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Civil Syllabus PHD

The syllabus for the PhD Entrance Exam in February 2024 covers various topics in Civil Engineering, including Aptitude and Reasoning, Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Transportation Engineering, and Geomatics Engineering. Each section outlines key concepts and principles, such as fluid mechanics, soil mechanics, water quality treatment, and transportation infrastructure design. The syllabus emphasizes both theoretical knowledge and practical applications relevant to civil engineering.

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Civil Syllabus PHD

The syllabus for the PhD Entrance Exam in February 2024 covers various topics in Civil Engineering, including Aptitude and Reasoning, Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Transportation Engineering, and Geomatics Engineering. Each section outlines key concepts and principles, such as fluid mechanics, soil mechanics, water quality treatment, and transportation infrastructure design. The syllabus emphasizes both theoretical knowledge and practical applications relevant to civil engineering.

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Syllabus for PhD Entrance Exam

Feb 2024

1. Aptitude and Reasoning

2. Civil Engineering Core

Structural Engineering
Engineering Mechanics: System of forces, free-body diagrams, equilibrium equations;
Internalforces in structures; Frictions and its applications; Centre of mass; Free
Vibrations of undamped SDOF system.
Solid Mechanics: Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate beams;
Simple stress and strain relationships; Simple bending theory, %exural and shear stresses,
shear centre; Uniform torsion, Transformation of stress; buckling of column, combined
and direct 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 de%ection and
moment distribution methods; In%uence lines; Sti,ness and %exibility methods of
structural analysis.

Concrete Structures: Working stress and Limit state design concepts; Design of
beams, slabs, columns; Bond and development length; Prestressed concrete beams.
Steel Structures: Working stress and Limit state design concepts; Design of tension and
compression members, beams and beam- columns, column bases; Connections - simple
and eccentric, beam-column connections, plate girders and trusses; Concept of plastic
analysis -beams and frames.

Geotechnical Engineering
Soil Mechanics: Three-phase system and phase relationships, index properties; Uni1ed
and Indian standard soil classi1cation system; Permeability - one dimensional %ow,
Seepage through soils –two - dimensional %ow, %ow nets, uplift pressure, piping,
capillarity, seepage force; Principle of e,ective stress and quicksand condition;
Compaction of soils; One- dimensional consolidation, time rate of consolidation; Shear
Strength, Mohr’s circle, e,ective and total shear strength parameters, Stress-Strain
characteristics of clays and sand; Stress paths.
Foundation Engineering: Sub-surface investigations - Drilling bore holes, sampling, plate
load test, standard penetration and cone penetration tests; Earth pressure theories -
Rankine and Coulomb; Stability of slopes – Finite and in1nite slopes, Bishop’s method;
Stress distribution in soils – Boussinesq’s theory; Pressure bulbs, Shallow foundations –
Terzaghi’s and Meyerho,’s bearing capacity theories, e,ect of water table; Combined
footing and raft foundation; Contact pressure; Settlement analysis in sands and clays;
Deep foundations – dynamic and static formulae, Axial load capacity of piles in sands
and clays, pile load test, pile under lateral loading, pile group e7ciency, negative skin
friction.

Water Resources Engineering


Fluid Mechanics: Properties of %uids, %uid statics; Continuity, momentum and energy
equations and their applications; Potential %ow, Laminar and turbulent %ow; Flow in
pipes, pipe networks; Concept of boundary layer and its growth; Concept of lift and
drag.
Hydraulics: Forces on immersed bodies; Flow measurement in channels and pipes;
Dimensional analysis and hydraulic similitude; Channel Hydraulics - Energy-depth
relationships, speci1c energy, critical %ow, hydraulic jump, uniform %ow, gradually
varied %ow and water surface pro1les.
Hydrology: Hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation, evapo-transpiration, watershed,
in1ltration, unit hydrographs, hydrograph analysis, reservoir capacity, %ood estimation
and routing, surface run-o, models, ground water hydrology - steady state well
hydraulics and aquifers; Application of Darcy’s Law.
Irrigation: Types of irrigation systems and methods; Crop water requirements - Duty,
delta, evapo- transpiration; Gravity Dams and Spillways; Lined and unlined canals,
Design of weirs on permeable foundation; cross drainage structures.

Environmental Engineering
Water and Waste Water Quality and Treatment: Basics of water quality standards –
Physical, chemical and biological parameters; Water quality index; Unit processes and
operations; Water requirement; Water distribution system; Drinking water treatment.
Sewerage system design, quantity of domestic wastewater, primary and secondary
treatment. E<uent discharge standards; Sludge disposal; Reuse of treated sewage for
di,erent applications.
Air Pollution: Types of pollutants, their sources and impacts, air pollution control, air
quality standards, Air quality Index and limits.
Municipal Solid Wastes: Characteristics, generation, collection and transportation of
solid wastes, engineered systems for solid waste management (reuse/ recycle, energy
recovery, treatment and disposal).

Transportation Engineering
Transportation Infrastructure: Geometric design of highways - cross-sectional elements,
sight distances, horizontal and vertical alignments. Geometric design of railway Track –
Speed and Cant. Concept of airport runway length, calculations and corrections; taxiway
and exit taxiway design.
Highway Pavements: Highway materials - desirable properties and tests; Desirable
properties of bituminous paving mixes; Design factors for %exible and rigid pavements;
Design of %exible and rigid pavement using IRC codes
Tra7c Engineering: Tra7c studies on %ow and speed, peak hour factor, accident study,
statistical analysis of tra7c data; Microscopic and macroscopic parameters of tra7c
%ow, fundamental relationships; Tra7c signs; Signal design by Webster’s method; Types
of intersections; Highway capacity.

Geomatics Engineering
Principles of surveying; Errors and their adjustment; Maps - scale, coordinate system;
Distance and angle measurement - Levelling and trigonometric levelling; Traversing and
triangulation survey; Total station; Horizontal and vertical curves. Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing - Scale, %ying height; Basics of remote sensing and GIS.

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