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Soil Mechanics Online Test – Paper 2

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1. Inorganic soils with low plasticity are denoted by

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2. Overconsolidation may be due to

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3. The quantity of water seeping through a soil is

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4. The shearing strength of a cohesionless soil depends upon:

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5. Weathering of soils is caused by

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6. Bleeder wells are required to

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7. The critical exit gradient may occur when

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8. The process of improving the engineering properties of the soil and thus making it more stable is known as

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9. The maximum water content at which a reduction in water content does not cause a decrease in the volume of the soil mass is known as

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10. The angle of internal friction of clay is about

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11. The ratio of volume of voids to the total volume of the given soil mass is known as

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12. Hygroscopic water can be removed by

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13. The bulk density of soil can be defined as

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14. Moisture content of saturated soil equals:

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15. Soil transported by water and deposited at the bottom of the lake is known as

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16. The total stress in a soil is

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17. A foundation may be classified as a strip foundation if:

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18. If s is the focal length of Kozeny's parabola and k is the coefficient of permeability, the seepage flow rate per unit length of the dam is given as

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19. If the shearing stress is zero on two planes, then the angle between the two planes is

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20. The safe B.C. of a soil can be defined as:

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21. Terzaghi's theory of one-dimensional consolidation assumes:

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22. If the resultant force at the bottom of the retaining wall lies outside the middle third, the failure will be due to:

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23. If the resultant force at the face of the retaining wall is much more than frictional resistances at the bottom, the failure will be due to:

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24. The length/diameter ratio of cylindrical specimens used in a triaxial test is generally

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25. Combined footing is generally used when:

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26. Who coined the term Soil Mechanics?

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27. The angle between the horizontal and the slope of a heap produced by pouring clean dry sand from a small height is known as:

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28. * A 'shear stress' is a stress which is applied.......to a face of material.

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29. The shear strength of a soil is

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30. The curve A, B, and C shown in fig below are respectively the stress-strain curves for stress of

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