UNIVERSITY OF KERALA - College of Engineering, Trivandrum

Syllabus for VIII Semester
08.801 DESIGN AND DRAWING OF REINFORCED
CONCRETE STRUCTURES
L T P/D Cr
2 0 2 4
Module I
Design of retaining walls – Limit State method - cantilever and counterfort retaining walls with horizontal and
inclined surcharge.
Water tanks – design of circular, square and rectangular water tanks at ground level and overhead, complete
design excluding supporting structure – design of domes for circular water tanks.
Drawing and detailing of structures designed.
Module II
Road Bridges – IRC specifications – Class A, Class AA loading – Design of slab bridges, T-beam and slab
bridges.
Flat slabs – analysis of flat slab – direct design method – principles of equivalent frame method – design of flat
slabs for flexure and shear.
Drawing and detailing of structures designed.
References:
1. P.C.Varghese, ‘LimitState Design of Reinforced Concrete’,PrenticeHall of India Ltd.
2. N.Krishnaraju,‘Structural Design and Drawing - Reinforced Concrete and Steel’, Universities Press
Ltd.
3. Ashok K Jain ,’Reinforced Concrete Limit State Design .Nem Chand Brothers, Roorkee
4. Unnikrishna Pillai & Devadas Menon, Reinforced Concrete Design, Tata McGraw- Hill
5. S.N.Sinha, Reinforced Concrete Design Tata McGraw- Hill
6. N.Krishnaraju, Prestressed Concrete Tata McGraw- Hill
7. H. Mehra and V. N Vazirani, Limit State Design, Khanna Publishers
8. N.Krishnaraju,Design of Bridges, Universities Press Ltd.
9. S.Ramamrutham,RCC Design
10. V.Johnson,,Essentials of Bridge Engineering
Question Paper:Duration : 4 hours
The question paper consists of Part A and Part B.
Part A contains 2 compulsory questions of 10 marks each covering entire syllabus.
Part B Answer one out of two questions from each module.Each question carries 40 marks; 20 marks for design
and 20 marks for drawing.
Use of IS 456:2000; 3370 (parts I- IV), IRC 6 & 21 and design charts are permitted in the examination
hall.
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