Handout 1 2015-2016 2nd Semester

CE 242: Civil Engineering Materials

Course Structure: 3L-0T-2P-0A (11 credits)
Pre-requisites: None

Instructors: Dr. Sudhir Misra (email: sud@iitk.ac.in)

Dr. Syam Nair (email: syamnair @iitk.ac.in)
Dr. Arghya Das (email: arghya@iitk.ac.in)

Schedule: Lectures – MWF (10-11 AM); Lab sessions: Monday and Wednesday (2-4 PM)

[There is some ‘error’ in the OARS time table for the lab timings and I am working on that]

Objective of the course: The course is designed to familiarize the students with important construction materials,
especially cement and concrete, steel, and bitumen. The course will also introduce the students to the use of soil as a
construction material, and some new materials such as the fiber-reinforced plastics, epoxy coated reinforcements, etc.

Course content: Properties of construction material and their evaluation (creep, elastic modulus, fatigue, impact, etc.);
test methods and specifications; Cement – chemical composition, properties such as setting, strength, fineness,
hydration; Aggregates – sources, properties, chemical reactivity; Concrete - constituents, proportioning, properties in
fresh and hardened state, characteristic strength, quality control (sampling, acceptance, etc.), transportation and
placing, testing (including NDT), porosity; Admixtures – chemical, mineral; Steel – properties, types of steel, steel in
civil engineering; Bricks – manufacture, properties and classification; masonry bonds; New materials –
Fiber reinforced plastics (FRPs), epoxy-coated bars, etc. with performance requirements, test methods,
specifications; Bitumen – source, composition, characterization, various forms, tests on bitumen; Bituminous mix
design; Soil – description, engineering geology of soils and their formation, index properties of soil, classification of
soils.

Lecture-wise break-up (tentative):

Topic Number of
lectures
Properties of material and their evaluation (creep, elastic modulus, fatigue, impact, 3
etc.); test methods and specifications;
Cement: Chemical composition, properties – setting, strength, fineness, hydration; 4
Aggregates: Sources, properties, chemical reactivity; 1
Concrete: Constituents, proportioning, properties of fresh and hardened concrete, 10
characteristic strength, quality control (sampling, acceptance, etc.), transportation and
placing, testing (including NDT), porosity; Chemical, mineral admixtures
Properties, types of steel, steel in civil engineering; 3
Introduction to manufacture, properties and classification; masonry bonds; 2
New materials: Concepts of Fiber reinforced plastics (FRPs), composition and 7
properties and applications of FRPs in CE; Other illustrative examples such as epoxy-
coated bars, etc. with performance requirements, test methods, specifications.
Bitumen: Source, composition, characterization, various forms, tests on bitumen; 6
Bituminous mix design;
Description of soil, engineering geology of soils and their formation, index properties 6
of soil, classification of soils;
Total Lectures 42
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Distribution of marks: (may be slightly modified)

 Mid semester examination: 25%

 End semester examination: 35%
 Laboratory Report: 15%
 Laboratory Quiz: 10%
 Quizzes: 15%

Conduct of the course

 It may not be possible to provide a slot for make-up labs. Therefore, attendance in the lab sessions is
compulsory.
 Attendance in class is not compulsory. Being a residential campus, students are ‘expected’ to attend.
 Be punctual to the class and the laboratory
 Any dishonesty in the course will be dealt with appropriately – and punishment may include award of F grade

Suggested text and reference material

 Materials of Construction – GD Taylor, Prentice Hall
 Concrete – Material, Microstructure and Properties, PK Mehta and PMJ Montiero, Tata Mcgraw Hill
 Relevant IS codes for testing and specifications
 Concrete Technology – ML Gambhir (Tata Mcgraw Hill)
 Concrete Technology, Neville and Brooks, ELBS/Longman
 Properties of Concrete, 4th Edition, Neville, ELBS/Longman
 Brick and Reinforced Brick Structures, P Dayaratnam, Oxford and IBH
 Construction Materials, D N Ghose, (Tata Mcgraw Hill)
 Highway engineering, Khanna and Justo,(Khanna Publishers, Delhi)
 Principles of transportation engineering, Chakraborty and Das, Prentice Hall of India
 Das BM., Advanced Soil Mechanics, 2008, Taylor and Francis, New York, USA.
 Lambe TW., and Whitman RV., Soil Mechanics., 2000, John Wiley and Sons (Asia), Singapore