Elements of Civil Engineering

This book is meant for first and second semester of B.E., (Common to all branches, except architecture department) of VTU Belgaum, Karnataka state. This book contains eight sections, including introduction to civil to mechanics, statics and properties of sections (centroid, moment of inertia) and friction. It also deals with equilibrium conditions. With different conditions of support reactions, calculations for different kinds of loads conditions. Each topic in this book covers fundamentals with a comprehensive theory together with a number of worked examples. It also includes a set of graded exercise problems to check whether the reader has understood the basic contents of the concept or not.

Contents:

1.Introduction 2.Introduction to Engineering Mechanics 3.Composition and Resolution of a Force System 4.Centroid 5.Lamies Theorem 6.Determinate and Indeterminate Structures 7.Friction 8.Moment of Inertia.