Wednesday 4 July 2012

Civil Service Mains Optional CIVIL ENGINEERING

CIVIL ENGINEERING
     
  PAPER – I

1. Engineering Mechanics, Strength of
Materials and Structural Analysis:

1.1 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, free body diagram, conditions of
equilibrium, Principle of virtual work,
equivalent force system.
First and Second Moment of area, Mass
moment of Inertia.
Static Friction.
Kinematics and Kinetics:
Kinematics in Cartesian Co-ordinates,
motion under uniform and nonuniform ac-celeration, motion under gravity. Kinetics
of particle: Momentum and Energy prin-ciples, collision of elastic bodies, rotation
of rigid bodies.

1.2 Strength of Materials:
Simple Stress and Strain, Elastic constants,
axially loaded compression members,
Shear force and bending moment, theory
of simple bending, Shear Stress distribu-tion across cross sections, Beams of uni-form strength.
Deflection of beams: Macaulay’s method,
Mohr’s Moment area method, Conjugate
beam method, unit load method. Torsion
of Shafts, Elastic stability of columns,
Euler’s Rankine’s and Secant formulae.

1.3 Structural Analysis:
Castiglianio’s theorems I and II, unit load
method of consistent deformation applied
to beams and pin jointed trusses. Slope-deflection, moment distribution,
Rolling loads and Influences lines: Influ-ences lines for Shear Force and Bending
moment at a section of beam. Criteria for
maximum shear force and bending Mo-ment in beams traversed by a system of
moving loads. Influences lines for simply
supported plane pin jointed trusses.
Arches: Three hinged, two hinged and
fixed arches, rib shortening and tempera-ture effects.
Matrix methods of analysis: Force method
and displacement method of analysis of
indeterminate beams and rigid frames.
Plastic Analysis of beams and frames:
Theory of plastic bending, plastic analysis,
statical method, Mechanism method.
Unsymmetrical bending: Moment of iner-tia, product of inertia, position of Neutral
Axis and Principle axes, calculation of
bending stresses.

2. Design of Structures: Steel, Concrete
and Masonry Structures:

2.1 Structural Steel Design:
Structural Steel: Factors of safety and load
factors. Riveted, bolted and welded joints
and connections. Design of tension and
compression member, beams of built up
section, riveted and welded plate girders,
gantry girders, stancheons with battens
and lacings.

2.2 Design of Concrete and Masonry
Structures:
Concept of mix design. Reinforced Con-crete: Working Stress and Limit State
method of design–Recommendations of
I.S. codes Design of one way and two way
slabs, stair-case slabs, simple and continu-ous beams of rectangular, T and L sec-tions. Compression members under direct
load with or without eccentricity, Cantile-ver and Counter fort type retaining walls.
Water tanks: Design requirements for Rect-angular and circular tanks resting on
ground.
Prestressed concrete: Methods and sys-tems of prestressing, anchorages, Analy-sis and design of sections for flexure based
on working stress, loss of prestress.
Design of brick masonry as per I.S. Codes

3. Fluid Mechanics, Open Channel Flow
and Hydraulic Machines:

3.1 Fluid Mechanics:
Fluid properties and their role in fluid mo-tion, fluid statics including forces acting on
plane and curved surfaces.
Kinematics and Dynamics of Fluid flow:
Velocity and accelerations, stream lines,
equation of continuity, irrotational and ro-tational flow, velocity potential and stream
functions.
Continuity, momentum and energy equa-tion, Navier-Stokes equation, Euler’s equa-tion of motion, application to fluid flow prob-lems, pipe flow, sluice gates, weirs.

3.2 Dimensional Analysis and Similitude:
Buckingham’s Pi-theorem, dimensionless
parameters.

3.3 Laminar Flow:
Laminar flow between parallel, stationary
and moving plates, flow through tube.

3.4 Boundary layer:
Laminar and turbulent boundary layer on
a flat plate, laminar sub layer, smooth and
rough boundaries, drag and lift.
Turbulent flow through pipes: Characteris-tics of turbulent flow, velocity distribution
and variation of pipe friction factor, hydrau-lic grade line and total energy line.

3.5 Open channel flow:
Uniform and non-uniform flows, momen-tum and energy correction factors, specific
energy and specific force, critical depth,
rapidly varied flow, hydraulic jump, gradu-ally varied flow, classification of surface
profiles, control section, step method of in-tegration of varied flow equation.

3.6 Hydraulic Machines and Hydro-power:
Hydraulic turbines, types classification,
Choice of turbines, performance param-eters, controls, characteristics, specific
speed.
Principles of hydropower development.

4. Geotechnical Engineering:
Soil Type and structure – gradation and par-ticle size distribution – consistency limits.
Water in soil – capillary and structural –
effective stress and pore water pressure –
permeability concept – field and labora-tory determination of permeability – Seep-age pressure – quick sand conditions –
Shear strength determination – Mohr Cou-lomb concept.
Compaction of soil – Laboratory and field
tests.
Compressibility and consolidation concept
– consolidation theory – consolidation
settlement analysis.
Earth pressure theory and analysis for re-taining walls, Application for sheet piles
and Braced excavation.
Bearing capacity of soil – approaches for
analysis – Field tests – settlement analysis
– stability of slope of earth walk.
Subsurface exploration of soils – methods
Foundation – Type and selection criteria
for foundation of structures – Design crite-ria for foundation – Analysis of distribution
of stress for footings and pile – pile group
action-pile load test.
Ground improvement techniques.




PAPER - II




1. Construction Technology, Equipment,
Planning and Management:

1.1  Construction Technology:
Engineering Materials:
Physical properties of construction materi-als 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 rein-forced 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 Hous-ing, High Rise Buildings.

1.2 Construction:
Masonry principles using Brick, stone,
Blocks – construction detailing and strength
characteristics.
Types of plastering, pointing, flooring, roof-ing and construction features.
Common repairs in buildings.
Principles of functional planning of build-ing for residents and specific use - Build-ing code provisions.
Basic principles of detailed and approxi-mate estimating - specification writing and
rate analysis – principles of valuation of
real property.
Machinery for earthwork, concreting and
their specific uses – Factors affecting se-lection of equipments – operating cost of
Equipments.

1.3  Construction Planning and Manage-ment:
Construction activity – schedules- organi-zation for construction industry – Quality
assurance principles.
Use of Basic principles of network – analy-sis 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 Engi-neering :

2.1 Surveying:
Common methods and instruments for dis-tance 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 con-stituents of turn and crossings – Necessity
of geometric design of track – Design of
station and yards.

2.3 Highway Engineering:
Principles of Highway alignments – classi-fication and geometrical design elements
and standards for Roads.
Pavement structure for flexible and rigid
pavements - Design principles and meth-odology of pavements.
Typical construction methods and stan-dards of materials for stabilized soil, WBM,
Bituminous works and CC roads.
Surface and sub-surface drainage ar-rangements for roads - culvert structures.
Pavement distresses and strengthening by
overlays.
Traffic surveys and their applications in traf-fic planning - Typical design features for
channelized, intersection, rotary etc – sig-nal designs – standard Traffic signs and
markings.

3. Hydrology, Water Resources and En-gineering:

3.1 Hydrology:
Hydrological cycle, precipitation, evapora-tion, transpiration, infiltration, overland
flow, hydrograph, flood frequency analy-sis, flood routing through a reservoir, chan-nel flow routing-Muskingam method.

3.2 Ground water flow:
Specific yield, storage coefficient, coeffi-cient of permeability, confined and uncon-fined equifers, aquifers, aquitards, radial
flow into a well under confined and uncon-fined conditions.

3.3 Water Resources Engineering:
Ground and surface water resource, single
and multipurpose projects, storage capac-ity of reservoirs, reservoir losses, reservoir
sedimentation.

3.4 Irrigation Engineering:
(i) Water requirements of crops: con-sumptive use, duty and delta, irriga-tion methods and their efficiencies.
(ii) Canals: Distribution systems for canal
irrigation, canal capacity, canal losses,
alignment of main and distributory ca-nals, most efficient section, lined ca-nals, their design, regime theory, criti-cal shear stress, bed load.
(iii) Water logging: causes and control,
salinity.
(iv) Canal structures: Design of, head regu-lators, canal falls, aqueducts, meter-ing flumes and canal outlets.
(v) Diversion headwork: Principles and
design of weirs of permeable and im-permeable foundation, Khosla’s
theory, energy dissipation.
(vi) Storage works: Types of dams, design,
principles of rigid gravity, stability
analysis.
(vii) Spillways: Spillway types, energy dis-sipation.
(viii) River training: Objectives of river train-ing, 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, soft-ening, removal of taste, odour and salinity.

4.3 Sewerage systems:
Domestic and industrial wastes, storm sew-age–separate and combined systems, flow
through sewers, design of sewers.

4.4 Sewage characterization:
BOD, COD, solids, dissolved oxygen, ni-trogen and TOC. Standards of disposal in
normal watercourse and on land.

4.5 Sewage treatment:
Working principles, units, chambers, sedi-mentation tanks, trickling filters, oxidation
ponds, activated sludge process, septic
tank, disposal of sludge, recycling of waste-water.

4.6 Solid waste:
Collection and disposal in rural and urban
contexts, management of long-term ill ef-fects.

5. Environmental pollution:
Sustainable development. Radioactive
wastes and disposal. Environmental im-pact assessment for thermal power plants,

mines, river valley projects. Air pollution.
Pollution control acts.

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