Syllabus for EEE branch/AE for ap genco-APGENCO

Syllabus

(for Electrical Branch/AE)

1. Electrical Circuits and Networks:

Kirchoff's laws, mesh and node analysis, network theorems, sinusoidal steady state

analysis of single phase and three phase circuits, resonance, transient response of RL,

RC,RLC circuits for different inputs, to-port networks, Two element network synthesis.

2. Control Systems:

Modeling of physical systems, Block diagrams and signal flow graphs, Time and

frequency domain analysis, Steady state errors, Routh's criterion, Nyquist and Bode plots,

compensation, root loci, elementary ideas of state variable analysis, control systems

components.

3. Measurements and Instrumentation:

SI units, measurement of current, voltage, power, power-factor and energy.

Measurement of resistance, inductance capacitance and frequency-bridge methods,

transducers and their applications to the measurement of non-electrical quantities like

temperature, pressure, strain, displacement etc., cathode ray oscilloscope.

4. Analog and Digital Electronics:

Characteristics of diodes, BJT, FET,SCR, Amplifier biasing, equivalent circuits,

frequency response, feedback amplifiers, power amplifiers, oscillators, operational

amplifiers and applications, wave shaping circuits, multi-vibrators, flip-flops, universal gate

combinational circuits, A/D and D/A converters.

5. Electrical Machines and power Electronic Drives:

Single phase transformer, equivalent circuit, tests, regulation and efficiency, three

phase transformer connections parallel operation, auto transformer, principle of energy

conversion, winding of rotating machines, DC generators and motors, characteristics,

starting and speed control, three phase induction motors performance characteristics,

starting and speed control, single phase induction motors, synchronous generators,

performance, regulation, parallel operation, synchronous motors, starting characteristics

and applications, synchronous condensers, fractional horse power motors, permanent

magnet and stepper motors, Characteristics of Power Electronic devices, phase control,

bridge converters, choppers and inverters, basic concepts of adjustable speed drives.

6. Power Systems:

Electrical power generation thermal, hydro, nuclear : transmission line parameters;

steady state performance of overhead transmission lines and cables, surge propagation,

distribution systems, insulators, bundle conductors, corona, and radio interference effects;

per-unit quantities: bus admittance and impedance matrices: load flow: voltage control and

power factor correction; economic operation, symmetrical components, analysis of

symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults; principles of over current, differential and distance

protections,

Syllabus for Civill branch/AE for ap genco-APGENCO

Syllabus

(for Civill branch/AE)

1. Strength of materials and theory of structures:

Simple stresses and strains, Hooke's Law, elastic constants, stress strain curve

of mild steel stresses on oblique planes – Principal stresses and strains, Mohr's stress

circle, temperature stresses, compound bars, shear force and bending moment

diagrams for beams, bending and shear stresses in beams, strain energy principles,

torsion of circular shafts – Pure torsion and combined with bending and thrust,

deflections of simple beams, thin and thick cylinders, columns and struts, direct and

bending stresses, trusses, propped cantilevers and fixed beams, arches, cables and

suspension bridges; moving loads and influence lines; static and kinematic

indeterminacies, Continuous beams and portal frames-movement distribution, Kani's

and matrix methods. Unsymmetrical Bending and shear Centre.

2. Reinforced Concrete:

Materials – properties, grades and tests, workability and mix design of concrete

– basic concepts of working stress and limit state methods of design – Limit state

design of beams, slabs, columns, footings. Circular and flat slabs, water tanks, bridges

– IRC specifications and loadings, Slabs and T – beam bridges, retaining walls, Prestressed

concrete – basic concepts, losses and analysis and design of beams including

end block.

3. Steel structure:

Rivetted and welded joints, Connections – eccentric and framed, simple and

compound beams, tension and compression members, plate and gantry girders, roof

trusses, plate girder and truss bridges, water tanks, roof trusses, tubular sections and

design, transmission towers, column bases, plastic analysis, basic principles,

theorems, methods of analysis, analysis and design of determinate and indeterminate

beams and frames.

4. Geo-Technical Engineering:

Origin and classification of soils, three phase system, basic definitions and

relations, effective stress. Permeability, capillarity and seepage of soils, flownets, flow

through earthen dams, compressibility, consolidation and compaction of soils, shear

strength, stability of slopes, earth pressures and retaining walls, stress distribution in

soils, settlement analysis, subsurface exploration and site investigations, bearing

capacity of soils, shallow and deep foundations, pile foundations.

5. Other Topics:

Elements of surveying – Chain, plane table, compass and theodolite, leveling,

building materials and construction, formwork, CPM and PERT.

6. Fluid Mechanics and Machinery:

Properties of fluids, pressure measurement fluid statics, buoyancy and flotation,

fluid kinematics and fluid dynamics, orifices and mouthpieces, notches and weirs,

laminar and turbulent flows, flow through pipes, forces on immersed bodies, flow in

open channels, impact of jets, Hydraulic turbines and pumps, dams, power houses,

hydrology and hydro power plants.