Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Questions

• Pick up the correct statement from the following:
• A pycnometer is used to determine
• Stoke's law does not hold good if the size of particle is smaller than
• Plasticity index is defined as the range of water content between
• The shear strength in plastic undrained clay, is due to
• In non-cohesive soil in passive state of plastic equilibrium
• According to IS : 2720 - 1965, the composition of a dispersing solution used in pipette analysis for determining the size of particles, is
• The shear strength of a soil
• The critical exist gradient of seepage water in soils, increases with
• Pick up the correct statement from the following:
• For slopes of limited extent the surface of slippage, is usually along
• For a base failure of a slope, depth factor
• When the seepage pressure becomes equal to the pressure due to submerged weight of a soil, the effective pressure is reduced to zero and the soil particles have a tendency to move up in the direction of flow. This phenomenon is generally known
• In a fow net
• A soil mass coated with a thin layer of paraffin weighs 460 g. When immersed, it displaces 299 cc of water. The weight of paraffin is 10 g. If specific gravity of solids is 2.5 and that of paraffin 0.9, the void ratio of soil, is
• The triaxial apparatus is usually used for
• If Cv is the coefficient of consolidation, t is the time and d is drainage path of one dimensional consolidation of soil, the time factor Tv, is given by
• The coefficient ka of the active earth pressure, is given by
• 'Drift' is the material picked up, mixed, disintegrated, transported and redeposited by
• The consistency index of a soil is defined as the ratio of