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The GATE CE paper tests civil engineering. Each lesson covers one part of the syllabus: the detailed list of topics, the key concepts and formulas, a worked example, and GATE-style questions whose numerical answers are recomputed by a program. Engineering Mathematics and General Aptitude, common to all papers, have their own tracks.

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1Overview

  1. GATE Civil Engineering Syllabus and Exam PatternThe complete GATE CE syllabus section by section, the exam pattern and marking scheme, subject weightage, and how to use this track to prepare.

2Structural Engineering

  1. Engineering Mechanics and Solid MechanicsGATE CE syllabus for engineering mechanics and solid mechanics, with the key formulas for equilibrium, SFD and BMD, stress and strain, elastic constants, Mohr's circle, bending, torsion and deflection, and solved examples.
  2. Structural AnalysisGATE CE syllabus for structural analysis, with determinacy, the force and displacement methods, energy theorems, moment distribution, influence lines, and the analysis of trusses, arches and frames, with solved examples.
  3. Construction Materials, Concrete and Steel StructuresGATE CE syllabus for construction materials and management, reinforced and prestressed concrete (IS 456) and steel structures (IS 800), with limit state design formulas, PERT/CPM and solved examples.

3Geotechnical Engineering

  1. Geotechnical EngineeringGATE CE syllabus for soil mechanics and foundation engineering, with phase relationships, permeability and flow nets, effective stress, consolidation, shear strength, earth pressure, bearing capacity and stress distribution, with solved examples.

4Water Resources Engineering

  1. Fluid Mechanics and HydraulicsGATE CE syllabus for fluid mechanics and hydraulics, with hydrostatics, Bernoulli's equation, pipe flow and head losses, dimensional analysis, and open channel flow (specific energy, critical depth, Manning's equation, hydraulic jump), with solved examples.
  2. Hydrology and IrrigationGATE CE syllabus for hydrology and irrigation, with precipitation, infiltration indices, the rational method, hydrographs and unit hydrographs, flood routing, well hydraulics, crop water requirements, duty and delta, with solved examples.

5Environmental Engineering

  1. Environmental EngineeringGATE CE syllabus for environmental engineering, with water demand, water and wastewater treatment, BOD kinetics, sedimentation, activated sludge, air pollution, solid waste and noise, with solved examples.

6Transportation Engineering

  1. Transportation EngineeringGATE CE syllabus for transportation engineering, with sight distances, superelevation, pavement materials and design, traffic flow relationships, capacity and signal design by Webster's method, with solved examples.

7Geomatics Engineering

  1. Geomatics EngineeringGATE CE syllabus for geomatics engineering (surveying), with errors, levelling and curvature and refraction corrections, traversing, tacheometry, curves, photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS and GPS, with solved examples.