All thes Papers are based on the memory of the students who have qualified the exam previously.





Railway Recruitment Board 

Senior Section Engineer and Junior Engineer Exam 2015




Railway Recruitment Board has invited application for the post of Senior Section Engineer and Junior Engineer.

The exam will be of General Engineering. Questions will be asked from the subjects like Thermodynamics, Principle of Electrical Engineering, Basic Mechanical Engineering  and various other subjects taught during first few year of degree course. 

One should not get any confusion regarding the exam pattern. Exam Pattern will remain same for all the post, for all the departments. It may happen that you are writing the exam for Junior Engineer Civil Post and you may only get 3 question from civil engineering in Paper. 

By keeping in mind the trauma faced by students, we are hereby posting the previous year paper of RRB Senior section Engineer Exam and Junior Exam.


Needless to say that your comments and suggestions will be appreciated. 



Glimpses of laboratory of Soil giant

 

Karl Terzaghi is known as father of soil Mechanics. His theories published long ago have covered the entire area of soil Mechanics and even after so many ears his theories have not lost their charm  in field of Geotechnical Engineering.


 Today we are conducting experiments on all those machines in our Geotechnical Laboratories. Technology is changing very fast and all the manual works are shifting to the automatic era. Gone are the days, when we had to manually produce the graphs at our sheet after conducting a experiments. With advancement in electronic technology, the automatic machines in laboratories are helping us in reducing the burden of conducting experiments.

Ever wonder, how those giants of soil Mechanics were conducting experiments in laboratories? While surfing on internet we found out some of the instruments used by Karl Terzaghi in laboratories.
The experimental findings of these set ups are so correct that they are relevant even today.

 

Triaxial Cell

Direct Shear Apparatus

Ring Shear Apparatus

Consolidometer

Ring cell

Consolidometer

New Direct Shear Apparatus

Consolidometer

Triaxial Cell

Triaxial cell

Triaxial Cell

Ring Shear Apparatus

Ring Shear Apparatus

Ring Shear Apparatus

Consolidometer

Consolidometer

Consolidometer

Direct Shear

Direct Shear

Direct Shear

Direct Shear

Direct Shear




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Tutorial Sheets and other related Practice Material

As promised, We have arranged some material to practice in various Civil Engineering Subjects.
Our focus here is to provide quality material to practice.
We are starting with Soil Mechanics as it is the most Important subject of Civil Engineering.
In Near Future we will add material related to some other subjects depending on the response to this post.
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Soil Mechanics lab Experiment

 

During undergraduate studies we all face difficulties in conducting experiments. The reasons varies from faulty instruments to the lack of laboratory  manuals.
In soil mechanics after the completion of basic experimental work like In-situ density or Proctor Test, the enthusiasm of a student comes to an end after seeing the scary set up of Unconfined compressive strength test apparatus or Consolidometer. One should not be afraid of these instruments as it had happened with every Civil Professional during his or her studies.

Usually the number of experiments in Universities all around India, are more or less same. While searching on youtube, we found some really beautiful videos, explaining in details the soil Mechanics Laboratory Experiments.

We hope that these videos will be beneficial for all the undergraduate students who want to learn the soil mechanics experiments.

  • Unconfined Compressive Strength Test.  
  • Direct Shear Test
  • Core Cutter Method
  • Sand Replacement Method
  • Specific Gravity of Soil
  • Sieve Analysis of Coarse Aggregates
  • Liquid Limit determination by Cone Penetrometer
  • Determination of Liquid Limit and Plastic Limit
  • Standard Penetration Test
  •  Soil Sampling
  • Water Content Determination

We are trying our level best to bring some more relevant experimental videos.
In case we missed some crucial experiments of soil mechanics, remind us by commenting below.

If you have some video link, which in your opinion should be included here,  kindly post the link below as a comment or send the link to us via Contact Us .

Feel free to suggest anything.




UPSC MAINS CIVIL ENGINEERING SYLLABUS


Paper-I

1. Engineering Mechanics, Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis:
1.1 Engineering Mechanics:
Units and Dimensions, SI Units, Vectors, Concept of Force, Concept of particle and rigid body. Concurrent, Non Concurrent and parallel forces in a plane, moment of force, free body diagram, conditions of equilibrium, Principle of virtual work, equivalent force system.
First and Second Moment of area, Mass moment of Inertia.
Static Friction.
Kinematics and Kinetics:
Kinematics in Cartesian Co-ordinates, motion under uniform and nonuniform acceleration, motion under gravity. Kinetics of particle: Momentum and Energy principles, collision of elastic bodies, rotation of rigid bodies.
1.2 Strength of Materials:
Simple Stress and Strain, Elastic constants, axially loaded compression members, Shear force and bending moment, theory of simple bending, Shear Stress distribution across cross sections, Beams of uniform strength.
Deflection of beams: Macaulay's method, Mohr's Moment area method, Conjugate beam method, unit load method. Torsion of Shafts, Elastic stability of columns, Euler's Rankine's and Secant formulae.
1.3 Structural Analysis:
Castiglianio's theorems I and II, unit load method of consistent deformation applied to beams and pin jointed trusses. Slope-deflection, moment distribution,
Rolling loads and Influences lines: Influences lines for Shear Force and Bending moment at a section of beam. Criteria for maximum shear force and bending Moment in beams traversed by a system of moving loads. Influences lines for simply supported plane pin jointed trusses.
Arches: Three hinged, two hinged and fixed arches, rib shortening and temperature effects.
Matrix methods of analysis: Force method and displacement method of analysis of indeterminate beams and rigid frames.
Plastic Analysis of beams and frames: Theory of plastic bending, plastic analysis, statical method, Mechanism method.
Unsymmetrical bending: Moment of inertia, product of inertia, position of Neutral Axis and Principle axes, calculation of bending stresses.
2. Design of Structures: Steel, Concrete and Masonry Structures:
2.1 Structural Steel Design:
Structural Steel: Factors of safety and load factors. Riveted, bolted and welded joints and connections. Design of tension and compression member, beams of built up section, riveted and welded plate girders, gantry girders, stancheons with battens and lacings.
2.2 Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures:
Concept of mix design. Reinforced Concrete: Working Stress and Limit State method of design–Recommendations of I.S. codes Design of one way and two way slabs, stair-case slabs, simple and continuous beams of rectangular, T and L sections. Compression members under direct load with or without eccentricity,
Cantilever and Counter fort type retaining walls.
Water tanks: Design requirements for Rectangular and circular tanks resting on ground.
Prestressed concrete: Methods and systems of prestressing, anchorages, Analysis and design of sections for flexure based on working stress, loss of prestress.
Design of brick masonry as per I.S. Codes
3. Fluid Mechanics, Open Channel Flow and Hydraulic Machines:
3.1 Fluid Mechanics:
Fluid properties and their role in fluid motion, fluid statics including forces acting on plane and curved surfaces.
Kinematics and Dynamics of Fluid flow: Velocity and accelerations, stream lines, equation of continuity, irrotational and rotational flow, velocity potential and stream functions.
Continuity, momentum and energy equation, Navier-Stokes equation, Euler's equation of motion, application to fluid flow problems, pipe flow, sluice gates, weirs.
3.2 Dimensional Analysis and Similitude:
Buckingham's Pi-theorem, dimensionless parameters.
3.3 Laminar Flow:
Laminar flow between parallel, stationary and moving plates, flow through tube.
3.4 Boundary layer: Laminar and turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate, laminar sub layer, smooth and rough boundaries, drag and lift. Turbulent flow through pipes: Characteristics of turbulent flow, velocity distribution and variation of pipe friction factor, hydraulic grade line and total energy line.
3.5 Open channel flow:
Uniform and non-uniform flows, momentum and energy correction factors, specific energy and specific force, critical depth, rapidly varied flow, hydraulic jump, gradually varied flow, classification of surface profiles, control section, step method of integration of varied flow equation.
3.6 Hydraulic Machines and Hydropower:
Hydraulic turbines, types classification, Choice of turbines, performance parameters, controls, characteristics, specific speed. Principles of hydropower development.
4. Geotechnical Engineering:
Soil Type and structure – gradation and particle size distribution – consistency limits.
Water in soil – capillary and structural – effective stress and pore water pressure – permeability concept – field and laboratory determination of permeability – Seepage pressure – quick sand conditions – Shear strength determination – Mohr Coulomb concept.
Compaction of soil – Laboratory and field tests.
Compressibility and consolidation concept – consolidation theory – consolidation settlement analysis.
Earth pressure theory and analysis for retaining walls, Application for sheet piles and Braced excavation.
Bearing capacity of soil – approaches for analysis – Field tests – settlement analysis – stability of slope of earth walk.
Subsurface exploration of soils – methods
Foundation – Type and selection criteria for foundation of structures – Design criteria for foundation – Analysis of distribution of stress for footings and pile – pile group action-pile load test. Ground improvement techniques.

Paper-II

1. Construction Technology, Equipment, Planning and Management:
1.1 Construction Technology:
Engineering Materials:
Physical properties of construction materials with respect to their use in construction - Stones, Bricks and Tiles; Lime, Cement, different types of Mortars and Concrete.
Specific use of ferro cement, fibre reinforced C.C, High strength concrete.
Timber, properties and defects - common preservation treatments.
Use and selection of materials for specific use like Low Cost Housing, Mass Housing, High Rise Buildings.
1.2 Construction:
Masonry principles using Brick, stone, Blocks – construction detailing and strength characteristics.
Types of plastering, pointing, flooring, roofing and construction features.
Common repairs in buildings.
Principles of functional planning of building for residents and specific use - Building code provisions.
Basic principles of detailed and approximate estimating - specification writing and rate analysis – principles of valuation of real property.
Machinery for earthwork, concreting and their specific uses – Factors affecting selection of equipments – operating cost of Equipments.
1.3 Construction Planning and Management:
Construction activity – schedules- organization for construction industry – Quality assurance principles.
Use of Basic principles of network – analysis in form of CPM and PERT – their use in construction monitoring, Cost optimization and resource allocation.
Basic principles of Economic analysis and methods.
Project profitability – Basic principles of Boot approach to financial planning – simple toll fixation criterions.
2. Surveying and Transportation Engineering
2.1 Surveying:
Common methods and instruments for distance and angle measurement for CE work – their use in plane table, traverse survey, leveling work, triangulation, contouring and topographical map.
Basic principles of photogrammetry and remote sensing.
2.2 Railway Engineering:
Permanent way – components, types and their functions – Functions and Design constituents of turn and crossings – Necessity of geometric design of track – Design of station and yards.
2.3 Highway Engineering:
Principles of Highway alignments – classification and geometrical design elements and standards for Roads.
Pavement structure for flexible and rigid pavements - Design principles and methodology of pavements.
Typical construction methods and standards of materials for stabilized soil, WBM, Bituminous works and CC roads.
Surface and sub-surface drainage arrangements for roads - culvert structures.
Pavement distresses and strengthening by overlays.
Traffic surveys and their applications in traffic planning - Typical design features for channelized, intersection, rotary etc – signal designs – standard Traffic signs and markings.
3. Hydrology, Water Resources and Engineering:
3.1 Hydrology:
Hydrological cycle, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, overland flow, hydrograph, flood frequency analysis, flood routing through a reservoir, channel flow routing-Muskingam method.
3.2 Ground water flow:
Specific yield, storage coefficient, coefficient of permeability, confined and unconfined equifers, aquifers, aquitards, radial flow into a well under confined and unconfined conditions.
3.3 Water Resources Engineering:
Ground and surface water resource, single and multipurpose projects, storage capacity of reservoirs, reservoir losses, reservoir sedimentation.
3.4 Irrigation Engineering:
(i) Water requirements of crops: consumptive use, duty and delta, irrigation methods and their efficiencies.
(ii) Canals: Distribution systems for canal irrigation, canal capacity, canal losses, alignment of main and distributory canals, most efficient section, lined canals, their design, regime theory, critical shear stress, bed load.
(iii) Water logging: causes and control, salinity.
(iv) Canal structures: Design of, head regulators, canal falls, aqueducts, metering flumes and canal outlets.
(v) Diversion headwork: Principles and design of weirs of permeable and impermeable foundation, Khosla's theory, energy dissipation.
(vi) Storage works: Types of dams, design, principles of rigid gravity, stability analysis.
(vii) Spillways: Spillway types, energy dissipation.
(viii) River training: Objectives of river training, methods of river training.
4. Environmental Engineering:
4.1 Water Supply:
Predicting demand for water, impurities, of water and their significance, physical, chemical and bacteriological analysis, waterborne diseases, standards for potable water.
4.2 Intake of water:
Water treatment: principles of coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation; slow-; rapid-, pressure-, filters; chlorination, softening, removal of taste, odour and salinity.
4.3 Sewerage systems:
Domestic and industrial wastes, storm sewage–separate and combined systems, flow through sewers, design of sewers.
4.4 Sewage characterization:
BOD, COD, solids, dissolved oxygen, nitrogen and TOC. Standards of disposal in normal watercourse and on land.
4.5 Sewage treatment:
Working principles, units, chambers, sedimentation tanks, trickling filters, oxidation ponds, activated sludge process, septic tank, disposal of sludge, recycling of wastewater.
4.6 Solid waste: Collection and disposal in rural and urban contexts, management of long-term ill effects.
5. Environmental pollution: Sustainable development. Rawastes and disposal. Environmental impact assessment for thermal power plants, mines, river valley projects. Air pollution. Pollution control acts



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Punjab Technical University



Punjab Technical University (PTU) was established in the Year 1997 under the Punjab Technical University Act, 1996(Punjab Act No. 1 of 1997) to provide for the establishment and incorporation of a University for the advancement of technical education and developement thereof in the State of Punjab and for matters connected therewith. In pursuance of this Act, the University started its journey with 09 engineering colleges and few management colleges affiliated to it. Since then, the University has come a long way and during this Academic Session 2011-12, the University has affiliated 100+ engineering Colleges, 139 Management and Computer Application courses, 37 institutions imparting Pharmacy education, 11 colleges imparting Hotel Management education, 06 Colleges providing Architecture Education and 21 Regional Centre for M.Tech and Ph.D in different branches of Engineering and Management and 01 Regional Centre for M.Pharmacy. More then 2013 Learning Centres of PTU are providing professional education through Distance Learning all over the Country and abroad.


The syllabus of B.tech Course in Civil Engineering at various institutes affiliated to Punjab Technical University can be downloaded by clicking on the link below

http://www.ptu.ac.in/







Uttar Pardesh Technical University

 

Uttar Pradesh Technical University was established by the Government of Uttar Pradesh on 8th May 2000 vide Act No. 1248(2)XVII-V-I-I-19-2000 Uttar Pradesh Adhiniyam Sankhya 23 of 2000. Under the University Act, 'Technical Education' includes programmes of education, research and training in Engineering, Technology, Architecture, Town Planning, Pharmacy, Applied Arts & Crafts and such other programmes and areas that the central Government may in consultation with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) by notification in Gazette declare. 

The University is affiliating in nature and its jurisdiction spans the entire state of U.P. in affiliating B.Tech., M.B.A., M.C.A., B.Arch., B. Pharma., B.H.M.C.T., M.Tech. and Ph.D. programmes in 785 colleges/institutions imparting graduate, postgraduate and doctoral level training in all government and private institutions located all over U.P. in engineering, technology, architecture, pharmacy, hotel management and catering technology as well as M.B.A. and M.C.A. programmes.  

University is offering B.Tech Degree course at various Private and Government aided Institutes all over Uttar Pardesh.

University Conduct end semester external exam which are mandatory to obtain degree from the university.

Previous year papers of End semester exam in civil Engineering can be downloaded from here.

I hope it will be beneficial for all the students currently studying in degree program at UPTU, to go through the previous year paper before writing your final exam.








Wish you all the best for your Exams!!!!




SSC JE 2012 Objective Paper Subject Wise Mark Distribution and Analysis


Dear Aspirants,

We have analysed the objective Paper of JE Examination 2012, which was conducted by Staff selection commission.

Out of 100 Question, The distribution of marks in different subjects is :

1.  Strength of Material 25 Marks
2.  Building Material and construction 19 Mark
3.  Reinforced Concrete Structure 15 Mark
4.  Surveying 14 Marks
5.  Fluid Mechanics 9 marks
6.  Soil Mechanics 7 mark
7.  Environmental Engineering 4 mark
8.  Steel Structures 3 marks
9.  Highway and Traffic Engineering 2 Marks
10. Irrigation Engineering 1 marks
The points which also need consideration:
1.In Reinforced concrete structures mainly questions were asked based on the recommendations of IS 456 and one or two question were also asked from topics mainly Design of Beam for Flexure and Shear.

2.One have to prepare strength of material, Building Material and construction sincerely. Difficulty level is low and one can find all questions in these subjects from book by Gupta and Gupta

3.In Fluid Mechanics Open channel flow is important.

4. I would not like to suggest wasting time in preparing environment engineering and Highway and traffic engineering as they can question from any part of syllabus. But one can go, If he has plenty of time.

5.Skip Irrigation as weightage is very low and questions are of general nature, which one can easily answer. 

6. In soil soil mechanics questions are being asked from 5 or 6 chapters of starting. Difficulty level low. Similar questions can be found in Gupta and Gupta.

7. Last year Cutoff for objective is 80 out of 200 and expected cutoff for this year will be around 85-90 (as No of Btech Students applying for SSC JE is increasing every year so cutoff may increase above 90 in extreme condition)

8. For objective, pattern will more or less remain same every year.

9. In Civil Engineering "Gupta and Gupta" and "R Agor" are best books for preparation although subject matter is not given in these books. People used to learn objective questions from these books, which can be easily found in any competitive exam. Books containing Subject matter are also available in Market but I would not suggest them as they are neither good nor authentic. 
I think this is enough for today. If required, I will tell you about subjective paper some other Day.
I hope you will not forget to appreciate my work.



Wish you all the best for SSC JE 2015!!!!





SSC JE Analysis




 Hello All,

We are aware that lot of our friend are searching for the previous year cut-off of Junior Engineer exam conducted by Staff Selection Commission.

We analysed the results of last three year SSC JE exams and we uploading them in form of tables.

It can be easily verified that number of marks are increasing both for Paper I and Paper II.

No of student appearing in Paper I and also No of student qualified for Paper II are also increasing. But in addition to it we also have to look on increasing number of Post in various departments.

As difficulty level of various year paper varies a lot, so it is hard to predict the cut-off of this year JE paper.

The marks of the candidate in various departments are also presented in form of tables which may be used a reference by aspirants hoping to be selected in various departments. 

Feel free to ask anything.
We would love to help you!!!!


Paper I Cut-off OF Various Year

Category
2011
2012
2013
2014
UR

62.25
78.00

HH

30.00
40.00

OH

30.00
60.00

OBC (M)

49.25
--

OBC

52.50
70.50

ST

43.50
63.50

SC

47.75
66.25

Paper II Cutoff of Various Year


Category
2011
2012
2013
2014
UR

84.00
83
136
HH

45.00
32
30
OH

62.00
56
77
OBC (M)

--


OBC

54.00
69
100
ST

40.00
56
79
SC

62.00
62
80

Year 2011 Opening and Closing Marks In various Departments


Department
Year
Parti.
SC
ST
OBC
OH
HH
UR
CPWD
2011
Ist Candi
245.00
227.50
256.00
208.50
160.50
322.00
Last
197.75
189.00
203.75
207.00
160.50
219.00
2013
Last
245.50
232.25
265.25
244.50
155.75
280.75
MES
2011
Ist
--
202.75
210.00
--
--
324.75
Last
--
188.75
205.75
--
--
208.75
2013
Last
213.25
205.00
226.00
187.00

234.50
POST
2011
Ist
208.75
188.00
--
--
--
216.50
Last
193.00
188.00
--
--
--
205.00
2013
Last
243.75
228.50
291.50


270.50
CWC
2011
Ist
268.00
243.00
270.00
201.50
--
--
Last
160.75
198.00
204.75
174.75
--
--
2013
Last
228.50
205.00
251.50
212.75
184.00
245.00

No Of Candidates In Civil Engineering


Year
Qualified For Paper II
Called For Interview
2011
2453
1,434
2012
5025
2680
2013
4809
1963
2014


That is all guys!!!

We have tried our level best not to commit any mistake while stealing data from official website of Staff Selection Commission but in case you find out any discrepancy of any form and magnitude, kindly let us know.


Wish you all the best for your exams.