Civil engineering is a course focused on the design, planning, and construction of structures such as buildings, highways, bridges, dams, airports, and elevated roads. We have compiled a list of the best reference books on Civil Engineering for B.E/B.Tech students. These books are used by civil engineering students from top universities around the world and many other institutes and colleges.
Here’s the complete list of B.E/B.Tech. Civil Engineering books, which are arranged year and semester-wise. We have also listed down both core and elective subject books.
1st Year B.Tech Civil Engineering Books (1st & 2nd Semester)
The 1st year B.E/B.Tech subjects are common across various branches of engineering. You can check the full list of common engineering books for 1st year here.
2nd Year B.Tech Civil Engineering Books (3rd & 4th Semester)
3rd Semester Books
- Advance Construction Materials
- Fluid Mechanics and Machinery
- Strength of Materials
- Surveying
- Engineering Geology
- Transform Calculus
4th Semester Books
3rd Year B.Tech Civil Engineering Books (5th & 6th Semester)
5th Semester Books
- Design of Reinforced Cement Concrete Elements
- Foundation Engineering
- Structural Analysis
- Water Supply Engineering
5th Semester Elective Books
6th Semester Books
- Advance Design of Steel Structures
- Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures
- Structural Analysis
- Irrigation Engineering
- Highway Engineering
6th Semester Elective Books
4th Year B.Tech Civil Engineering Books (7th & 8th Semester)
7th Semester Books
- Railways, Airports, Docks and Harbour Engineering
- Finite Element Method
- Estimation, Costing and Valuation Engineering
- Structural Design and Drawing
- Design of RCC and Steel Structures
- Quality Surveying and Contract Management
7th Semester Elective Books
- Traffic Engineering and Management
- Industrial Structures
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
- Airport and Railway Planning and Design
- Analysis and Design of Pavements
- Pavement Mechanics, Materials and Construction
- Construction Planning and Management
- Solid Waste Management and Techniques
8th Semester Books
8th Semester Elective Books
- Bridge Engineering
- Nano Science and Technology
- Engineering Hydrology
- Hydrology
- Water Resources Systems
B.Tech Civil Engineering Books (Additional Core/Elective)
Core Books (Additional)
- Applications of Differential Equations
- Advance Structural Design and Detail
- Building Drawing
- Civil Engineering Drawing and Estimation
- Complex Variables and Partial Differential Equations
- Behaviour of RC Structures
- Advance Engineering Drawing
- Probability and Statistics
- Mine Surveying Systems and Ventilation
- Advance Soil Mechanics
- Structural Detailing
- Transportation Engineering
Elective Books (Additional)
- Transportation Planning
- Bio Mechanics
- Introduction to Composite Structures
- Advance Building Materials and Composites
- Disaster Resistant Design of Structures
- Soil Dynamics and Machine Foundations
- Engineering of Rivers
- Environmental Chemistry
- Computer Applications in Environmental Engineering
- Environment Impact Assessment and Auditing
- Finite Element and Boundary Element Methods
- Fluid-Structure interaction
- Fracture Mechanics
- Geometric Design of Transportation Facilities
- Advanced Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Ground Control
- Waste to Energy
- Operations Research
- Reliability Based Civil Engineering Design
- AI and Expert Systems in Structural Engineering
- Nonlinear Analysis
- Prestressed Concrete Design
- Reliability Engineering
- Road Safety and Management
- Shell Structures
- Soil Structure Interaction
- Architecture and town Planning
- Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity
- Teletraffic Engineering
- Computer Applications in Transportation Engineering
- Advance Water Management
- Advance Design of Steel Structures
- Disaster Resistant Building and Management
- Advance Structural Analysis and Matrix Methods
- Seismic Design of Structures
- Difficult Ground, Deep and Shallow Foundations Design
- GIS for Environmental Engineering
- Air Transport Management
- Hydraulic Structures and Machinery
- Ground Water Hydrology
Kindly note that we have put a lot of effort into researching the best reference books on all the subjects of B.E/B.Tech. Civil Engineering, and came out with a recommended list. If any more subjects need to be added to this list, please let us know.