AMIE Section B Civil case studies
AMIE Section B Civil · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The AMIE Section B Examination is the second stage of the Section A & B Examination pathway administered by The Institution of Engineers (India), an institution established in 1920 and headquartered at 8 Gokhale Road, Kolkata. Section B is the professional-level stage: candidates who clear Section A progress to Section B, where the Civil Engineering Division sets the technical syllabus. The AMIE Section B Civil case studies are 5 cases and about 2,553 words.
1Pile Group Settlement Under a Storage Tank
A 22 m diameter steel water tank is to be founded on a 3 x 3 group of 600 mm diameter bored piles, spaced at 2.0 m centres in a square grid. The site consists of 4 m of loose fill over 18 m of normally consolidated soft clay (cu = 25 kPa at mid-depth, increasing linearly), underlain by dense sand.
540 words, about 3 min2Beam-Column Under Combined Axial and Bending Load
A 254 x 254 x 73 UC in S275 steel forms a 4.5 m tall column in a braced frame. It carries a factored axial load of 1100 kN and a factored major-axis moment of 95 kNm at the top, applied by a cantilevered crane bracket.
512 words, about 3 min3Retaining Wall Drainage and Overturning
A 4.0 m high cantilever gravity retaining wall retains a granular backfill (γ = 19 kN/m3, φ' = 32°). The wall stem is 0.4 m thick at the base, and the base slab is 3.0 m wide and 0.5 m thick.
536 words, about 3 min4Concrete Cube Failures on a Suspended Slab
A 200 mm thick suspended slab is cast from C30/37 ready-mixed concrete supplied to a 300 m2 bay. At 28 days, three of six 100 mm cube samples fail to reach the specified characteristic strength; results are 24, 26, 31, 33, 35 and 38 N/mm2.
473 words, about 2 min5Earthworks Compaction Non-Conformance
A 1.5 m deep embankment fill is being placed to support a warehouse floor. The specification requires the fill to be compacted to 95% of maximum dry density (MDD) from the standard Proctor test, at moisture content within ±2% of optimum.
492 words, about 2 min