Geology and Soil Mechanics detail syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil), 2019-20 scheme is taken from AKTU official website and presented for AKTU students. The course code (RCE071), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/Week, Practical Hr/Week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
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Unit I
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Unit II
Stratification and Lamination bedding of rocks. Dip and strike of bed.
Rock deformation: Folds, Faults, joints unconformity and their classification, causes and relation to engg. behaviour of rock masses. [8]
Unit III
Earthquake, its causes, classification, seismic zones of India and geological consideration for construction of building, projects in seismic areas.
Landslides: Causes, classification and preventive measures. [8]
Unit IV
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Unit V
Clay Mineralogy, index properties of soil, IS classification of soil, shear strength of soil,
Effective stresses in soil, stress in soil (Boussiensq, Westergaard theories) & Earth pressure theories and their application. [8]
Reference Books:
- V.N.S. Murthy – Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (Fifth Edition)
- K.R. Arora – Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
- Narasinga Rao, B.N.D, Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd., Daryaganj, New Delhi – 110 002.
- Varghese, P.C., Engineering Geology for Civil Engineering Prentice Hall of India Learning Private Limited, New Delhi, 2012.
- Venkat Reddy. D. Engineering Geology, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Lt, 2010.
- Gopal Ranjan and A.S.R. Rao – Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics.
- J.M. Treteth: Geology of Engineers, Princeton, Von. Nostrand.
- Prabin Singh: Engg. and General Geology, Katson Publishing House
- F G Bell: Funamentals of Engineering Geology, B S Publication
- P.K. Mukerjee: A text Book of Geology, Calcutta Word Publishers.
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