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- Question
A saturated soil sample has water content of 40% and specific gravity of soil particles 2.7. The void ratio of the soil, is
Options- A. 0.4
- B. 0.52
- C. 1.08
- D. none of these.
- Correct Answer
- 1.08
- 1. If drainage is permitted throughout the test, during the application of both normal, and shear stresses so that full consolidation occurs and no excess pore pressure is set up at any stage of the test, is known as
Options- A. quick test
- B. drained test
- C. consolidated undrained test
- D. none of these. Discuss
- 2. In active state of plastic equilibrium in a non cohesive soil with horizontal ground surface
Options- A. major principal stress is horizontal
- B. minor principal stress is vertical
- C. major principal stress is vertical
- D. minor and major principal stresses are equally inclined to horizontal. Discuss
- 3. A critical hydraulic gradient may occur when
Options- A. flow is in upward direction
- B. seepage pressure is in upward direction
- C. effective pressure is zero
- D. all the above. Discuss
- 4. Coulomb's wedge theory assumes that
Options- A. back fill is dry, cohesionless, homogeneous and isotropic
- B. slip surface is the plane which passes through the heel of the wall
- C. sliding wedge itself acts as a rigid body and the value of earth pressure is obtained by considering the limiting equilibrium of the wedge
- D. position and direction of the resultant earth pressure, are known
- E. all the above. Discuss
- 5. The minimum centre to centre distance of friction piles of 1 m diameter, is
Options- A. 2 m
- B. 2 m to 3 m
- C. 3 m to 4 m
- D. 5 m Discuss
- 6. The inventor of the term soil mechanics, was
Options- A. Kray
- B. Dr. Karl Terzaghi
- C. Leygue
- D. Fellenius. Discuss
- 7. The phreatic line in an earth dam may be
Options- A. circular
- B. elliptical
- C. parabolic
- D. a straight line
- E. all the above. Discuss
- 8. The total weight of a pycnometer with water and oven dried soil 20 (g) is 1600 g. The pycnometer filled with water alone weighs 1500 g. The specific gravity of the soil, is
Options- A. 1.0
- B. 1.5
- C. 2.0
- D. 2.5 Discuss
- 9. In a purely cohesive soil, the critical centre lies at the intersection of
Options- A. perpendicular bisector of slope and the locus of the centre
- B. perpendicular drawn at l/3rd slope from toe and the locus of the centre
- C. perpendicular drawn at 2/3rd slope from toe and the locus of the centre
- D. directional angles
- E. none of these. Discuss
- 10. The ratio of the volume of water present in a given soil mass to the total volume of its voids, is known
Options- A. porosity
- B. void ratio
- C. percentage voids
- D. degree of saturation. Discuss
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Correct Answer: drained test
Correct Answer: major principal stress is vertical
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Correct Answer: all the above.
Correct Answer: 3 m to 4 m
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Correct Answer: 2.0
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