FUNDAMENTAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
Course Objective:
- Acquire knowledge in the basic civil engineering area required for managing civil works
- Acquire knowledge on the basic infrastructures and their element needed in the society
- Gain knowledge on the computation of quantity and cost of basic infrastructure in the society
- Gain knowledge on case study of repair and maintenance of infrastructures.
- Building Technology (10 hours)
- Introduction – Building and its types
- Functional aspect of building
- Building and its components ( Foundation, DPC, floorings, doors and windows, Staircase, roofs, ceilings, plastering, pointing, painting works)
- Setting out of foundation
- Building plans and section.
- Water supply and sanitary (8 hours)
- Water supply system.
- Quantity of water (Water demand, forecasting of population)
- Quality of water (Impurities and living organism in water, Examination , quality standards)
- Element of water supply system ( Intake, reservoir, distribution system, conveyance of water)
- Survey and planning of water supply project
- Sanitary system.
- System of drainage, street drains, sewer and its shape and size
- Sewer discharge calculation, self-cleaning velocity, setting out of sewer lines
- House drainage- different plumbing system in the building, manholes, disposal of sewage, septic tanks and soak pits
- Survey and planning of sanitary project
- Transportation engineering (8 hours)
- Road and road structures (sub grade, grade (Soling), base surfacing)
- Road types, road gradients, geometrics of roads
- Cambers, and super elevation, road curve
- Survey and planning of road project
- Water resources engineering (9 hours)
- Hydrology and Irrigation
- Hydrology and its scope, hydrological cycle, precipitation / evapotranspiration / infiltration / runoff, hydrograph analysis
- Irrigation structures (Dams, channels, notches, weirs, aqueduct and siphons etc)
- Gauging velocity and discharge measurement
- Survey and planning of irrigation project
- Hydropower
- Introduction to hydropower (Source of energy, hydropower)
- Classification of hydropower projects (runoff-river, storage type, basin diversion type, pumped storage type)
- Hydropower planning(Hydropower development cycle, topographic survey & geotechnical investigation, hydrometerological &sedimentological investigation)
- Reservoir &dams (reservoir:its site and storage capacity, Dam:its type and site selection)
- Hydropower elements (headworks,settling basin, penstocks,spillway and gates, hydroelectric machine, powerhouse)
- Quantity surveying (10 hours)
- Introduction of quantity surveying(Estimating), different types of estimates
- Method of building estimating (wall, doors & windows, roofs, partitions, ceiling)
- Estimating of water supply & sanitary works
- Estimating of road works (Earthworks, culvert, pavements)
- Rate analysis and specifications
Practical:
The following drawing and quantity surveying will be performed in this course. These are:
- Building construction
- Plans, elevation and section of a two &three room building
- Trench plan, typical foundation sections
- Detailing of floors, roofs and doors and windows
- Water supply and sanitary engineering
- small rural water supply system
- Drawing of typical structures used in rural water supply scheme
- Sizing and materials used in sewer drains
- Transportation engineering
- Typical drawing of road longitudinal and cross sections
- Typical drawing of different types culvert and drainages
- Water resource engineering
- Hydrology and irrigation
- Catchment area,rainfall , discharge of stream
- Typical drawing of cross drainages, canals and headwork
- Hydropower
- Reservoir and dams
- Typical structures of hydropower headwork, settling basin and penstocks
- Quantity surveying
- Types of estimate
- Preliminary estimate
- Rate analysis of main items
- Detailed estimate of one room building
References:
- M. Goyal (2004), Hand book of building construction, Amrindrea Consultancy, Faridabad, India
- J.R. Reddy (2004), A text book of hydrology, Laxmi publications
- N. Dulal, S, Baral (2012) Engineering hydrology, Apex Educational Academy
- K. Borrows, Water power engineering, New Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill
- Baral (2013), fundamental of Hydropower engineering, Engineering and Education Services, Kathmandu
- N.Dutta (2006), Estimatingand costing
- Khanna & Justo (2004) Highway engineering
Evaluation Scheme:
The question will cover all the chapters of the syllabus. The evaluation scheme will be as indicated in the table below:
Unit |
Chapters |
Hours |
Marks distribution* |
1 |
1 |
10 |
16 |
2 |
2 |
8 |
16 |
3 |
3 |
8 |
16 |
4 |
4 |
9 |
16 |
5 |
5 |
10 |
16 |
Total |
45 |
80 |
*Note: There may be minor deviation in marks distribution
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