Soil Mechanics Online Test – Paper 2

1. Sheet piles are held in position by:

2. According to Terzaghi's theory, the ultimate B.C., at ground surface for a purely cohesive soil and for a smooth base of a strip footing is:

3. Consolidation is a process involving

4. The pressure-void ratio curve will be

5. Which method is quickest to find the water content of soils?

6. The ultimate B.C. of a soil can be defined as:

7. Raising of water table in shallow foundations, near foundation level:

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

9. A plane inclined at an angle to the horizontal at which the soil is expected to stay in the absence of any lateral support is known as:

10. Permeability of soil varies,

11. The quantity of water seeping through a soil is

12. Silts have the following property

13. On wetting, cohesive soils

14. Negative skin friction is to be considered when:

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

16. Berms are used to:

17. Honeycombed structure is found in

18. The vane shear test is used for the in-situ determination of the undrained strength of the intact fully saturated

19. The functional equation for specific gravity (G), water content (w), void ratio (e), and degree of saturation (Sr) is

20. The ratio of the unit weight of soil solids to that of water is called:

21. Well foundation in sandy soils derive their bearing capacity from:

22. The angle of repose of soil is defined as the angle that an inclined plane makes with the horizontal when a body placed on it just sliding is:

23. Distribution of earth pressure with depth is:

24. Cohesionless soils are formed due to

25. Electrical analogy method is used to

26. Soils are basically

27. The seepage force in the soil is

28. For the same soil, an increase in compaction effort

29. The triaxial apparatus is usually used for

30. The bearing capacity factors (N_c, N_q,) and (N_r) are functions of: