Testing & Evaluation of Civil Engineering Materials

This book contains an introduction to civil engineering materials and an advanced discussion on their testing and evaluation procedure for fourth semester students of undergraduate degree course. Main purpose of the book is to help the students identify suitable civil engineering materials as per their needs, through a systematic testing and evaluation procedure. The book is designed as per syllabus and model curriculum of AICTE and aligned with the theme of outcome-based education according to National Education Policy 2020.

Salient Features:

• Content of the book aligned with the mapping of Course Outcomes, Programs Outcomes and Unit Outcomes.
• In the beginning of each unit learning outcomes are listed to make the student understand what is expected out of him/her after completing that unit.
• Book provides lots of recent information, interesting facts, QR Code for E-resources, QR Code for use of ICT, projects, group discussion etc.
• Student and teacher centric subject materials included in book with balanced and chronological
• Figures, tables, and software screen shots are inserted to improve clarity of the topics.
• Apart from essential information a ‘Know More’ section is also provided in each unit to extend the learning beyond syllabus.
• Short questions, objective questions and long answer exercises are given for practice of students after every chapter.
• Solved and unsolved problems including numerical examples are solved with systematic steps.