Advanced Construction Methods & Equipments
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Construction Methods & Equipments (subject code 2164006) as prescribed for Civil Infra · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 35 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2164006)Unit 1 Engineering Fundamentals of Construction Materials &
- Equipments: Weight-Volume Relations of Materials
- Shrinkage and swell factors
- Pay load
- Machine power: Rim pull
- Available pull
- Resistance and Coefficient of traction
- Drawbar pull
Unit 2 Procurement & Planning of Construction Equipments
- Procurement criteria & cost
- Replacement analysis
- Production/Output analysis and Suitability of Power Shovel
- Concrete pumps
- Conveyor belts etc
Unit 3 Concreting Process
- Equipment for concrete Productions
- Concrete transportation systems
- Concrete placing and compaction methods
- Production planning of concrete operations
- Hot weather concreting
- Underwater concreting
Unit 4 Heavy Constructions Methods
- Soil stabilization/ Compaction - Compressed Air, Blasting & Dewatering Systems etc, Box jacking
- Pipe jacking
- Under water construction of diaphragm walls and basement
- Trenchless technology
- Tunneling techniques
- Well foundations
- Pneumatic Caissons
- Erecting tall buildings
- Prefabricated construction
- Pre-stressed construction
Unit 5 Formwork, Scaffolding & Shoring
- Materials & arrangement System for Formwork
- Scaffolding & Shoring elements
- Formwork for foundations
- beams & walls
- Slip formwork
- Types of Scaffolding and its suitability
- Types of Shoring and its suitability
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