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ELEMENTS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS VTU UNIVERSITY Subject code 21CIV14 / 21CIV24 Semester 1st / 2nd Sem ELEMENTS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS21CIV14/24 SYLLABUS Module-1 Overview of Civil Engineering Systems: Introduction to structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, Construction technology, hydraulics, water resources and irrigation engineering transportation engineering, environmental and sanitary engineering, GIS, and earthquake engineering.

Module 5 DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD syllabus Kinematics: Displacement, average velocity, instantaneous velocity, speed, acceleration, average acceleration, variable acceleration,accelerationduetogravity,Newton’slawofmotion,rectilinearmotionandnumericalproblems, curvilinear motion, superelevation, projectile motion, relative motion, numerical problems, motion under gravity, numerical problems Kinetics: D ‘Alembert’s principle and its application in-plane motion and connected bodies including pulleys

Module 4 DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD syllabus Support reactions: Types of loads and types of supports, statically determinate and indeterminate beams, support reactions in beams, Numerical problems on support reactions for statically determinate beams (point load, udl, uniformly varying loads and moments) Analysis of trusses: Types of trusses, analysis of statically determinate trusses using the method of

Module 3 DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD syllabus Centroid:Introduction, methods of determining the centroid, locating the centroid of simple figures from firstprinciple, the centroid of composite and built-up sections.Moment of inertia:Introduction, method of determining the second moment of area of plane sections from first principles,parallel axis theorem and perpendicular axis theorem section modulus, the radius of gyration, momentof

Module 2 DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD syllabus Analysis of force systems: Concept of idealization, force, a system of forces, superposition, transmissibility, Resolution, and composition of forces, Law of Parallelogram of forces, polygonal law, Resultant of concurrent coplanar force system, coplanar non-concurrent force system, a moment of forces, couple, Varignons theorem, resultant of coplanar non-concurrent force system, free