Rajasthan Public Service Commission, Ajmer

Syllabus of Screening Test for the post of

Lecturer-Civil Engineering
Technical Education Department
Building Technology and Construction Management
Building materials; Stone, Brick, Tiles, Lime & Surkhi, Cement, Mortar, Concrete, Steel and Wood;
Introduction to Glass, Paint, Plastics, Aluminum, Reinforced and Fiber reinforced cement concrete; Ferro
cement, FRP, Environmental friendly materials.
Brick and stone masonry, brick bonds and type of walls; Lintels and Arches; flat and pitched roofs;
Plastering, pointing, flooring, damp, sound and fire proofing, Expansion and construction joints;
Centering and shuttering; Stairs and Lifts; Doors & Windows; Load bearing and framed structure
construction. Building bye laws. Aspects in modern building planning. Eco-friendly and Green buildings.
Bar charts, Milestone charts, preparation of construction schedules; CPM & PERT. Crashing of networks.
National Building code provisions.

Fluid Mechanics
Properties of fluids; Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids; Principles of fluid statics; Kinematics of flow;
Equations of motion; Energy and momentum-applications; flow measurement in pipes and open channels;
Dimensional analysis and similitude; Introduction to boundary layer theory, Laminar and turbulent flow
through pipes. Performance parameters of pumps and turbines.

Surveying, Estimating Costing & Field Engineering

Basic principles, Level, Theodolite, Tacheometer, Compass and other instruments; Introduction to Total
Station; Temporary and permanent adjustments; Measurement of distances and directions; Leveling;
Contouring; Traversing; Adjustment of survey data; Plane Table survey; Curves, Introduction to Remote
Sensing and GIS.
Estimation for quantities for various types of construction, like building construction, road construction,
Rate Analysis. Preparation of Tender & contract documents. Centre-line diagram. Building layout
Shuttering plan.

Environmental Engineering
Water supply; Demand; sources; Quality standards; Water treatment: Coagulation, flocculation, settling,
filtration; Water softening; Iron, Manganese, Fluoride and Nitrate removal; Electro-dialysis, R.O. and Ion
exchange process, Desalination.
Water distribution system design and storage, Pumping stations.
Sewerage system; Layout and design; Characteristics of municipal wastewater; Wastewater Treatment:
Treatment scheme; Activated sludge process; Trickling filters; RBC, UASB; Statbilization ponds and
lagoons; Septic tank; sludge handling and disposal. Basics of noise pollution, Measurement of noise,
standards, noise abatement.
Basics of Air Pollution and its ill effects on human beings.
International, National and State pollution control bye laws.

Transportation Engineering
Highway Material & Testing: Properties of subgrade soil, stone aggregates & bituminous material,
significance, method & applications of various tests on soil, stone aggregate and bitumen.
Geometric Design: Highway classification, design, cross-sectional elements, horizontal & vertical
alignment, sight distance, types of road crossings, roundabout, grade-separated intersections.
Traffic Engineering: Traffic flow characteristics; Traffic studies and their significance. Geometric
improvement of intersections.
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Traffic Control & Parking studies: General principles & types of traffic signs, advantages &
disadvantages of traffic signals, signal phases, requirements & design standards for on street parking, offstreet parking.
Highway construction and pavement design: Design of Highway Pavements: Design of pavements;
C.B.R. and G.I. method; Westergaards analysis of wheel load stresses in rigid pavement; I.R.C. design
method for concrete pavement.
Road Construction: Methods of constructing different types of roads viz. earth roads, gravel roads, WBM
and WMM roads, bituminous and concrete roads.
Mega Highway, National highway, State highways and village roads-specification of MORTH & IRC.
Safety codes for above mentioned roads.
Railway Engineering: Introduction; Gauges; right of way, gradient, Resistance to traction and stresses in
track; Track component parts their functions and requirements viz. Rails; Sleepers; Ballasts. Geometric
design of railway track, super elevation, points and crossing; requirement of rail joints.
Airport Engineering: Site selection; Airport classification; layout, zoning laws; Runway orientation and
geometric design of runway.

Water Resources Engineering

Introduction, need for harnessing water resources; irrigation practices; Irrigation-its importance and
impact on environment, assessment of water requirements for crops; Methods of irrigation; Drip and
sprinkle irrigation methods nowadays and its importance; canal and well irrigation; Design principles of
irrigation canal, energy dissipation; salient features of diversion head works; Falls; Regulators and cross
drainage structures; Reservoir and flood routing through reservoir; basic principles for design of dams and
spillway; Hydropower; General features and components of a hydropower station.
Hydrological cycle and hydrologic budget; Precipitation; measurement and analysis; Stream flow;
Rainfall-Runoff relationship; frequency analysis; Flood Routing.
Major rivers and Dams of India and Rajasthan, their history and development.

Solid Mechanics
Simple stresses and strains, stress-strain curve for ductle and brittle materials.
Elastic constants, stress, plane stress, Mohrs circle of stress, strains, plane strain, Mohrs circle of strain,
combined stress; Elastic theories of failure; Bending of beams, shear and bending stressess; Torsions of
circular and rectangular sections and simple members, columns.

Structural analysis
Slopes and deflections in determinate beams using conjugate beam method and moment area method;
Maxwells reciprocal theorem; Bettis theorem; Castiglianos theorems; Strain energy method and virtual
work (unit load). Static indeterminacy; Fixed beams and continuous beams by three moment theorem.
Area moment theorem & its applications; Muller Breslaus principle.

Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering

Soil and soil-mass constituents; and weight volume relationships, index properties, classification of soils,
soil structure and clay minerals. Capillarity, permeability and seepage through soils, piping phenomenon.
Shearing strength of soil; determination of parameters by direct shear box., tri-axial and unconfined
compression test, vane shear test. Typical stress-strain curves for soils; determination of pore pressure
coefficients. Liquification of soil; Soil compaction, laboratory tests and field control. Ground
improvement techniques: mechanical stabilization, cement lime and bitumen stabilization.

Types of foundations, selection criteria, bearing capacity, settlement, laboratory and field tests; Types of
piles and their design and layout, Foundations on expansive soils, swelling and its prevention, foundation
on swelling soils.
Importance of field tests, recognition of various types of Soil in field and their Compaction methods.

Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures

Materials for cement concrete; properties and testing of cement, water, fine and coarse aggregates, brief
introduction to admixtures. IS Concrete mix design procedure; properties and testing of fresh and
hardened concrete, durability of concrete. Introduction to self compacting concrete.
Limit state design as per IS:456 for bending, shear, axial compression and combined forces. Codal
provisions for slabs, beams, walls, columns and footings. Working stress method of design of R.C.
members. Design of cantilever and counterfort Retaining walls.
Principles of prestressed concrete design, materials, methods of prestressing, losses. Design of simple
members and determinate structures. IS:1343 provisions.
Design of brick masonry as per IS Codes.

Design of Steel Structures

Mild steel and high tensile steel, working stress, factor of safety, imposed loads on various types of floors
and roofs; introduction to IS: 875 with respect to dead loads, imposed loads and Wind loads. Design of
riveted, welded and bolted joints. Plastic analysis. Types of Cross sections; plastic, compact, semicompact and slender sections as per IS: 800. Design as per latest version of IS:800. Design of tension
members, Compression members; axially and eccentrically loaded columns; built up columns; Design of
beams; simple and built up sections; laterally restrained and unrestrained beams; design of beam column
connections. Plate girders. Design of roof trusses, Column bases; column footing; grillage foundations.
Lateral Loads: determination of wind and Earthquake effects as per IS codes.

Note :- Pattern of Question Paper

1. Objective type paper
2. Maximum Marks : 100
3. Number of Questions : 100
4. Duration of Paper : Two Hours
5. All questions carry equal marks.
6. There will be Negative Marking.

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