Unit 1 Introduction

• Planning of equipment
• Selection of equipment. 2 5

Unit 2 Construction

8 lecture hours

• Different crushers
• batching and mixing equipment
• pumping equipment
• ready mix concrete equipment
• Concrete pouring equipment
• Asphalt Plant
• Asphalt Pavers
• Asphalt compacting equipment

Unit 3 Earth Movers

7 lecture hours

• Fundamentals of Earth work operations
• Earth Moving operations
• Types of Earth work equipment - tractors
• Motor Graders
• Front end Waders - Dozer
• trucks and hauling equipment
• Equipment for foundation and pile driving
• Equipment for dredging

Unit 4 Power Plant

6 lecture hours

• Blowers, Fan, Cooling tower
• Pulverizing Mill
• compressor – Types
• advantages and limitations

Unit 5 Material Handling

9 lecture hours

• Principal groups of material handling equipment
• Crane with rotary pillar
• cranes with fixed post
• jib cranes with trolley
• cranes luffing boom cantilever cranes
• Hoisting elements
• types of ropes
• type of pulleys
• loading handling attachments
• standard forged hook
• hook weights
• hook bearings
• cross piece and casing of hook
• Bucket elevators
• loading and bucket arrangements
• Types – description of conveyor like belt conveyors
• apron conveyors
• escalators pneumatic conveyor
• screw conveyors and vibratory conveyors
• Fork lift types and its uses
• Introduction to AGV as new material handling device

Unit 6 Maintenance

6 lecture hours

• Factors involved
• Types of maintenance with advantages and limitations
• Breakdown maintenance
• Preventive maintenance
• Predictive maintenance
• VAIN analysis
• Total productive maintenance conceptualization

Unit 7 Safety

4 lecture hours

• Background of industrial safety
• Accident causation
• Industrial hazards
• Accident investigation
• Major Safety equipment and its uses
• OUTCOME: The course would familiarize the student on the technique to select suitable construction equipment
• power plant equipment
• earthmover & material handling equipment and also maintain them based on the need
• TEXT BOOK: 1
• Material handling equipment - N
• Envee publihsers
• New Delhi. 2
• Material handling equipment - M
• MIR publications
• Maintenance engineering and management – R
• PHI publication 4
• Maintenance of industrial equipments – Gellery & pakelts
• MIR publications 5
• Construction Planning
• Equipment and Methods - Peurifoy
• W.B. and Schexnayder
• 5th Edition
• McGraw Hill 6
• Building Construction
• Planning Techniques and Method of Construction - Arora S.P. and Bindra S.P.
• Dhanpat Rai 7
• Power Plant Engineering - Domkundwar
• Dhanpat Rai

Unit 10 Construction equipment management for engineers, estimator and owners – D. G. Gransberg, C

• Taylor & Francis
• Design based Problems (DP)/Open Ended Problems: Below mentioned problems are for reference only
• Similar problems may be developed by individual teachers. 1
• Understand the technique to select suitable construction equipment 2
• Understand the technique to select power plant equipment 3
• Understand the technique to select earthmover & material handling equipment and maintain them
• List of Open Source Software/learning website: 1. nptel.ac.in ACTIVE LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS: Preparation of power-point slides
• which include videos
• graphics for better understanding theory and practical work – The faculty will allocate chapters/ parts of chapters to groups of students so that the entire syllabus to be covered
• The power-point slides should be put up on the web-site of the College/ Institute
• along with the names of the students of the group
• the name of the faculty
• Department and College on the first slide
• The best three works should submit to GTU