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  • Question
  • Pick up the cohesive soil from the following:


  • Options
  • A. Red earth
  • B. Clay
  • C. Black cotton soil
  • D. Compacted ground.

  • Correct Answer
  • Black cotton soil 


  • Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering problems


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    • 1. Sedimentation analysis is based on the assumption:

    • Options
    • A. soil particles are spherical
    • B. particles settle independent of other particles
    • C. walls of the jar do not affect the settlement .
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 2. Failure of a slope occurs only when total shear force is

    • Options
    • A. equal to total shearing strength
    • B. greater than total shearing strength
    • C. less than total shearing strength
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 3. 'Loess' is silty clay formed by the action of

    • Options
    • A. water
    • B. glacier
    • C. wind
    • D. gravitational force.
    • Discuss
    • 4. The shearing force acting along the slice of a curved surface of slippage, causes the soil to slide

    • Options
    • A. down at the centre
    • B. down at the toe
    • C. upward at the centre
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 5. For determining the ultimate bearing capacity of soil, the recommended size of a square bearing plate to be used in load plate test should be 30 to 75 cm square with a minimum thickness of

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    • A. 5 mm
    • B. 10 mm
    • C. 15 mm
    • D. 20 mm
    • E. 25 mm
    • Discuss
    • 6. One end of a light string 4 m in length is fixed to a point on a smooth wall and the other end fastened to a point on the surface of a smooth sphere of diameter 2.25 m and of weight 100 kg. The reaction between the sphere and the wall of the arrangement made is

    • Options
    • A. 102.5 kg
    • B. 105.5 kg
    • C. 108.5 kg
    • D. 110 kg.
    • Discuss
    • 7. Time required to stop a car moving with a velocity 20 m/sec within a distance of 40 m, is

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    • A. 2 sec
    • B. 3 sec
    • C. 4 sec
    • D. 5 sec
    • E. 6 sec.
    • Discuss
    • 8. Effect of a force on a body depends upon its

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    • A. direction
    • B. magnitude
    • C. position
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 9. If two forces P and Q (P > Q) act on the same straight line but in opposite direction, their resultant, is

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    • A. P + Q
    • B. P/Q
    • C. Q/P
    • D. P - Q
    • E. Q - P.
    • Discuss
    • 10. The distance of the c.g. of a semi-circular arc of radius r from its diameter along the radius of symmetry, is

    • Options
    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D.
    • Discuss


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