AA-105: Building Materials syllabus for AA 1st Year C20 regulation APSBTET

Building Materials detailed syllabus for Diploma in Architectural Assistantship (AA) for C20 regulation curriculum has been taken from the APSBTET official website and presented for the AA students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Diploma in Architectural Assistantship 1st Year scheme and its subjects, do visit AA 1st Year C20 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of building materials is as follows.

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Course Objectives

1. To understand the need to know and learn the course to communicate to the stake holders such as clients, contractors, masons, workers and materials traders.
2. To define, describe, explain the properties, know the uses of the materials which are used for construction of main structure and appurtenant components i.e., Stones, Bricks, Lime, Clay Products, Sand, Cement, Mortars, Concrete.
3. To understand the rendering material used for interior and exterior of buildings along with their characteristics i.e., of Timber, Glass, Metals, Various Paints, Varnishes and Plastics, Modern Materials.
4. To comprehend the knowledge of each building material in detail which are used for conventional and non-conventional with their source, other forms, by-products and substitutes wherever it is possible.
5. To understand the scope and limitations of the building materials i.e., Stones, Bricks, Lime, Clay Products, Sand, Cement, Mortars, Concrete, Timber, Glass, Metals, Various Paints, Varnishes and Plastics, Modern Materials.
6. To collect the material specimen so to gain experience perception of its touch, colour, smell, physical form, texture, quality, availability, cost etc.

Course Outcomes:

1. Understand and communicate with clients and related stakeholders in serving and specifying adequate and suitable material for such work of the building and construction while conveying their properties, durability and application methodology.
2. Apply the knowledge in serving the profession and job, matching to the prevailing industry and latest needs while experimenting with new / equivalent / substitute / better than the conventional materials.
3. Serve the clients and society by adopting and maintaining the standards specified and prescribed by ISI and ISO.
4. Specify suitable material for needful solution and improvising the quality of building construction, appearance, rendering while maintaining standards and cost-effective techniques.
5. Acquire knowledge of modern or latest materials available in the building material market to face and solve various cropping challenges in construction, satisfying the clients’ needs for various building planning requirements.
6. Serves the profession through educating and making the clients aware of the importance of natural sources of various materials and their scarcity to implement the environment friendly and maintain the ecological balance.
7. Having experienced the specimen material collected during the course work period understanding their properties, cost and limitations is adding power of confidence for their application and specifying the suitable materials serving through professional practice or being an employee at an architect’s office or in a construction agency which practises a lifelong learning and serving.

1. Stones:

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2. Bricks:

1. ISI specifications of bricks IS-1077-1971.
2. Characteristics of good bricks.
3. Uses and properties of

(i)Refractory bricks,
(ii) Fal G Bricks.

4. (i) Hollow concrete blocks &

(ii) Cement mortar bricks embedded with stone.

3. Lime:

1. Definition for the terms –

(i) Slaking,
(ii) Hydraulicity and
(iii) Calcination.

2. Properties and uses of

(i) Fat lime and
(ii) Hydraulic lime.

4. Clay Products:

1. Tiles – Types & Uses –
1. Roofing tiles (Mangalore tiles only),
2. Floor tiles,
3. Ceiling tiles
4. Wall tiles.
2. Characteristics of good tiles.
3. Stoneware pipes – Uses.
4. Porcelain glazed tiles.
5. Vitreous Tiles.

5. Sand:

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6. Cement:

1. Ingredients of Cement
2. Classification of Cement –
1. Ordinary port land cement,
2. Quick setting cement,
3. Rapid hardening cement,
4. White cement,
5. Coloured cement.
3. Grades of cements, their strength & uses.
4. Blended cement (it is a mixture of Fly ash or Furnace slag) and its application.

7. Mortars:

Classification and Uses of Mortars –

1. Mud Motor
2. Lime Mortar
3. Cement Mortar
4. Surkhi Mortar
5. Blended mortar
6. Gauged
7. Gypsum
8. Different proportions of ingredients in cement mortars for various works.
9. Preparation of cement Mortar.
10. Brick laying Mortar and Finishing Mortars.

8. Concrete:

1. Ingredients of plain concrete and Reinforced concrete.
2. Proportioning – Usual proportions for different item of works – Foundations, Columns, slabs, beams for ordinary buildings.
3. Define Fine Aggregate,
4. Coarse Aggregate and
5. Workability.
6. Hydration of cement,
7. water cement Ratio.

Methods of preparation of concrete –

8. Hand Mix,
9. Machine Mix.
10. Laying and Curing of concrete.
11. Properties of concrete
12. Introduction to ready mix concrete.
13. Light Weight Concrete its uses.

9.Timber and Timber Products:

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10 Glass:

Properties and Uses of Glasses.

1. Types and uses of glass available in market –
2. Soda lime glass,
3. Sheet glass,
4. Glass bricks,
5. Fibre glass,
6. Structural glass,
7. Wired glass and
8. Bullet proof glass.

12. Paints and Varnishes:

1. Characteristics of Paints – Varnishes.
2. Different types of paints on different wall surfaces –
3. White cement,
4. Cement primer,
5. Oil bound distempers,
6. Emulsion Paints.
7. Paints applied on Metals,
8. Powder coated paints
9. Paints applied on wood work –
10. oil paints,
11. plastic emulsions,
12. Varnishes,
13. Polyurethane coating,
14. Touchwood,
15. Wood seals,
16. Melamine finishes for interiors and furniture,
17. Anti-fungus &
18. Anti corrosive paints

13. Plastics:

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Uses of Plastics –

1. Fibre plastics,
2. Reinforced plastics,
3. PVC for doors and windows,
4. Plastics for water tanks
5. Plastics for False Ceilings
6. Thermosetting and Thermodynamic Plastics.
7. Fibre reinforced plastics,
8. Alkathene,
9. Polythene,
10. PVC,
11. Perspex,
12. Thermo-plastics,
13. Thermosetting plastics.

14. Modern Materails:

Properties & Uses of the Following Materials: –

1. Thermocole,
2. Plaster of Paris (POP),
3. Gypsum Boards,
4. Aluminum Elevation sheets,
5. Aluminum composite panels,
6. Polycarbonate sheets,
7. Glass wool,
8. Fibre-glass,
9. Wall paper,
10. Cement Boards,
11. Cork boards,
12. Rubber sheets,
13. Tensile Roofing,

Reference Books:

1. Rangwala-Building Materials
2. Bindra & Arora – Building Construction
3. B.C. Punmia -Building Construction
4. Susil Kumar- Building Materials.
5. N.Srinivasulu-Building Materials
6. Neha Janwal & M L Gambhir- Building Materials

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