BESCK104A Introduction to Civil Engineering syllabus for Mechanical Stream Physics Group

Civil Engineering Disciplines and Building Science

Introduction to Civil Engineering:

Surveying, Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydraulics & Water Resources, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Construction planning & Project management.

Basic Materials of Construction:

Bricks, Cement & mortars, Plain, Reinforced & Pre-stressed Concrete, Structural steel, Construction Chemicals.

Structural elements of a building:

foundation, plinth, lintel, chejja, Masonry wall, column, beam, slab and staircase

Societal and Global Impact of Infrastructure

Infrastructure:

Introduction to sustainable development goals, Smart city concept, clean city concept, Safe city concept

Environment:

Water Supply and Sanitary systems, urban air pollution management, Solid waste management, identification of Landfill sites, urban flood control

Built-environment:

Energy efficient buildings, recycling, Temperature and Sound control in buildings, Security systems; Smart buildings.

Analysis of force systems:

Concept of idealization, system of forces, principles of superposition and transmissibility, Resolution and composition of forces, Law of Parallelogram of forces, Resultant of concurrent and non-concurrent coplanar force systems, moment of forces, couple, Varignon’s theorem, free body diagram, equations of equilibrium, equilibrium of concurrent and non-concurrent coplanar force systems

Centroid:

Importance of centroid and centre of gravity, methods of determining the centroid, locating the centroid of plane laminae from first principles, centroid of built-up sections. Numerical examples

Moment of inertia:

Importance of Moment of Inertia, method of determining the second moment of area (moment of inertia) of plane sections from first principles, parallel axis theorem and perpendicular axis theorem, section modulus, radius of gyration, moment of inertia of built-up sections, Numerical Examples.

Course outcome (Course Skill Set)

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

CO1 Understand the various disciplines of civil engineering

CO2 Understand the infrastructure requirement for sustainable development

CO3 Compute the resultant and equilibrium of force systems.

CO4 Locate the centroid of plane and built-up sections

CO5 Compute the moment of inertia of plane and built-up sections.

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 out of 50).
• The minimum passing mark for the SEE is 35% of the maximum marks (18 marks out of 50).
• 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(CIE):

Two Unit Tests each of 30 Marks (duration 01 hour)

• First test after the completion of 30-40 % of the syllabus
• Second test after completion of 80-90% of the syllabus

One Improvement test before the closing of the academic term may be conducted if necessary. However best two tests out of three shall be taken into consideration

Two assignments each of 20 Marks

The teacher has to plan the assignments and get them completed by the students well before the closing of the term so that marks entry in the examination portal shall be done in time. Formative (Successive) Assessments include Assignments/Quizzes/Seminars/ Course projects/Field surveys/ Case studies/ Hands-on practice (experiments)/Group Discussions/ others. The Teachers shall choose the types of assignments depending on the requirement of the course and plan to attain the Cos and POs. (to have a 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 /test question paper is designed to attain the different levels of Bloom’s taxonomy as per the outcome defined for the course.

The sum of two tests, two assignments, will be out of 100 marks and will be scaled down to 50 marks

Semester End Examination(SEE):

Theory SEE will be conducted by University as per the scheduled timetable, with common question papers for the subject (duration 03 hours)

• The question paper shall be set for 100 marks. The medium of the question paper shall be English/Kannada). The duration of SEE is 03 hours.
• The question paper will have 10 questions. Two questions per module. Each question is set for 20 marks. The students have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module. The student has to answer for 100 marks and marks scored out of 100 shall be proportionally reduced to 50 marks.
• There will be 2 questions from each module. Each of the two questions under a module (with a maximum of 3 sub-questions), should have a mix of topics under that module.

Suggested Learning Resources:

Text Books

1. Bansal R. K., Rakesh Ranjan Beohar and Ahmad Ali Khan, Basic Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, 2015,Laxmi Publications.

2. Kolhapure B K, Elements of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, 2014, EBPB

Reference Books:

1. Beer F.P. and Johnston E. R., Mechanics for Engineers, Statics and Dynamics, 1987, McGraw Hill.

2. Irving H. Shames, Engineering Mechanics, 2019, Prentice-Hall.

3. Hibbler R. C., Engineering Mechanics: Principles of Statics and Dynamics, 2017, Pearson Press.

4. Timoshenko S, Young D. H., Rao J. V., Engineering Mechanics, 5th Edition, 2017, Pearson Press.

5. Bhavikatti S S, Engineering Mechanics, 2019, New Age International

6. Reddy Vijaykumar K and Suresh Kumar K, Engineering Mechanics, 2011, BS publication