ELEMENTS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

About the book

• This is a single comprehensive book of its kind designed primarily to provide a clear-cut, contemporary and stimulating text in a convenient form for the first year engineering students. It provides quite modern and up-to-date coverage of the science and art of Civil Engineering which are changing rapidly. With the inclusion of the worked out examples, the book is almost a ‘self-teaching’ text material.

  The book has been divided into 5 sections namely Engineering Materials, Building Construction (including Earthquake Resistant Structures), Surveying and Levelling, Transportation engineering and Environmental Engineering (including Global Environmental Problems).

  It begins with an Introduction to Engineering and spreads in 45 chapters. It contains:

  * 700 Self-explanatory and neatly drawn diagrams

  * 145 Useful tables

  * 425 Questions at the end of the chapters

  A detailed list of various signs and symbols used in civil engineering drawings (as per Indian standards) has been included in the Appendix.A very extensive glossary of the key words used in civil engineering has been prepared which would greatly help the students in learning the fundamentals of the subject. Search engine, provided at the end, will facilitate the students to quickly find the topics of their interest.

  Almost all topics and sub-topics consist of ‘memory maps’ – the first of their kind. These memory maps consist of key words and will help the readers to crystallize the important points in their minds, thereby helping them to structure their answers in the examinations.

  The book almost covers the syllabi prescribed by the various Universities of India for the subjects ELEMENTS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING/BASIC CIVIL ENGINEERING and partially that of MATERIAL SCIENCE and CIVIL ENGINEERING GRAPHICS. It would be of immense help to the students preparing for Degree, Diploma or A.M.I.E. Examinations and various Boards of Technical Education. It should also prove a great asset to the students preparing for U.P.S.C. examinations. Questions from various university examination papers and competition examinations are discussed in the respective chapters. Neatly drawn sketches should definitely make the understanding of the students crystal-clear.

What is Included?

• 1: INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING

  Part I : Elements of Engineering Materials

  2 : ENGINEERING MATERIALS

  3 : ORGANIC MATERIALS

  4 : TIMBER

  5 : CERAMICS

  6 : ROCKS AND STONES

  7 : BRICKS

  8 : TILES

  9 : REFRACTORIES

  10: CEMENT

  11 : CONCRETE

  12: GLASS

  13: PAINTS, VARNISHES AND DISTEMPERS

  Part II : Elements of Building Construction

  14: BUILDINGS AND THEIR CLASSIFICATIONS 15: FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF A BUILDING

  16: PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING OF A BUILDING

  17: BRICK MASONRY

  18: FLOORS AND FLOORINGS

  19: DOORS AND WINDOWS

  20: STAIRS

  21: ROOFS

  22: LOADS ON A STRUCTURE

  23: FOUNDATIONS

  24: EARTHQUAKE AND EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT STRUCTURES

  Part III : Elements of Surveying and Levelling

  25: BASICS OF SURVEYING

  26: TOOLS OF SURVEYING

  27: SCALES

  28: CHAINING AND RANGING

  29: LINEAR MEASUREMENTS

  30: COMPASS SURVEYING

  31: LEVELLING

  32: CONTOURING

  33: AREA AND VOLUME

  34: THEODOLITE

  35: RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN SURVEYING

  Part IV : Elements of Transformation Engineering

  36: TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

  37: DEVELOPMENT OF ROADS IN INDIA

  38: HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION

  39: TRAFFIC ENGINEERING

  40: RAILWAY ENGINEERING

  41: BRIDGES

  42: TUNNELS

  Part V : Elements of Environmental Engineering

  43: BASICS OF Environment

  44: OUR RESOURCES

  45: Global Environmental PROBLEMS

  Appendix A To Appendix C