RPSC 2024

Rajasthan Public Service Commission

Assistant Engineer Examination

3500 MCQs
Fully solved multiple choice questions
with detailed explanations

Practice Book
Civil Engineering
Including Previous Years Solved Papers
of RPSC-AE 2013 and 2018
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3500 MCQs for Rajasthan Public Service Commission -Assistant Engineer : Civil Engineering
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 PREFACE

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of Assistant Engineer, it has given hope for many engineers
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of the Civil Engineering Practice book for Rajasthan Public Service Commission - Assistant
Engineer Examination. While preparing this book utmost care has been taken to cover all the
chapters and variety of concepts which may be asked in the exam. It contains more than 3500
multiple choice questions with answer key and detailed explanations, segregated in subject wise
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been made to bring out all kind of probable competitive questions for the aspirants preparing
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 Syllabus
Optional Paper (Preliminary Examination)
CIVIL ENGINEERING
(Each portion to have roughly equal weightage)
A. Engineering Materials and Construction Techonology : Selection of site for the construction of various types of buildings:
Planning and orientation of buildings. Bonds in masonry. Damp proof course. Scaffolding, underpinning and ranking.
Floors. Staircases. Roofs. Doors and Windows. Requirements of fire protection. Ventilation and air conditioning and
acoustics. Building and highway materials and their IS codal provisions. Stones, Bricks, timber, Lime, Cement, Mortar,
Plain and reinforced Cement Concrete, Bitumen, Asphalt.

B. Surveying : Generally adopted Scales, Chain and Compass surveying ; Leveling ; temporary and permanent adjustments
of levels and Theodolite. Use of Theodolite, tacheometry, Trigonometrical and Triangulation survey. Traversing and
Traverse Adjustment, Contours and contouring, Simple Circular Compound and Transition Curves and their setting out,
Theory of errors and survey adjustment. Computations of areas and volumes.

C. Soil/ Geotechnical Engineeing : Classification of soil as per I.S. code, Field identification tests for soils; water content,
specific gravity, voids ratio, porosity, degree saturation; unit weight, density index etc; and their inter – relationship,
determinations of various properties of soils as noted above as well as grain size distribution, consistency limits etc.
Soil permeability and its determination in the laboratory and field; Darcy’s law, Flow nets, its Characteristics and uses.
Compaction and consolidation of soil. Quality control, soil stabilization methods. Boussinesq’s methods. Newmark’s
chart and its uses.
Shear strength parameters and their determination Bearing capacity, local and general shear failures, design Criteria for
shallow foundation, Plate load test and standard penetration test. Earth pressures on retaining wall. Stability of simple
slopes. Significant depth of exploration, design features of undisturbed sampler.

D. Structural Mechanics : Stress and strains, elastic constants, factor of safety, relation among elastic constants. Bending
moment and shear force diagrams for cantilever, simply supported and overhanging, fixed and continuous beams
subjected to static loads :- concentrated, uniformly distributed and uniformly varying. Theory of simple bending.
Shear Stress, Influence lines. Deflection of cantilever, simply supported fixed and continuous beams. Determinate and
Indeterminate structures and frames pin jointed, Plane and space frames.

E. Steel Structures : Design of ordinary and plate girder beams, roof trusses welded joints, axially and eccentrically loaded
columns, Grillage, Gusseted and slab base foundations. Provisions of IS : 800 and 875. Economic span of bridges.

F. Reinforced Concrete Structures : Provisions of latest IS : 456, design of beams singly and doubly reinforced, design
of shear reinforcement. Design of slabs spanning in two directions and T-beam slabs. Design of column axially and
uniaxially eccentrically loaded. Design of isolated and combined column footings : Design of simple RCC cantilever
and counterfort retaining walls. Reinforcement in overhead and underground water tanks.

G. Fluid Mechanics Including Hydrology And Irrigation : Hydraulic pressure at a point and its measurement. total pressure
and centre of pressure on plane and curved immersed surfaces, Buoyancy. conditions of equilibrium of floating bodies;
fluid flow conditions, Bernoulli’s, Navier-Stokes, Reynold’s equations, flow through orifices venturimeter, notches and
wires, flow through pipes and open channels, Gradually and rapidly varied flow, Dimensional analysis, Momentum and
angular momentum principles as applied to fluid in a control volume, applications of jets, Viscous flow, concept of drag,
flow through pipes.

Engineering hydrology; Hydrology of floods and drought reservoirs and dams; overflow structures, ground water
hydrology. Irrigation: canals, Kennedy’s Lacey’s theories, Khosla’s theories for design of hydraulic structures. Ground
water and well irrigation, water logging.
H. Public Health Engineering : Per capita requirement of water for urban and rural areas, Forecast of population. Sources. Water
supply standards of purity of public water supplies with various methods of purification; House drainage system Distribution
network with all the ancillaries: system of drainage. Layout of sewerage systems. Primary, secondary treatments, trickling
filters, lagoons and other treatment units and their design criteria. Flushing of sewers; sewage treatment; rural water supply
and sanitation.

I. Highway And Bridges : Principles of highway planning; classification of road land width, building line, center line, formation
width, terrain classification, pavement width, Camber, longitudinal gradient sight distance, horizontal curve, super elevation,
vertical curve, lateral and vertical clearances.
Flexible pavements. Sub-base, base course and shoulder stone / Kankar brick soling, WBM courses, shoulders. Granular
sub-base, stabilized soil roads cement / lime stabilized sub base, sand bitumen base course, crushed cement concrete base/
sub-base course.
Prime and tack coats, surface dressing, open graded premix carpet, semi dense carpet, build-up spray grout base course,
bituminous base binder course. Asphaltic concrete, seal coats, mixed seal surfacing. Penetration macadam base/binder
course, full and semi groups.
Traffic Engineering : traffic characteristics, road user characteristics, vehicular characteristics, volume, speed and delay studies
origin and destination study, traffic flow characteristics, traffic capacity and parking studies, traffic regulation, traffic control
devices, Intersection control. Alignment: traffic engineering, pavement design, paving materials and highway construction
and maintenance of different types of roads. Need for highway drainage and arboriculture, types of bridges: choice of type
of bridge, economical considerations of fixing spans culverts.

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 Contents
Sl. Subject Page No.

1. Engineering Materials and Construction Technology........................................................................................................1-39

2. Surveying........................................................................................................................................................................................ 40-72

3. Geotechnical Engineering.......................................................................................................................................................73-125

4. Strength of Materials.............................................................................................................................................................. 126-167

5. Structural Analysis................................................................................................................................................................... 168-193

6. Steel Structures........................................................................................................................................................................ 194-231

7. Reinforced Concrete Structures......................................................................................................................................... 232-277

8. Fluid Mechanics....................................................................................................................................................................... 278-333

9. Hydrology.................................................................................................................................................................................. 334-356

10. Irrigation Engineering........................................................................................................................................................... 357-390

11. Environmental Engineering (Public Health Engineering)......................................................................................... 391-437

12. Highway and Bridges............................................................................................................................................................. 438-474

13. RPSC Assistant Engineer Preliminary Exam : 2013...................................................................................................... 475-490

14. RPSC Assistant Engineer Preliminary Exam : 2018...................................................................................................... 491-504