Students can able to learn the basic civil engineering concepts like
1. INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL ENGINEERING: Scope of different fields of Civil Engineering-Surveying, Building Materials, Construction Technology,Geo technical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Hydraulics, Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering.
2. INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING MECHANICS: Force System: Basic concepts, Particle equilibrium in 2-Dimensional force system, Rigid Body equilibrium, System of Forces: Varignon’s theorem.
3. EQUILIBRIUM OF FORCES: Free body diagram, Equations of Equilibrium of Co-planar Systems; Lami’s Theorem. Moment of Force and its Application; Resolution & composition of forces, Couple and Resultant of Force System.
4. SUPPORT REACTIONS: Classification of beams, Types of Loads and Supports, Support Reactions in statically determinate beams, Numerical problems on support reactions for statically determinate beams with Point load (Normal and inclined), uniformly distributed and uniformly varying loads and Moments.
5. FRICTION: Types of friction, Limiting friction, Laws of Friction, Concept of Static friction, Motion of Bodies, wedge friction, ladder friction.
6. CENTER OF GRAVITY: Centroid of simple figures: rectangle, triangle, semicircle, quarter circle, sector of circle from first principles, centroid of composite sections. (Center of Gravity and its implications).
7. MOMENT OF INERTIA: Definition, Moment of inertia of plane sections: rectangle, triangle, semicircle and quarter circle from first principles. Theorems of moment of inertia, Moment of inertia of composite sections.
8. KINETICS: Newtons second law of motion and D’Alemberts principle for rectilinear motion of a particle, Numerical problems.
9. KINEMATICS: Definitions, Displacement, average velocity Instantaneous velocity Speed– Acceleration - Average acceleration – Variable acceleration, Acceleration due to gravity – Newton’s Laws of Motion.