RPSC AEn Mains Syllabus : Civil

• Behaviour of engineering materials in tension, compression and shear
  
• Factor of safety, load factor and elastic constants
  
• Principal stresses and strains
  
• Strain energy and theories of elastic failure
  
• Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate beams
  
• Stress due to bending moment and shear force
  
• Design of section and section modulus`
  
• Elementary theory of torsion and combined bending and torsion
  
• Forces in statically determinate plane trusses
  
• Slope and deflection of statically determinate beams and frames
  
• Buckling of columns
  
• Euler's, Rankine's and secant formulae
  
• Combined, direct and bending stresses for short columns
  
• Thin cylindrical and spherical shells
  

• Soil Exploration and Basic Properties
  
• Methods of site exploration, boring, sampling and standard penetration test
  
• Water content, unit weight, specific gravity, void ratio, porosity and degree of saturation
  
• Density index and phase relationship
  
• Index properties: Specific gravity, Particle-size distribution, Consistency of soils
  
• Classification of soils and field identification
  

Laboratory Tests and Soil Water

• Particle-size analysis
  
• Liquid limit and plastic limit
  
•  Proctor density and field density
  
• Permeability
  
• Shear-box and unconfined tests
  
• Inter-granular and pore-water pressure
  
• Quick-sand phenomenon
  
• Flow net and its uses
  

Soil Pressure, Consolidation and Shear Strength

• Vertical pressure distribution
  
• Boussinesq's equations
  
• Circular load, pressure bulb and its significance
  
• Newmark's chart
  
• Contact-pressure distribution
  
• One-dimensional consolidation
  
• Laboratory consolidation test
  
• Over-consolidated and normally consolidated soils
  
• Settlement analysis
  
• Basic concept and measurement of shear strength
  
• Mohr-Coulomb failure theory
  
• Lateral earth pressures: active and passive
  
• Rankine's and Coulomb's theories
  
• Stability of slopes: Method of slices, Friction-circle method, Taylor's method
  

Foundations

• Bearing-capacity definitions
  
• Terzaghi's method
  
• General shear and local shear failures
  
• Plate-load test
  
• Field compaction method
  
• Water content, field compaction control and factors affecting compaction
  
• Pile foundations: Types and driving of piles, Load-carrying capacity of piles, Pile-load testing, Under-reamed pile foundations, Bored compaction piles
  
• Well foundations: Caissons, Shapes of wells and component parts, Depth and bearing capacity of well foundations, Forces acting on well foundations, Well sinking
  

• Statically indeterminate structures
  
• Static and kinematic indeterminacy
  
• Energy theorems
  
• Stiffness and flexibility methods for structural analysis
  
• Method of consistent deformation
  
• Slope-deflection and moment-distribution methods
  
• Analysis of beams, including continuous beams, and portal frames
  
• Influence lines for statically determinate and indeterminate beams and planar trusses
  
• Muller-Breslau Principle
  
• Rolling loads on beams
  
• Shear force and bending moment due to concentrated loads and uniformly distributed loads shorter and longer than the span
  
• Approximate methods for analysis of frames: Portal method, Cantilever method
  

Reinforced Cement Concrete

• Limit-state theory
  
• Provisions of latest IS 456
  
• Resistance to bending, shear, torsion and deflection
  
• Design of singly and doubly reinforced beams
  
• One-way, two-way and flat slabs
  
• Columns with axial load and uniaxial moment loading
  
• Footings
  
• Cantilever and counterfort retaining walls
  
• Ground-supported, underground and elevated reservoirs
  
• Provisions of latest IS 3370
  
• Design of cantilever sheds, rectangular portal frames, spherical domes and dog-legged staircases
  

Prestressed Concrete

• Properties of high-strength concrete and high-tensile steel
  
• Analysis of prestressed members for axial load, flexure and shear
  
• Pre-tensioning and post-tensioning losses in prestress
  
• Design of beams and slabs
  
• Provisions of latest IS 1343
  

Steel Structures

• Limit-state design
  
• Provisions of latest IS 800
  
• Design of bolted and welded connections
  
• Design of axially and eccentrically loaded tension and compression members
  
• Single and built-up sections
  
• Lacings and battens
  
• Connections and splices
  
• Plastic theory of analysis
  
• Design of beams and roof trusses
  
• Beam-column connections
  
• Column bases: Gusseted base, Slab base
  
• Plate and gantry girders
  
• Through and deck-type plate-girder bridges with lateral bracings
  

• Analysis of single-degree-of-freedom systems
  
• Free and forced vibrations
  
• Undamped and damped vibrations
  

• Fluid properties and types of flow
  
• Fluid statics
  
• Forces on fully and partially submerged bodies
  
• Stability of floating bodies
  
• Fluid kinematics
  
• Acceleration of fluid particles
  
• Velocity potential and stream function
  
• Irrotational flows and ideal-fluid flow
  
• Bernoulli's, Navier-Stokes and Reynolds equations with applications
  
• Flow-measuring devices
  
• Momentum and angular-momentum principles applied to fluid in a control volume
  
• Applications to jets
  
• Introduction to viscous flow and concept of drag
  
• Flow through pipes
  
• Laminar and turbulent flows
  
• Equations for boundary-layer thickness and boundary shear over flat plates
  
• Equations for boundary-layer thickness and boundary shear over flat plates
  
• Channel flows: GVF and RVF
  
• Surges
  
• Dimensional analysis and similitude techniques
  
• Mathematical modelling: Tools and techniques, Advanced modelling applications to water-resources and environmental-engineering problems
  

Distance and Angle Measurements

• Measurement of baseline
  
• Errors in baseline measurements
  
• Reduction to mean sea level
  
• Specifications for baseline measurements
  
• Optical measurement of distances
  
• Use of subtense bars
  
• Principles of theodolite and compass
  
• Traverse adjustments
  

Vertical Measurements and Levelling

• Use of levelling instruments, levels and level tubes
  
• Estimation of sensitivity
  
• Optics, care and maintenance
  
• Parameters defining the quality of telescope
  
• Parameters defining the quality of telescope
  
• Parameters defining the quality of telescope
  
• Parameters defining the quality of telescope
  
• Use of level rods
  
• Contouring
  
• Drainage and watershed lines
  

Plane-Table, Traverse and Other Surveys

• Methods of filling in details
  
• Plane-table and traverse surveys
  
• Principles and adjustments of closed traverse
  
• Determination of missing data
  
• Solution of two-point and three-point problems
  
• Curve ranging using linear and angular measurements
  
• Simple, compound and spiral curves
  

Area, Volume and Advanced Surveying

• Use of planimeter
  
• Measurement of areas and volumes
  
• Prismoidal, trapezoidal and Simpson's methods
  
• Use of total station
  
• Concepts of: Global Positioning System, Geographical Information System, Remote Sensing
  

Building and Road Materials

• Building stones and building bricks
  
• Steel: plain, TOR, high-tensile and structural steel
  
• Timber, lime, cement, sand, surkhi and cinder
  
• Stone slabs and lintels
  
• Aggregates for cement concrete
  
• Paints and distempers
  
• Use of pozzolana
  
• Manufacturing of lime concrete and cement concrete for plain, reinforced and prestressed concrete work
  
• Use of construction and demolition waste
  
• Road materials:Coarse aggregate, Screenings and binding materials for WBM, Bricks for soling, Coarse and fine aggregate for bituminous roads, IRC standard-size aggregates, Tars and bitumen, Bituminous concrete,  Bituminous emulsions, Bitumen mastic, Mineral fillers
  

Construction Works

• Stone masonry: Ashlar masonry, Course rubble masonry, Random rubble masonry, Stone pillar, Dry-stone masonry, Arch masonry
  
• Brick masonry: Types and uses , Hollow and reinforced brickwork, 
  
• Woodwork: doors and windows
  
• Steel works: structural steelwork, metal doors and windows
  
• Roofing: Stone-slab roofing, G.I. steel-sheet roofing, Asbestos-cement sheet roofing, Jack-arch roofing, Tile and thatch roofing, False ceiling
  
• Flooring: Cement-concrete flooring, Flag-stone flooring, Terrazzo mosaic flooring, Terrazzo tile flooring, Marble flooring, Brick-on-edge flooring, Timber granolithic floor finish, Linoleum and other floorings
  
• Plastering: Lime plaster, Cement-sand plaster, Composite plaster, Rough-coat plaster, Araish plastering with gypsum, Plaster of Paris,Painting
  
• Miscellaneous: Damp-proof course, Anti-termite treatment , Sill, coping and corbelling, 
  
• Centering and shuttering: Centering formwork, Shuttering and moulds, Timber trestles and falsework, Scaffolding and shoring, Underpinning
  
• Construction management: Management of construction, plants and equipment, Planning for construction using network analysis, CPM and PERT techniques
  

Engineering Hydrology

• Hydrologic cycle
  
• Precipitation, evaporation, evapotranspiration and infiltration
  
• Estimation of dependable runoff
  
• Factors affecting runoff
  
• Rainfall-runoff relationship
  
• Flood and drought estimation using frequency analysis and unit-hydrograph methods
  
• Groundwater hydrology and aquifers
  
• Steady flow towards fully penetrating wells in confined and unconfined aquifers
  

Irrigation and Canals

• Crop-water requirements and consumptive use of water
  
• Water depth and frequency of irrigation
  
• Soil moisture and its variation in the root zone
  
• Wilting point and field capacity
  
• Different methods of irrigation and irrigation efficiency
  
• Cropping patterns and intensity of irrigation
  
• Irrigation drainage and related problems
  
• Diversion headworks: Principles of design of weirs on non-permeable and permeable foundations,  Khosla's theory, Designs for uplift and exit gradient
  
• Canals: Design of lined and unlined canals, Silt theories, Tractive-force approach, Canal transition
  

Groundwater, Storage Works and Projects

• Groundwater availability in unconfined aquifers
  
• Safe-yield formulae
  
• Construction and maintenance of wells
  
• Relative merits of lift irrigation and flow irrigation
  
• Storage works: Elementary concepts of gravity and earthen dams, Forces acting on gravity dams, Structural behaviour, stability considerations and stress variation in gravity dams, Phreatic line and control of seepage in earthen dams
  
• Multi-purpose projects: Compatibility of multi-purpose uses, Data required for planning multi-purpose water-resources projects, Reservoir planning, Environmental consequences of irrigation, Environmental consequences of irrigation, Issues related to large dams,  Rehabilitation and resettlement problems of irrigation projects, River-linking projects, Inter-state river-water disputes and acts, Waterlogging, Problems of alkalinity and salinity, Farm drainage and command-area development works
  

Highway Engineering

• Survey, investigation and preparation of road projects
  
• Highway standard classification
  
• Land width, building line, centre line, formation width, terrain classification and pavement width
  
• Geometric design: Camber, Longitudinal gradients, Sight distance, Horizontal curve, Superelevation, Vertical curve, Lateral and vertical clearances, Design of flexible and rigid pavements 
  
• Pavement construction: Sub-base, base course and shoulders, Stone/kankar brick soling, WBM courses, Granular sub-base, Stabilised soil roadsL, Cement/lime-stabilised sub-base, Sand-bitumen base course, Crushed cement-concrete base/sub-base course, Bituminous course, Prime and tack coats
  
• Traffic engineering: Traffic, road-user and vehicular characteristics, Volume, speed and delay studies, Origin-and-destination study, Traffic-flow characteristics, Traffic capacity and parking studies, Traffic regulation, Traffic-control devices, Intersection control, System approach in traffic management
  

Bridge Engineering

• Components and classification of bridges
  
• Requirements of an ideal bridge
  
• Selection of bridge site and bridge alignment
  
• Site investigation and collection of data
  
• Waterway of bridges
  
• Economic span, scour depth of foundation, afflux, clearance and freeboard
  
• Types of bridge superstructures and methods of erection
  
• Bridge bearings, joints, wearing coat, railing, parapet and approach slab
  
• Types of bridge foundations
  
• Bridge piers, abutments and wing walls
  
• Training works and protection works for bridges
  
• Low-cost bridges, causeways, timber bridges and suspension bridges
  
• Provisions of latest IRC 5, IRC 6 and IRC 21
  
• Design of slab culverts and pipe culverts
  

Water Supply Engineering

• Quantitative water-supply requirements for urban and rural areas
  
• Variation in demand and population forecast
  
• Sources of water supply: Lakes, Rivers, Groundwater
  
• Intake arrangements
  
• Drinking-water standards and bacteriological test
  
• Pumping of raw water
  
• Design of rising mains
  
• Water treatment: Flow diagram , Sedimentation, Coagulation, Filtration, Disinfection, Water softening, Aeration of water
  
• Water-distribution systems and their design and analysis
  
• Clear-water reservoirs
  
• Rural water supply and sanitation
  
• Low-cost potable water for rural population
  
• Tube wells for water supply
  
• Safe yield from tube wells
  

Sanitary Engineering and Wastewater Treatment

• Sanitary Engineering and Wastewater Treatment
  
• Hydraulic and structural design considerations
  
• Different pipe materials and shapes of built-up sewers
  
• Superimposed load on sewers
  
• House plumbing, accessories and arrangements
  
• Characterisation of sewage: Physical, chemical and biological analysis, Industrial wastewater and related problems, Natural purification through soil mass and water bodies, Self-purification of streams
  
• Sewage treatment: Physical treatment, Screening, Skimming tanks, Grit chamber, Settling tanks, Secondary biological treatment, Trickling filters and high-rate biofilters, Activated-sludge and accelerated-aeration plants, Secondary settling tanks, Sludge digesters and sludge drying, Final disposal
  
• Low-cost wastewater treatment: Oxidation ponds, Oxidation ditches, Aerated lagoons, Septic tank, Anaerobic lagoons
  
• Dry-refuse disposal
  
• Basic concepts of urban and rural sanitation
  

Solid Waste Management

• Classification and treatment methods
  
• Sanitary landfill
  
• Medical-waste management and disposal methods