The stem of a cantilever retaining wall which retains earth level with top is 6

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The stem of a cantilever retaining wall which retains earth level with top is 6 m. If the angle of repose and weight of the soil per cubic metre are 30� and 2000 kg respectively, the effective width of the stem at the bottom, is
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A. 51.5
B. 52.5
C. 53.5
D. 54.5
E. 55.5

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53.5

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2. If C is creep coefficient, f is original prestress in concrete, m is modular ratio, E is Young's modulus of steel and e is shrinkage strain, the combined effect of creep and shrinkage is:
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A. (1 - C)mf - eE
B. (C - 1)mf + eE
C. (C - 1)mf - eE
D. (1 - C)mf + eE

3. The system in which high tensile alloy steel bars (silica manganese steel) are used as prestressing tendons, is known as
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A. Freyssinet system
B. Magnel-Blaton system
C. C.C.L. standard system
D. Lee-McCall system.

5. The spacing of transverse reinforcement of column is decided by the following consideration.
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A. The least lateral dimension of the column
B. Sixteen times the diameter of the smallest longitudinal reinforcing rods in the column
C. Forty-eight times the diameter of transverse reinforcement
D. All the above.

6. In testing a pile by load test, pile platform is loaded with one and half times the design load and a maximum settlement is noted. The load is gradually removed and the consequent rebound is measured. For a safe pile, the net settlement (i.e. total settlement minus rebound) per tonne of test load should not exceed
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A. 10 mm
B. 15 mm
C. 20 mm
D. 25 mm
E. 30 mm

7. If the loading on a prestressed rectangular beam, is uniformly distributed, the tendon to be provided should be .
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A. straight below centroidal axis
B. parabolic with convexity downward
C. parabolic with convexity upward
D. straight above centroidal axis
E. none of these.

8. If the length of a wall on either side of a lintel opening is at least half of its effective span L, the load W carried by the lintel is equivalent to the weight of brickwork contained in an equilateral triangle, producing a maximum bending moment
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