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  • Cohesion in soil


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  • A. decreases active pressure and increases passive resistance
  • B. decreases both active pressure and passive resistance
  • C. increases the active pressure and decreases the passive resistance
  • D. increases both active pressure and passive resistance.

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  • increases both active pressure and passive resistance. 

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    • 1. Permissible bending tensile stress in high yield strength deformed bars of grade 415 N/mm2 in a beam is :

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    • A. 190 N/mm2
    • B. 230 N/mm2
    • C. 140 N/mm2
    • D. None of the above
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    • 2. The maximum tensile stress at the section X-X shown in the figure below is

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    • 3. A cantilever beam of span 'L' is loaded with a concentrated load 'P' at the free end. Deflection of the beam at the free end is

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    • 4. In using the data from a plate bearing test for determining the modulus of subgrade reaction, the value of settlement to be used is :

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    • A. 1.25 mm
    • B. 2.50 mm
    • C. 3.75 mm
    • D. 1.75 mm
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    • 5. The value of bearing capacity factor for cohesion, Nc, for piles as per Meyerhof, is taken as :

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    • A. 6.2
    • B. 12.0
    • C. 9.0
    • D. 5.14
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    • 6. The strain energy stored in member AB of the pin-jointed truss shown in the below figure, when E and A are same for all members, is

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    • A. 2P2L/AE
    • B. P2L/AE
    • C. P2L/2AE
    • D. Zero
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    • 7. Mud pumping is commonly associated with

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    • A. bituminous penetration mecadam construction
    • B. cement concrete pavement on granular subgrade
    • C. premixed bituminous construction
    • D. cement concrete pavement on clay sub-grade
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    • 8. The total thickness of pavement by CBR method depends on the CBR value of

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    • A. base course
    • B. surface course
    • C. subgrade
    • D. all layers
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    • 9. If an ascending gradient of 1 in 50 meets another ascending gradient of 1 in 30 then the deviation angle is :

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    • 10. A continuous beam is loaded as shown in the figure below. Assuming a plastic moment capacity equal to MP, the minimum load at which the beam would collapse is

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