Introduction to Civil Engineering (BESCK104A / 204) VTU Notes PDF Download
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📘 Subject Code: BESCK104A / BESCK204
📕 Semester: 1st / 2nd
Jump to: Module 1 • Module 2 • Module 3 • Module 4 • Module 5
📝 Module - 1: Civil Engineering Disciplines and Building Science
- Introduction to Civil Engineering: Surveying, Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydraulics & Water Resources, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Construction planning & project management
- Basic Materials of Construction: Bricks, Cement & mortars, Plain, Reinforced & Pre-stressed Concrete, Structural steel, Construction Chemicals
- Structural elements of a building: foundation, plinth, lintel, chejja, masonry wall, column, beam, slab, staircase
📝 Module - 2: Societal and Global Impact of Infrastructure
- Infrastructure: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Smart city concept, clean city concept, safe city concept
- Environment: Water supply & sanitary systems, urban air pollution management, solid waste management, identification of landfill sites, urban flood control
- Built-environment: Energy-efficient buildings, recycling, temperature & sound control in buildings, security systems, smart buildings
📝 Module - 3: Analysis of Force Systems
- Concept of idealization, system of forces
- Principles of superposition and transmissibility
- Resolution and composition of forces, Law of Parallelogram of forces
- Resultant of concurrent and non-concurrent coplanar force systems
- Moment of forces, couple, Varignon’s theorem
- Free body diagram, equations of equilibrium
- Equilibrium of concurrent and non-concurrent coplanar force systems
📝 Module - 4: Centroid
- Importance of centroid and centre of gravity
- Methods of determining the centroid
- Locating the centroid of plane laminae from first principles
- Centroid of built-up sections
- Numerical examples
📝 Module - 5: Moment of Inertia
- Importance of Moment of Inertia
- Determining second moment of area (MOI) of plane sections from first principles
- Parallel axis theorem and perpendicular axis theorem
- Section modulus, radius of gyration
- Moment of inertia of built-up sections
- Numerical examples
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