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Civil Engineering Books

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Civil Engineering

This section contains free e-books and guides on Civil Engineering some of the resources in this section can be viewed online and some of them can be downloaded.

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Basic Civil and Mechanical Engineering

This note covers the following topics:Scope of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Surveying and Civil Engineering Materials, Building Components and Structures, Internal Combustion Engines and Power Plants, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning System.

s152 Pages

Basics of Civil Engineering

This note covers Introduction to Civil Engineering Branches of Civil Engineering, Scope of Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Water Resource Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Scope according to the Functions of Civil engineering and Impact of Infrastructural Development on the Economic of Country.

s36 Pages

Timber Bridges Design, Construction, Inspection, and Maintenance

This PDF book covers the following topics related to Timber Bridges : Timber as a Bridge Material, Types of Timber Bridges, Properties of Wood and Structural Wood Products, Preservation and Protection of Timber Bridges, Basic Timber Design Concepts for Bridges, Loads and Forces on Timber Bridges, Design of Beam Superstructures, Design of Longitudinal Deck Superstructures, Design of Longitudinal Stress-laminated Deck Superstructures , Rail Systems for Timber Decks, Wearing Surfaces for Timber Decks , Timber Bridge Fabrication and Construction, Bridge Inspection for Decay and Other Deterioration, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Timber Bridges, Bridge Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Replacement: Case Histories.

s907 Pages

Steel Bridges

This book covers the design of steel bridges in general with emphasis on bridge systems commonly used to cover short and moderate spans, namely plate girder bridges, box girder bridges, and truss bridges. The book is intended for senior year college students and practicing bridge engineers. Topics covered includes: Types Of Bridges, Materials For Bridge Construction, Design Loads On Bridges, Design Considerations, Bridge Floors, Plate Girder Bridges, Composite Plate Girder Bridges, Box Girder Bridges, Truss Bridges.

s328 Pages

Compendium of Building Technologies

This note covers the following topics: Floor or Roof Construction Technologies, Roof Construction Technologies, Wall Construction Technologies, Foundation Construction Technologies, System Level Technologies, Services and Materials.

s158 Pages

Building technologies for tropical countries

This note explains the following topics: Effective design and engineering for building in the tropics, Climate and Natural Disasters in the tropics, Building Materials, Building construction maintenance, technologies and infrastructural works.

s163 Pages

Workshop Practice and Engineering Drawing by NOU

The course is made up of Drafting and Drawing and laboratory practical demonstrations or experiments covering areas such as rudiments of basic workshop practice and engineering drawing; safety practices, measuring equipment; hand and machine tools; metal and plastics materials, joining methods , presswork, primary forming, casting and moving loads. The concept of Engineering Drawing; Measuring, Lettering and Dimensioning of objects in various Positions, Principles of orthographic projections in the First Third Angle.

s229 Pages

Engineering Drawing by Loknayak Jai Prakash Institute Of Technology

This note covers the following topics: Importance of engineering drawing, Manual drawing instruments and their uses, Conventions, Scales, Curves used in engineering practice, Orthographic projection, Projection of points, straight lines, planes, solids, Auxiliary projections, Intersections of solids, Isometric projections.

s303 Pages

Building Material and Construction by BGS Institute of Technology

This note explains the following topics: Building Materials, Foundation and Masonry, Lintels, Balcony And Arches, Doors, Windows and Ventilators, Plastering, Pointing, Damp-proofing and Painting.

s128 Pages

Civil Engineering Materials And Construction by VSSUT

This PDF covers the following topics related to Civil Engineering Materials And Construction : Basic Building Materials I , Basic Building Materials II, Basic Building Constructions, Finishing, Services and Special constructions.

s272 Pages

Lecture Notes on Prestressed Concrete Structures

This lecture note explains the following topics: Losses of Pre Stress, Flexure, Analysis of Shear, Transfer of Prestress in Pretensioned Members, Composite Beam and Deflection.

s82 Pages

Design of Concrete Structure by G.C. Behera

This note describes the following topics: Properties of concrete and reinforcing steel, philosophy, concept and methods of reinforced concrete design, introduction to limit state method, limit state of collapse and limit state of serviceability, application of limit state method to rectangular beams for flexure, shear, bond and torsion, Design of doubly reinforced beams, design of T and L beams, design of one way and two way slabs, design of staircases, Design of short and long columns with axial and eccentric loadings, Design of isolated and combined column footings, Retaining walls, various forces acting on retaining wall, stability requirement, design of cantilever and counterfort retaining walls, Design of water tanks, design requirements, design of tanks on ground, underground and elevated water tanks.

s224 Pages

Hydraulic Structures by AAU

Hydraulic Structures are engineering constructions designed and mechanically fit for managing and utilizing water resources to the best advantage of the human being and environment. This course provides a broad understanding of the basic principles of hydraulic structures. The emphasis is on design and analysis of different types of dams and spillways.

s183 Pages

Hydraulic Structures ACSCE

This PDF covers the following topics related to Hydraulic Structures : Gravity Dams, Earth Dams, Spillways, Cross Drainage Works, Canal Regulation Works.

s85 Pages

Design of Steel Structures by G.C.Behera

This note explains the following topics: Steel vs Concrete, Types of Reinforcing Bars or strands, Properties of Structural steel, Codes, Structural Steel Products, Design Methods, Loads, Types of Elements, Limit State Design, type of Fabrication or Joints, Rivet Connection, Bolt Connection, Maximum Pitch, Failure Mechanism, High Strength Friction Grip bolts, failure of black Bolt, Reduction Factors, Bearing Failure of Bolts, Ecentric Connection with Bearing Type Bolts and Prying Force.

s152 Pages

Advanced Steel Design and IARE

This PDF covers the following topics related to Advanced Steel Design : Simple Connections, Riveted, Bolted and Welded Connections, Eccentric and Moment Connections , Analysis and Design of Industrial Buildings, Design of Steel Truss Girder Bridges, Design of Steel Bunkers and Silos.

s94 Pages

Lecture note on Surveying by Velammal college of engineering and Technology

This lecture note desribes the following topics: introduction to Surveying, Classification and basic principles Linear Measurement, Chain Surveying, Compass Traversing, Errors In Chain Surveying, Corrections In Chain Surveying, Plane table surveying, Radiation, Intersection and traversing, Levelling description of level instruments, Simple levelling and fly levelling methods, Contours, Methods of grid levelling, Contours Map preparation, Computation of area and volume, Theodolite description of the instrument and Traversing and Introduction to setting of curves.

s104 Pages

Basic Surveying Manual

This note covers Measuring horizontal distances, Vertical measurements, Construction staking, Slopes and grades, Field exercises, examples and solutions.

s53 Pages

Introduction to the Theory of Species of Structures

This note covers the following topics: Species, Operations on Species and Variations on the theme Species.

s137 Pages

Structural Analysis IARE

This PDF covers the following topics related to Theory of Structures : Analysis of Plane Frames, Arches, Force Method of Analysis of Indeterminate Beams, Displacement Method of Analysis: Slope Deflection Andmoment Distribution, Influence Lines and Moving Loads.

s101 Pages