C-404: Transportation Engineering syllabus for DCE 4th Sem C20 regulation APSBTET

Transportation Engineering detailed syllabus for Diploma in Civil Engineering (DCE) for C20 regulation curriculum has been taken from the APSBTET official website and presented for the DCE 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 Civil Engineering 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit DCE 4th Sem C20 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of transportation engineering is as follows.

Major Topics

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Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the syllabus, the student shall be able to

1. Understand the functions of various components of roads and learn the fundamentals of Geotechnical Engineering
2. Understand the importance of surveys, alignment and geometric features of Highways, bridges and Railways.
3. Differentiate between types of highway pavements, their construction and maintenance
4. Understand the concepts of permanent way, points and crossings, station yards in railways, basics terms used in bridge engineering and state different types of bridges.

Introduction to Highways and Geotechnical Engineering

Importance of transportation engineering- Importance of I.R.C – List the functions of I.R.C -Classification of roads as per I.R.C – Define

1. Width of pavement
2. Shoulder
3. Formation width
4. Right of way
5. Camber
6. Gradient
7. Super elevation and Sight distance components of a road – types of gradients and their recommended values by I.R.C – need for providing super elevation and its formula – Necessity of curves in highways – types of horizontal curves and vertical curves adopted in roads – Physical properties of soil like plasticity, cohesion, consolidation, compaction, Permeability and compressibility – Soil moisture content – Specific gravity and density – Types of soils – Residual soil – Transported soil – sand – silt – clay – peat – Till – Tull – loess – Bentonite – Soils in India – Different systems of classification of soils – Textural classification – I S classification of soils – Bearing Capacity – Definition – Importance in foundation design.

Highway Survey and Traffic Engineering

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Highway Construction and Maintenance

Necessity of road drainage – Methods of providing surface and sub-surface drainage -materials used in construction of different types of roads – Tests on Bitumen -equipment/machinery used in construction of different roads – Methods of construction of different types of roads – maintenance of WBM of roads – Different types of joints used in C.C roads – necessity for joints in C.C roads

Introduction and Permanent Way of Railways

Railways – advantages – Definition and classification of gauges – Functions of each component part of a permanent way and its requirements/characteristics – Different types of

1. Rails,
2. Joints,
3. Rail fittings,
4. Sleepers,
5. Ballast used in Indian Railways with sketches(wherever required).

Station Yard and Maintenance of Railways

Classification of stations – Types of turnouts and crossings with sketches maintenance measures of a railway track – Duties of a permanent way inspector.

Basics of Bridge Engineering

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Reference Books:

1. Highway Engineering by S. C. Rangwala,Charotar Books Distributors
2. Railway Engineering by S. C. Rangwala,Charotar Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
3. Bridge Engineering by S. C. Rangwala,Charotar Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
4. Highway Engineering by Khanna and Justo-Nem Chand & Sons
5. Transportation Engineering by L.R.Kadiyali,Khanna Publishing House

For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Diploma in Civil Engineering, C20 regulation curriculum do visit DCE 4th Sem subject syllabuses for C20 regulation.

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