1. Introduction to Civil Engineering, Scope of different fields of CivilEngineering - Surveying, Building Materials, Construction Technology,Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Hydraulics, WaterResources and Irrigation Engineering, Transportation Engineering,Environmental Engineering.Infrastructure: Types of infrastructure, Role of Civil Engineer in theInfrastructural Development, Effect of the infrastructural facilities onsocio-economic development of a country.4 Hours2. Roads: Type of roads, Components and their functions.2 Hours3. Bridges and Dams: Different types with simple sketches.1 Hour
Introduction to Engineering mechanics: Basic idealisations - Particle,Continuum and Rigid body; Force and its characteristics, types of forces,Classification of force systems; Principle of physical independence offorces, Principle of superposition of forces, Principle of transmissibility offorces; Newton\'s laws of motion, Introduction to SI units, Moment of aforce, couple, moment of a couple, characteristics of couple, Equivalentforce - couple system; Resolution of forces, composition of forces;Numerical problems on moment of forces and couples, on equivalentforce - couple system.
Composition of forces - Definition of Resultant; Composition of coplanar -concurrent force system, Principle of resolved parts; Numerical problemson composition of coplanar concurrent force systems.Composition of coplanar - non-concurrent force system, Varignon\'sprinciple of moments; Numerical problems on composition of coplanarnon-concurrent force systems
Centroid of plane figures; Locating the centroid of triangle, semicircle,quadrant of a circle and sector of a circle using method of integration,Centroid of simple built up sections; Numerical problems.
Equilibrium of forces - Definition of Equilibrant; Conditions of staticequilibrium for different force systems, Lami\'s theorem; Numericalproblems on equilibrium of coplanar – concurrent and non concurrentforce systems.
Types of supports, statically determinate beams, Numerical problems onsupport reactions for statically determinate beams and analysis of simpletrusses (Method of joints and method of sections).
Friction - Types of friction, Laws of static friction, Limiting friction,Angle of friction, angle of repose; Impending motion on horizontal andinclined planes; Wedge friction; Ladder friction; Numerical problems.
Moment of inertia of an area, polar moment of inertia, Radius of gyration,Perpendicular axis theorem and Parallel axis theorem; Moment of Inertiaof rectangular, circular and triangular areas from method of integration;Moment of inertia of composite areas; Numerical problems.