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  • A person standing on the bank of a canal drops a stone on the water surface. He notices that the disturbance on the water surface in not travelling upstream. This is because the flow in the canal is


  • Options
  • A. sub-critical
  • B. super-critical
  • C. steady
  • D. uniform

  • Correct Answer
  • super-critical 

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    • 1. As per IS : 800-1984 the maximum allowable slenderness ratio of compression members carrying forces resulting from dead load and superimposed load is

    • Options
    • A. 180
    • B. 250
    • C. 300
    • D. 400
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    • 2. Transition curves are provided on the approach to horizontal curves in order to :

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    • A. increase jerk to allowable levels
    • B. minimize the length of the horizontal curve
    • C. simplify the laying-out and construction of the horizontal curve
    • D. reduce jerk to allowable levels
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    • 3. The return period for the annual maximum flood of a given magnitude is 8 years. The probability that this flood magnitude will be exceeded once during the next 5 years is

    • Options
    • A. 0.625
    • B. 0.966
    • C. 0.487
    • D. 0.529
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    • 4. The ultimate bearing capacity of a soil is 300 kN/m2. The depth of foundation is 1 m and unit weight of soil is 20 kN/m3. Choosing a factor of safety of 2.5, the net safe bearing cacpacity is

    • Options
    • A. 100 kN/m2
    • B. 112 kN/m2
    • C. 800 kN/m2
    • D. 100.5 kN/m2
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    • 5. The deflection of a cantilever beam at free end b applied with a moment M at the same point is :

    • Options
    • A. M l2/EI
    • B. M l2/2 EI
    • C. M l2/3 EI
    • D. M l2/4 EI
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    • 6. Water flows at a rate of 10 m3/s in a rectangular channel 3 m wide. The critical depth of flow is

    • Options
    • A. 1.13 m
    • B. 2 m
    • C. 1.45 m
    • D. 1.04 m
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    • 7. A borrow pit soil has a dry density of 17 kN/m3. How many cubic meters of this soil will be required to construct an embankment of 100 m3 volume with a dry density of 16 kN/m3.

    • Options
    • A. 94 m3
    • B. 106 m3
    • C. 100 m3
    • D. 90 m3
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    • 8. The function of ballast in railaway tracks is to

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    • A. facilitate drainage
    • B. serve as an elastic support for the track structure
    • C. provide the necessary resilience against the dynamic effect of the loads
    • D. all the above
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    • 9. A soil formation through which only seepage is possible, being partly permeable and capable of giving insignificant yield, is classified as

    • Options
    • A. Aquifer
    • B. Aquitard
    • C. Aquifuge
    • D. Aquiclude
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    • 10. Horizontal stiffness coefficient, K11 of bar ab is given by :

    • Options
    • A. A E/l 2
    • B. A E/2 1
    • C. A E/l
    • D. 2 A E/l
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