B.Tech.

(Civil Engineering) - Syllabi of various courses

CEPC301 Geotechnical Engineering - I

Pre-requisite: Soil Mechanics

Total contact
L T P/D Credits
hours
3 0 0 3 3

Brief description of the course: The course is designed to provide students with the
knowledge of various criteria of design of shallow foundations and provide skills for soil
exploration techniques. It will help students to understand action of a single pile and piles in
group, and methods of calculations of load capacity by various techniques including lateral
stability of well foundations.

Course Content:
Unit-I (12 hrs)
Earth pressure: Introduction, earth pressure at rest, Rankine's active & passive states of
plastic equilibrium, Rankine's earth pressure theory, Coulomb's earth pressure theory,
Culmann's graphical construction, Rebhann's construction.
Sub-Surface exploration: Purpose, stages in soil exploration, depth and lateral extent of
exploration, guidelines for various types of structures, ground water observations, excavation
and boring methods, soil sampling and disturbance, major types of samplers, sounding
methods - SCPT, DCPT, SPT and interpretation, geophysical methods, exploration log.
Unit-II (12 hrs)
Shallow Foundations: Situation suitable for the shallow foundation, types of shallow
foundations, factors influencing depth and location of a footing, ultimate bearing capacity,
modes of shear failure, Rankine's analysis, Terzaghi's theory, Skempton's formula, effect of
fluctuation of GWT, effect of eccentricity on bearing capacity, inclined load, I.S Code
recommendations, factors affecting bearing capacity, methods of improving bearing capacity,
various causes of settlement of foundation, safe bearing pressure based on settlement,
settlement calculation, elastic and consolidation settlement, allowable settlement as per IS
Code, plate load test and its interpretation, bearing capacity from penetration tests,
conventional procedure of proportioning of footings, raft foundations, bearing capacity of raft
in sands and clays, floating foundation.
Unit-III (6 hrs)
Pile Foundations: Introduction, necessity of pile foundations, classification of piles, load
capacity, static analysis, analysis of pile capacity in sands and clays, dynamic analysis, pile
load tests, negative skin friction, under-reamed piles, group action in piles, pile spacing, pile
group capacity, stress on lower strata, settlement analysis, negative skin friction of pile group.
Unit-IV (6 hrs)
Well foundations - components, shapes, forces acting on well foundations, factors governing
depth, load carrying capacity in sands and clays, lateral stability, procedure for construction
of wells, tilts and shifts.

Note: The focus of concluding lectures should be to emphasize the value addition of the
subject and also on how it impacts the environment. Further, the faculty may suggest possible
sustainable solutions/emerging technologies/innovations towards sustainability in the subject
domain.
 CEPC302 Water Supply & Treatment

Pre-requisite: Applied Chemistry & Basics of Fluid Mechanics

Total contact
L T P/D Credits
hours
3 0 0 3 3
Brief description of the course:
The course is designed to provide students knowledge and skills necessary for planning and
designing water supply and treatment systems for safe and adequate water supply to the
community. The course covers a wide range of topics, including water quantity, water quality
characterization, treatment methods and distribution systems.

Course Content:
Unit-I (9 Lectures)
Water Quantity and Collection
Importance and necessity of water supply scheme. Components of water supply scheme,
water demands and its variations. Population forecasting, estimation of total quantity of water
requirement, quality and quantity perspective of surface and ground water sources, selection
of a source for water supply, Intakes-types of intakes, factors governing location of intakes,
pumps and pumping stations.

Unit-II
Water Quality (7 Lectures)
Sources of impurities, type of impurities in water and their sanitary significance, physical,
chemical and bacteriological analysis of water, sampling, water quality standards.

Unit-III (11 Lectures)

Water Treatment
Objectives, treatment processes and their sequence in conventional water treatment plant,
aeration, sedimentation – plain and aided with coagulation- types, features and design
aspects, mixing basins and flocculation units. Filtration – mechanisms, types of filters - slow
and rapid sand filtration units (features and design aspects), disinfection - theory, methods
and practices, specific water treatment methods

Unit-IV (9 Lectures)
Water Conveyance and Distribution
Hydraulic design of pressure pipe, pipe materials, types of distribution system – gravity
system, pumping system, dual system, layout of distribution system – dead end system, grid
iron system, ring system, radial system, their merits and demerits, distribution reservoir -
functions and determination of storage capacity, hydraulic analysis of distribution network.
Indigenous and sustainable technologies/practices related to water supply and treatment, case
studies on water supply and treatment systems.

Note: The focus of concluding lectures should be to emphasize the value addition of the
subject and also on how it impacts the environment. Further, the faculty may suggest possible
sustainable solutions/emerging technologies/innovations towards sustainability in the subject
domain.

Text Books/Reference:
1. Water Supply and Sewerage: E.W. Steel.
2. Water Supply Engineering: S.R. Kshirsagar.
 CEPC303 Engineering Hydrology

Pre-requisite: Fluid Mechanics - I & Fluid Mechanics - II

Total contact
L T P/D Credits
hours
3 0 0 3 3

Brief description of the course: Students will be able to understand and measurement
techniques of various hydrologic data required for water resources projects.

Course Content:
Unit-I (9 hrs)
1. Introduction
Hydrologic cycle, scope and application of hydrology to engineering problems,
drainage basins and its characteristics, stream geometry, hypsometric curves.
2. Precipitation
Forms and types of precipitation, characteristics of precipitation in India, measurement
of precipitation, recording and non-recording raingages, raingage station, raingage
network, estimation of missing data, presentation of rainfall data, mean precipitation,
depth -area -duration relationship, frequency of point rainfall, intensity -duration-
frequency curves, probable max. precipitation.

Unit-II (7 hrs)
3. Evaporation & Transpiration
Process, evaporimeters and empirical relationships, analytical method, reservoir
evaporation and methods of its control, transpiration, evapotranspiration and its
measurement, Penman's equation and potential evapotranspiration.

4. Infiltration
Infiltration process, initial loss, infiltration capacity and measurement of infiltration,
infiltration indices.
Unit-III (11 hrs)
5. Runoff
Factor affecting run-off, estimation of runoff, rainfall-run off relationships,
measurement of stage-staff gauge, wire gauge, automatic stage recorder and stage
hydrograph, measurement of velocity-current meters, floats, area velocity method,
moving boat and slope area method, electromagnetic, ultra-sonic and dilution methods
of stream flow measurement, stage discharge relationship.
6. Hydrograph
Discharge hydrograph, components and factors affecting shape of hydrograph,
effective rainfall, unit hydrograph and its derivation, unit hydrograph of different
durations, use and limitations of UH, triangular UH, Snyder's synthetic UH, floods,
rational methods, empirical formulae, UH method, flood frequency methods, Gumbel's
method, graphical method, design flood.
7. Flood Routing
Introduction, reservoir routing and channel routing, Modified Pul’s method,
Muskingum method of routing, Flood control
 Unit-IV (9 hrs)
8. Ground Water
Occurrence, types of aquifers, compressibility of aquifers, water table and its effects
on fluctuations, wells and springs, movement of ground water, Darcy's law,
permeability and its determination, porosity, specific yield and specific retention,
storage coefficient, transmissibility. Steady state flow to wells in unconfined and
confined aquifers.
9. Sustainable use of water and conservation
Need, methods, water efficient technologies
.
Note: The focus of concluding lectures should be to emphasize the value addition of the
subject and also on how it impacts the environment. Further, the faculty may suggest possible
sustainable solutions/emerging technologies/innovations towards sustainability in the subject
domain.

Text Books/Reference:
1. Engineering Hydrology by K Subramanya.
2. Hydrology by H M Raghunath.
3. Hydrology for Engineers by Linsely, Kohler, Paulhus.
4. Elementary Hydrology by V P Singh.

Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to
CO1: know Hydrologic cycle & precipitation types
CO2: be familiar with measurement techniques of various components of hydrologic cycle
CO3: know concept of flood estimation.
CO4: be acquainted with the aquifer characteristics and ground water yield
 CEPC304 Design of Concrete Structures-I

Total contact
L T P/D Credits
hours
3 0 2 4 5

Pre-requisite: Structural Analysis

Brief description of the course: The course has been designed to introduce the students to
properties of concrete and reinforcement to be used for structural design of various members.
This will create interest among students in designing various structural members used in RCC
buildings, viz. beams, columns, slabs and foundations.

Course Content:

Unit 1. Limit State Design Method: Building code IS 456-2000, Limit state of collapse,
serviceability, characteristic strength and characteristics loads, design values, Partial safety
factors, stress -strain relationship for concrete and steel. Limit state of collapse: flexure,
Shear, Basic assumptions, Analysis and design of singly, doubly reinforced rectangular
sections. (8 lectures)
Unit 2. T beams and Continuous beams: Bending Moments and Shear forces in Continuous
beams, Structural Design as per IS 456-200, Design of T beams and continuous beams.
(8 lectures)
Unit 3. Design of Slabs: One way and Two Way Slabs, General considerations, Design of
continuous one way and two way slabs for distributed loadings as per IS 456-2002 for
different end conditions. (6 lectures)
Unit 4. Design of Columns: Limit state of Collapse; Compression, Effective length,
Minimum eccentricity, short columns under axial compression, Uniaxial and biaxial
bending, slender compression members. (6 lectures)
Unit 5. Design of Footings: Isolated footings, Combined footings, Raft foundation.
(8 lectures)

Note: The focus of concluding lectures should be to emphasize the value addition of the
subject and also on how it impacts the environment. Further, the faculty may suggest possible
sustainable solutions/emerging technologies/innovations towards sustainability in the subject
domain.

Text Books/Reference:
1. Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, P Dayaratnam, Oxford & IBH Pub., N.
Delhi.
2. Reinforced Concrete-Limit State Design, A. K. Jain, Nem Chand & Bros., Roorkee.
3. Compressive RCC design, B C Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain, Anil Kumar Jail, Laxmi
Publications.
4. SP-16(S&T)-1980, 'Design Aids for Reinforced Concrete to IS:456, BIS, N. Delhi.
5. SP-34(S&T)-1987 'Handbook on Concrete Reinforcement and Detailing', BIS, N.
Delhi.
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
CO1 Limit state design for RCC Beams and slabs.
CO2 Structural Design of columns for RCC framed buildings.
CO3 Design one way and two way slabs
CO4 design considerations for design of column and footings.