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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

B.TECH. CIVIL ENGINEERING

IV YEAR COURSE STRUCTURE & SYLLABUS (R16)

Admitted From 2016-17 Admitted Batch

IV YEAR I SEMESTER

Course
S. No Course Title L T P Credits
Code
1 CE701PC Transportation Engineering 4 0 0 4
2 CE702PC Estimation Quantity Surveying and Valuation 4 1 0 4
3 Professional Elective - II 3 0 0 3
4 Professional Elective - III 3 0 0 3
5 Professional Elective -IV 3 0 0 3
6 CE703PC Transportation Engineering Lab 0 0 3 2
7 CE704PC Environmental Engineering Lab 0 0 3 2
8 CE705PC Industry Oriented Mini Project 0 0 3 2
9 CE706PC Seminar 0 0 2 1
Total Credits 17 1 11 24

IV YEAR II SEMESTER

Course
S. No Course Title L T P Credits
Code
1 Open Elective - III 3 0 0 3
2 Professional Elective -V 3 0 0 3
3 Professional Elective -VI 3 0 0 3
4 CE801PC Major Project 0 0 30 15
Total Credits 9 0 30 24

Professional Elective - I
CE611PE Air Pollution and Control.
CE612PE Advanced Structural Analysis.
CE613PE Ground Water Development and Management.
CE614PE Earth and Rock fill Dams and Slope Stability.

Professional Elective – II
CE721PE Stochastic Hydrology.
CE722PE Construction Technology and Management.
CE723PE Foundation Engineering.
CE724PE Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Structures.
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Professional Elective – III

CE731PE Watershed Management.
CE732PE Prestressed Concrete.
CE733PE Ground Improvement Techniques.
CE734PE Railway and Airport Engineering.

Professional Elective – IV
CE741PE Traffic Engineering.
CE742PE Bridge Engineering.
CE743PE Soil Dynamics and Machine Foundation.
CE744PE Irrigation and Hydraulic Structures.

Professional Elective – V
CE851PE Waste Management.
CE852PE Pavement Design.
CE853PE Elements of Earthquake Engineering.
CE854PE Water Resources Systems Analysis.

Professional Elective – VI
CE861PE Finite Element Methods for Civil Engineering.
CE862PE Geoenvironmental Engineering.
CE863PE Design and Drawing of Irrigation Structures.
CE864PE Industrial Waste Water Treatment.

*Open Elective subjects’ syllabus is provided in a separate document.

*Open Elective – Students should take Open Electives from The List of Open Electives
Offered by Other Departments/Branches Only.

Ex: - A Student of Mechanical Engineering can take Open Electives from all other
departments/branches except Open Electives offered by Mechanical Engineering Dept.
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TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

B.Tech. IV Year I Sem. L T/P/D C

Course Code: CE701PC 4 0/0/0 4

Pre-Requisites: Surveying

Course Objectives: It deals with different components of Transportation Engineering like

highway; Railway & Airport Engineering Emphasis is a Geometric Design of different
elements in Transportation Engineering.

Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
 Understand Plan highway networks
 Design highway geometrics.
 Design Intersections and prepare traffic management plans.
 Design flexible and rigid pavements.

UNIT - I
Highway Development and Planning: Highway Development in India – Necessity for
Highway Planning- Different Road Development Plans; Classification of Roads - Road
Network Patterns – Highway Alignment- Factors affecting Alignment- Engineering Surveys
– Drawings and Reports – Highway Project.

UNIT – II
Highway Geometric Design: Importance of Geometric Design - Design controls and
Criteria - Highway Cross Section Elements - Sight Distance Elements- Stopping Sight
Distance, Overtaking Sight Distance and Intermediate Sight Distance - Design of Horizontal
Alignment - Design of Super elevation and Extra widening- Design of Transition Curves-
Design of Vertical alignment-Gradients- Vertical curves.

UNIT – III
Traffic Engineering & Regulations: Basic Parameters of Traffic-Volume, Speed and
Density - Traffic Volume Studies - Data Collection and Presentation - Speed studies - Data
Collection and Presentation - Origin & Destination studies, Parking Studies – Onstreet & Off
street Parking - Road Accidents - Causes and Preventive Measures - Accident Data
Recording – Condition Diagram and Collision Diagrams - Traffic Signs – Types and
Specifications – Road Markings - Need for Road Markings-Types of Road Markings -
Design of Traffic Signals – Webster Method.

UNIT – IV
Intersection Design: Types of Intersections – Conflicts at Intersections – Requirements of
At-Grade Intersections - Types of At-Grade Intersections: Channelized and Unchannelized
Intersections – Traffic Islands - Types of Grade Separated Intersections - Rotary Intersection
– Concept of Rotary – Design Factors of Rotary – Advantages and Limitations of Rotary
Intersections.

UNIT - V
Pavement Design: Design of Pavements: Design of Flexible pavement by CBR method as
per IRC 37-2012 and theory of empirical mechanistic method. Stresses in rigid pavement by
westergards and IRC methods. Design of overlay by Benkelman beam method.
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TEXT BOOKS:
1. Highway Engineering – S. K. Khanna & C. E. G. Justo, Nemchand & Bros., 7th
edition (2000).
2. Traffic Engineering & Transportation Planning – Dr. L. . Kadyali, Khanna
Publications – 6th Edition – 1997.

REFERENCES:
1. Principles of Traffic and Highway Engineering – Garber & Hoel, Cengage Learning.
2. Principles and Practices of Highway Engineering – Dr. L. R. Kadiyali and Dr. N. B
Lal - Khanna Publications.
3. Highway Engineering – S. P. Bindra , Dhanpat Rai & Sons. – 4th Edition (1981)
4. IRC 37-2012 : Tentative guidelines for design of flexible pavement
5. IRC 58-2011: Guidelines for design of plain jointed rigid pavements.
6. IRC 81-1997 : Guidelines for design of overlay using Benkalman Beam Deflection
Technique
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ESTIMATION, QUANTITY SURVEYING AND VALUATION

B.Tech. IV Year I Sem. L T/P/D C

Course Code: CE702PC 4 1/0/0 4

Pre Requisites: Concrete Technology, RC Design, Desgin of Steel Structure

Course Objectives: The subject provide process of estimations required for various work in
construction. To have knowledge of using SOR & SSR for analysis of rates on various works.

Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
 Do estimation of Buildings, Roads and Canals.
 Understand contracts and specification.

UNIT – I
General items of work in Building – Standard Units Principles of working out quantities for
detailed and abstract estimates – Approximate method of Estimating.

UNIT – II
Detailed Estimates of Buildings - Reinforcement bar bending and bar requirement schedules

UNIT – III
Earthwork for roads and canals.

UNIT – IV
Rate Analysis – Working out data for various items of work over head and contigent charges.

UNIT- V
Contracts – Types of contracts – Contract Documents – Conditions of contract, Valuation -
Standard specifications for different items of building construction.

NOTE: Number of Exercises Proposed:

1. Three in flat Roof & one in Sloped Roof
2. Exercises on Data – three Nos.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Estimating and Costing by B.N. Dutta, UBS publishers, 2000.
2. Estimating and Costing by G.S. Birdie Dhanpat Rai Publisher

REFERENCES:
1. Standard Schedule of rates and standard data book by public works department.
2. S. 1200 (Parts I to XXV – 1974/ method of measurement of building and Civil
Engineering works – B.I.S.)
3. Estimation, Costing and Specifications by M. Chakraborthi; Laxmi publications.
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FOUNDATION ENGINEERING
(Professional Elective-II)

B.Tech. IV Year I Sem. L T/P/D C

Course Code: CE723PE 3 0/0/0 3

Pre-Requisites: Soil Mechanics

Course Objectives: To impart the knowledge on various soil exploration techniques, and
analyse and design of various substructures, such as slopes, retaining walls, shallow
foundations, and pile foundations.

Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
Check the stability of slopes, analyze, and design the shallow and pile foundations, and earth
retaining structures.

UNIT – I
Soil Exploration: Need – methods of soil exploration – boring and sampling methods –
penetration tests – plate load test – pressure meter – planning of soil exploration programme
and preparation of soil investigation report.

UNIT – II
Slope Stability: Infinite and finite earth slopes – types of failures – factor of safety of infinite
slopes – stability analysis by Swedish slip circle method, method of slices, Bishop’s
Simplified method of slices – Taylor’s Stability Number- stability of slopes of earth dams
under different conditions.

UNIT – III
Earth Pressure Theories: At-rest earth pressures, Rankine’s theory of earth pressure – earth
pressures in layered soils – Coulomb’s earth pressure theory – Culmann’s graphical method,
effect of pore water, earth pressure due to surcharge loads.
Retaining Walls: Types of retaining walls – stability of gravity and cantilever retaining walls
against overturning, sliding and, bearing capacity modes of failure, Drainage from backfill,
introduction to reinforced earth walls.

UNIT – IV
Shallow Foundations - Types - choice of foundation – location and depth - safe bearing
capacity – shear criteria – Terzaghi’s, and IS code methods - settlement criteria – allowable
bearing pressure based on SPT N value and plate load test – allowable settlements of
structures.

UNIT - V
Pile Foundation: Types of piles – load carrying capacity of piles based on static pile
formulae – dynamic pile formulae – Pile Capacity through SPT and CPT results - pile load
tests - load carrying capacity of pile groups in sands and clays – Settlement of pile groups –
negative skin friction
Well Foundations: Types – different shapes of wells – forces on wells - components of wells
– Grip length – sinking of wells – tilts and shifts.
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TEXT BOOKS:
1. Das, B.M., - (2011) Principles of Foundation Engineering –7th edition, Cengage
Publishing.
2. Foundation Design Principles and Practices, Donald P. Coduto, 2 nd Edition, Pearson
Publishers.
3. Bowles, J.E., (2012) Foundation Analysis, and Design – 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill
Publishing company, Newyork.

REFERENCES:
1. Geotechnical Engineering by S. K. Gulhati & Manoj Datta – Tata Mc Graw Hill
Publishers New Delhi. 2005.
2. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering by VNS Murthy, CBS Publishers, and
Distributors.
3. Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics by Gopal Ranjan & ASR Rao, New age
International Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi
4. Analysis and Design of Substructures – Swami Saran, Oxford, and IBH Publishing
company Pvt Ltd (1998).
5. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering by B. N. D. Narasinga Rao, Wiley
(2015).
6. Geotechnical Engineering by Debsashis Mitra Universities Press (2016).
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PRESTRESSED CONCRETE
(Professional Elective - III)

B.Tech. IV Year I Sem. L T/P/D C

Course Code: CN721PE/CE732PE 3 0/0/0 3

Pre-Requisites: Reinforced Concrete Design

Course Objectives: Prestressing is the techniques often used in bridges and other structural
elements for longer span and hearer loads. This subject covers various aspects of prestressing
and design techniques to give the student an overall exposure in the analysis and design of
Prestressed concrete structures.

Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
 Able to design prestressed concrete structures
 Understand the concepts of pre-stressing in concrete structures and identify the
Materials for pre-stressing
 Analysis of sections for flexure and shear
 Understand the concepts of transfer of prestress in pretensioned members
 Analysis of composite beams and importance of deflections

UNIT - I
Introduction: Historic development- General principles of prestressing pretensioning and
post tensioning- Advantages and limitations of Prestressed concrete- General principles of
PSC- Classification and types of prestressing- Materials- high strength concrete and high
tensile steel their characteristics.

UNIT - II
Methods and Systems of prestressing: Pretensioning and Post tensioning methods and
systems of prestressing like Hoyer system, Magnel Blaton system, Freyssinet system and
Gifford- Udall System- Lee McCall system. Losses of Prestress: Loss of prestress in pre-
tensioned and post-tesnioned members due to various causes like elastic shortage of concrete,
shrinkage of concrete, creep of concrete, relaxation of stress in steel, slip in anchorage,
frictional losses IS 1343-2012 code provisions

UNIT - III
Flexure: Analysis of sections for flexure- beams prestressed with straight, concentric,
eccentric, bent and parabolic tendons- stress diagrams- Elastic design of PSC slabs and beams
of rectangular and I sections- Kern line – Cable profile and cable layout.
Shear: General Considerations- Principal tension and compression- Improving shear
resistance of concrete by horizontal and vertical prestressing and by using inclined or
parabolic cables- Analysis of rectangular and I beams for shear – Design of shear
reinforcements- IS Code provisions.

UNIT - IV
Transfer of Prestress in Pretensioned Members : Transmission of prestressing force by
bond – Transmission length – Flexural bond stresses – IS code provisions – Anchorage zone
stresses in post tensioned members – stress distribution in End block – Analysis by
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Guyon, Magnel, Zienlinski and Rowe’s methods – Anchorage zone reinforcement- IS 1343-
2012 code Provisions

UNIT - V
Composite Beams: Different Types- Propped and Unpropped- stress distribution-
Differential shrinkage- Analysis of composite beams- General design considerations.
Deflections: Importance of control of deflections- Factors influencing deflections – Short
term deflections of uncracked beams- prediction of long time deflections- IS code
requirements.

REFERENCES:
1. Prestressed concrete by Krishna Raju, Tata Mc Graw Hill Book – Co. New Delhi.
2. Design of prestress concrete structures by T.Y. Lin and Burn, John Wiley, New York.
3. Prestressed concrete by S. Ramamrutham Dhanpat Rai & Sons, Delhi.
4. Prestressed Concrete by N. Rajagopalan Narosa Publishing House
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IRRIGATION AND HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES

(Professional Elective - IV)

B.Tech. IV Year I Sem. L T/P/D C

Course Code: CE744PE 3 0/0/0 3

Pre Requisites: Water Resources Engineering

Course Objectives: To study various types of reservoirs and diversion headwork. The
subject also covers the topics such as gravity dams and earth dams.

Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
 Plan an Irrigation System
 Design irrigation canals and canal network
 Plan and design diversion head works
 Design irrigation canal structures
 Analyze gravity and earth dams
 Design spillways and energy dissipations works
 Analyze and design gravity dams

UNIT - I
Storage Works-Reservoirs - Types of reservoirs, selection of site for reservoir, zones of
storage of a reservoir, reservoir yield, estimation of capacity of reservoir using mass curve-
Reservoir Sedimentation – Life of Reservoir.. Types of dams, factors affecting selection of
type of dam, factors governing selection of site for a dam.

UNIT - II
Gravity dams: Forces acting on a gravity dam, causes of failure of a gravity dam, elementary
profile, and practical profile of a gravity dam, limiting height of a low gravity dam, Factors of
Safety - Stability Analysis, Foundation for a Gravity Dam, drainage and inspection galleries.

UNIT- III
Earth dams: types of Earth dams, causes of failure of earth dam, criteria for safe design of
earth dam, seepage through earth dam-graphical method, measures for control of seepage.
Spillways: types of spillways, Design principles of Ogee spillways - Spillway gates. Energy
Dissipaters and Stilling Basins Significance of Jump Height Curve and Tail Water Rating
Curve - USBR and Indian types of Stilling Basins.

UNIT- IV
Diversion Head works: Types of Diversion head works- weirs and barrages, layout of
diversion head work - components. Causes and failure of Weirs and Barrages on permeable
foundations,-Silt Ejectors and Silt Excluders
Weirs on Permeable Foundations – Creep Theories - Bligh’s, Lane’s and Khosla’s theories,
Determination of uplift pressure- Various Correction Factors – Design principles of weirs on
permeable foundations using Creep theories - exit gradient, U/s and D/s Sheet Piles -
Launching Apron.
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UNIT- V
Canal Falls - types of falls and their location, Design principles of Notch Fall and Sarada type
Fall.
Canal regulation works, principles of design of distributor and head regulators, Canal Cross
Regulators -canal outlets, types of canal modules, proportionality, sensitivity and flexibility.
Cross Drainage works: types, selection of site, Hydropower- classification, and principal
components of hydroelectric power plants.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Irrigation and water resources engineering by G.L. Asawa, New Age International
Publishers.
2. Irrigation engineering by K. R. Arora Standard Publishers.
3. Irrigation and water power engineering by Punmia & Lal, Laxmi publications Pvt.
Ltd., New Delhi

REFERENCES:
1. Theory and Design of Hydraulic structures by Varshney, Gupta & Gupta
2. Irrigation Engineering by R.K. Sharma and T.K. Sharma, S. Chand Publishers 2015.
3. Irrigation Theory and Practice by A. M. Micheal Vikas Publishing House 2015.
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TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING LAB

B.Tech. IV Year I Sem. L T/P/D C

Course Code: CE703PC 0 0/3/0 2

Pre-Requisites: Transportation Engineering Theory

Course Objectives: To gain the practical knowledge of properties of Highway materials and
surveys

Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student will be able to Asses for Highway
construction properties of highway materials

I. ROAD AGGREGATES:
1. Aggregate Crushing value
2. Aggregate Impact Test.
3. Specific Gravity and Water Absorption.
4. Abrasion Test
5. Flakiness and elongation Indices of coarse Aggregates.

II. BITUMINOUS MATERIALS:

1. Penetration Test.
2. Ductility Test.
3. Softening Point Test.
4. Marshal stability Test

III. TRAFFIC STUDIES

1. Traffic volume counts-Mid Blocks
2. Traffic volume counts-Junctions
3. Spot speed studies.
4. Parking Studies

TEXT BOOK:
1. Laboratory Manual in Highway Engineering by Ajay K. Duggal and Vijay P. Puri -
New age Publishers.
2. Highway Material Testing by Khanna S.K., Justo C.E.G, Nem Chand & Bros.
3. Principles and practice of Highway Engineering, L.R Kadiyali & N.B.Lal, Khanna,
2007.
4. Traffic Engineering and Transportation planning, L.R Kadiyali, Khanna publications,
2007.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING LAB

B.Tech. IV Year I Sem. L T/P/D C

Course Code: CE704PC 0 0/3/0 2

Pre Requisites: Chemistry Laboratory

Course Objectives: The laboratory provides knowledge of estimating various parameters

like PH, Chlorides, Sulphates, and Nitrates in water. For effective water treatment, the
determination of optimum dosage of coagulant and chloride demand is also included. The
estimation status of industrial effluents will also be taught in the laboratory by estimating
BOD and COD of effluent.

Course Outcomes: Students will able to find various properties of water

List of Experiments:
1. Determination of pH and Turbidity
2. Determination of Conductivity and Total dissolved solids (Organic and Inorganic)
3. Determination of Alkalinity/Acidity.
4. Determination of Chlorides.
5. Determination of iron.
6. Determination of Dissolved Oxygen.
7. Determination of Nitrates.
8. Determination of Optimum dose of coagulant
9. Determination of Chlorine demand
10. Determination of total Phosphorous.
11. Determination of B.O.D
12. Determination of C.O.D
13. Presumptive coliform test.

NOTE: All above experiments are to be conducted.