Civil Engineering Online Exam

1. For night landing, the thresholds are lighted

2. The bearing of the longest line of a wind rose is S 45°E. The bearing of the runway will be numbered

3. To cope up with the high temperature of 196°C, the taxiways and aprons are constructed with

4. Cement provides strength, durability, and water-tightness to concrete because:

5. Formwork suitable for construction work:

6. If the water-cement ratio of concrete is 0.6, then water required for mixing concrete is:

7. Water-cement ratio by weight is:

8. Assuming that the cost varies with time, the cost-slope is defined as:

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

10. The direct cost of a project with respect to normal time is:

11. Lamination of bricks is caused due to

12. *Specific gravity for most of the ordinary building stone lines between

13. Normally, the wood used for scaffolding is

14. *Efflorescence in brick is caused due to an excess of:

15. The most important material for drawing is:

16. The projection in which the length, breadth, and height of an object are shown in one view is known as:

17. Mechanical lines are types of:

18. The types of work done by the use of labor but not material, equipment, etc., are known as:

19. Which of the followings is not an essential part of the general specification of public works?

20. If the payment of annuity begins after some years in future, it is known as

21. Number of National highways in Nepal (According to the decision of Ministries of council dated 2076/02/06)

22. A groove or depression formed in a surface layer longitudinal to the road by the wheels of traveling vehicles is called

23. Traffic signs and devices should be placed within a cone of

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. *To measure atmospheric pressure, we use

26. Cavitations in flowing fluid occurs when

27. For the same specific force, the two depths at which the same discharge occurs are called

28. The useful storage is the volume of water stored in the reservoir between:

29. A cross regulator is provided on the main canal at the

30. According to Kennedy's theory, the silt supporting eddies are generated due to

31. The crippling load for column of length 1, with one end fixed and the other end free is

32. What is tenacity?

33. In an I section, almost all the shear force is taken by

34. *Bending moment diagram of a simply supported beam having a uniformly distributed load is

35. *Hooke's law holds good up to:

36. According to Terzaghi's theory, the ultimate B.C., at ground surface for a purely cohesive soil and for a smooth base of a strip footing is:

37. Consolidation test of a soil sample is carried out to determine:

38. Bearing capacity of soils depends on:

39. The critical height in the stability of the soil is the:

40. Compaction of soil is aimed at

41. If A is the fineness modulus of coarse aggregate, B of combined aggregates, and C of fine aggregates, then P the proportion of fine to combined aggregates, is given by

42. Minimum spacing between horizontal parallel reinforcements of the same size should not be less than

43. The minimum cover to the main bars in an RCC beam should be

44. The function of the leveling head is

45. The line normal to the plumb line is known as

46. In trigonometrical leveling, the combined correction is given by (where m=coefficient of refraction)

47. The design discharge for the separate sewer system is taken equal to:

48. In distribution pipes, drain valves are provided at

49. The term "septic" refers to.....?

50. As compared to shallow tube wells, deep wells have