Preferred Books for preparation of GATE 2015 SR.NO. SUBJECT and BOOKS AUTHOR 1. Strength of Materials Gare & Timoshenko, E.Popove, L. Singer, B.C. Punamia, /Mechanics of Structure Rammamrutham 2. Theory of Structures/ S. Ramamurtham, L.S. Negi & Jangit, Gupta & Pandit, C.S. Analysis of Structure Reddy, C.K. Wang 3. Construction Planning & Management (i) PERT –CPM B.C. Punamia (ii) Engineering Economy & U.K. Shrivastav unsolved Problems on PERTCPM (iii) Equipment PEURIFOY 4. Soil Mechanics & Foundation Gopal Ranjan & Rao,Venkat Ramaiha, Engineering S. K. Garg, B.C. Punamia, V N S Murthy 5. Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Modi & Seth, R. K. Bansal, A.K.Jain, K.Subramanyam, Machines Jagdish Lal. 6. Environmental Engineering B.C. Punamia(Part I & II), S.K. Garg (Part-I & II), Peavy, Metcalf & Eddy 7. Highway Engineering Khanna & Justo, Kadiyali 8. Railway Engineering Saxena & Arora, subhash and satyapal 9. Airport Engineering Saxena & Arora 10. Docks & Harbors’ Rangwala 11. Building Materials Rangwala, M.L. Gambhir 12. R.C.C. Design B.C. Punamia, A.K. Jain, Krishna Raju, PC Verghese, H J Shah 13. Steel Design S.K. Duggal, L.S. Negi, Kazimi Zindal for improving concepts and practise numericals from Negi 14. Plastic Analysis Manicka Selvam 15. Mathematics Higher Engineering Mathematics by B.S.Grewal, Intermediate Mathematics, S.Chand publications by B.V.Sastry, K.Venkateswarlu both the volumes. Probability , Statistics and Queuing theory by S.C.Gupta & V.K.Kapoor Numerical Methods by S.S.Sastry 16. Surveying Aurora, Som Ghosh 17. Water Resources S K Garg 18. Prestressed Concrete Krishna Raju 19. Aptitude Test D R Choudhary 20. Multiple choice questions by Timothy, J . Williams, TMH publications, 21. Hydrology Subramanyam 22. Irrigation S K Garg