Harbour & Airport Engineering
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Harbour & Airport Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Harbour & Airport Engineering (subject code 2180602) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 8 divides the course into 7 units, covering 62 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 (2180602)Unit 1 General
- History of water transportation at world level and at national level development and policy
- classification of harbours
- natural and artificial
- Major ports in India
- administrative set up
Unit 2 Harbour Planning
- Harbour components
- ship characteristics
- characteristics of good harbour and principles of harbour planning
- size of harbour
- site selection criteria and layout of harbours
- Surveys to be carried out for harbor planning
Unit 3 Natural Phenomena
- tides formation and currents phenomena
- their generation characteristics and effects on marine structures
- erosion and littoral drift
Unit 4 Marine Structures
- General design aspects
- breakwaters - function
- types general design principles
- pier heads
- mooring accessories – function
- design and construction features
Unit 5 Docks and Locks
- Tidal basin
- wet docks-purpose
- design consideration
- operation of lock gates and passage
- repair docks - graving docks
- floating docks
Unit 6 Port Amenities and Navigational Aids
- transfer bridges
- floating landing stages
- transit sheds
- cold storage
- cargo handling equipments
- purpose and general description
- Channel and entrance demarcation
- light houseelectronic communication devices
Unit 7 Harbour Maintenance
- Costal protection-purpose and devices
- disposal of dredged materials .mechanical and hydraulic dredgers. 2 5% B AIRPORT ENGINEERING 1 General: History
- policy of air transport
- airtransport authorities
- air transport activities
- air crafts and its characteristics
- airport classifications as per ICAO. 2 5% 2 Airport Planning : Regional planning-concepts and advantages
- location and planning of airport as per ICAO and F.A.A.recommendations
- airport Elements -airfield
- terminal area
- approach zone
- zoning laws
- airport capacity
- airport size and site selection
- estimation of future air traffic
- development of new airport
- requirements of an ideal airport layout. 6 10% 3 Run Way Design: Wind rose and orientation of runway
- wind coverage and crosswind component
- factors affecting runway length
- basic runway length, and corrections to runway length
- runway geometrics and runway patterns (configurations).Runway marking
- threshold limits cross section of runway 5 10% 4 Taxiway Design: Controlling factors
- taxiway geometric elements
- location and geometrics
- holding apron
- turnaround facility
- Aprons -locations
- gate positions
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