Highway Materials & Testing
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The official GTU curriculum for Highway Materials & Testing (subject code 3336001) as prescribed for TE · Semester 3 divides the course into 5 units, covering 52 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 (3336001)Unit 1 SOIL SUBGRADE AND ITS TESTING
- 1.1. Significance of Sub-grade Soil
- 1.2. Characteristics of Soil
- 1.3. Desirable Properties
- 1.4. Index Properties of Soil
- 1.5. Soil Classification based on grain Size
- 1.6. Soil Classification System
- 1.7. Sub-grade Soil Strength
- 1.8. Evaluation of soil Strength
- 1.8.1. Bearing Test
- 1.8.2. Tri-axial Compression Test
- 1.8.3. Unconfined Compression Test
- 1.8.4. California Bearing Ratio Test
Unit 2 ROAD AGGREGATE AND ITS TESTING 2a.Appreciate the applications of rocks and stones in roads construction
- 2.2. Classification of Rocks
- 2.3. Sources of Stone
- 2.4. Rock forming Minerals
- 2.5. Texture or Structure of a Rock
- 2.6. Uses of Stone
- 2.7. Natural bed of Stone
- 2.8. Stone Quarrying
- 2.9. Desirable Properties of Road Aggregate
- 2.12. Tests for Roads Aggregate Crushing Test, Abrasion Test, Impact Test Soundness Test, Shape Test
- 2.12.6. Specific Gravity and Water Absorption Test
- 2.12.7. Bitumen Adhesion Test
Unit 3 BITUMINOUS MATERIAL AND ITS TESTING
- 3.2. Types of Bituminous Materials
- 3.2.1. Bitumen, Cutback Bitumen, Bituminous Emulsion, Tar
- 3.3. Tests on Bitumen
- 3.3.1. Penetration Test, Ductility Test, Viscosity Test, Float Test, Specific Gravity Test, Softening Point Test, Flash and Fire Point Test, Solubility Test, Spot Test, Loss on heating Test
- 3.3.11. Water Content Test
Unit 4 CEMENT AND ITS TESTING
- 4.2. Properties of Cement
- 4.3. Composition of Ordinary Cement
- 4.4. Functions of Cement ingredients
- 4.7. Site for Cement Factory
- 4.9. Packing and Storage of Cement
- 4.12. Types of Cement
- 4.13. Field Tests for Cement
- 4.14. Laboratory Tests for Cement Fineness Test, Compressive Strength, Highway Construction Materials and Testing Course code: 3336001 GTU/NITTTR/Bhopal/12-13 Gujarat State 3 Unit Major Learning Outcomes Topics and Sub-topics and storage of cement
Unit 5 CEMENT CONCRETE AND ITS TESTING
- 5.2. Properties of Cement Concrete
- 5.3. Materials used in R.C.C. Work
- 5.4. Corrosion of Steel in Concrete Theory of Corrosion, Causes of Corrosion, Effect of Corrosion, Prevention of Corrosion
- 5.5. Water Cement Ratio
- 5.7. Slump Test
- 5.8. Mixing the Material of Concrete
- 5.9.1. Hand Mixing, Machine Mixing
- 5.9. Transporting and Placing of Concrete
- 5.10.2. types Vibrators
- 5.11. Curing of Concrete
- 5.12. Types of Concrete Water Proofing Cement Concrete, Colored Concrete, Light Weight Concrete, No fines Concrete, Joints in the Concrete
- 5.13. Expansion and Contraction Joints
- 5.14. Form Work of Concrete Precautions in form work
- 5.15. Pre-cast Concrete
- 5.15.1. Advantages and Disadvantages of Pre-cast Concrete
- 5.16. Quality Control of Concrete
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