29 Best Books on Basic Civil Engineering

“Basics of Civil Engineering” Book Review: The book covers essential aspects of civil engineering which are important not only to civil engineers but also for engineers pursuing other branches of engineering. Basic elements of civil engineering have been explained in a lucid and student friendly style in the book. It also consists of in-depth explanation of civil engineering materials, building construction, surveying as well as mapping and sensing. It enables the readers to learn in detail about designing of disaster resistant buildings and help them to get a practical approach towards the topic. The book consists of sketches as well as illustrations making the topics clearer to the students. Practice questions at the end of each chapter helps the readers to assess themselves on the topic.

“Handbook of civil engineering” Book Review: The book is designed for candidates appearing for civil engineering competitive exams. This book provides the essential components of civil engineering in a compact form. The concise content makes it easier and less time consuming for the readers to brush up their concepts and formulae at the last minute. It is very useful for readers not only for revision purposes but also for understanding the core topics of civil engineering and for frequent referral.

“Basic Civil Engineering” Book Review: The book serves as a guideline to provide basic as well as important knowledge of civil engineering to non civil branches of engineering students. The book includes essential aspects of civil engineering such as the sources of raw materials, their defects, their characteristics and also their use in the industry. The book also highlights the different stages of construction in a concise manner. In-depth knowledge of basic surveying concepts and major topics like environment engineering, transport traffic, geotechnical engineering, urban engineering, irrigation, water supply engineering and urban engineering have been given in the book. The book includes numerous sketches and illustrations to give a better picture of the topic to the readers.

“Basic Civil Engineering” Book Review: This book is designed for civil engineering students to understand the core concepts of civil engineering. The book also covers all the topics essential for civil engineering examinations. This book provides an overview of topics like bricks, cements, timber, glass, cement, cement mortar, cement concrete which are important civil engineering materials. The book also discusses the fundamentals of surveying including chain, compass and plane table survey. The book helps readers to learn the concept of levelling and contouring using neat diagrams. It gives an in-depth explanation of building plans,foundations as well as water supply and sanitation.

“Basic Civil Engineering”: Book Review: This book aims at providing preliminary knowledge about civil engineering to non civil engineering students. It serves as an introductory book for civil engineering and covers all it’s basic concepts. The book covers important topics like civil engineering materials, building and construction, surveying and position, mapping and sensing in great detail. The book consists of important topics like elements of building construction and introduces foundations, brick masonry as well as stone masonry to the learners. The book gives a clear-cut explanation on disaster resistant building and includes the codes for building it’s design. The book consists of various solved problems in the surveying and positioning topic to give a clearer picture of the chapter. The review questions provided at the end of each chapter are useful in helping learners to get a better grasp of the topic.

“Basic Civil and Mechanical Engineering” by K Mylsamy and S Shanmugasundaram
Basic Civil and Mechanical Engineering: Book Review: The book aims at providing fundamental understanding of concepts of mechanical and civil engineering to engineering students of all branches. The book covers all the basic concepts of civil as well as mechanical engineering. The book includes the most basic yet important aspects of civil engineering like surveying, levelling, determination of stones, timber, bricks. Along with basic concepts it discusses brick masonry, stone masonry, foundation, beams, flooring, plastering and bridges as well. Basics of interior design and landscaping have been explained clearly in the book. The book also highlights the essential concepts of mechanical engineering like power plants engineering, turbines, pumps, energy resources and air-conditioning systems. It also provides an introduction to mechanisms and basics of manufacturing technology. Exercises at the end of chapter as well as tabular presentation of crucial data makes it easier for students to understand the concepts.

“Basic Civil Engineering”: Book Review: The book offers comprehensive knowledge on the core concepts of civil engineering.The book has been designed to meet the requirements of the first course on this subject. The book provides thorough coverage on topics like civil engineering materials, buildings, dams, tall structures, geometric properties of sections, roads, docks and harbors. The book helps readers discover in-depth exploration of surveying and water and environmental engineering. The book also explains about water sources, water disinfection and ways of solid waste management. It provides theoretical as well as practical aspects of interior designing and landscaping.

“Basic Civil and Mechanical Engineering” Book Review: This book serves as a guide for all B.E/B.Tech students. It provides detailed explanations on various topics under engineering mechanics and civil engineering. In the first half, the book covers chapters like centroid and moment of inertia friction, transmission Of Power and Simple Lifting Machine, Shear Force and Bending Moment with proper diagrams and step by step explanation. The second half features basic civil engineering topics like Civil Engineering Materials, Building Construction, Surveying And Positioning, Mapping And Sensing and Disaster Resistant Building. The book contains Viva questions and their answers and also previous year question papers with solutions to help learners evaluate themselves on their knowledge.

“Building Construction” Book Review: This book is covered in 760 pages, it is streamlined to facilitate the student’s understanding on building construction, this edition, containing the latest techniques and methodologies and new problems, provide a comprehensive description on topics like Functional Planning of Buildings, Important Building Components, Site Investigation and Ground Techniques, Foundations, Deep Excavations, Deep Foundations etc. It also deals with the special chapters on Cofferdams, Caissons, Stone Masonry, Brick Masonry, Structures in Brickwork, Partitions, Scaffolding, Shoring and Underpinning, Damp-proofing, Water-proofing and Termite-proofing, Cement Concrete Construction, Arches, Lintels, Stairs, Form-work, Doors, Windows and Ventilators. This book is designed for undergraduate students of civil engineering courses.

“ELEMENTS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MECHANICS” Book Review: This book covers the basics of civil engineering and engineering mechanics. This book gives balanced study of the two areas. This book is useful to undergraduate first-year students of all branches of engineering. It is designed to meet the syllabus requirement of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU). It covers structures and infrastructure like buildings, roads, highways, dams and bridges. The chapters present information in a step by step manner. It contains practice examples for better understanding. There is a CD along with the book. It has a software to solve questions on forces, centroid and moment of inertia. By using this software the students can understand the concepts in a better way. It also contains the latest question paper for practise.

“Elements of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Semester” Book Review: This book is designed to cover the syllabus of elements of civil engineering and engineering mechanics semester I and II of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU). It is useful to the first year undergraduate students.

“A Textbook on Elements of Civil Engineering and Mechanics” Book Review: This book covers the up to date syllabus of VTU. This book contains additional question papers for practise.

“Engineering Mechanics and Elements of Civil Engineering” Book Review: This book is drafted for undergraduate civil engineering students of Vishweshwaraiah Technological University (VTU). It explains basic elements of civil engineering. This book explains the components of construction management. It covers various materials used in construction other than the regularly used materials. Composite and smart materials are also explained. The next topic covered is surveying. In it remote sensing and geographic information system (gis) is discussed. The other part of the book explains the fundamentals of engineering mechanics. It includes coplanar forces, friction and inertia. Illustrative examples and practice problems are included throughout the book to provide a thorough understanding of the subject.

“Elements of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics” Book Review: The book is designed to introduce material pertaining to civil engineering and engineering mechanics. It covers the knowledge necessary for the undergraduates in the beginning of their engineering education. The chapters covered from engineering mechanics are forces, centroid, moment of inertia and friction. Each chapter consists of many solved problems problems for better understanding.

“Elements of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics” Book Review: This book is designed for the first year civil engineering students of Vishweshwaraiah Technological University (VTU). It covers the concepts of elements of civil engineering and engineering mechanics. This book will be useful to the students of the other universities also.

“Elements Of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics” Book Review: This book is designed to cover the syllabus of elements of civil engineering and engineering mechanics semester I and II of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU). This book is useful to undergraduate first-year students of all branches of engineering. The chapters covered in the book are roads, bridges & dams, coplanar non-concurrent, equilibrium of forces and many others.

“Modern Protective Structures (Civil and Environmental Engineering)” Book Review: This book summarizes military operations. It explains low intensity conflicts-less. It also explains terrorist activities. It also explains the rescue operations and forensic investigations. It also explains Modern Protective Structures. It also provides guidelines for the analysis, design, assessment. It helps us understand retrofit, and research of protected facilities. This book contains general background on explosive devices. It also explains their explosive effects. It also discusses the effects of conventional and nuclear explosions. It also deals with conventional and nuclear loads. This book summarizes existing blast-resistant design approaches. It also describes the dynamic responses of structural systems to blasts, shocks, and impacts. This book includes behavior of specific structural connections. It also includes traditional concepts of P-I diagrams, and progressive collapse. It also contains a systematic and balanced protective design approach. This book helps us understand how impulsive loads affect various types of buildings and facilities.

“Strengthening of Concrete Structures Using Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP): Design, Construction and Practical Applications” Book Review: This book has been designed for civil engineers and structural engineers pursuing B.Tech/ M.Tech all over the world. Professionals and teachers can also use this book. This book explains structural design and strengthening of bridge structures using advanced Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composites. overs the basic concepts of FRP materials and composite mechanics. It also explains practical design and construction issues, including inspection and quality control. It gives importance to various design codes (US, Japan, and Europe) and recommendations. This book also includes design examples and structural software to facilitate learning. Finally, it explains design, inspection, and quality control, including laboratory and field testing information.

“An Evaluation of the Role of Highways Infrastructural Development Policy in the 1990’s” Book Review: This book has been designed for civil engineers and structural engineers pursuing B.Tech/ M.Tech all over the world. Professionals and teachers can also use this book. It explains various procedures to construct the highways and also to evaluate it. It takes China and Hongkong as examples to design the methodologies to make this. It also explains various quality control techniques and procedures to strengthen the bridge structure. It also explains design and inspection for the infrastructure. Finally, it exposes the case studies happened and describes the evaluation results.

“Civil Engineering: Conventional and Objective Type” Book Review: This book has been designed for civil engineers and structural engineers pursuing B.Tech/ M.Tech all over the world. Teachers can also use this book to prepare questions for the students. This book is a normal textbook providing all the required concepts in civil engineering. It starts with explaining the fundamentals and moves to principles of structures. It explains oscillation and waves and electrostatics. Magnetostatics and electrodynamics are explained later. Light, interference and distraction are explained later. Polarisation, optical activity and optical fibres are also explained. It then explains crystal structure, dielectrics and conductors. It ends with explaining vacuum technology and nanotechnology. This book contains objective type questions to help students to practice more and teachers to question students on their understanding.

“A Handbook for Civil Engineering” Book Review: This book has been designed for civil engineers and structural engineers pursuing B.Tech/ M.Tech all over the world. Teachers can also use this book to prepare questions for the students. This handbook contains all the formulae and important theoretical aspects of civil engineering. It provides much needed revision aid and study guidance before examinations. It explains various theories from quantum mechanics, optics and magnetic materials. Diffraction, polarisation formulas are also included. It also explains bipolar junctions, thermoelectricity. It explains solid mechanics and construction technology. It also surveying and planning at the end.

“Civil Engineering: Through Objective Type Questions” Book Review: This book has been designed for civil engineers and structural engineers pursuing B.Tech/ M.Tech all over the world. Teachers can also use this book to prepare questions for the students. It explains oscillation and waves and electrostatics. Magnetostatics and electrodynamics are explained later. Light, interference and distraction are explained later. Polarisation, optical activity and optical fibres are also explained. It then explains crystal structure, dielectrics and conductors. It explains solid mechanics and construction technology. It also surveying and planning at the end. This book contains objective type questions to help students to practice more and teachers to question students on their understanding.

“Civil Engineering (Objective Type)” Book Review: This book has been designed for civil engineers and structural engineers pursuing B.Tech/ M.Tech all over the world. Teachers can also use this book to prepare questions for the students. This book is a normal textbook providing all the required concepts in civil engineering. It starts with explaining the fundamentals and moves to principles of structures. It explains oscillation and waves and electrostatics. Magnetostatics and electrodynamics are explained later. It also explains practical design and construction issues, including inspection and quality control. also explains design and inspection for the infrastructure. Finally, it exposes the case studies happened and describes the procedures of evaluation. This book contains objective type questions to help students to practice more and teachers to question students on their understanding.

“Understanding the Roles of a Construction Estimator” Book Review: This book on construction, is the guideline for the civil engineering courses provided all over the country. This course is generally offered to students at the first to third graduate college year, preferably after elementary courses. It has also been revised from time-to-time to contain all the relevant changes happening each year. Chapters like Responding To Proposals, Five Fatal Estimating Mistakes, Sample Site Visit Form and Step By Step Process For Making Plans are also provided in the subsequent chapters of the book.