Civil Engineering Online Exam

1. The capacity of an airport depends upon:

2. Runway is designed on the basis of

3. Strength of runway pavement is expressed as

4. The lightweight spongy concrete, used for roof slab and precast units in partitions for heat and sound insulation, prepared by mixing aluminum in the cement concrete is called:

5. The projections of the head or sill of a door or window frame are known as:

6. The portion of a brick obtained by cutting a brick lengthwise into two directions is known as:

7. The bond used when bricks are of different thickness is:

8. A contractor can start the construction works following the receipt of:

9. Who is responsible for accidents occurring at the site?

10. If an activity has its optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic times as 2, 4, and 6, respectively, then its expected time and variance are respectively:

11. The standard size of a brick as per Nepal Standard (NBC205:2013) is

12. *The pigment in paints gives

13. The type of cement is considered good if

14. In the chemical composition of the test for loss on ignition, the cement is treated to a temperature of

15. Circle and arcs of circles are drawn by means of a:

16. What is the aspect ratio for the letter shown?

17. To prevent warping of the board,......are cleated at its back:

18. The estimated quantity of cement required in cement mortar (1:6) per cubic meter will be

19. Indicating works left in excavated trenches to facilitate the measurement of borrow pits are known as

20. The chairman of the material rate fixation committee in the district is

21. A subsidiary area in a carriageway placed so as to control the movement of traffic is known as

22. The drawback of rigid pavement is that

23. Parking lanes are provided on

24. In fluids, steady flow occurs when

25. Gauge pressure is

26. The imaginary line drawn such that the tangents at its all points indicate the direction of the velocity of the fluid particle at each point is called

27. A substance which deforms continuously under the action of shear stress is called

28. For any crop, the base period is measured in

29. The amount of evaporation loss is

30. The retaining wall in continuation of abutment both upstream and downstream is called

31. *Which of the following gives Modulus of Elasticity

32. *The tension in a cable supporting a lift

33. The moment of inertia of a rectangular (Bx D) section about its base is

34. The difference in ordinate of the shear force between any two sections is equal to the area under

35. A perfectly elastic body is

36. Inorganic soils with low plasticity are denoted by

37. The specific gravity of sandy soils/gravel is

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

39. To what category do the gravel and sand belong?

40. The relationship between void ratio (e) and porosity ratio (n) is

41. An air entraining agent when added in concrete improves

42. The advantage of reinforced concrete is due to

43. The minimum cover to the ties or spiral should not be less than

44. The principle of surveying to prevent the accumulation of errors is

45. Prolongation of a chain line across an obstruction in chain surveying is done by

46. The rise and fall method of leveling provides a complete check on

47. The head developed in a centrifugal pump, at zero discharge is known as

48. The maximum diameter of a sewer pipe should preferably be:

49. Strainer type tube wells are considered unsuitable for

50. The distribution mains in a water supply system are designed for