Strength of Materials and Building Materials Quiz

Study Notes

Properties, classification, standard tests, uses, and manufacturing methods of a variety of materials are covered.
Examples include building stones, silicate-based materials, Portland cement, asbestos products, timber, wood-based products, laminates, bituminous materials, paints, and varnishes.

Concepts like stress, strain, Hooke's Law, and Poisson's Ratio are explained.
The stress-strain behavior of mild steel is analyzed.
Topics include torsion of circular shafts, shear and bending moment diagrams, pure bending, bending of multi-material members, and shearing stresses in beams.
Mohr's circle for plane stress, principal stresses, maximum shearing stress, and Euler's formula for columns are discussed.
Deflection and slope calculations are covered using various methods, including double integration, moment-area theorems, energy methods, and Castigliano's theorem.
Degree of indeterminacy, rolling loads, influence lines, cables, and three-hinged arches are also examined.

Concrete properties, advantages, and applications are explored.
The role of cement, aggregates, water quality, water-cement ratio, workability, and mix design in concrete production is explained.
Processes like batching, mixing, placement, compaction, finishing, and curing are detailed.
Concrete quality control, hot and cold weather concreting, and repair/maintenance of concrete structures are discussed.

Fundamentals of surveying are introduced, including distance measurement, chain surveying, and the workings of a prismatic compass.
Compass traversing, bearings, local attraction, and plane table surveying are explained.
Theodolite traversing and adjustments are discussed.
Levelling and related terminology, contouring, curvature and refraction corrections, and adjustments of dumpy levels are covered.
Contouring methods, uses of contour maps, tachometric survey, curve setting, earthwork calculations, and advanced surveying equipment are explored.
Applications of total stations in civil engineering are highlighted.

Soil origin, phase diagrams, and definitions of key parameters like void ratio, porosity, degree of saturation, water content, specific gravity, unit weights, density index, and their interrelationships are explained.
Grain size distribution curves and their applications are described.
Index properties of soils, standard tests, Atterberg's limits, and the IS soil classification system with its plasticity chart are discussed.
Permeability of soil, its coefficient, and methods of determination are covered.
Unconfined and confined aquifers, effective stress, quicksand, and consolidation of soils are explored.
Principles of consolidation, degree of consolidation, pre-consolidation pressure, and normally consolidated soil are examined.
The e'log p curve is discussed.