Basic Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

List of suggestive core Experiments:
Students are expected to perform minimum ten experiments from the list suggested
below by preferably selecting experiments from each unit of syllabus.
1. To perform traverse surveying with prismatic compass, check for local attraction and
determine corrected bearings and to balance the traverse by Bowditch’s rule.
2. To perform leveling exercise by height of instrument of Rise and fall method.
3. To measure horizontal and vertical angles in the field by using Theodolite.
4. To determine (a) normal consistency (b) Initial and Final Setting time of a cement
Sample.
5. To determine the workability of fresh concrete of given proportions by slump test or
compaction factor test.
6. To determine the Compressive Strength of brick .
7. To determine particle size distribution and fineness modulus of course and fine
Aggregate.
8. To verify the law of Triangle of forces and Lami’s theorem.
9. To verify the law of parallelogram of forces.
10. To verify law of polygon of forces
11. To find the support reactions of a given truss and verify analytically.
12. To determine support reaction and shear force at a given section of a simply
Supported beam and verify in analytically using parallel beam apparatus.
13. To determine the moment of inertia of fly wheel by falling weight method.