Detailed syllabus for written test for recruitment of Assistant Professor in

Civil Engineering
Structural Engineering

Engineering Mechanics: System of forces, free-body diagrams, equilibrium equations; Internal forces in
structures; Friction and its applications; Kinematics of point mass and rigid body; Centre of mass; Euler’s
equations of motion; Impulse-momentum; Energy methods; Principles of virtual work.
Solid Mechanics: Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate beams; Simple stress and strain
relationships; Theories of failures; Simple bending theory, flexural and shear stresses, shear centre; Uniform
torsion, 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
deflection and moment distribution methods; Influence lines; Stiffness and flexibility methods of structural
analysis.
Construction Materials and Management: Construction Materials: Structural steel - composition, material
properties and behaviour; Concrete - constituents, mix design, short-term and long-term properties; Bricks
and mortar; Timber; Bitumen. Construction Management: Types of construction projects; Tendering and
construction contracts; Rate analysis and standard specifications; Cost estimation; Project planning and
network analysis - PERT and CPM.

Concrete Structures: Working stress, Limit state and Ultimate load design concepts; Design of beams,
slabs, columns; Bond and development length; Prestressed concrete; Analysis of beam sections at transfer
and service loads.
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; Plastic analysis of beams and frames.
Geotechnical Engineering

Soil Mechanics: Origin of soils, soil structure and fabric; Three-phase system and phase relationships, index
properties; Unified and Indian standard soil classification system; Permeability - one dimensional flow,
Darcy’s law; Seepage through soils - two-dimensional flow, flow nets, uplift pressure, piping; Principle of
effective stress, capillarity, seepage force and quicksand condition; Compaction in laboratory and field
conditions; One-dimensional consolidation, time rate of consolidation; Mohr’s circle, stress paths, effective
and total shear strength parameters, characteristics of clays and sand.
Foundation Engineering: Sub-surface investigations - scope, drilling bore holes, sampling, plate load test,
standard penetration and cone penetration tests; Earth pressure theories - Rankine and Coulomb; Stability of
slopes - finite and infinite slopes, method of slices and Bishop’s method; Stress distribution in soils -
Boussinesq’s and Westergaard’s theories, pressure bulbs; Shallow foundations - Terzaghi’s and Meyerhoff’s
bearing capacity theories, effect of water table; Combined footing and raft foundation; Contact pressure;
Settlement analysis in sands and clays; Deep foundations - types of piles, dynamic and static formulae, load
capacity of piles in sands and clays, pile load test, negative skin friction.

Environmental Engineering

Water and Waste Water: Quality standards, basic unit processes and operations for water treatment.
Drinking water standards, water requirements, basic unit operations and unit processes for surface water
treatment, distribution of water. Sewage and sewerage treatment, quantity and characteristics of wastewater.
Primary, secondary and tertiary treatment of wastewater, effluent discharge standards. Domestic wastewater
treatment, quantity of characteristics of domestic wastewater, primary and secondary treatment. Unit
operations and unit processes of domestic wastewater, sludge disposal.
Air Pollution: Types of pollutants, their sources and impacts, air pollution meteorology, air pollution
control, air quality standards 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).
Noise Pollution: Impacts of noise, permissible limits of noise pollution, measurement of noise and control
of noise pollution.
Transportation Engineering

Transportation Infrastructure: Highway alignment and engineering surveys; Geometric design of

highways - cross-sectional elements, sight distances, horizontal and vertical alignments; Geometric design
of railway track; Airport runway length, taxiway and exit
Taxiway design.

Highway Pavements: Highway materials - desirable properties and quality control tests; Design of
bituminous paving mixes; Design factors for flexible and rigid pavements; Design of flexible pavement
using IRC: 37-2012; Design of rigid pavements using IRC: 58-2011;
Distresses in concrete pavements.

Traffic Engineering: Traffic studies on flow, speed, travel time - delay and O-D study, PCU, peak hour
factor, parking study, accident study and analysis, statistical analysis of traffic data; Microscopic and
macroscopic parameters of traffic flow, fundamental relationships; Control devices, signal design by
Webster’s method; Types of intersections and channelization; Highway capacity and level of service of rural
highways and urban roads.
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 - scale, flying height; Remote sensing - basics, platform and sensors, visual image
interpretation; Basics of Geographical information system (GIS) and Geographical Positioning system
(GPS).

Water Resources Engineering

Fluid Mechanics: Properties of fluids, fluid statics; Continuity, momentum, energy and corresponding
equations; Potential flow, applications of momentum and energy equations; Laminar and turbulent flow;
Flow in pipes, pipe networks; Concept of boundary layer and its growth.
Hydraulics: Forces on immersed bodies; Flow measurement in channels and pipes; Dimensional analysis
and hydraulic similitude; Kinematics of flow, velocity triangles; Basics of hydraulic machines, specific
speed of pumps and turbines; Channel Hydraulics - Energy-depth relationships, specific energy, critical
flow, slope profile, hydraulic jump, uniform flow and gradually varied flow
Hydrology: Hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation, evapo-transpiration, watershed, infiltration, unit
hydrographs, hydrograph analysis, flood estimation and routing, reservoir capacity, reservoir and channel
routing, surface run-off models, ground water hydrology - steady state well hydraulics and aquifers;
Application of Darcy’s law.
Irrigation: Duty, delta, estimation of evapo-transpiration; Crop water requirements; Design of lined and
unlined canals, head works, gravity dams and spillways; Design of weirs on permeable foundation; Types of
irrigation systems, irrigation methods; Water logging and drainage; Canal regulatory works, cross-drainage
structures, outlets and escapes.