Transportation Engineering: Volume 1, Highway Engineering

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1. Write-up for the back cover and brochure: Volume I of Transportation Engineering provides a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of highway engineering: surveys for alignment; geometric design; pavement design; construction aspects that include pavement materials, drainage, roadside development and arboriculture; maintenance; and highway economics and finance. The contents have been designed with care to cover the syllabus of undergraduate programmes of all major technical universities in India. The author has covered the topics in a lucid and logical sequence to enable the student to understand highway engineering from the viewpoint of material, design, testing and construction.

2. Write-up for the website and catalogue: Transportation Engineering, Volume I covers the undergraduate curriculum in Highway Engineering and caters to the needs of civil engineering courses offered by technical universities across India. The book cites and specifies the latest IRC and IS codes, including the special publications, in its discussion of current highway engineering practices and testing specifications used in India while guiding the student through all the prescribed topics with clarity and academic rigour. With several fully solved problems and chapter-end exercises for practice, the book focuses on enabling the student to perform well in examinations, while also going into the details to drive home core concepts.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR C Venkatramaiah

Dr. C. Venkatramaiah graduated in Civil Engineering from the College of Engineering, Kakinada (A.P.), obtained the M.Sc. (Engg.) Degree in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy (Madras University), and the Ph.D. Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. The author served on the faculties of the College of Engineering, Kakinada, and the College of Engineering, Guindy, before joining the Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati in 1962. He rose to the position of Reader in 1964 and Professor in 1976, and retired in 1996. Later, he served as Professor and Head of Civil Engineering at the RVR & JC College of Engineering, Guntur. He has over four decades of teaching experience, and has dealt with a wide variety of subjects in Civil Engineering. The author has to his credit technical papers and articles, and has authored books in the areas of Geotechnical Engineering, Surveying, Engineering Mechanics, and Structural Analysis, besides books on English and General Knowledge. The author held various positions of academic and administrative responsibility, such as Dean and Principal, and was recipient of prizes and awards for merit in studies and teaching.