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Preferred Books for preparation of GATE 2015
SUBJECT and BOOKS AUTHOR
1. Strength of Materials
/Mechanics of Structure
Gare & Timoshenko, E.Popove, L. Singer, B.C. Punamia,
Rammamrutham
2. Theory of Structures/
Analysis of Structure
S. Ramamurtham, L.S. Negi & Jangit, Gupta & Pandit, C.S.
Reddy, C.K. Wang
3. Construction Planning & Management
(i) PERT CPM B.C. Punamia
(ii) Engineering Economy &
unsolved Problems on PERT-
CPM
U.K. Shrivastav
(iii) Equipment PEURIFOY
4. Soil Mechanics & Foundation
Engineering
Gopal Ranjan & Rao,Venkat Ramaiha,
S. K. Garg, B.C. Punamia, V N S Murthy
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, subhash and satyapal
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, Krishna Raju, PC Verghese, H J
Shah
13. Steel Design S.K. Duggal, L.S. Negi, Kazimi Zindal for improving concepts
and practise numericals from Negi
14. Plastic Analysis Manicka Selvam
15. Mathematics Higher Engineering Mathematics by B.S.Grewal,
Intermediate Mathematics, S.Chand publications by
B.V.Sastry, K.Venkateswarlu both the volumes.
Probability , Statistics and Queuing theory by S.C.Gupta &
V.K.Kapoor
Numerical Methods by S.S.Sastry
16. Surveying Aurora, Som Ghosh
17. Water Resources S K Garg
18. Prestressed Concrete Krishna Raju
19. Aptitude Test D R Choudhary
20. Multiple choice questions by Timothy, J . Williams, TMH publications,
21. Hydrology Subramanyam
22. Irrigation S K Garg