KANTIPUR ENGINEERING COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

DHAPAKHEL, LALITPUR

GUIDELINES FOR PREPARATION OF PROJECT REPORT

(Final Year Project)

Introduction

Project report in this manual refers to a documented report of the process followed
and the results of final year project conducted by a student in fulfillment of the
requirements in bachelor degree. This report will outline the report format for Final
Year Project. These rules must be adhered strictly.

Contents of Project report

The Project Report should contain the items as outlined below and is to be presented
in the order as listed. Details and specimens are shown in the appendices.

Number of Copies to be submitted to the Department

Two copies of the report with hard binding are to be submitted to the Department
after corrections done as suggested by guide/Department at any time when report
submission is called by guide/Department. A soft copy (pdf format) should be
submitted to Department in CD along with report.

Requirements for Report Writing:

Your report should meet following standards:

Font Name: Times New Roman
Left Margin: 1.5 inch
Right Margin: 1.25 inch
Top Margin: 1.25 inch
Bottom Margin: 1.25 inch
Header and Footer: 0.5 inch

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 Line Spacing: 1.5
Paragraph Spacing: 18 pt
Font Size: 12 pt (for normal text)
Follow following standard for headings

1. Heading1 (16 pt, Bold)

1.1 Heading2 (14 pt, Bold)
1.1.1 Heading3 (13 pt, Bold)
1.1.1.1 Heading4 (12 pt, Bold)

1. ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS:

The sequence in which the project report material should be arranged and bound
should be as follows:
1. Cover Page (Specimen copy-1)
2. Title Page (Specimen copy-2)
3. Certificate of Approval (Specimen copy-3)
4. Acknowledgment (Specimen copy-4)
5. Abstract (Specimen copy-5)
6. Table of Contents (Appendix 1)
7. List of Figures (if any) (Appendix 2 )
8. List of Tables (if any) (Appendix 3 )
9. List of Symbols (if any) (Appendix 4 )
10. Abbreviations (if any) (Appendix 5 )
11. Main body
11.1Chapter 1 Introduction (Appendix 6 )
11.2Chapter 2……………….
11.3Chapter 3……………….
…………………………………..
…………………………………..
11.… Conclusion and Recommendation
12. Appendices (if any)
13. References (Appendix 7)

* Students can add their own topics or sub-topics as per necessity.

* Justify the report for clean look at both left and right side of page.
*The level of English writing must be appropriate to the level of the Bachelor’s
degree.

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2. BINDING SPECIFICATIONS:
Students have to submit tape binding of the report to the department at the time of
report submission. Hard binding of the major project report is to be submitted to the
department after final year major project defense.

3. PREPARATION FORMAT:

Cover Page - A specimen copy of the Title page of the project report is given in
Specimen copy-1.

Title Page – A specimen copy of the Title page of the project report is given in
Specimen copy-2.

Certificate – A specimen copy of the Acknowledgment of the project report is given

Specimen copy-3.

Acknowledgment- A specimen copy of the Acknowledgment of the project report is

given Specimen copy-4.

Abstract – It is a heart of the report. Abstract should be one page synopsis of the
project report and it must clearly give the overview of the project (Avoid unnecessary
things in abstract) (Specimen copy-5).

Table of Contents – The table of contents should list all material following it as well
as any material which precedes it. The title page and Certificate of approval will not
find a place among the items listed in the Table of Contents but the page numbers of
which are in lower case Roman letters. One and a half spacing should be adopted for
typing the matter under this head. A specimen copy of the Table of Contents of the
project report is given in Appendix 1.

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List of Figures – The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear below
the figures in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter
under this head (Appendix 2).

List of Tables – The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear above
the tables in the text. One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter
under this head (Appendix 3).

List of Symbols - The list should provide the detail of the symbols used in the report.
One and a half spacing should be adopted for typing the matter under this head
(Appendix 4).

Abbreviations – Abbreviation list should provide the details of the abbreviations

used in the report in alphabetical order. One and a half spacing should be adopted or
typing the matter under this head (Appendix 5).

Page numbering - The preliminary parts (Acknowledgement, Abstract, Table of

Contents, List of symbols, List of figure, List of Tables) are numbered in roman
numerals (i, ii, etc). The first page of the first chapter (Introduction) onwards will be
numbered in Arabic numerals 1 2 3 etc at the bottom, centered.

Numbering sections, subsections, equations, figures etc. - A word on numbering

scheme used in the project is in order. It is common practice to use decimal
numbering in the project. If the chapter number is 2, the section numbers will be
2.1,2.2, 2.3 etc. The subsections in section 2.2 will be numbered as 2.2.1, 2.2.2 etc.
Unless essential, it is not necessary to use numbers to lower levels than three stages.
Similarly, it is useful and convenient to number the figures also chapter-wise. The
figures in chapter 4 will be numbered as Figure 4.1: Figure Name, Figure 4.2: Figure
Name etc. This helps you in assembling the figures and putting it in proper order.
Similarly, the tables are also numbered as Table 4.1: Table Name, Table 4.2: Table

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Name etc. All figures and tables should have proper captions. Usually the figure
captions are written below the figure and table captions on top of the table. All figures
should have proper description by legends, title of the axes and any other information
to make the figures self explanatory.
The same numbering scheme can be used for equations also. Only thing to be
remembered is that references to the figures are made like Figure 4.2: Figure Name,
and equations as Eqn (5.8).

Chapters – The main text will be divided into several chapters and each chapter may
be further divided into several divisions and sub-divisions.

Chapter 1: Project Overview (Introduction, Objectives and Scope, Project Features,

Feasibility, System Requirement)
Chapter 2: Literature Review
Chapter 3: Preliminary design
Chapter 4: Final Analysis and Design (Results, Result Analysis, Application, Problems faced,
Limitations, Conclusion)
Bibliography (Optional)
References

List of References –The reference material should include the author name, title,
year in details as shown in Appendix 7. Do not mention the references of the
websites in the report.

Appendices – Appendices are provided to give supplementary information, which is

included in the main text may serve as a distraction and cloud the central theme.
Appendices should be numbered using Arabic numerals, e.g. Appendix 1, Appendix
2, etc. Tables and References appearing in appendices should be numbered and
referred to at appropriate places just as in the case of chapters.

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 SPECIMEN-1 (Cover Page)

KANTIPUR ENGINEERING COLLEGE

(Affiliated to Tribhuvan University)
Dhapakhel, Lalitpur

Final Year Project Report

on
“Project Title”
[Code No:…….]

Submitted by

Ram Adhikari (20/BCE/064 or Exam Roll No.)

Shristi Ghimire (29/BCE/064 or Exam Roll No.)

Submitted to
Department of Civil Engineering

March 2012

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 SPECIMEN-2 (Title Page for Minor Project)

Project Title
[Code No.:]

A final year project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement

for the
Degree of Bachelor in Civil Engineering

Submitted by

Ram Adhikari (20/BCE/064 or Exam Roll No.)

Shristi Ghimire (29/BCE/064 or Exam Roll No.)

Submitted to

Department of Civil engineering

Kantipur Engineering College

Dhapakhel, Lalitpur

Nepal

March 2012

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 SPECIMEN-2 (Title Page for Major Project)

Project Title
[Code No.:]

Submitted by
Ram Adhikari (20/BCE/064 or Exam Roll No.)
Shristi Ghimire (29/BCE/064 or Exam Roll No.)

Project Supervisor

Supervisor Name
Full Designation
Organization Name with Full Details

A final year project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement

for the
Degree of Bachelor in Civil Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering

Kantipur Engineering College

Dhapakhel, Lalitpur

Nepal

March, 2012

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 SPECIMEN-3 (Certificate of Approval for Final Year Project)

KANTIPUR ENGINEERING COLLEGE

CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL

The undersigned certify that they have read and recommended to the
Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering for acceptance, a
project report entitled “…………………….” submitted by ……….
(students name) in partial fulfillment for the Degree of Bachelor in Civil
Engineering.

…………………………..
(Supervisor Name)
Supervisor
Full designation
Organization

……………………………..
(External Examiner Name)
External Examiner
Full designation
Organization

……………………………..
(HOD Name)
Head of Department
Full designation
Organization

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 SPECIMEN-4 (Acknowledgement Sample)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

It gives us immense pleasure to express our deepest sense of gratitude and sincere
thanks to our highly respected and esteemed guide Er. …….(Supervisor name with
full designation if any), for his/ her valuable guidance, encouragement and help for
completing this work. His/ her useful suggestions for this whole work and co-
operative behavior are sincerely acknowledged.

We would like to express our sincere thank to Er……..(with full designation and
department), for giving us this opportunity to undertake this project. We would also
like to thank Er. ………..(Head of Department name with full designation) for whole
hearted support.

We are also grateful to our teachers (teachers name with full designation) for their
constant support and guidance.

At the end we would like to express our sincere thanks to all our friends and others

who helped us directly or indirectly during this project work.

Student(s) Name with Exam Roll No.

Ram Adhikari (20/BCE/064 or Exam Roll No.)
Shristi Ghimire (29/BCE/064 or Exam Roll No.)

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 SPECIMEN-5 (Abstract Sample)

ABSTRACT

The project dealt with the analysis and design of an industrial building for Beer
factory at Chitwan, Nepal. The project work also included design of over head tanks
or elevated circular tanks, underground tanks and access roads.
For the design of columns of square, circular as well as rectangular shape and beams
of rectangular shape were selected. The sizes of column chosen were 600 *400 mm,
500 *500 mm and 500 *350 mm and of beams were 250*600 mm, 350*600 mm and
300*600 mm size. Roofs were designed for making sheds using iron truss and CGI
sheets throughout the factory except in malt handling and staircase where slab were
designed.
The building frames were designed for dead loads, live loads (or imposed loads), and
wind and earthquake loads. A model diagram equivalent to frame section of the
building was developed and analyzed for the forces by using SAP 2000.
Access road was designed as flexible pavement or Asphalt concrete type as per
ISWM assuming traffic load to be 82 KN Equivalent Single Axle Load. Road was
designed for 3.75m for single lane two way traffic with well compacted shoulders of
length 1.5m.
Keywords: Industrial building, Over head tanks, Underground tanks, Access road,
Model diagram, SAP 2000

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 Appendix – 1: Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE NO.

Acknowledgement i
Abstract ii
List of figures iii
List of tables iv
List of symbols v
Abbreviation vi

Chapter 1: Introduction 1

1.1 ………….. 1
1.2 …………. 2
1.2.1 ………. 5
1.2.2 ........... 12
1.2.2.1 ………. 19
1.2.2.2 . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.2.3 ............ 30
1.3 . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 45
1.4 .................. 58
……………………………….. 60
………………………………...
(Make other chapters in the same format)
References 100
Appendices 102

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 Appendix – 2: List of figures

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure Number Figure Page No.

1.1 site plan of the proposed building 2

1.2 Idealization of structure 2

2.1 Idealization of load 9

3.1 Plan of building 17

3.2 Elevation of building 19

3.3 Location of center of mass 22

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 Appendix – 3: List of tables

LIST OF TABLES
Table Number Table Page No.

1.1 Soil profile and its properties at the proposed site 2

2.1 Summary of additional shear due to torsion 12

………………………………………………………………………………….

………………………………………………………………………………….

………………………………………………………………………………….

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 Appendix – 4: List of symbols

LIST OF SYMBOLS

Ag Gross area of the section

Ac Net area of concrete
Ast Area of tensile steel in flexure member
Asc Area of compression steel
Asv Area of vertical stirrups
B Breadth of the beam
D Overall depth of the beam or slab
Φ Diameter of the bar
d Effective depth if the beam or slab
d’ Effective Cover
E Young’s modulus of elasticity of steel
emin Minimum eccentricity
ex, ey Eccentricity along their respective axes
fck Characteristic compressive strength of the concrete
fsc Design stress in compressive steel at the level of centroid of
compression steel
fcc Design stress in concrete at the level of centroid of
compression steel
fy Characteristic yield strength of the steel
h Height of the column
Ix,Iy Moment of inertia about respective axes
l Length of the column or span of the beam(clear)
Ld Development length of the bar
Leff Effective length of the beam or slab or effective length of the
column
I Moment of inertia of the section considered
Mu Factored design moment
Mu,lim Limiting factored moment of resistance
Pu Factored design axial load
p percentage of steel in the section
Sv Spacing of the stirrups

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 Appendix – 5: Abbreviations

ABBREVIATIONS

BM Bending moment
CM Center of mass
DL Dead load
EQ Earthquake load
LL Live load
SF Shear Force
……………………………………..
………………………………………
………………………………………

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 Appendix – 6: Format of Body Text

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
1. 1 Background

One being a designer, we have to deal with various structures of different ranges as

ranging from simple ones (like the simple beam ) to more complex ones (like

multistoried frame buildings, ribbed slab, shell roofs, steel towers, bridges) etc. These

structures are subjected to various loads like concentrated loads, uniformly distributed

loads, uniformly varying loads, random loads, internal or earthquake load and

dynamic loads. The structure transfers its load to the supports and ultimately to the

ground. While transferring the loads acting on the structure, the members of the

structure are subjected to internal forces like axial forces, shear forces, bending and

torsion moments.

Structural Analysis deals with analyzing these internal forces in the members of the

structures. Structural Design deals with sizing various members of the structure to

resist the internal forces to which they are subjected in the course of their life cycle

[1]. Unless the proper Structural Detailing method is adopted, the structural design

will be no more effective and for our purpose minimally The Indian Standard Code of

Practice should be thoroughly implemented for proper analysis, design and detailing

with respect to safety, economy, stability, strength[2].

The Project work has been undertaken as a partial requirement for Bachelor Degree in

Civil Engineering. This project work contains structural analysis, design and detailing

of a Industrial Building located in Chitwan district. All the theoretical knowledge on

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analysis and design acquired during the course works are utilized with practical

application. The main objective of the project work is to acquaint in the practical

aspects of Civil Engineering.

1.2 Objective

2. Integrate the knowledge of structural engineering offered in BE civil

Engineering and make familiar to practice of design of building.

3. As our country lies in seismic zone so it is necessary to construct the

earthquake resistant building. So the project teaches us how to design the
earthquake resistant building by considering different varieties of loads
imposed in the building and different forces acting on it.

4. Also many softwares are available for the quick and accurate way of analysis
and design of building. This project also keeps aim to make us capable to use
software of structural engineering in the analysis of structure.

5. Ductile Design of building: Detailing of reinforcement provided in structural

member is done as per standard codes to make it behave ductile under lateral
forces.

6. ……………………………………………………………………………….

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References

[1] S.N Sinha, “Reinforced Concrete design”, Second revised edition, McGraw-Hill,
Boston, 2002

[2] A.K. Jain, “Reinforced Concrete Limit State Design”, Third Edition, Nem Chand
Bros, Roorkee, 1989.

[3] …………………………………………………………….

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