2021 KPSC Pwd Subject Wise Syllabus And Best Books To Prepare

The Karnataka Public Works Department has issued a notice seeking candidates for Assistant Engineer (AE), Junior Engineer (AE), and Other Civil Department Posts. 

This body is in charge of the Works, Ports, and Inland Water Transport. In 1856, the state government was established to handle public work. It also covers road construction, such as state highways, national highways, and major district roads. Its headquarters are in Bangalore’s Vikasa Soudha, MS Building, Dr Ambedkar Road. Their management team expects the government to fill the available seats / unemployed positions based on the available seats / unemployed positions. And KPSC was ordered to do so by the replying personnel. The Public Works Department Post syllabus has been announced by the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC).

Meanwhile, keep reading to learn about the KPSC PWD syllabus, test format, and selection procedure. Candidates must be aware of the KPSC PWD test format and syllabus before beginning their preparation.  Candidates who applied for the positions above can find the KPWD Exam Syllabus here.

KPSC PWD Syllabus – Topic Wise

The syllabus for KPSC PWD is mentioned below for all subjects- Civil engineering (Diploma and Degree holder), General Knowledge, Reasoning, English.

Specific Paper – Civil Engineering – Diploma Holder

Open Channel Flow design	Transportation Engineering	Surveying
Solid Mechanics	Environmental Engineering	Hydraulic Machines & Hydro Power
Building Materials	Steel Structure design	Construction Practices, Planning & Management
Concrete & Masonry Structures design	Water Resource Engineering	Solid Waste Management
Fluid Mechanics design	Pipe Flow	Hydrology

Specific Paper – Civil Engineering – Degree Holder

Roads and Bridges	Highway Engineering	Sanitary Engineering
Construction Technology and Management	Public Health Engineering	Advance Structure; Water Supply

General Knowledge

History – India & Karnataka	Geography – India, Karnataka	Indian Economy
Cultural Heritage & Tourism	Indian Polity	Indian Constitution
Personalities in News	Current events – International, National, and Local	Science and Technology News

English

Vocabulary	Parts of Speech	Verb, Adverb
Direct/Indirect Speech	Grammar	Active & Passive voice
Antonyms & Synonyms	Cloze test

Reasoning

Spatial Orientation	Spatial Visualization	Arithmetic Number Series
Arithmetical Reasoning; Coding and Decoding	Relationship concepts	Similarities and Differences
Visual Memory	Figures Classification	Non-verbal series

Quantitative Aptitude

Clocks & Calendar	Probability	Simple Interest
Boats and Streams	Time and Distance	Ratio and Proportion
Time and Work	Blood Relations	Simplification
Permutation and Combination	Pipes and Cistern	Problems on Ages
Compound Interest	Square Root and Cube Root	Decimal Fraction
Data Interpretation	Allegation or Mixture	Surds and Indices
Volume and Surface Area	Height and Distance	Problems on HCF and LCM.

Specific Paper Syllabus

Materials Of Construction:

Stones: their properties and applications,  classification, features, preservation and degradation, retardation, artificial stones, and stone testing.

Classification and sources of timber, flaws, and prevention, and timber conservation.

Bricks: manufacture, uses, classification, varieties of bricks and their uses, brick testing and objectives, and brick substitutes

Ceramic tiles, commercial sizes of ceramic tiles; clay products: characteristics, types, and uses of clay tiles; terracotta; application of clay bricks in the engineering field.  

Ferrous metals: Their types, properties, and applications. Cast iron, wrought iron, and mild steel market forms, deformed bars – types, properties, and applications, high tensile steel – types, qualities, and applications

Non-ferrous metals: Properties, uses, and benefits of non-ferrous metals such as copper, aluminium, zinc, and tin, as well as their market forms and technical applications.

Types, qualities, and applications of alloys—aluminium alloys, copper alloys, and steel alloys.

Cement: Definitions – ordinary cement composition, functions of materials, production of ordinary cement, storage of cement, hydration of cement, kinds of cement and their specific purposes and features, specification tests on cement, field testing on cement

Coarse and fine aggregates: sources, functions of fine and coarse aggregates in mortar and concrete, fine and coarse aggregate qualities, sand bulking, fine and coarse aggregate testing, and aims

Mortars are defined, classified, and categorized according to their suitability.

Ingredients, benefits, concrete grades, RCC advantages, uses, and features of cement concrete

Paints, varnishes, and distempers: Objects of paints, ingredients of paints and their functions, characteristics of good paint, types, and brands available on the market, Objects of varnishes, ingredients of varnishes and their functions, types of varnishes, Objects of distempering, properties of good distempering, types of distemper, cement paints, and market forms of cement paint and brands available on the market, methods of painting, varnishing

Glass and glass wool, plastic, and fibre reinforced plastic are examples of modern building materials. Asbestos, asphalt, metal paste, joint sealants, steel putty, heat-insulating materials, electrical insulating materials, sound insulating materials, waterproofing compounds, thermocol, PVC, epoxy, polyurethane, geotextiles, Ferro-cement products, cladding materials

Surveying:

Definition, surveying principles, chain surveying, compass surveying, levelling, contouring, computation of area and volume, Theodolite surveying principles, traversing and its plotting, and applications

Tacheometry and trigonometrical levelling: Principles and Applications

Curves: types of curves, elements of a simple circular curve, preparation of curve table and setting out of curves by chain and tape and instrument method, curve ranging obstacles, definition and elements of a compound curve, setting out compound curve and simple problems, definition and elements of a reverse curve, transition curves, requirements, and length of transition curve, functions of transition curves

Remote sensing, global positioning systems, and geographic information systems are examples of modern surveying.

Instruments for modern surveying include (i) electronic theodolite, (ii) electronic distance measuring, (iii) total station.

Solid Mechanics Parallel force and couples and the composition and resolution of forces moments and their applications.

Construction Technology:

Soils: Types of soils and their suitability for building construction, bearing capacity and measurement of safe bearing capacity of soils by plate load test, methods for improving safe bearing capacity, SBC values for various types of soils

Foundations: Definition and purpose of foundations, types of foundations, causes of foundation failure, and preventative measures. Types, construction, and applications of stone and brick masonry.

Dampness and damp proofing: Definitions and causes of dampness, effects of dampness and damp proofing, and materials used for damp proofing.

Plastering, pointing, and painting: Plastering objects and plastering needs. Cement plastering methods, varieties of plaster finishes, pointing methods and types of pointing, painting, distempering, and varnishing procedures on various surfaces

Concrete Technology:

Concrete ingredients, water-cement ratio, qualities of fresh and hardened concrete, design mix idea, curing procedures, and admixtures High-performance concrete, self-compacting concrete, fibre reinforced concrete, high volume fly ash concrete, foam concrete, ready-mix concrete, and geo-polymer concrete are examples of special concretes. 

Beam, slabs, columns, and footings are designed using working stress and limit state approaches. Introduction to prestressed concrete, its types, advantages and limitations, and a comparison to RCC.

Introduction to concrete mix design, concrete characteristics, and concrete mix proportioning procedures.

Ferro cement concrete, fibre reinforced concrete and its various types, lightweight concrete, polymer concrete and its various types, foam concrete, and high strength concrete are examples of special concrete.

Concreting in unusual conditions: introduction, cold weather concreting, hot weather concreting, underwater concreting, and alkali soil concreting. Concrete, construction, and Earth Moving Equipment handling and transportation.

Transportation Engineering: 

Introduction to highway engineering, including road alignment and surveys, as well as road geometry. There are rigid and flexible pavements.

Introduction to tunnel engineering, tunnel surveying, tunnel size and shape, tunnel building, tunnel lining, tunnel ventilation, and tunnel drainage.

Introduction to steel structures, design of bolted joints, design of welded joints, design of steel beams, design of steel columns, design of steel column bases, design of steel compression members, and design of steel tension members Masonry dam analysis and design, as well as retaining wall analysis and design

Introduction to estimating, specifications, rate analysis, and detailed and abstract estimates are all covered in this course. Culverts, lined canals, tank weirs, and tank sluice cost estimates are detailed and abstracted.

Construction Management includes the following topics: construction planning and organization, contracts and tenders, work measurement and store management, inspection and quality control, construction safety, entrepreneurship, and management.

Books To Prepare From-

• Civil Engineering: Conventional and Objective Type 
• Civil Engineering through objective type questions
• History NCERT books (Class 6^th – 12^th)
• Geography books (6^th – 12^th), Karnataka State Textbooks (6^th – 12^th), Oxford Student Atlas
• Polity – NCERT (Class 11^th), Lucent GK, Karnataka State Textbooks (7^th – 12^th)
• Economics – NCERT (Class 11^th – 12^th), Karnataka State Textbooks, Economic Survey of India and Budget
• General Science and Karnataka State Textbooks ((Class 6^th – 10^th)
• Current Affairs– Competition Vision magazine, Lucent GK, Spardha Vijetha/Spoorthi (Kannada medium students)
• Strength Of Materials – B.C Punamia, S.S  Bhavikatti, Previous year questions of GATE
• Environmental Engineering – S.K Garg, Previous year questions
• Transportation – Highway Engineering – Khanna & Justo
• Bridges – Design & Bridge structures – TR Jagadeesh, MA Jayaram
• Structural Analysis – Structural Analysis- S.S  Bhavikatti
• Construction Technology and Management – Construction Engineering and Management – Dr Seetharaman
• Previous year questions and mock series

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