Fundamentals and Applications of Civil Engineering
B24ED0102
AY 2024-25
Faculty profile Mr. Venkatesh Wadki
Assistant Professor
School of Civil Engineering
REVA University
[email protected]
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Course Details
Course Title Fundamentals and Applications of Civil Engineering Course Type HC (Theory)
Course Code B24ED0102 Credits 2 Class I Semester
Contact Work Total Number of
TLP Credits Assessment in
Hours Load Classes
Weightage
Course Theory 1 1 3 Per Semester
Practice - - -
Structure Theory Practical CIE SEE
Tutorial 1 2 -
Total 2 3 3 48 - 50% 50%
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Syllabus
• Introduction to Civil Engineering - Scope of different fields of Civil Engineering. Types of infrastructure,
Importance of Infrastructural Development, Effect of the infrastructural facilities and social-economic
development of a country. Construction materials.
• Engineering Mechanics: Forces and Classification, analysis of concurrent force systems and non-concurrent
force systems- resultants. Types of loads, supports and beams. Numerical problems on beams: Calculation of
support reactions with point load, uniformly distributed load and moments.
• Load applications and analysis: To visualize the load distribution, shear force, bending moments and
deflections of statically determinate beams using Staad Pro/MS Excel.
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Syllabus
• Transportation Engineering: Classification of Roads and their functions, Flexible and Rigid Pavements.
Road safety and management, Causes - Collection of data for traffic studies, Traffic management techniques,
ITS and its application. Smart cities: Smart energy resources, Smart disposal of solid waste, smart road
construction. Create cross-sectional views of different road types using AutoCAD software
• Geo Informatics: Principles of remote sensing - Satellites and Sensors, Introduction to GIS principles,
Global positioning system, Introduction to image processing and its application. Case studies.
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Course Outcomes:
After completion of the course students will be able to:
• CO1: Understand the scope and fields of Civil • CO4: Understand transportation engineering
Engineering, types of infrastructure, and their principles, including road classification, ITS and
socio-economic impact. smart cities.
• CO2: Analyze forces, support reactions, and loads • CO5: Utilize geo-informatics principles for remote
in engineering mechanics. sensing, GIS, and image Processing.
• CO3: Analyse and visualize the load distribution, • CO6: Apply software tools and create road cross-
shear force, bending moments and deflections of sections and understand their practical applications.
statically determinate beams using tools.
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Suggested Text books and Reference books
Text Books Reference books:
1. Elements of Civil Engineering Jagadeesh, T. R., & Jayaram, M. A. Sapna 1. Structural Health Monitoring. Balageas, D., Fritzen, C. P., & Güemes, A.
Book House. ISBN: 978-8120341675 John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-0470394381
2. Engineering Mechanics. Khurmi, R. S. S. Chand & Company Ltd. ISBN: 2. Principles of Geotechnical Engineering. Das, B. M. Cengage Learning.
978-8121901014 ISBN: 978-0495668107
3. Environmental Engineering. Rao, P. V. (2002)Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. 3. Geographic Information Systems and Science. Longley, P. A., Goodchild,
Ltd. ISBN: 978-8123919352 M. F., Maguire, D. J., & Rhind, D. W. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-
0470721446
4. Remote Sensing and GIS Bhatta, B. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-
0198072393 4. Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia.
Townsend, A. M. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN: 978-0393349786
5. Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning. Kadiyali, L. R. Khanna
Publishers. ISBN: 978-8185596780 5. Construction Project Management: A Practical Guide to Field Construction
Management (. Sears, S. K., Sears, G. A., & Clough, R. H. John Wiley &
6. Building Construction. Punmia, B. C., Jain, A. K., & Jain, A. K. Laxmi
Sons. ISBN: 978-1118745052
Publications. ISBN: 978-8131804289.
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Evaluation Scheme
Sl. EVALUATION IA WEIGHTAGE DATE FOR LEARNING DATE OF COMPLETION OF
COMPONENTS MARKS (%) IA OUTCOMES EVALUATION
No.
1 IA 1(Unit 1&2) 20 20 03-12-2024 1,2,3 13-12-2024
IA 2(Unit3 &4) 20 20 05-02-2025 4,5,6 15-02-2025
Assignment 1 05 5 15-11-2024 1,2,3 20-11-2024
Assignment 2 05 5 03-01-2025 4,5,6 15-01-2025
2 SEE 50 50 17-03-2025 1,2,3,4,5,6 17-04-2025
Total 100 100%
