18CIV14 / 18CIV24 MODULE 1 ELEMENTS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

 Introduction to Civil Engineering: Scope of different fields of Civil Engineering; Surveying, Building Materials, Construction Technology, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Hydraulics, Water Resources & Irrigation Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Environmental Engineering. Role of Civil Engineers in the Infrastructural development, effect of infrastructural facilities on social-economic development of a country. (RBTLevel: Ll)

Introduction to Engineering Mechanics: Basic concepts of idealization-Particle, Continuum and Rigid Body; Force; Systems of Forces; Basic Principles -Physical Independence of forces, Superposition, Transmissibility, Newton's Laws of Motion, Resolution and Composition of forces, Law of parallelogram of forces, Polygonal law, Resultant of Concurrent coplanar force systems, Coplanar Non Concurrent Force System: Moment of a Forces, couple, Varignon's theorem, Resultant of Coplanar non-concurrent force system.