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Brickwork for walls, types, caving walls, design of brick masonary walls per I.S. code, factors of safety,
serviceability and strength requirements, detiling of walls, floors, roots, ceiling, finishing of buildings, plastrxing,
pointing, painting.
Functional planning of building, orientation of buildings, elements of fire-proof construction, repairs to
damaged and cracked buildings, use of ferrocement, fibre-reinforced and polymer concrete in construction,
techniques and materials for low cost housing.
Building estimates and specifications, construction scheduling PERT and CPM methods.
Part – B.
Transportation Engineering:
Roads, Traffic engineering and traffic surveys, intersections, road signs, signals and markings.
Classification of roads, plannings and geometric design.
Design of flexible and rigid pavements, Indian Road Congress guidelines on pavement layers and design
methodologies.
Part – C.
Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering,
Hydrology: Hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, depression storage, infiltration,
hydrograph, unit hydrograph, frequency analysis, flood estimation.
Ground water flow: Specific yield, storage co-efficient, co-effficient of permeability, confined and
unconfined aquifers, radial flow into a well under confined and unconfined conditions, tube-wells, pumping and
recuperation tests, ground water potential.
Water resources planning: Ground and surface water resources, single and multipurpose projects, storage
capacity of reservoirs, reservoirs losses, reservoir sedimentation, flood routing through reservoirs, economics of
water resources projects.
Water requirement for crops: consumptive use of water, quality of irrigation water, duty and delta, irrigation
methods and their efficiencies.
Canals: Distribution system for canal irrigation, canal capacity, canal Losses, alignment of main and
distributary canals, most efficient section, lined channels, their design, regime theory, critical shear stress, bed
load and suspended load transport cost analysis of lined and unlined canals, drainage behind lining.
Water logging: causes and control, drainage system design, salinity.
Canal structures: Design of regulation, cross drainage and communication works, cross regulators, head
regulartors, canal falls, aqueducts metering flumes and canal outlets.
Diversion head works: Principles of design of weirs on permeable and impermeable foundations, Khosla' s
theory, energy dissipation, stilling basins, sediment exclusion.
Storage works: Types of dams, design principles of rigid gravity and earth dams, stability analysis, foundation
treatment, joints and galleries, control of seepage. construction methods and machinery.
Spillways: Types, crest gates, energy dissipation.
River training: objectives of river training, methods of river training.
Part – D.
Environmental Engineerig: Water supply: Estimation of water resources, ground and surface water, ground
water hydraulics, predicting demand of water, impurities of water and their significance, Physical, chemical and
bacteriological analysis, water borne diseases, standards for potable water
Intake of Water: Pumping and gravity schemes.
Water treatment: Priniciples of coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation, slow, rapid, pressure, bifolw
and multi-media filters, chlorination, softening removal of taste, odour and salinity.
Water storage and distribution: Storage and balancing, reservoirs types. location and capacity.
Distribution System: layout, hydraulies of pipelines, pipe fittings, valves including check and pressure
reducing valves, meters, analysis of distribution systems using Hardy Cross methods general principles of
optimal design based on cost headloss ratio criterion, leak detection, maintenance of distribution systems,
pumping stations and their operations.
Sewerage system: domestic and industrial wastes, storm, sewage separate and combined system, flow
through sewers, design of sewers, sewer appurtenances, manholes inlets, junctions, siphon. Sewage
characerisation: BOD, COD, solids, dissolved oxygen, nitrogen and TOC. Standards of disposal in normal water
course and on land.