Concrete Technology detailed Syllabus for Civil Engineering (CIVIL), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all other VTU CIVIL 4th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU CIVIL 4th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for concrete technology is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Concrete Ingredients Cement-Cement manufacturing process, steps to reduce carbon footprint, chemical composition and their importance, hydration of cement, types of cement. Testing of cement. Fine aggregate: Functions, requirement, Alternatives to River sand, M-sand introduction and manufacturing. Coarse aggregate: Importance of size, shape and texture. Grading and blending of aggregate. Testing on aggregate, requirement. Recycled aggregates Water-qualities of water. Chemical admixtures -plasticizers, accelerators, retarders and air entraining agents. Mineral admixtures-Pozzolanic and cementitious materials, Fly ash, GGBS, silica fumes, Metakaolin and rice huskash.
Module 2
Fresh Concrete Workability-factors affecting workability. Measurement of workability-slump, Compaction factor and Vee-Bee Consistometer tests, flow tests. Segregation and bleeding. Process of manufacturing of concrete- Batching, Mixing, Transporting, Placing and Compaction. Curing-Methods of curing-Water curing, membrane curing, steam curing, accelerated curing, self- curing. Good and Bad practices of making and using fresh concrete and Effect of heat of hydration during mass concreting at project sites.
Module 3
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Module 4
Concrete Mix Proportioning Concept of Mix Design with and without admixtures, variables in proportioning and Exposure conditions, Selection criteria of ingredients used for mix design, Procedure of mix proportioning. Numerical Examples of Mix Proportioning using IS-10262:2019.
Module 5
Special Concretes RMC- manufacture and requirement as per QCI-RMCPCS, properties, advantages and disadvantages. SelfCompacting concrete- concept, materials, tests, properties, application and typical mix Fiber reinforced concrete-Fibers types, properties, application of FRC. Light weight concrete-material properties and types. Typical light weight concrete mix and applications, materials, requirements, mix proportion and properties of Geo polymer Concrete, High Strength Concrete and High Performance Concrete.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Neville A.M. Properties of Concrete-4th Ed., Longman.
- M.S. Shetty, Concrete Technology-Theory and Practice Published by S. Chand and Company, New Delhi.
- Kumar Mehta. P and Paulo J.M. Monteiro Concrete-Microstructure, Property and Materials, 4th Edition, McGraw Hill Education, 2014
- A.R. Santha Kumar, Concrete Technology, Oxford Un iversity Press, New Delhi (NewEdition).
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For detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE 4th Sem Civil Engineering, visit (CIVIL) 4th Sem Syllabus Subjects.
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