IIT Kanpur Syllabus for Civil Engineering

IIT Kanpur Syllabus for Civil Engineering CE 351: Soil Mechanics Course content:  Stresses within a soil, effective stress principle, stress point and stress path, Soil – water systems- capillarity, flow, Darcy’s law, permeability, and tests for its determination, different heads, piping, quicksand condition, seepage, flow nets, Compressibility and consolidation characteristics, Strength and direct and triaxial shear tests, … Read more

IIT Kanpur Syllabus for Engineering Geosciences Civil Engineering

IIT Kanpur Syllabus for Engineering Geosciences Civil Engineering       CE 321: Engineering Geosciences Course content:  Introduction to geosciences in civil engineering, Plate tectonics (Continental drift, sea-floor spreading, types of plates and plate motion); Introduction to rock forming minerals (silicate structure, physical and chemical properties of minerals); Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks (texture; engineering … Read more

IIT Kanpur Syllabus Geoinformatics Civil Engineering

IIT Kanpur Syllabus  Geoinformatics Civil Engineering       CE 331: Geoinformatics Course content:  Basic concepts of surveying-basic measurements and errors in measurements;  Linear measurements-Tape, EDMI, Optical;  Angle measurements-fundamental of Theodolite, adjustment;  Vertical control-level surfaces, methods of levelling, contouring;  Coordinate systems and datum transformation-Geoid, MSL, reference systems, transformation,  map projection;  Control surveys-traverse, triangulation, trilateration;  Errors … Read more