Soil Mechanics Online Test – Paper 2

1. * When water content in a soil is reduced beyond the shrinkage limit, the soil will be:

2. In cohesive soils, the depth of the vertical cut up to which no lateral support is required is given by:

3. Compaction is done to remove... from the soil.

4. Degree of saturation of a soil is generally

5. Absorbed water in soil is

6. 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

7. For testing a saturated clay for shear strength, the test recommended is

8. The reduction factor to the bearing capacity of soil due to the water table just below the footing is:

9. The critical height in the stability of the soil is the:

10. Base failure refers to a failure surface that:

11. On wetting, cohesive soils

12. The saturated density of soil can be expressed as

13. In an earthen dam, the phreatic line is

14. "If Nf, Nd, and H are the total flow channels, the total number of potential drops and total hydraulic head difference, respectively, the discharge, q, through the complete flow is given by

15. The shape & structure of an isobar is like a/an

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

17. In an undrained plastic clay, the shear strength is due to

18. Over-consolidated soils caused due to:

19. Hydrometer readings are corrected for

20. The ratio of plasticity index to clay fraction is known as

21. Terzaghi's analysis assumes:

22. The difference between total pressure and pore water pressure is known as

23. The maximum differential settlement in the case of a foundation on clayey soils is:

24. Bearing capacity of soil is determined by:

25. The dry density of soil can be defined as

26. A phreatic line is defined as the line within a dam section below which there are

27. 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

28. Generally, soils are considered as

29. In soil if the water content is equal to the liquid limit, its relative consistency is

30. The angle of internal friction of clay is about