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indeterminate arches, spandrel braced arches. Moving loads - influence lines for simpleand continuous beams and frames.Steel Design - Factors of safety and load factor, Welding, riveting & bolting, design oftension, compression and flexural members, built up beams and plate girders, semi-rigidand rigid connections, Design of stanchions, slab and gusted bases, crane and gantrygirders, roof trusses, water tanks. Plastic design of continuous frames and portals.R.C.C. Design – Working stress method – Design of beams, slabs, columns & staircases.Limit state method - Design of one way and two way rectangular slabs, simple andcontinuous beams, columns, stairs. footings- single and combined raft foundations,elevated water tanks, encased beams and columns, Design of retaining, counter fort &breast walls.Methods and system of prestressing, anchorages losses in prestress, design of prestressedgirders and beams.Building Construction:Building materials and construction- timber, stone, brick, sand, surkhi, mortar, concrete,paints and varnishes, plastics. Detailing of walls, floors, roofs and ceilings, staircases,doors and windows, plastering, jointing, painting, use of building codes, ventilation, airconditioning, lighting and acoustics. Building estimates and specification, constructionscheduling- PERT and CPMSoil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering:Soil Mechanics- classification of soil, atterberg’s limits, void ratio, moisture contents,permeability, laboratory and field tests, seepage and flownets, flow under hydraulicstructures, uplift and quick sand condition, unconfined and direct shear tests, triaxial test,earth pressure theories, stability of slopes, theories of consolidation, rate of settlement,total and effective stress analysis, pressure distribution in soils, Boussinasque andWestergaard’s theories, soil stabilization.Foundation Engineering- Bearing capacity of footings, piles and wells, design of retainingwalls, sheet pile and caissons.PAPER-IISurvey and Transportation Engineering:Survey: Common methods of distance and angle measurements, plane table survey,levelling, traverse survey, triangulation survey, corrections and adjustments, contouring,topographical map, surveying instruments, Tachometry, Circular & transition curves,Principles of Photogrammetry, Principles of Remote sensing and GIS.Highways- classification of roads, planning, geometric design of highways, highwaymaterials, flexible and rigid pavements, Traffic engineering and traffic surveys,intersection and road signs, signals and markings, Road drainage- culverts & smallbridges, transportation system design.Railways- permanent way, ballast, sleeper, chairs and fastening, points and crossing,different types of turnouts, cross-overs, setting out of points, maintenance of track, superelevation, creep of rail, ruling gradients, track resistance, tractive effort, curve resistance,station yards, signals and interlocking, Railway crossing.Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering: