Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Questions

• If G is specific gravity of sand particles, e is porosity, the critically hydraulic gradient
• According to Rankine's fromula, the minimum depth of foundation
• An unsaturated 100 cm3 sample of soil weighs 190 g. If its dried weight is 160 g, water content of the soil, is
• The ratio of volume of air voids to the volume of total voids, is known as
• A soil sample of mass specific gravity 1.92, has a moisture content 30%. If the specific gravity of solids is 2.75, the void ratio, is
• If the natural moisture content, the liquid limit and plastic limit of a soil sample are stated as 30.5%, 42.5% and 22.5% respectively, the ratio of liquidity index and plastic index, is
• A soil mass is said to be in plastic equilibrium if
• Pick up the correct statement from the following:
• The property of a soil which allows it to be deformed rapidly without rupture, elastic rebound and also a volume change, is known
• On wetting, cohesive soils,
• Tergazhi's theory of one dimensional consolidation assumes
• Pick up the correct statement from the following:
• Which one of the following statements is true for Mohr-Coulomb envelope?
• The ratio of emax and emin of silty sand, is
• The angle of internal friction is maximum for
• Soils containing organic matters
• The plasticity of fine soils may be assessed by means of
• If β is the surcharge angle of a backfill with an angle of internal friction φ, the coefficient of active earth pressure given by Rankine's theory, is :
• Laplacian fundamental equation for a non-compressible flow in three dimensions, is
• The slip at critical angle, is generally known