LECTURE NOTES

ON

ADVANCED CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES & EQUIPMENT (Th-3)

FOR DIPLOMA IN CIVIL ENGINEERING, 6TH SEMESTER

AS PER SCTE &VT SYLLABUS

Prepared by –

Mr. SOUBHAGYA RANJAN MOHANTY

Department of Civil Engineering

Jharsuguda Engineering School ,Jharsuguda

Po-Kalimandir Road ,Pin-768202

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 Th 3. ADVANCED CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES & EQUIPMENT

Name of the Course: Diploma in Civil Engineering

Course code: Semester 6th
Total Period: 60 Examination 3 hrs
Theory periods: 4P/week Class Test: 20
Maximum marks: 100 End Semester Examination: 80

A. RATIONALE
Current age construction industry is adopting state of art materials and technologies to improve
aesthetics, strength, earthquake resistance, services relating to civil construction. The course will
help the student to develop a general awareness on these advancements.

B. COURSE OBJECTIVES

On completion of the course students will be able to-

1. Select proper material during construction in domain of advanced materials including fibers,
artificial timbers etc.
2. Select appropriate prefabrications in pursuance of standard codes
3. Adopt structural requirements and possible retrofits to improve earthquake resistance
4. Comprehend requirement of various services need to be operational
5. Understand the role of different construction earth moving equipments and select during
planning
6. Comprehend necessity of soil reinforcing and prescribe appropriate strategy

C. TOPIC WISE DISTRIBUTION

Chapter Name of topics Hours
1 Advanced construction materials 10
2 Prefabrication 08
3 Earthquake Resistant Construction 08
4 Retrofitting of Structures 08
5 Building Services 08
6 Construction and earth moving equipments 10
7 Soil reinforcing techniques 08

D. COURSE CONTENT

1 Advanced construction materials

1.1 Fibers and Plastics-

Types of fibers- Steel, Carbon, glass fibers, Use of fibers as construction
material, properties of Fibers.
Types of plastics- PVC, RPVC, HDPE, FRP, GRP etc. Colored plastic sheets.
Use of plastic as construction material.
 1.2 Artificial Timbers – Properties and uses of artificial timber. Types of
artificial timber available in market, strength of artificial timber.
1.3 Miscellaneous materials – Properties and uses of acoustics materials,
wall claddings, plaster boards, micro-silica, artificial sand, bonding
agents, adhesives etc.

2 Prefabrication

2.1 Introduction, necessity and scope of prefabrication of buildings, history of

prefabrication, current uses of prefabrication , types of prefabricated
systems, classification of prefabrication, advantages and disadvantages
of prefabrication,
2.2 The theory and process of prefabrication, design principle of
prefabricated systems, types of prefabricated elements, modular
coordination
2.3 Indian standard recommendation for modular planning.

3 Earthquake Resistant Construction

3.1 Building Configuration

3.2 Lateral Load resisting structures
3.3 Building characteristics
3.4 Effect of structural irregularities-vertical irregularities, plan configuration
problems.
3.5 Safety consideration during additional construction and alteration of existing
Buildings.
3.6 Additional strengthening measures in masonry building-corner reinforcement,
lintel band, sill band, plinth band, roof band, gable band etc.
4 Retrofitting of Structures

4.1 Seismic retrofitting of reinforced concrete buildings :

4.2 -Sources of weakness in RC frame building
4.3 -Classification of retrofitting techniques and their uses
5 Building Services

5.1 Cold Water Distribution in high rise building, lay out of installation
5.2 Hot water supply – General principles for central plants-layout
 5.3 Sanitation –soil and waste water installation in high rise buildings
5.4 Electrical services – i) requirements in high rise buildings ii) Layout of wiring -
types of wiring iii) Fuses and their types iv)Earthing and their uses
5.5 Lighting – Requirement of lighting, Measurement of light intensity
5.6 Ventilation - Methods of ventilation (Natural and artificial Systems of ventilation)
problems on ventilation
5.7 Mechanical Services- Lifts, Escalator, Elevators – types and uses.
6 Construction and earth moving equipments –

6.1 Planning and selection of construction equipments

6.2 Study on earth moving equipments like drag line, tractor, bulldozer, Power
shovel
6.3 Study and uses of compacting equipments like tamping rollers, Smooth
wheel rollers, Pneumatic tired rollers and vibrating compactors
6.4 Owning and operating cost – problems
7 Soil reinforcing techniques

7.1 Necessity of soil reinforcing.

7.2 Use wire mesh and geo-synthetics.
7.3 Strengthening of embankments, Slope stabilization in cutting and embankments
by soil reinforcing techniques.

E. Syllabus Coverage up to Internal Assessment: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4

F. RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Sl. Name of Titles of Book Name of

No Authors Publisher
1 Agrawal & Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures Prentice-Hall of
Shrikhande India Pvt. Ltd.
2 Swami Saran Reinforced Soil and its Engineering applications I.K.International
Pvt. Ltd.
3 National building code of India_ BIS
4 Fred & Greeno Building Services Hand book Routledge
Publisher
5 B.L. Gupta & Amit Construction Management & Machinery Limit Standard
Gupta Publishers
6 S.K. Duggal, Earthquake resistant design of structures Oxford
7 M.R. Samal Advance Construction and Equipment Platinum
Publisher,Kolkata
8 Hand book on repair & rehabilitation of RCC buildings- CPWD
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