21CV584 Quality Control and Quality Assurance syllabus for CV

Overview of Quality:

Quality History, Quality Definition, Quality Inspection, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Quality Management, Quality Gurus: Philip B. Crosby, W. Edwards Deming etc, PDCA Cycle, Costs associated with Quality, Reasons for Poor Quality

Quality Management:

Management Practices: TQM, Vision and Quality policy, Quality Function Deployment, Bench marking and performance evaluation, ISO 9000 Quality Management System, ISO 14000 Environmental Management System

Statistical Quality Control:

Importance of SQC in construction, Statistical parameters: sampling, population and sampling, measure of variability, measure of central tendency, Recommendations of IS 456:2000 on sampling, testing and acceptance criteria for concrete.

QA and QC in Construction:

Errors in concrete construction; Frequency of material testing and reporting of basic construction materials (cement, sand, coarse aggregate, bricks, steel), Norms for accepting and rejecting criteria of basic construction materials as per relevant IS codes.

On-Site Quality:

Achieving quality at different stages of construction: Conceptual Design, Preliminary Design, Detailed Design, Construction, Testing, Commissioning, and Handover. Quality assessment of concrete through NDT: rebound hammer and USPV tests and guidelines for accepting and rejecting.

Course outcome (Course Skill Set)

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

1. Realize the importance of quality in construction

2. Apply SQC techniques in different aspects of construction

3. Implement QMS programs at different levels of construction

Assessment Details (both CIE and SEE)

• The weightage of Continuous Internal Evaluation (CIE) is 50% and for Semester End Exam (SEE) is 50%.
• The minimum passing mark for the CIE is 40% of the maximum marks (20 marks).
• A student shall be deemed to have satisfied the academic requirements and earned the credits allotted to each subject/ course if the student secures not less than 35% (18 Marks out of 50) in the semester-end examination(SEE), and a minimum of 40% (40 marks out of 100) in the sum total of the CIE (Continuous Internal Evaluation) and SEE (Semester End Examination) taken together

Continuous Internal Evaluation:

Three Unit Tests each of 20 Marks (duration 01 hour)

1. First test at the end of 5th week of the semester

2. Second test at the end of the 10th week of the semester

3. Third test at the end of the 15th week of the semester

Two assignments each of 10 Marks

4. First assignment at the end of 4th week of the semester

5. Second assignment at the end of 9th week of the semester Group discussion/Seminar/quiz any one of three suitably planned to attain the COs and POs for 20 Marks (duration 01 hours)

6. At the end of the 13th week of the semester

The sum of three tests, two assignments, and quiz/seminar/group discussion will be out of 100 marks and will be scaled down to 50 marks

(to have less stressed CIE, the portion of the syllabus should not be common /repeated for any of the methods of the CIE. Each method of CIE should have a different syllabus portion of the course).

CIE methods /question paper is designed to attain the different levels of Bloom’s taxonomy as per the outcome defined for the course.

Semester End Examination:

• SEE paper shall be set for 50 questions, each of 01 mark.
• The pattern of the question paper is MCQ (multiple choice questions).
• The time allotted for SEE is 01 hour.
• The student has to secure minimum of 35% of the maximum marks meant for SEE.

Suggested Learning Resources:

Books

1. Juran J M and Gryna F M, Quality Planning and Analysis

2. Hutchins G, John L Ashford, The Management of Quality in Construction

3. Mohamed A. El-Reedy, “Concrete and Steel Construction, Quality Control and Assurance” , CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group

4. Amitava Mitra, Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement, WILEY Publications, 4th Edition

5. Abdul Razzak Rumane, Quality Management in Construction Projects, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group

6. M. S. Shetty, Concrete Technology, S Chand Publications

7. Relevant IS Codes