Civil Engineering Quiz 57
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According to principle of transmissibility of forces, the effect of a force upon a body is______?
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A portion of an embankment having a uniform up-gradient 1 in 500 is circular with radius 1000 m of the centre line. It subtends 180? at the centre. If the height of the bank is 1 m at the lower end, and side slopes 2:1, the earth work involved ?
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The wake______?
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Penetration test on bitumen is used for determining its_____________?
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The side slope of embankments for a railway track is generally taken as_____?
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Stress may be expressed in Newtons__________?
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A rain sanitary sewer is constructed to carry________ ?
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Load factor is___________?
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Specific weight of sea water is more that of pure water because it contains _______?
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For strengthening a 50 m long and 5 m high straight compound wall built in brick work, which one of the following would be most suitable?
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Number of bricks required for one cubic metre of brick masonry is____________?
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An egg shaped section of sewer_______?
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Which of the following lining material is useful for shield driven tunnels in sub aqueous regions ?
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The permissible diagonal tensile stress in reinforced brick work is_____________?
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Select the incorrect statement ?
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The number of funicular polygons which can be drawn to pass through two specified points in the space diagram are_________?
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H V are the algebraic sums of the forces resolved horizontally and vertically respectively, M is the algebraic sum of the moments of forces about any point, for the equilibrium of the body acted upon___________?
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The length of runway under standard conditions is 2000 m. The elevation of airport site is 300 m. Its reference temperature is 33.05? If the runway is to be constructed with an effective gradient of 0.25 percent, the corrected runway length will be_______?
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Degree of static indeterminacy of a rigid-jointed plane frame having 15 members, 3 reaction components and 14 joints is_________?
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The allowable length of an offset depends upon the_____?
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Steel bars are generally connected together to get greater length than the standard length by providing______?
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In column analogy method, the area of an analogous column for a fixed beam of span L and flexural rigidity El is taken as_________?
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Grader is used mainly for__________?
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If a tripod settles in the interval that elapses between taking a back sight reading and the following foresight reading, then the elevation of turning point will________?
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A father notes that when his teenage daughter uses the telephone, she takes not less than 6 minutes for a call and som? times as much as an hour. Fifteen minutes call are more frequent than calls of any other duration. If these phone calls were an activity in PERT project, then phone calls expected duration will be______?
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The practical limit of moisture content achieved in air drying of timber is_______?
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According to IS Specifications, the effective length of a column effectively held in position at both ends and restrained in direction at one end is taken as_______?
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The ratio of average velocity to maximum velocity for steady laminar flow in circular pipes is______?
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Mansard roof is a roof which slopes in_______?
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Maximum principal stress theory for the failure of a material at elastic point, is known_______?
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The flow in which each liquid particle has a definite path and their paths do not cross each other is called___________?
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The rise and fall method of levelling provides a complete check on______?
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The refractive index of the ocean water______?
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The equation of continuity holds good when the flow _________?
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The basic wind speed is specified at a height ?h? above mean ground level in an open terrain. The value of?h? is_________?
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Minimum grade of concrete to be used in reinforced concrete as per IS:456-1978 is_____________?
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The flow in which the particles of a fluid attain such velocities that vary from point to point in magnitude and direction as well as from instant to instant, is known as________?
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In ideal machines_______?
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House connections to the laterals is generally made by__________?
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A reduction of nitrogen nutrient in plants______?
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A simply supported beam which carries a uniformly distributed load has two equal overhangs. To have maximum B.M. produced in the beam least possible, the ratio of the length of the overhang to the total length of the beam, is________?
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A particle moves along a straight line such that distance (x) traversed in t seconds is given by x = t2 (t ? 4), the acceleration of the particle will be given by the equation________?
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Pick up the correct statement from the following ?
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What is defined as the certificate of indebtedness of corporation usually for a period not less than 10 years and guaranteed by a mortgage on certain assets of a corporation ?
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Unit of runoff in M.K.S. system is_______?
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A simply supported beam carries a varying load from zero at one end and w at the other end. If the length of the beam is a, the shear force will be zero at a distance x from least loaded point where x is________?
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When the reservoir is full, the maximum compressive force in a gravity dam is produced_____?
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Degree of kinematic indeterminacy of a pin-jointed plane frame is given by_____?
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The major principal stress in an element of cohesionless soil within the backfill of a retaining wall is_______?
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If the pH value of sewage is 7_________?
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