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  • Question
  • Pick up the correct statement from the following:


  • Options
  • A. A maximum value of dry density is obtained at optimum water content
  • B. At low value of water content most soils tend to be stiff.
  • C. At high water content, the dry density decreases with an increase of water content.
  • D. An airless soil will have maximum possible value of dry density for the given water content
  • E. All the above.

  • Correct Answer
  • All the above. 


  • Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering problems


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    • 1. The reduction in volume of soil due to squeezing out of water from the voids, is termed

    • Options
    • A. primary consolidation
    • B. primary compression
    • C. primary time effect
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 2. The angle of internal friction, is least for

    • Options
    • A. angular-grained loose sand
    • B. angular -grained dense sand
    • C. round-grained loose sand
    • D. round-grained loose sand
    • E. clays.
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    • 3. 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.
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    • 4. In a purely cohesive soil, the critical centre lies at the intersection of

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    • 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
    • 5. 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

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    • A. 1.0
    • B. 1.5
    • C. 2.0
    • D. 2.5
    • Discuss
    • 6. A pycnometer is used to determine

    • Options
    • A. voids ratio
    • B. dry density
    • C. water content
    • D. density index.
    • Discuss
    • 7. Stoke's law does not hold good if the size of particle is smaller than

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    • A. 0.0002 mm
    • B. 0.002 mm
    • C. 0.02 mm
    • D. 0.2 mm
    • Discuss
    • 8. Plasticity index is defined as the range of water content between

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    • A. liquid and plastic limit
    • B. plastic limit and semi solid limit
    • C. semi-solid limit and liquid limit
    • D. liquid limit and solid limit.
    • Discuss
    • 9. The shear strength in plastic undrained clay, is due to

    • Options
    • A. inter-granular friction
    • B. internal friction
    • C. cohesion
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 10. In non-cohesive soil in passive state of plastic equilibrium

    • 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 the horizontal.
    • Discuss


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