BUILDING CONSTRUCTION –I
No. of credits : 03
This includes a study of the properties of materials of construction and methods of manufacturing.
1. a) Stones: Classification, properties and uses.
b) Bricks & tiles: Types, properties and uses, Refractive bricks & their application.
c) Precast blocks: Types & uses.
2. Timber: Varieties, properties, uses, defects, seasoning merits & demerits, plywood - types & uses.
3. Soil: I.S. classification of soils, soil structure - single grained, flocculated and dispersed structures.
4. a) Cement: Ingredients, types, properties and uses. Physical tests on cement as per I.S.
b) Lime: Types, properties & uses.
c) Mortar: Lime, cement and surkhi mortar - Properties and uses, compressive strength of cement mortar.
5 Floor tiles: Mosaic tiles, natural and artificial stone slabs - properties and application.
6. Modern building materials: Paints and varnishes, Plastic, rubber, glass, ferrocement, gypsum, bitumen and tar.
7. Metals: Ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
8. a) Concrete: Definition, Ingredients - properties, water cement ratio.
b) Tests on aggregates and fresh concrete as per I.S.
c) Fresh concrete: Workability, mix proportion - batching, mixing, transportation, placing, compacting, various methods of curing.
d) Hardened concrete: Compressive strength, bond strength, high strength concrete - definition and uses, Non-destructive tests.
9. Admixtures in concrete: Brief description and their effects on concrete.
REFERENCES:
(1) A text book of Engineering Materials by G.J.Kulkarni.
(2) Concrete Technology : Theory and Practice by M.S. Shetty.
(3) Relevant I.S. Codes.
(4) Materials of Construction by R.C. Smith.
(5) Materials of Construction by Johnson.
(6) Materials of Construction by Mills, Hayward & Rader.
(7) Materials of Construction by Spencer, Powell and Hudson.
(8) Reinforced Concrete Engineering by Bresler.
(9) Properties of Concrete by Neville.