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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
(Under the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India)
KURUKSHETRA-136119
Ref.: Advt.Nos.:04/2024, 05/2024, 06/2024, 07/2024, 08/2024
SYLLABUS FOR SCREENING TEST
Name of the Post: Assistant Professor Grade – II (Level – 10)
Name of the Department: Civil Engineering
Engineering Mechanics: System of forces, free-body diagrams, equilibrium equations;
Internal forces in structures; Frictions and its applications; Centre of mass; Free Vibrations of
undamped SDOF system.
Solid Mechanics: Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate beams; Simple
stress and strain relationships; Simple bending theory, flexural and shear stresses, shear
centre; Uniform torsion, Transformation of stress; buckling of column, combined and direct
bending stresses.
Structural Analysis: Statically determinate and indeterminate structures by force/ energy
methods; Method of superposition; Analysis of trusses, arches, beams, cables and frames;
Displacement methods: Slope deflection and moment distribution methods; Influence lines;
Stiffness and flexibility methods of structural analysis.
Construction Materials and Management: Construction Materials: Structural Steel –
Composition, material properties and behaviour; Concrete - Constituents, mix design, short
term and long-term properties. Construction Management: Types of construction projects;
Project planning and network analysis - PERT and CPM; Cost estimation.
Concrete Structures: Working stress and Limit state design concepts; Design of beams,
slabs, columns; Bond and development length; Prestressed concrete beams.
Steel Structures: Working stress and Limit state design concepts; Design of tension and
compression members, beams and beam- columns, column bases; Connections - simple and
eccentric, beam-column connections, plate girders and trusses; Concept of plastic analysis -
beams and frames.
Soil Mechanics: Three-phase system and phase relationships, index properties; Unified and
Indian standard soil classification system; Permeability - one dimensional flow, Seepage
through soils – two - dimensional flow, flow nets, uplift pressure, piping, capillarity, seepage
force; Principle of effective stress and quicksand condition; Compaction of soils; One
dimensional consolidation, time rate of consolidation; Shear Strength, Mohr’s circle, effective
and total shear strength parameters, Stress-Strain characteristics of clays and sand; Stress
paths.
Foundation Engineering: Sub-surface investigations - Drilling bore holes, sampling, plate
load test, standard penetration and cone penetration tests; Earth pressure theories - Rankine
and Coulomb; Stability of slopes – Finite and infinite slopes, Bishop’s method; Stress
distribution in soils – Boussinesq’s theory; Pressure bulbs, Shallow foundations – Terzaghi’s
and Meyerhoff’s bearing capacity theories, effect of water table; Combined footing and raft
foundation; Contact pressure; Settlement analysis in sands and clays; Deep foundations –
dynamic and static formulae, Axial load capacity of piles in sands and clays, pile load test, pile
under lateral loading, pile group efficiency, negative skin friction.
Fluid Mechanics: Properties of fluids, fluid statics; Continuity, momentum and energy
equations and their applications; Potential flow, Laminar and turbulent flow; Flow in pipes,
pipe networks; Concept of boundary layer and its growth; Concept of lift and drag.
Hydraulics: Forces on immersed bodies; Flow measurement in channels and pipes;
Dimensional analysis and hydraulic similitude; Channel Hydraulics - Energy-depth
relationships, specific energy, critical flow, hydraulic jump, uniform flow, gradually varied flow
and water surface profiles.
Hydrology: Hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation, evapo-transpiration, watershed,
infiltration, unit hydrographs, hydrograph analysis, reservoir capacity, flood estimation and
routing, surface run-off models, ground water hydrology - steady state well hydraulics and
aquifers; Application of Darcy’s Law.
Irrigation: Types of irrigation systems and methods; Crop water requirements - Duty, delta,
evapo-transpiration; Gravity Dams and Spillways; Lined and unlined canals, Design of weirs
on permeable foundation; cross drainage structures.
Water and Waste Water Quality and Treatment: Basics of water quality standards –
Physical, chemical and biological parameters; Water quality index; Unit processes and
operations; Water requirement; Water distribution system; Drinking water treatment.
Sewerage system design, quantity of domestic wastewater, primary and secondary treatment.
Effluent discharge standards; Sludge disposal; Reuse of treated sewage for different
applications.
Air Pollution: Types of pollutants, their sources and impacts, air pollution control, air quality
standards, Air quality Index and limits.
Municipal Solid Wastes: Characteristics, generation, collection and transportation of solid
wastes, engineered systems for solid waste management (reuse/ recycle, energy recovery,
treatment and disposal).
Transportation Infrastructure: Geometric design of highways - cross-sectional elements,
sight distances, horizontal and vertical alignments. Geometric design of railway Track –
Speed and Cant. Concept of airport runway length, calculations and corrections; taxiway and
exit taxiway design.
Highway Pavements: Highway materials - desirable properties and tests; Desirable
properties of bituminous paving mixes; Design factors for flexible and rigid pavements; Design
of flexible and rigid pavement using IRC codes
Traffic Engineering: Traffic studies on flow and speed, peak hour factor, accident study,
statistical analysis of traffic data; Microscopic and macroscopic parameters of traffic flow,
fundamental relationships; Traffic signs; Signal design by Webster’s method; Types of
intersections; Highway capacity.
Principles of surveying; Errors and their adjustment; Maps - scale, coordinate system;
Distance and angle measurement - Levelling and trigonometric levelling; Traversing and
triangulation survey; Total station; Horizontal and vertical curves.
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Scale, flying height; Basics of remote sensing and
GIS.
