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  • For determing the specific gravity of soil solids, using a pycnometer of 500 cc., the following data is available : Weight of dry empty pycnometer = 125 g Weight of dried soil and pycnometer = 500 g Weight of dried soil and distilled = 850 g water filled in pycnometer up to top The specific gravity of soil soilds, is


  • Options
  • A. 2.0
  • B. 2.25
  • C. 2.50
  • D. 2.75

  • Correct Answer
  • 2.50 

    • Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering problems

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    • 1. Pick up the correct statement from the following :

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    • A. To an agriculturist, soil is the substance existing on the earth's surface, which grows and develops plants
    • B. To a geologist, soil is the material in a relatively thin surface zone within which roots occur, and rest of the crust is termed as rock irrespective of hardness
    • C. To an engineer, soil is the unaggregated and uncemented deposits of minerals and organic particles covering the earth's crust
    • D. All the above.
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    • 2. The compressibility of clays, is caused due to:

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    • A. expulsion of double layer water from in between the grains
    • B. sliping of particles to new positions of greater density
    • C. bending of particles as elastic sheets
    • D. all the above.
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    • 3. A phreatic line is defined as the line within a dam section below which there are

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    • A. positive equipotential lines
    • B. positive hydrostatic pressure
    • C. negative hydrostatic pressure
    • D. negative equipotential lines
    • E. none of these.
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    • 4. If C is cohesion, F is factor of safety, ? is unit weight of soil and H is the maximum height of embankment, the stability number, is

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    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D.
    • E.
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    • 5. The general relationship between specific gravity (G), weight of water (??), degree of saturation ( S r ), void ratio (e) and bulk density (?), is

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    • A. ? =
    • B. ? =
    • C. ? =
    • D. ? =
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    • 6. The equation ? = C + ? tan ? is given by

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    • A. Rankine
    • B. Coulomb
    • C. Culaman
    • D. Mohr.
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    • 7. For a homogeneous earth dam 50 m high having 2 m free broad, a flow net was constructed and the results were : Number of potential drops = 2.4 Number of flow channels = 0.4. If coefficiency of permeability of the dam mateiral is 3 x 10-3 cm3/sec, the discharge per metre length of dam, is

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    • A. 12 x 10-5 m3/sec
    • B. 24 x 10-3 m3/sec
    • C. 6 x 10-5 m3/sec
    • D. 24 x 10-5 m3/sec
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    • 8. W is the weight of soil having a moisture content ?. If V is the volume of proctor's mould, the dry density of the soil is

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    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D.
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    • 9. The maximum water content at which a reduction in water content does not cause a decrease in volume of a soil mass, is known

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    • A. liquid limit
    • B. plastic limit
    • C. shrinkage limit
    • D. permeability limit.
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    • 10. The fundamental equation of air content (ac), degree of saturation (Sr) and void ratio (e), is

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    • A. ac =
    • B. ac =
    • C. ac =
    • D. ac =
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