CPWD Publications in use

Often Civil and Electrical Engineers get struck up with the preparation of Schedule of Rates (SOR) while preparing the Estimates and Tender documents for the new works.

Generally CPWD manuals and SOR provide great help when you want to standardize the technical specifications and arrive at a widely acceptable rates in India. However, the Engineers need to conduct market surveys to arrive at the local market rates prevalent at a particular place where the work need to be carried out through contract.

"CPWD for its effective working has developed the codes, manuals, schedules, technical specifications, design manuals and other necessary technical publications."

The important ones are listed for reference at this link: 

Publications in use

How to calculate the strain in a beam?

Apart from getting the knowledge from some good engineering books, it's always better to browse the You tube website for some excellent videos that show us how to learn the engineering concepts visually looking at the physical aspects.

I found the following videos very useful to learn how the strain in a beam is calculated. These videos have got some wonderful graphical explanation of how the beam bends in reality, though the deformation of the beam is amplified to a larger magnitude to demonstrate the concept visually.

Video 1: Strain in a Beam (of symmetric Cross-section)

Video 1: Strain in a Beam (of non-symmetric Cross-section) 

The above videos were created at University of Waterloo for Civil Engineering in Mechanics of Solids.

A very useful Civil Engineering portal

I often visit this wonderful website engineeringcivil.com.

It has many references for the Civil Engineer to learn and interact with others who want to get clarified on many issues.



Here are some of the useful links:

Interviews

Civil Engineering Presentations

Videos

Student corner

Q & A

Project reports

Research papers

Interesting Vincent T. H. CHU.