Civil Engineering Online Exam

1. The landing and takeoff of an aircraft are made against the direction of wind. In no case, the center line of the runway should make an angle with the wind direction exceeding

2. Find the actual length of the runway if RL of the airport is 100 m and the basic length of the runway is 600m

3. The number of traverse rows of light in the approach lighting near the threshold (As per Calvert & ICAO) is

4. Which of the following statements is true:

5. The brick laid with its length parallel to the face of a wall is known as:

6. The types of foundation used to transfer heavy load are:

7. The termination of the unfinished wall in a stepped fashion is known as:

8. When all the paths are arranged according to the descending order of the float, the path which is next to the critical path is known as:

9. The overall in-charge of an organization at the site responsible for the execution of works is:

10. The main advantage of line organization is:

11. Stone generally used for railway ballast is

12. *Bronze is an alloy of

13. *The red color obtained by the bricks is due to the presence of

14. Normally bogus compounds found in cement during the burning process

15. The polyhedra having a plane figure for its base and an equal number of isosceles triangular faces meeting at a point is called a:

16. In case of third angle projection, the plan is kept at:

17. The hardness of pencil lead increases as the numeral letter H:

18. The useful part of the livable area of a building is also known as

19. The depreciation of the value of the building costs are generally not considered for the initial:

20. Specification is the

21. Longitudinal joints in concrete roads are provided if the width exceeds

22. Routine maintenance is normally done by the use of

23. The loosening of the top surface of a road by mechanical or other means is called

24. In an inclined pipe, the pressure difference at its two ends is due to

25. The inlet length of a venturimeter

26. *A pitot tube is used to measure

27. *The continuity equation deals with the law of conservation of

28. The crest level of an emergency spillway is kept as

29. A weir constructed to divert part or all of the water from the stream into a different course is called

30. For standing crops in undulating sandy fields, the best method of irrigation is

31. *In the case of a fixed beam loaded at a point at its center, the number of points at which BM is zero

32. *BM in a cantilever beam having a span of 1.8m and a uniformly distributed load of 4kg/m

33. *A member which does not regain its original shape after the load producing deformation is removed, is said to be:

34. The value of buckling load is ... than the crushing load in the case of a long column

35. The rate of change of shear force is called

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

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

38. The property of the soil which allows water to flow through the soil is known as

39. Terzaghi's theory of one-dimensional consolidation assumes:

40. Clays containing organic matter are made suitable for stabilization by first adding a small percentage of

41. In a column, the minimum cover provided at the end of reinforcement is

42. Factor of safety is given by

43. Two layers of tensile reinforcement bars are placed in a flexural member in such a way that the effective depth would be

44. If the quadrantal bearing of a line is N 35° W, then the whole circle bearing is

45. The types of survey used to fix property lines are

46. The prismatic compass and the surveyor's compass respectively give

47. Turbidity is measured on..........

48. True colour of water is due to

49. Fluoridation is done to

50. The difference between a septic tank and an imhoff tank is that in an imhoff tank: