Civil Engineering Online Exam

1. The strength of winds is measured with the help of

2. An aircraft is flying in an atmosphere of 30°C with a speed of 1234 km/h. Its speed is known as

3. If the width of the approach area near the runway end is 150 m, the width of the approach area at a distance of 3 kilometers from the runway end will be

4. Westerguard analysis is generally used for:

5. The main purpose of a cavity wall is:

6. The bulk density of an aggregate does not depend upon:

7. Which of the following walls is not designed for taking lateral load?

8. Negative float can occur when it is:

9. If the path of activities leads back into itself, the resulting error in the network is known as:

10. Critical path network helps the engineer to:

11. The raw materials having more than 10% proportion in the manufacture of cement are

12. *In stone masonry, the stones are placed in a position such that the natural bedding plane is

13. *The cracks that extend from bark towards the sapwood in the cross-section of a tree are called

14. The seven-day compressive strength of good Portland cement, as obtained from the compressive test on cement-sand mortar cubes, should not be less than

15. Orthographic projection means:

16. Which line type is thin and light?

17. A plane other than horizontal and vertical, placed at any angle to the principal planes is:

18. The unit of measurement for concrete work in R.C.C. is

19. For electric wiring such as a fan, light, plug, etc., the estimate is made in terms of

20. Which of the following is known as general overhead?

21. Generally, sight distance at a curve is...

22. The width of bay on a concrete road is generally taken as

23. Sheep foot roller is used for

24. The line joining the points to which the liquid rises in vertical piezometer tubes fitted at different cross-sections of a conduit is known as

25. *Hydraulic gradient is equal to

26. *The upper surface of the weir over which water flows is known as:

27. *Bernoulli's equation assumes that

28. The degree of sinuosity is the ratio between

29. *Which of the following is not a cross drainage work?

30. *The maximum failure of earthen dams occurs due to

31. The maximum deflection in a cantilever beam carrying a concentrated load 'w' at the free end is (Where L is span of bean, W is total load and EI is flexural rigidity)

32. *The velocity of a moving body is:

33. *Thrust is induced in the case of

34. The slenderness ratio of a vertical column of square cross-section of 10 cm side and 500 cm long is

35. A member that is subjected to reversible tensile or compressible stress may fail at a stress lower than the ultimate stress of the material. The property of the metal is called

36. Which of the following soils has the largest permeability?

37. The reduction factor to the bearing capacity of soil due to the water table at a depth equal to the width of the footing below the footing is:

38. Which of the following is not the purpose of a foundation?

39. The angle between the maximum shear stress plane and the horizontal plane is equal to

40. 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

41. The amount of reinforcement for main bars in a slab is based on

42. The moment of resistance of an under-reinforced section is computed on the basis of

43. The maximum strain in the tension reinforcement in the section of a flexural member at failure shall not be less than (if fy is the characteristic strength of steel and Es is the modulus of elasticity of steel)

44. The types of instrument generally used in the survey of gravity water supply system are:

45. *Total station is

46. Chainage is the distance measured

47. The service pipes must be designed to carry

48. The water supply demand in a day school without a boarder should be

49. Find the BOD with the following data: initial oxygen = 9 PPM, final oxygen = 4 PPM sewage sample 200 ml and diluted sewage = 4 ppm.

50. The common pipe used in house plumbing is: