structures: advantages of continuous member, effect of prestressing,
methods of achieving continuity and method of analysis of secondary moments(8L)

8.Prestressed concrete poles and sleepers: Design of sections for compression and bending(6L)

9.Partialprestressing and non prestressed reinforcement (5L)

Text books & Reference books:

Name Author Publishers

1 Prestressed Concrete, Fourth Edition, N Krishna Raju McGraw Hill
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2 Design of Prestressed Structures, T.Y.Lin and N.H.Burns, Wiley Eastern Ltd

3 Fundamentals of Prestressed Concrete,N.C.Sinha and S.K.Roy
4 Prestressed Concrete, S.Ramamurthan

Operation Research
Code: CE-605A
Contact: 3L
Credits: 3

Module I
Linear Programming Problems (LPP):
Basic LPP and Applications; Various Components of LP Problem Formulation.
Solution of Linear Programming Problems:
Solution of LPP: Using Simultaneous Equations and Graphical Method;
Definitions: Feasible Solution, Basic and non-basic Variables, Basic Feasible Solution,
Degenerate and Non-degenerate Solution, Convex set and explanation with examples. Solution
of LPP by Simplex Method; Charnes’ Big-M Method; Duality Theory.Transportation Problems
and Assignment Problems. (12L)

Module II
Network Analysis:
Shortest Path: Floyd Algorithm; Maximal Flow Problem (Ford-Fulkerson); PERT-CPM (Cost
Analysis, Crashing, Resource Allocation excluded). (6L)
Inventory Control:
Introduction to EOQ Models of Deterministic and Probabilistic ; Safety Stock; Buffer Stock.
(3L)
Module III
Game Theory:
Introduction; 2-Person Zero-sum Game; Saddle Point; Mini-Max and Maxi-Min Theorems
(statement only) and problems;Games without Saddle Point; Graphical Method; Principle of
Dominance. (5L)
Module IV
Queuing Theory:
Introduction; Basic Definitions and Notations; Axiomatic Derivation of the Arrival & Departure
(Poisson Queue). Poisson Queue Models: (M/M/1): (∞ / FIFO) and (M/M/1: N / FIFO) and
problems. (5L)
Text Books:
1. H. A. Taha, “Operations Research”, Pearson
2. P. M. Karak – “Linear Programming and Theory of Games”, ABS Publishing House
3. Ghosh and Chakraborty, “Linear Programming and Theory of Games”, Central Book Agency
4. Ravindran, Philips and Solberg - “Operations Research”, WILEY INDIA
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References Books:
1. KantiSwaroop — “Operations Research”, Sultan Chand & Sons
2. Rathindra P. Sen—“Operations Research: Algorithms andApplications”, PHI
3. R. Panneerselvam - “Operations Research”, PHI
4. A.M. Natarajan, P. Balasubramani and A. Tamilarasi - “Operations Research”, Pearson
5. M. V. Durga Prasad – “Operations Research”, CENGAGE Learning
6. J. K. Sharma - “Operations Research”, Macmillan Publishing Company

Highway & Transportation Engineering Lab

Code: CE-691
Contact: 2L
Credits: 2

Tests on highway materials –

Aggregates- Impact value, Los-Angeles Abrasion value water absorption , Elongation
&Flakiness Index.
Bitumen & bituminous materials: Specific gravity, penetration value, softening point, loss on
heating, Flash & Fire point test. Stripping value test
Design of B.C. & S.D.B.C. Mix
CBR Test
Marshal Stability Test
Benkelman beam Test.
References:
BIS codes on Aggregates & Bituminous materials
Highway material testing(Laboratory Manual)by S.K. Khanna and CE.G. Justo
Relevant IS & I.R.C. codes.

Detailing of RCC & steel structures

Code : CE693
Contact :3P
Credits: 2
RCC structures
General considerations: Design principle of R.C.C. sections. Limit state method of design Loads and
stresses to beconsidered in the design as per I.S. code provision.
Design & detailing of a i) simply supported R.C.C Beam ii) Continuous T- Beam.
Design & Detailing of columns, isolated and combined footing
Design & detailing of a i) simply supported one way slabii) One way Continuous slab.
Design of different units: Slab, beam column, roofing and staircase from floor plan of a multistoried
frame building, typicaldetailing of a two way floor slab.

Steel structures
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Problems on general consideration and basic concepts

Discussion on different loads (i.e. wind load, Dead load, live load and others) as per IS875
Design & drawing of the following components of a roof truss:
1. Members of the roof truss.
2. Joints of the roof truss members
3. Purlins
4. Gable bracings
5. Column with bracings
6. Column base plate
7. Column foundation
References:
I.S- 456-2000, SP 34, SP 16,I.S. 875, I.S. Code 800 – 2007, Standard text books on RCC & Steel Design

CAD Laboratory
Code: CE694
Contact: 2L
Credits: 2

Introduction and important features ofa software dealing with analysis and design of
structuresAnalysis and design of a multistoried building using software, Preparation of detailed
drawings of different structural elements including ductility detailing RCC Slab, beam, column
and footing design.