Civil Engineering Online Exam

1. The design thickness of the pavement is decided on the load carried by

2. According to I.C.A.O., the recommended length of the airport is decided on

3. As the elevation of the airport increases, the runway length

4. In brick laying, the tool used for lifting and spreading mortar and for forming joints is:

5. Size of fine aggregates should not exceed:

6. The maximum percentage of the chemical ingredient of cement is that of:

7. Pile foundations are suitable for:

8. Which of the following techniques is advanced and more indicative in modern construction progress review?

9. 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:

10. Negative slack occurs:

11. The insoluble residues in good cement should be

12. Granite is not suitable for ordinary building purposes because

13. Very strong lime mortar is obtained from

14. *Seasoning of timber is done to

15. The techniques for free-hand sketch to drawing a circle is:

16. The following are solids of revolution except:

17. Free-hand sketching can be done only if one has:

18. The area of the segmental portion of an arch with span I and rise r is approximately given by

19. The building material brick

20. The information that can't be included in drawings is conveyed to the estimator through

21. The pressure intensity at the sub-grade should be...bearing capacity

22. Which test is carried out to know the resistance to flow, of the given bituminous material?

23. An ideal transition curve is the one whose length is

24. *Differential manometers are used to measure

25. The ratio of the percentage error in the discharge and the percentage error in the measurement of head over a triangular notch is

26. Total head of a particle in motion is the sum of

27. If the Froude number in open channel flow is equal to 1.0, the flow is called

28. A canal, designed to irrigate throughout the year, is

29. Vertical acceleration due to an earthquake results in

30. The water utilized by plants is available in soils mainly in the form of

31. Load carrying capacity of fixed beam is

32. The number of points of contraflexture in a simply supported beam carrying udl is

33. The effective length of a column if both ends are hinged

34. Find the maximum BM induced in a simply supported beam if the beam is subjected to a point load of 4 KN at the center of the beam and the span of the beam is 4 m

35. *The law "Stress is proportional to strain within certain limits" is formulated by

36. The critical exit gradient of the seepage of water in soils

37. An agent responsible for the transportation of soil is

38. In the case of retaining walls, surcharge is:

39. Falling head permeability test is preferable when the soil sample is

40. Physical weathering occurs due to

41. The strength of concrete is directly proportional to

42. The ultimate tensile strength of structural mild steel is about

43. For a continuous slab of 3m x 3.5m size, the minimum overall depth of the slab to satisfy vertical deflection limit is

44. In the stadia method, if k is the multiplying factor, s is the staff intercept, c is the additive constant of the instrument, then the distance equation is given by the expression

45. "A curve of varying radius introduced between two branches of a compound curve is called

46. The longitudinal section of the surface of the bubble tube is

47. Thrash rack/roughing filter is provided at the entrance of

48. Which one is correct?

49. The best sewer material to resist hydrogen sulfide corrosion is:

50. The gradient of a sewer is: