Civil Engineering Online Exam

1. The depressions and undulations in the pavement are caused due to

2. For class A airport, the difference of reduced levels of the higher and lower edges of the conical surface is

3. Apron is used for loading/unloading of passengers while taxiway is

4. For the construction of thin R.C.C. structures, the type of cement to be avoided is:

5. Bearing capacity of soil cannot be improved by:

6. If the floor height of a building is 2.70 m and the riser is 15 cm, then calculate the number of tread required:

7. The intensity of pressure below the floating foundation is:

8. In time cost optimization using CPM, the crashing of activities along the critical path is done starting with the activity having:

9. Policy is:

10. The difference between the total float and the free float is termed as:

11. The advantage of adding pozzolana to lime is

12. Pumice is a type of

13. *In brick laying the tool used for lifting and spreading mortar and for forming joints is

14. Slate is a metamorphic rock obtained from the structural change of

15. To remove unnecessary lines...... is used.

16. Freehand sketch is normally used for:

17. The polyhedra having two equal and similar end bases, parallel to each other and joined by other faces which may be rectangles or parallelograms is called:

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

19. The life of teak wood doors and windows is usually taken to be

20. Carpet area does not include the area of

21. The city roads which are meant for through traffic usually on a continuous route are known as

22. The inventor of road making as a building science was:

23. Higher values of super elevation are highly undesirable to

24. Mach number is the ratio of inertia force to

25. In the case of vortex flow, the level of water at the center is

26. The ratio of the mean velocity to the surface velocity in open channels is equal to

27. The multiplying factor for converting one poise into MKS unit of dynamic viscosity is

28. A fall in a canal bed is generally provided if

29. *When the water table is within the root zone depth and is detrimental to plant life, the land is said to be

30. According to Khosla's theory, the undermining of the floor starts from the

31. The method of increasing fatigue resistance by overstressing the metal by successively increasing the loading is known as

32. The limit of proportionality depends upon

33. The shear center may be defined as

34. The diagram showing the variation of BM along the span of the beam is called

35. The moment of inertia of a triangular section b x h about the c-g is

36. 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

37. Toe failure is most likely in the case of:

38. Rise of water table in cohesionless soils up to the ground surface reduces the net ultimate bearing capacity approximately by:

39. Who coined the term Soil Mechanics?

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

41. The main reason for providing a number supported beam is to resist in that zone

42. In a slab, the pitch of the distribution reinforcement should not exceed its effective depth

43. In case of RCC building, the expansion joint is normally provided if the length of the building exceeds

44. The device used in computing the horizontal and vertical distances rapidly and conveniently is

45. The boundary of water of a still lake is

46. *Total station measures

47. A circular gravity aqueduct is preferred because of

48. Odour is measured in terms of...

49. Salvaging is:

50. Copper pipes are