DDA JE Civil Syllabus 2026
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| Subject |
Topics |
| Building Materials |
- Physical and Chemical properties
- classification, standard tests, uses and manufacture/quarrying of materials e.g. building stones, silicate-based materials, cement (Portland), Asbestos products, Timber and Wood-based Products, laminates, bituminous materials, paints, varnishes.
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Estimation, Costing, and Valuation
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- estimate, glossary of technical terms, analysis of rates, methods
- unit of measurement, Items of work – earthwork, Brick work (Modular & Traditional bricks), RCC
- Shuttering, Timber work, Painting, Flooring, Plastering, Boundary wall, Brick building, WaterTank, Septic tank, Bar bending schedule, Centre line method, Mid-section formula, Trapezoidal formula, etc.
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| Surveying |
- Principles of surveying
- working of properties, compass and bearing, plane table surveying, theodolite traverse
- adjustment of theodolite
- levelling and contouring
- curvature
- refraction
- permanent adjustment of the dumpy level
- Methods of contouring and uses of a control map
- tachymetric survey.
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| Soil Mechanics |
- Origin of the soil phase diagram
- definitions of void ratio, porosity, degree of saturation, water content, the specific gravity of soil grains, and unit weights
- grain size distribution curves for different solids and their uses
- Atterjerg’s limits
- ISI soil classification
- plasticity chart
- coefficient of permeability, effective stress, and consolidation of soils
- Calculation of shear strength of soils, direct shear test, vane shear test, triaxial test, soil compaction
- Lab compaction, Lab compaction test
- moisture content and bearing capacity of soils, plate load test, and standard penetration test.
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| Hydraulics |
- Fluid properties
- hydrostatics
- measurements of flow
- Bernoulli’s theorem and its application
- flow through pipes
- flow in open channels
- weirs, flumes, spillways
- pumps and turbines.
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| Irrigation Engineering |
- Definition, necessity, benefits,
- 2II Effects of irrigation, types, and methods
- Hydrology – Measurement of rainfall, runoff coefficient, rain gauge, losses from precipitation – evaporation, infiltration, etc.
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| Transport Engineering |
- Highway Engineering – cross-sectional elements, geometric design, types of pavements, pavement materials – aggregates and bitumen,
- different tests, Design of flexible and rigid pavements – Water Bound Macadam (WBM) and Wet Mix Macadam (WMM), Gravel Road,
- Bituminous construction, etc.
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| Environmental Engineering |
- Quality of water
- source of water supply
- purification of water
- distribution of water
- need for sanitation
- sewerage system, circular sewers, oval sewers, sewer appurtenances
- surface water drainage
- sewage treatments.
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| Structural Engineering |
- Theory of structures: Elasticity constants, types of beams, determinate and indeterminate, bending moment and shear force diagrams of simply supported, cantilever, and overhanging beams
- Moment of area and moment of inertia for rectangular & circular sections
- bending moment and shear stress for tee, channel, and compound sections, chimneys, dams, and retaining walls, eccentric loads
- slope deflection of simply supported and cantilever beams
- critical load and columns
- torsion of circular section.
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| Concrete Technology |
- Properties, Advantages and uses of concrete
- cement aggregates quality
- water cement ratio, workability, mix design, storage, batching, mixing, placement, compaction, finishing and curing of concrete
- quality control of concrete
- hot weather and cold weather concreting
- repair and maintenance of the concrete structure.
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| RCC |
- flexural strength, shear strength, bond strength
- design of single reinforced beams, lintels, cantilever beams, double reinforced beams
- one-way slabs, two-way slabs, isolated footings, reinforced brickwork
- T-beams, columns, staircases, retaining walls
- water tanks (RCC design questions may be based on both the Limit State method and the Working Stress method).
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| Steel Design |
- Steel design and construction of steel columns, beams, roof trusses, and plate girders.
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