Building Construction Technology Online Test – Paper 3

1. Expansion Joint in a building is generally provided if the length of concrete exceeds:

2. Curing of pavements, floors, roofs, and slabs are done by:

3. Minimum width of a load-bearing wall should be:

4. Non-uniform compaction may cause the concrete:

5. In the rectangular foundation of width 'B', the maximum permissible eccentricity of load is limited to:

6. The projections of the head or sill of a door or window frame are known as:

7. In brick masonry, the bond produced by laying alternate headers and stretchers in each course is known as:

8. Workability of concrete mix with a low water-cement ratio is determined by:

9. The approximate ratio of strength of cement concrete at 1 year to that at 28 days of curing is:

10. Bar bending schedule is prepared in RCC structure for:

11. Pile foundations are suitable for:

12. Under strap footing, individual footings are connected by:

13. Depth of foundation is determined by:

14. Bituminous asphalt/asphaltic felt is used as D.P.C. on the surface:

15. Formwork suitable for construction work:

16. If the slump of the concrete mix is 60mm, its workability is:

17. The floor height of a 3 m building is connected to 17 numbers of tread/going; the number of risers is:

18. The cut or broken portion of a brick is called:

19. For compacting plum concrete road surface of thickness less than 20 cm, we use:

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

21. The roof sloping in two directions is called:

22. The unit weight of RCC is taken as:

23. The approximate ratio of strength of cement concrete at 6 months to that at 28 days of curing is:

24. The brick of special shape used in brick masonry is called:

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

26. The masonry with stone having chisel-dressed on all beds and joints to be true and square giving perfectly vertical & horizontal joint is called:

27. The process of hardening the concrete by keeping its surface moist is known as:

28. Lap is the horizontal distance between the vertical joints in:

29. ISI has specified the full strength of concrete after:

30. The cement-sand mortar preferred in load-bearing walls is:

31. A cavity wall:

32. Horizontal construction joints in concrete walls are generally provided at:

33. To produce impermeable concrete:

34. For hearthing of thick walls, the brick used is:

35. If the effective working time is 7 hours and the per batch time of concrete is 3 minutes, the output of a concrete mixer of 150-liter capacity is:

36. If the compaction factor is 0.95, the workability of concrete is:

37. The function of cleats in a roof truss is:

38. The dimensions of a 35-liter form for measuring aggregates by volume are:

39. Later stage strength of cement is caused by:

40. The 9cm x 9cm side of a brick as seen in the wall face is generally known as:

41. Bringing the floor to a true level surface by means of screeds is known as:

42. The load-bearing cantilever projection from the face of a masonry wall is called:

43. The aggregate containing moisture in pores and having its surface dry is known as:

44. The portion of a brick obtained by cutting a brick lengthwise into two directions is known as:

45. The joint preferred in a single brick wall to save facing bricks is:

46. Strength of cement with the passage of time:

47. Bearing capacity of soil cannot be improved by:

48. 'Curing' as used in concrete and cement plaster is a process that helps these gain:

49. The approximate ratio of strength of cement concrete at 3 months to that at 28 days of curing is:

50. The 9 cm x 9 cm side of a brick as seen in the wall face is generally known as: