GATE Exam Questions Questions

• A 1 : 30 model of an ogee spillway crest records an acceleration of 1.3 m/s2 at a certain location. The homologous value of the acceleration in the prototype in m/s2 , is
• A reinforced concrete wall carrying vertical loads is generally designed as per recommendations given for columns. The ratio of minimum reinforcements in the vertical and horizontal directions is
• The degree of static indeterminacy of the rigid frame having two internal hinges as shown in the figure below, is
• Water flows at a depth of 0.1 m with a velocity of 6 m/s in a rectangular channel. The alternate dpeth is
• The shape of the STOP sign according to IRC:67-2001 is
• A soil mass has coefficients of horizontal and vertical permeability as 9 x 10-7 cm/s and 4 x 10-7 cm/s, respectively. The transformed coefficient of permeability of an equivalent isotropic soil mass is
• The comparison between pumps operating in series and in parallel is :
• Bituminous materials are used in highway construction primarily because of their :
• If the pump head is 75 m, discharge is 0.464 m3/s and the motor speed is 1440 rpm at rated condition, the specific speed of the pump is about
• In cohesive soils the depth of tension crack (Zcr) is likely to be
• The parameters in Horton's infiltration equation are given as, fo = 7.62 cm/hour, fc = 1.34 cm/hour and k = 4.182/hour. For assumed continuous ponding the cumulative infiltration at the end of 2 hours is
• At the same mean velocity, the ratio of head loss per unit length for a sewer pipe flowing full to that for the same pipe flowing half full would be :
• The temporary hardness of water, is caused by:
• The expression for the specific speed of a pump :
• The modulus of rupture of concrete gives
• The most commonly used sampler for obtaining a disturbed sample of the soil is
• Two samples of water A and B have pH values of 4.4 and 6.4 respectively. How many times more acidic sample A is than sample B?
• A direct runoff hydrograph due to an isolated storm with an effective rainfall of 2 cm was trapezoidal in shape as shown in the below figure. The hydrograph corresponds to a catchment area (in sq. km) of
• The main constituents of gas generated during the anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge are :
• The specific gravity of paving bitumen as per IS:73-1992 lies between