Syllabus: Concrete Technology

UNIT-I

Constituent materials: Cement- Different types, Chemical composition and Properties,

Tests on cement, IS Specifications, Aggregates-Classification, Mechanical properties and
tests as per BIS, Grading requirements, Water- Quality of water for use in concrete.

UNIT-II

Fresh and hardened properties of concrete: Workability, Tests for workability of concrete,
Slump Test and Compacting factor Test, Segregation and Bleeding, Determination of
Compressive and Flexural strength as per BIS, Properties of Hardened concrete,
Determination of Compressive and Flexural strength, Stress-strain curve for concrete,
Determination of Youngs Modulus.

UNIT-III

Chemical and mineral admixtures: Accelerators, Retarders, Plasticisers, Super plasticizers,

Water proofers, Mineral Admixtures like Fly Ash, Silica Fume, Ground Granulated Blast
Furnace Slag, Their effects on concrete properties.

UNIT-IV

Proportioning of concrete mix: Principles of Mix Proportioning, Properties of concrete

related to Mix Design, Physical properties of materials required for Mix Design, Design Mix
and Nominal Mix, BIS Method of Mix Design, Mix Design Examples

Special concretes: Light weight concretes, High strength concrete, Fibre reinforced concrete,
Ferro-cement, Ready mix concrete, SIFCON, Self-compacting concrete, Shotcrete, Polymer
concrete, High performance concrete, Geo-polymer Concrete.

PRACTICALS: 1. Tests on cement.

2. Aggregates.
3. Design & making of concrete.
4. Tests on fresh concrete.
5. Hard concrete (destructive & non - destructive test
methods).
ACTIVITIES 1. Prepare Chart listing all the Indian Standard Codes
FOR WHOLE relevant to testing of Sand, aggregate, cement, bricks, mix
CLASS: design, special concrete, concrete testing, reinforced
cement concrete , non - destructive testing etc.
2. Prepare chart showing step - wise procedure for tests on
Cement, Aggregate, mortar, Testing of fresh & hardened
concrete, Non - destructive testing of concrete.
3. Prepare 3 specimens each of Plain concrete & Reinforced
cement concrete of M20 grade. Test it under flexure and
compare the failure, Plot the stress vs. strain graph for the
same. Subject the beam specimens to aggressive
deterioration (like alternate wetting & drying, salt
exposure), test the beams for carbonation and strength loss
(if any).
 Syllabus: Structure Analysis 1
UNIT-I

Fundamentals: Classification of Structure, Types of Load, Response/Behaviour of structure,

Principle of superposition, Equations of Equilibrium, Determinacy (Static and Kinematic)
and stability.

Force Response in Statically Determinate Structures: Review of support Reactions,

Internal Forces in Beams and Axial Forces in Trusses. Analysis of Cables and Two Hinged
suspension Bridges, Analysis of 3-Hinged Arches, 2-Hinged and Fixed hinge arch.

UNIT-II

Influence Lines: Influence line diagrams for beams, Muller Breslaus Principle for
qualitative influence lines, Influence lines for floor girders, Influence line diagrams for
Trusses, Maximum influence at a point due to single concentrated rolling load, pair of rolling
loads, series of rolling loads and uniformly distributed moving loads, Absolute maximum
shears and moments.

UNIT-III

Displacement Response in Statically Determinate Structures: Deflection in Beams using

Energy Methods, Moment-Area method, Conjugate Beam method, Principle of Virtual work,
method of virtual work for trusses, method of virtual work for beams and frames,
Castiglianos theorem for trusses, beams and frames, Unit load method.

UNIT-IV

Approximate analysis of Statically Indeterminate Structures: Vertical loads on building

Frames, Lateral loads on building frames, portal method and Cantilever method.

1. TEXT BOOKS: Structural analysis by Menon, Devdas, Narosa Publishing

House, New Delhi.
Structural Analysis by Hibbeler, R.C., Pearson Education
Asia publication, Delhi.
2. REFERENCE Fundamentals of Structural Analysis by Harry H West and
BOOKS: Louis F Geschwindner, Wiley India.
Theory of structures, by Punmia, B.C., Laxmi
Publications, New Delhi
Analysis of Structures, Vazirani, V.N. and Ratwani,
M.M., Khanna Publishers, New Delhi.
Analysis of Statically Determinate Structures by P.
Dayaratnam,
Basic Structural Analysis, C. S. Reddy
Elementary Structural Analysis by Willbur J.B. &
C.H.Norris & Utku , Mc Graw Hill Book