Assignment No.

1
1. Why civil engineering material is important for civil engineers?
2. What are the different types of construction materials?
3. Discuss selection Criteria of Construction Material. Briefly explain the stress strain
diagram of mild steel.
4. Define Brittle and Ductile property of material. Explain the Griffith theory for brittle
fracture.
5. Define Hardness and Roughness.
6. A relatively large plate of a glass is subjected to a tensile stress of 40 MPa. If the specific
surface energy and modulus of elasticity for this glass are 0.3 J/m2 and 69 GPa,
respectively. Determine the maximum length of a surface flaw that is possible without
fracture.

Assignment No 2.
1. Explain the stress- strain relationship of mild steel with clear graph.
2. Define Bulking of Sand. How the bulking of sand can be determined?
3. List out the characteristics of good building stones
4. What is the fineness modulus?
5. Define sieve analysis and write down the procedure of sieve analysis.

Assignment No. 3
1) Define clay. Discuss about the classification of clay.
2) Explain the constituents of good brick earth with its functions. Also explain the
manufacture process of brick.
3) What are the harmful ingredients of brick earth? Explain.
4) Classify the bricks according to the quality.
5) Define the tiles. Briefly describe the different types of tiles.
6) Compare between Bull’s trench and Hoffman’s kiln of brick.
7) What are the standard tests on Brick? Explain briefly the water absorption of bricks.
8) Write Short on:
a) Terra Cotta
b) Characteristics of good tiles
c) Compressive Strength test of brick.
d) Comparison of Clamp and Kiln burning.
Assignment No. 4 and 5
1. List out the properties of fat lime.
2. Compare between Fat lime and Hydraulic lime. Write down the classification of lime as
per Indian Standard.
3. List out the ingredients of Portland cement with their function.
4. Explain manufacturing process of Portland Cement with neat flow diagram.
5. Explain the manufacture process of cement by dry process. How it is different from wet
process.
6. Define Setting Time of Cement.
7. What are the harmful ingredients in cement?
8. What do you mean by hydration of cement? Describe the different types of cement.
9. What are the Bouge’s compound in cement. Explain it in detail.
10. What is mortar? What are different type of test conducted or testing quality of cement?
Explain any two of them in brief.
11. How do you test the fineness of cement? Explain the significance
12. Define mortar. What are the characteristics of mortar?
13. How do you classified the mortar used in civil construction?
14. Briefly describe the preparation of Cement mortar.
15. Describe about selection of mortar.
16. Define Admixture with its function. Explain about different types of Admixture.

Assignment No. 6 and 8

17. Define timber and state the qualities you would consider in selecting timber for
construction.
18. Explain the microstructure of the timber.
19. What is the difference between soft wood and hard wood? Explain defects of timber with
neat sketches. (8marks)
20. Define Seasoning of timber. Discuss the structure of exogenous tree with neat sketch.
21. What are the advantages of seasoning? Explain the different methods adopted for
seasoning the timber.
22. What suggestion do you propose for improvement in construction to avoid decay of
timber and what measures are to be taken when it occurred?
23. Explain about the constituents of oil paint.
24. Explain briefly the ingredients of paints.
25. What are the characteristics of paints?
26. What is termites? How the anti-termites’ treatment has been done to safeguard the
structure from the termites?
27. Explain the varnish with its types?