clauses, various types of technologies employed in the Fire Alarm System, basic knowledge on

how a Fire Alarm System is designed and installed

UNIT III
FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS:
10
Objectives of a Fire Suppression System, Explanation on fire triangle,Essential components of
a Fire Suppression System, different types of Fire Suppression Systems, Type of Statutory
Standards followed in Suppression, Explanation on the essential clauses and basic knowledge
on how a Fire Suppression System is designed and installed.
UNIT IV
SECURITY SYSTEMS
10
Introduction to different types of Security Systems and why they are required. Introduction to
Access Control, CCTV, Intruder Alarm and Perimeter protection Systems, Essential
components of each system, various types of technologies employed in these Systems, basic
knowledge on how they are designed and installed.
UNIT V
INTEGRATED BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
8
The objectives of the Integrated Building Management System (IBMS), the list of utility, safety
and security systems that are generally monitored and controlled through IBMS, the various
components of IBMS, types of integration with the utility, safety and security systems and the
basic knowledge on how they are designed and installed.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
REQUIRED READING:
1. Building Automation Systems A Practical Guide to selection and implementation Author :
Maurice Eyke
2. National Building Code of India 1983 (SP 7:1983 Part IV) Published by Bureau of Indian
Standards
3. IS 2189 Selection, Installation and Maintenance of Automatic fire Detection and Alarm
System Code of Practice (3rd Revision) Published by Bureau of Indian Standards.
REFERENCES:
1. The Principles and Practice of Closed Circuit Television Author: Mike Constant and Peter
Turnbull
2. Rules of Automatic Sprinkler Installation 2nd Edition Published by Tariff Advisory
Committee.
3. Fire Suppression Detection System Author : John L. Bryan
4. Design and Application of Security/Fire Alarm system Author: John E. Traister.
5. CCTV Surveillance Author: Herman Kruegle
6. Security Systems and Intruder Alarm Systems Author: Vivian Capel

AD9079

ADVANCED STRUCTURES

L T P/S C
3 0 0 3

AIM:
The aim of this course is design pre-stressed concrete beams and the estimation of the loss of
pre- stressing.
OBJECTIVES:
To study loss of pre- stress and design requirements for determinate beams.
To study the design of flat slabs and High Rise structures.
To study the concepts of tensile structures, grids, domes, shells and folded plates.

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CONTENT:
UNIT I
PRESTRESSED CONCRETE
Losses of Prestress Design requirements Design of determinate beams.

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UNIT II
FLAT SLABS
8
Proportioning of flat slabs Methods of analysis and design Design of flat slabs Shear in flat
slab Code provisions.
UNIT III
HIGH RISE BUILDINGS
10
Introduction Load action in high rise buildings Various structural systems Approximate
analysis and Design of frames for gravity and horizontal loadings.
UNIT IV
TENSILE STRUCTURES
10
Concept, Development, Laws of formation, Merits and Demerits of Pneumatic structures Basic
principles, Various forms, Merits and Demerits of cable structures.
UNIT V
GRIDS, DOMES AND FOLDED PLATES
7
Grids Types of Grids Domes Geodesic domes Shells and various forms folded plates.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
REQUIRED READING:
1. B.C. Punmia, Reinforced Concrete Structures, Vol. 1 & 2, - Laxmi Publications,
New Delhi, 1994.
2. N. Subramanian, Principles of Space Structures Wheeler and Co., Allahabad, 1983
REFERENCES :
1. P. Dayarathnam, prestressed concrete structures, Oxford and IBM publishing Co., New
Delhi, 1982
2. Wolfgang Schueller High Rise Building Structures, John Wiley & sons, New York 1976.
3. Frei Otto Tensile structures Volume 1, Pneumatic structures, Volume 2, cable structures .
The MIT press, London.
4. Tall Building structures Analysis & Design Bryan Stafford smith. John wiley .
5. Structural system for tall buildings Council on tall buildings and urban habitat Mc Graw
Hill.
6. Pneumatic structures, Thomas Herzog Crosby Lockwood staples, London.

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