JNTUK R23 B.Tech Civil IV Year I Semester (4-1) Syllabus & Subject-wise Topics

Geotechnical Engineering-II

moves from soil properties into foundation engineering, sizing footings and piles to safely carry a building’s load.

• Unit 1: Soil exploration methods and earth pressure theories (Rankine’s, Coulomb’s)
• Unit 2: Slope stability analysis and shallow foundation bearing capacity theories
• Unit 3: Bearing capacity determination methods, including Terzaghi’s and IS approaches
• Unit 4: Settlement criteria and design of shallow foundations, including raft foundations
• Unit 5: Pile foundation types, load capacity and pile group behaviour

Advanced Construction Management

covers the management disciplines — quality, cost, materials, BIM and sustainability — that run alongside actual construction work.

• Unit 1: Quality assurance, quality control and on-site safety management
• Unit 2: Cost estimation, budgeting and economic analysis methods
• Unit 3: Materials and machinery management, procurement and maintenance
• Unit 4: Building Information Modelling (BIM) for project collaboration
• Unit 5: Sustainable construction and green building certification practices

Pre-stressed Concrete

(Professional Elective-IV) — covers how tensioning steel tendons before or after casting lets concrete resist tension it otherwise couldn’t.

• Unit 1: Flexural, shear and torsional design of prestressed sections
• Unit 2: Continuous beam analysis and deflection prediction in prestressed members
• Unit 3: End block analysis (Guyon’s, Magnel’s methods) and composite section design
• Unit 4: Statically indeterminate prestressed structures and concordant cable profiles
• Unit 5: Composite construction of prestressed and in-situ concrete

Advanced Environmental Engineering

(Professional Elective-IV) — extends environmental engineering into stream pollution modelling, industrial wastewater treatment, and air and noise pollution control.

• Unit 1: Stream self-purification and the Streeter-Phelps dissolved oxygen model
• Unit 2: Advanced biological treatment — nitrification, denitrification and RBC systems
• Unit 3: Industrial wastewater treatment for sugar, dairy and pulp & paper industries
• Unit 4: Urban solid waste management and the sources/meteorology of air pollution
• Unit 5: Air pollution control equipment and noise pollution control

Design and Drawing of Irrigation Structures

(Professional Elective-IV) — a design-and-drafting course focused on the hydraulic structures that control and convey irrigation water.

• Unit 1: Design and drawing of a surplus weir
• Unit 2: Design and drawing of a tank sluice with a tower head
• Unit 3: Design and drawing of a notch-type canal drop
• Unit 4: Design and drawing of a canal regulator
• Unit 5: Design and drawing of a type-III syphon aqueduct

Advanced Structural Engineering

(Professional Elective-V) — covers specialized RCC structures beyond ordinary buildings, such as tanks, chimneys, retaining walls and flat slabs.

• Unit 1: Raft foundation and cantilever/counterfort retaining wall design
• Unit 2: RCC water tank design (circular, rectangular and Intze types)
• Unit 3: Flat slab design using direct design and equivalent frame methods
• Unit 4: RCC chimney design and loading concepts
• Unit 5: Pressed steel tank design

Environmental Impact Assessment

(offered as both Professional Elective-V and Open Elective-III) — covers how proposed projects are systematically screened for environmental consequences before approval.

• Unit 1: EIA fundamentals, stakeholder roles and cost-benefit analysis
• Unit 2: EIA methodologies — ad-hoc, matrix, network and overlay methods
• Unit 3: Impact prediction and mitigation for soil, water and air quality
• Unit 4: Impact assessment on vegetation/wildlife and environmental risk assessment
• Unit 5: MoEF&CC regulations, clearance procedures and ISO 14000 auditing

Railway and Airport Engineering

(Professional Elective-V) — covers the geometric design of railway tracks and airport runways as distinct transportation infrastructure disciplines.

• Unit 1: Railway track components, gauges and rail fastenings
• Unit 2: Railway geometric design — gradients, superelevation and curves
• Unit 3: Track turnouts, signalling systems and train movement control
• Unit 4: Airport planning, site selection and runway orientation
• Unit 5: Airfield pavement design methods and airport drainage

Building Materials for Engineers

(Open Elective-III) — the same building-materials curriculum offered to non-civil branches as an open elective, covering stones, masonry, cement and finishes.

• Unit 1: Properties and manufacture of stones, bricks and tiles, plus aluminium, gypsum, glass and bituminous materials
• Unit 2: Masonry bonding techniques, timber properties and alternative structural materials
• Unit 3: Lime and cement manufacture, composition and testing
• Unit 4: Building components — lintels, arches, staircases, floors and roof types
• Unit 5: Finishes, damp-proofing, paints, and aggregate classification

Intelligent Transportation Systems

(Open Elective-III) — introduces how sensors, communications and data systems are layered onto transportation networks to manage traffic more intelligently.

• Unit 1: ITS fundamentals, history and classification
• Unit 2: Sensor technologies and ITS data collection techniques
• Unit 3: ITS functional areas — traffic management, traveller information and public transport systems
• Unit 4: ITS architecture, planning and evaluation methods
• Unit 5: ITS applications — incident management, electronic toll collection and automated highway systems

Quantum Science and Technology

(Open Elective-IV) — a university-wide elective introducing quantum mechanics and its emerging computing, communication and sensing applications, included here as a cross-disciplinary option rather than a civil-specific subject.

• Unit 1: Quantum mechanics fundamentals — wave-particle duality, the Schrödinger equation and the uncertainty principle
• Unit 2: Quantum information theory — qubits, superposition, entanglement and quantum gates
• Unit 3: Quantum computing algorithms — Grover’s, Shor’s algorithm and quantum error correction
• Unit 4: Quantum communication — quantum key distribution and quantum teleportation
• Unit 5: Quantum sensing, metrology and hardware platforms

Geo-Spatial Technologies

(Open Elective-IV) — covers GIS and remote sensing as applied spatial-data tools for civil engineering decision-making.

• Unit 1: GIS fundamentals, map projections and coordinate systems
• Unit 2: Spatial data acquisition, formats, and data quality/error correction
• Unit 3: Spatial data modelling, overlay analysis, and cost/path analysis
• Unit 4: GIS applications in resource management, urban planning and GPS integration
• Unit 5: Remote sensing fundamentals and applications to watershed and urban modelling

Solid Waste Management

(Open Elective-IV) — covers the full lifecycle of municipal solid waste, from generation to landfill or hazardous-waste treatment.

• Unit 1: Solid waste generation, sources, sampling and characterization
• Unit 2: Waste collection, transport and transfer station design
• Unit 3: Waste processing, materials recovery and energy recovery methods
• Unit 4: Landfill classification, siting, design and leachate management
• Unit 5: Hazardous waste identification, regulation and treatment

Applied Mechanics

(Open Elective-IV) — a statics-and-dynamics refresher covering force systems, friction, centroids and rigid-body motion.

• Unit 1: Force systems, resultants, moments and equilibrium equations
• Unit 2: Friction types and applications, including wedges and screw jacks
• Unit 3: Centroids and centre of gravity of composite shapes and bodies
• Unit 4: Area and mass moments of inertia for simple and composite shapes
• Unit 5: Kinetics of rigid bodies and the work-energy principle

Skills on Civil Engineering Software

(Skill Enhancement Course) — a software-focused lab teaching structural analysis tools used in professional practice.

• Introduction to ETABS and 3D analysis of multi-storey buildings
• Analysis of continuous beams, portal frames and trusses using structural software

Constitution of India

(Audit Course) — a civic-literacy course on how India’s constitutional and administrative institutions function.

• Unit 1: Constitutional history, features, fundamental rights and directive principles
• Unit 2: Union government structure — the President, Parliament and higher judiciary
• Unit 3: State government structure — the Governor, Chief Minister and state secretariat
• Unit 4: Local administration — district, municipal and Panchayati Raj institutions
• Unit 5: The Election Commission and welfare-oriented constitutional bodies

Evaluation of Industry Internship

this internship-evaluation credit line has no unit-wise syllabus anywhere in the document; noting this honestly rather than inventing content.