ELEMENTS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS

by R. V. RAIKAR

Overview

This book equips the students with the basic knowledge of certain facets of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics as needed by them in the beginning of their engineering education. The book is primarily tailored to conform to the first-year B.Tech syllabus of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU). It will be useful for the students in other universities too.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788120342903
Publisher:	PHI Learning
Publication date:	05/14/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

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<B>R. V. RAIKAR</B>, PhD, is Professor of Civil Engineering and Dean, Planning, K.L.E. Society’s College of Engineering and Technology, Belgaum, Karnataka. Dr. Raikar has taught elements of civil engineering and engineering mechanics, strength of materials, fluid mechanics and machines, hydrology, irrigation engineering, and operations research for more than 20 years. His areas of specialization include water resources engineering and sediment transportation. His research interests include fluvial hydraulics, study of flow field near structure using advanced pieces of equipment such as Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV), Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Bubble Image Velocimetry (BIV), hydrology, artificial neural network and genetic algorithm. He has published/presented 35 research papers in international journals and conferences. He is a visiting Professor to National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.</P>

Dr. Raikar is a member of various bodies such as the Indian Society for Hydraulics, Indian Society for Technical Education, International Association for Hydro-environment Engineering and Research (the Netherlands), International Association for Hydrological Sciences (The Wellingford), and World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (Beijing). He is the reviewer of journals of American Society of Civil Engineers, <EM>Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, International Journal of Sediment Research, Water and Maritime Engineering, Journal of Hydro-environment Research and Advances in Water Resources</EM>. Dr. Raikar is also a member of various boards of studies and boards of examinations of various universities.</P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Table of Contents

Preface
Part I ELEMENTS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
1. Introduction to Civil Engineering
2. Roads
3. Bridges and Dams
Part II ENGINEERING MECHANICS
4. Engineering Mechanics
5. Composition of Coplanar Concurrent Force System
6. Composition of Coplanar Non-concurrent Force System
7. Centroid of Plane Figures
8. Equilibrium of Forces
9. Equilibrium of Coplanar Non-concurrent Force System
10. Friction
11. Moment of Inertia of an Area
Model Test Papers • Index.