CIVIL ENGINEERING

IES
Civil Engineering Paper - I
1. BUILDING MATERIALS
Timber : Different types and species of structural timber, density-moisture relationship, strength in
different directions, defects, influence of defects on permissible stress, preservation, dry and wet rots, codal
provisions for design, Plywood.
Bricks: Types, Indian Standard classification, absorption, saturation factor, strength in masonry, influence
of mortar strength on masonry strength.
Cement: Compounds of, different types, setting times, strength.
Cement Mortar: Ingredients, proportions, water demand, mortars for plastering and masonry.
Concrete: Importance of W/C Ratio, Strength, ingredients including admixtures, workability, testing for
strength, elasticity, non-destructive testing, mix design methods.
2. SOLID MECHANICS
Elastic constants, stress, plane stress, Mohr's circle of stress, strains, plane strain, Mohr's circle of strain,
combined stress; Elastic theories of failure; Simple bending, shear; Torsion of circular and rectangular
sections and simple members.
3. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Analysis of determinate structures - different methods including graphical methods.
Analysis of indeterminate skeletal frames - moment distribution, slope-deflection, stiffness and force
methods, energy methods, Muller-Breslau principle and application.
Plastic analysis of indeterminate beams and simple frames - shape factors.
4. DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES
Principles of working stress method. Design of connections, simple members, Built-up sections and frames,
Design of Industrial roofs. Principles of ultimate load design. Design of simple members and frames.
5. DESIGN OF CONCRETE AND MASONRY STRUCTURES
Limit state design for bending, shear, axial compression and combined forces. Codal provisions for slabs,
beams, walls and footings. Working stress method of design of R.C. members.
Principles of pre stressed concrete design, materials, and methods of pre stressing, losses. Design of simple
members and determinate structures. Introductions to pre stressing of indeterminate structures.
Design of brick masonry as per I.S. Codes.
6. CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE, PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Concreting Equipment:
Weight Batcher, Mixer, vibrator, batching plant, concrete pump.
Cranes, hoists, lifting equipment.
Earthwork Equipment:
Power shovel, hoe, dozer, dumper, trailers and tractor, rollers, sheep foot rollers, pumps.
Construction, Planning and Management :
Bar chart, linked bar chart, work-break down structures, Activity - on - arrow diagrams. Critical path,

probabilistic activity durations; Event-based networks.

PERT network: Time-cost study, crashing; Resource allocation.
CIVIL ENGINEERING PAPER-II
1. (a) FLUID MECHANICS, OPEN CHANNEL FLOW, PIPE FLOW:
Fluid Properties, Pressure, Thrust, Buoyancy; Flow Kinematics; Integration of flow equations; Flow
measurement; Relative motion; Moment of momentum; Viscosity, Boundary layer and Control, Drag, Lift;
dimensional Analysis, Modelling; Cavitation; Flow oscillations; Momentum and Energy principles in Open
channel flow, Flow controls, Hydraulic jump, Flow sections and properties; Normal flow, Gradually varied
flow; Surges; Flow development and losses in pipe flows, Measurements; Siphons; Surges and Water
hammer; Delivery of Power Pipe networks.
(b) HYDRAULIC MACHINES AND HYDROPOWER:
Centrifugal pumps, types, performance parameters, scaling, pumps in parallel; Reciprocating pumps, air
vessels, performance parameters; Hydraulic ram; Hydraulic turbines, types, performance parameters,
controls, choice; Power house, classification and layout, storage, pondage, control of supply.
2. (a) HYDROLOGY :
Hydrological cycle, precipitation and related data analyses, PMP, unit and synthetic hydrographs;
Evaporation and transpiration; Floods and their management, PMF; Streams and their gauging; River
morphology; Routing of floods; Capacity of Reservoirs.
(b) WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING :
Water resources of the globe: Multipurpose uses of Water: Soil-Plant-Water relationships, irrigation systems,
water demand assessment; Storages and their yields, ground water yield and well hydraulics; Waterlogging,
drainage design; Irrigation revenue; Design of rigid boundary canals, Lacey's and Tractive force concepts in
canal design, lining of canals; Sediment transport in canals; Non-Overflow and overflow sections of gravity
dams and their design, Energy dissipators and tailwater rating; Design of headworks, distribution works,
falls, cross-drainage works, outlets; River training.
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
3. (a) WATER SUPPLY ENGINEERING :
Sources of supply, yields, design of intakes and conductors; Estimation of demand; Water quality standards;
Control of Water-borne diseases; Primary and secondary treatment, detailing and maintenance of treatment
units; Conveyance and distribution systems of treated water, leakages and control; Rural water supply;
Institutional and industrial water supply.
(b) WASTE WATER ENGINEERING:
Urban rain water disposal; Systems of sewage collection and disposal; Design of sewers and sewerage
systems; pumping; Characteristics of sewage and its treatment, Disposal of products of sewage treatment,
stream flow rejuvenation Institutional and industrial sewage management; Plumbing Systems; Rural and
semi-urban sanitation.
(c) SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Sources, classification, collection and disposal; Design and Management of landfills.
(d) AIR AND NOISE POLLUTION AND ECOLOGY:
Sources and effects of air pollution, monitoring of air pollution; Noise pollution and standards; Ecological
chain and balance, Environmental assessment.

4 (a) SOIL MECHANICS:

Properties of soils, classification and interrelationship; Compaction behavior, methods of compaction and
their choice; Permeability and seepage, flow nets, Inverted filters; Compressibility and consolidation;
Shearing resistance, stresses and failure; soil testing in laboratory and in-situ; Stress path and applications;
Earth pressure theories, stress distribution in soil; soil exploration, samplers, load tests, penetration tests.
(b) FOUNDATION ENGINEERING:
Types of foundations, Selection criteria, bearing capacity, settlement, laboratory and field tests; Types of
piles and their design and layout, Foundations on expansive soils, swelling and its prevention, foundation on
swelling soils.
5. (a) SURVEYING :
Classification of surveys, scales, accuracy; Measurement of distances - direct and indirect methods; optical
and electronic devices; Measurement of directions, prismatic compass, local attraction; Theodolites - types;
Measurement of elevations - Spirit and trigonometric leveling; Relief representation; Contours; Digital
elevation modeling concept; Establishment of control by triangulations and traversing - measurements and
adjustment of observations, computation of coordinates; Field astronomy, Concept of global positioning
system; Map preparation by plane tabling and by photogrammetric; Remote sensing concepts, map
substitutes.
(b) TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING:
Planning of highway systems, alignment and geometric design, horizontal and vertical curves, grade
separation; Materials and construction methods for different surfaces and maintenance: Principles of
pavement design; Drainage.
Traffic surveys, Intersections, signaling: Mass transit systems, accessibility and networking.
Tunneling, alignment, methods of construction, disposal of muck, drainage, lighting and ventilation, traffic
control, emergency management.
Planning of railway systems, terminology and designs, relating to gauge, track, controls, transits, rolling
stock, tractive power and track modernization; Maintenance; Appurtenant works; Containerization.
Harbours - layouts, shipping lanes, anchoring, location identification; Littoral transport with erosion and
deposition; sounding methods; Dry and Wet docks, components and operational Tidal data and analyses.
Airports - layout and orientation; Runway and taxiway design and drainage management; Zoning laws;
Visual aids and air traffic control; Helipads, hangers, service equipment.

CiviLEngineering
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Structural Engineering
Mechanics:

Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate beams. Simple stress and strain relationship:
Stress and strain in two dimensions, principal stresses, stress transformation, Mohr's circle. Simple bending
theory, flexural and shear stresses, unsymmetrical bending, shear centre.

Thin walled pressure vessels, uniform torsion, buckling of column, combined and direct bending stresses.
Structural Analysis:

Analysis of statically determinate trusses, arches, beams, cables and frames, displacements in statically
determinate structures and analysis of statically indeterminate structures by force/ energy methods,

analysis by displacement methods (slope deflection and moment distribution methods), influence lines for
determinate and indeterminate structures.

Basic concepts of matrix methods of structural analysis.

Concrete Structures:

Concrete Technology- properties of concrete, basics of mix design.

Concrete design basic working stress and limit state design concepts, analysis of ultimate load capacity and
design of members subjected to flexure, shear, compression and torsion by limit state methods.

Basic elements of pre-stressed concrete, analysis of beam sections at transfer and service loads.
Steel Structures:

Analysis and design of tension and compression members, beams and beam- columns, column bases.
Connections- simple and eccentric, beam column connections, plate girders and trusses.

Plastic analysis of beams and frames.

Geotechnical Engineering
Soil Mechanics:

Origin of soils, soil classification, three-phase system, fundamental definitions, relationship and
interrelationships, permeability & seepage, effective stress principle, consolidation, compaction, shear
strength.
Foundation Engineering:

Sub-surface investigations- scope, drilling bore holes, sampling, penetration tests, plate load test.
Earth pressure theories, effect of water table, layered soils. Stability of slopes infinite slopes, finite slopes.
Foundation types-foundation design requirements.
Shallow foundations-bearing capacity, effect of shape, water table and other factors, stress distribution,
settlement analysis in sands & clays.

Deep foundations pile types, dynamic & static formulae, load capacity of piles in sands & clays, negative skin
friction.

Water Resources Engineering

Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics:

Properties of fluids, principle of conservation of mass, momentum, energy and corresponding equations,
potential flow, applications of momentum and Bernoulli's equation, laminar and turbulent flow, flow in pipes,
pipe networks.

Concept of boundary layer and its growth. Uniform flow, critical flow and gradually varied flow in channels,
specific energy concept, hydraulic jump. Forces on immersed bodies, flow measurements in channels, tanks
and pipes.

Dimensional analysis and hydraulic modeling.

Kinematics of flow, velocity triangles and specific speed of pumps and turbines.
Hydrology:

Hydrologic cycle, rainfall, evaporation, infiltration, stage discharge relationships, unit hydrographs, flood
estimation, reservoir capacity, reservoir and channel routing.

Well hydraulics.
Irrigation:

Duty, delta, estimation of evapo-transpiration.

Crop water requirements.
Design of: lined and unlined canals, waterways, head works, gravity dams and spillways.
Design of weirs on permeable foundation.
Types of irrigation system, irrigation methods.
Water logging and drainage, sodic soils.
Environmental Engineering
Water requirements:

Quality standards, basic unit processes and operations for water treatment.
Drinking water standards, water requirements, basic unit operations and unit processes for surface water
treatment, distribution of water.

Sewage and sewerage treatment, quantity and characteristics of wastewater.

Primary, secondary and tertiary treatment of wastewater, sludge disposal, effluent discharge standards.
Domestic wastewater treatment, quantity of characteristics of domestic wastewater, primary and secondary
treatment Unit operations and unit processes of domestic wastewater, sludge disposal.
Air Pollution:

Types of pollutants, their sources and impacts, air pollution meteorology, air pollution control, air quality
standards and limits.
Municipal Solid Wastes:

Characteristics, generation, collection and transportation of solid wastes, engineered systems for solid waste
management (reuse/ recycle, energy recovery, treatment and disposal).
Noise Pollution:

Impacts of noise, permissible limits of noise pollution, measurement of noise and control of noise pollution.
Transportation Engineering
Highway Planning:

Geometric design of highways, testing and specifications of paving materials, design of flexible and rigid
pavements.
Traffic Engineering:

Traffic characteristics, theory of traffic flow, intersection design, traffic signs and signal design, highway
capacity.
Surveying

Importance of surveying, principles and classifications, mapping concepts, coordinate system, map
projections, measurements of distance and directions, leveling, theodolite traversing, plane table surveying,
errors and adjustments, curves.
Engineering Mathematics
Linear Algebra:

Matrix algebra, Systems of linear equations, Eigen values and eigenvectors.

Calculus:

Functions of single variable, Limit, continuity and differentiability, Mean value theorems, Evaluation of
definite and improper integrals, Partial derivatives, Total derivative, Maxima and minima, Gradient,
Divergence and Curl, Vector identities, Directional derivatives, Line, Surface and Volume integrals, Stokes,
Gauss and Green's theorems.
Differential equations:

First order equations (linear and nonlinear), Higher order linear differential equations with constant
coefficients, Cauchy's and Euler's equations, Initial and boundary value problems, Laplace transforms,
Solutions of one dimensional heat and wave equations and Laplace equation.
Complex variables:

Analytic functions, Cauchy's integral theorem, Taylor and Laurent series.

Probability and Statistics:

Definitions of probability and sampling theorems, Conditional probability, Mean, median, mode and standard
deviation, Random variables, Poisson, Normal and Binomial distributions.
Numerical Methods:

Numerical solutions of linear and non-linear algebraic equations Integration by trapezoidal and Simpson's
rule, single and multi-step methods for differential equations.

Civil Engineering

CIVIL ENGINEERING
S.
No.

Subject

Strength of Materials

Book Name
Strength of Materials/Mechanics of
Structure for properties of metals,
Principal Axis, etc.

Gere & Timoshenko

Strength of Materials for

transformation of stresses, Properties of
Metals

E. Popov

Strength of Materials for unsolved

problems

L. Singer

Strength of Materials for Solved

problems, Theory of average reading

B.C. Punamia

Theory of Structures/Analysis of
Structure

S Ramamrutham

Theory of Structures/Analysis of
Theory of
Structure
Structures/Analysis of
Theory of Structures/Analysis of
Structure
Structure
Theory of Structures/Analysis of
Structure

R. C. C. Design

Steel Design

Environmental Engg.

Author

L.S. Negi&Jangid
Gupta &Pandit
C.S. Reddy

R. C. C. Design

B. C. Punamia

R. C. C. Design

A. K. Jain

R. C. C. Design

IS: 456-2000

Steel Design

S.K. Duggal

Steel Design

L. S. Negi

Steel Design

IS: 800-1984

Environmental Engg.

B. C. Punamia Part I &

Part II

Environmental Engg.

S. K. Garg Part I & Part

II

Environmental Engg.

Peavy& Rowe

Environmental Engg.

Metcalf & Eddy

Soil Mechanics &

Foundation Engg.

Fluid Mechanics &

Fluid Machines

Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engg.

GopalRanjan&Rao

Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engg.

VenkatRamaiha

Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engg.

S. K. Garg

Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engg.

B. C. Punamia

Fluid Mechanics & Fluid Machines

Modi& Seth

Fluid Mechanics & Fluid Machines

R. K. Bansal

Fluid Mechanics & Fluid Machines

K. Subramanya

Fluid Mechanics & Fluid Machines

A. K. Jain

Fluid Mechanics & Fluid Machines

JagdishLal

Highway Engg.

Khanna& Justo

Highway Engg.

Kadiyali

Highway Engg.

Surveying

Surveying

B.C.Punamia I, II, III

10

Hydrology Engg.

Hydrology Engg.

K.Subramanyam

11

Irrigation Engg.

Water Resources

S.K. Garg

12

Engg. Mathematics

Engg. Mathematics

MADE EASY
Publications

13

Verbal & Numerical

Ability

Verbal & Numerical Ability

MADE EASY
Publications

14

Previous GATE
Solved Papers

Previous GATE Solved Papers

MADE EASY
Publications

15

Strength of Materials

A text book on Strength of Materials

Dr.U.C.Jindal

SL.NO.

SUBJECT

AUTHOR

1.

Strength of Materials /Mechanics of Structure

Gare & Timoshenko, E.Popove,

L. Singer, B.C. Punamia

2.

Theory of Structures/ Analysis of Structure

S. Ramamurtham, L.S. Negi &

Jangit, Gupta & Pandit, C.S.
Reddy

3.

Construction Planning &Management

(i) PERT -CPM
(ii)Engineering Economy & unsolved Problems on
PERT-CPM
(iii) Equipment

B.C. Punamia
U.K. Shrivastav
PEURIFOY

4.

Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering

Gopal Ranjan & Rao,Venkat

Ramaiha, S. K. Garg, B.C.
Punamia

5.

Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Machines

Modi & Seth, R. K. Bansal,

A.K.Jain K.Subramanyam,
Jagdish Lal.

6.

Environmental Engineering

B.C. Punamia(Part I & II), S.K.

Garg (Part-I & II), Peavy,
Metcalf & Eddy

7.

Highway Engineering

Khanna & Justo, Kadiyali

8.

Railway Engineering

Saxena & Arora

9.

Airport Engineering

Saxena & Arora

10.

Docks & Harbors

Rangwala

11.

Building Materials

Rangwala, M.L. Gambhir

12.

R.C.C. Design

B.C. Punamia, A.K. Jain,

13.

Steel Design

S.K. Duggal, L.S. Negi,

14.

Plastic Analysis

Manicka Selvam

SL.NO.

SUBJECT

AUTHOR

1.

Strength of Materials /Mechanics of

Structure

Gare & Timoshenko, E.Popove, L. Singer,

B.C. Punamia

2.

Theory of Structures/ Analysis of Structure

S. Ramamurtham, L.S. Negi & Jangit, Gupta

& Pandit, C.S. Reddy

3.

Construction Planning &Management

(i) PERT -CPM
(ii) Engineering Economy & unsolved
Problems on PERT-CPM
(iii) Equipment

B.C. Punamia
U.K. Shrivastav
PEURIFOY

4.

Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering

Gopal Ranjan & Rao,Venkat Ramaiha, S. K.

Garg, B.C. Punamia

5.

Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Machines

Modi & Seth, R. K. Bansal, A.K.Jain

K.Subramanyam, Jagdish Lal.

6.

Environmental Engineering

B.C. Punamia(Part I & II), S.K. Garg (Part-I

& II), Peavy, Metcalf & Eddy

7.

Highway Engineering

Khanna & Justo, Kadiyali

8.

Railway Engineering

Saxena & Arora

9.

Airport Engineering

Saxena & Arora

10.

Docks & Harbors'

Rangwala

11.

Building Materials

Rangwala, M.L. Gambhir

12.

R.C.C. Design

H J Shah, B.C. Punamia, A.K. Jain

13.

Steel Design

N. Subramanian, S.K. Duggal, L.S. Negi,

14.

Plastic Analysis

Manicka Selvam