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  • The function of ballast in railaway tracks is to


  • Options
  • 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

  • Correct Answer
  • all the above 


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    • 1. 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.

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    • A. 94 m3
    • B. 106 m3
    • C. 100 m3
    • D. 90 m3
    • Discuss
    • 2. Water flows at a rate of 10 m3/s in a rectangular channel 3 m wide. The critical depth of flow is

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    • A. 1.13 m
    • B. 2 m
    • C. 1.45 m
    • D. 1.04 m
    • Discuss
    • 3. 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

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    • A. sub-critical
    • B. super-critical
    • C. steady
    • D. uniform
    • Discuss
    • 4. As per IS : 800-1984 the maximum allowable slenderness ratio of compression members carrying forces resulting from dead load and superimposed load is

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    • A. 180
    • B. 250
    • C. 300
    • D. 400
    • Discuss
    • 5. 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
    • Discuss
    • 6. A soil formation through which only seepage is possible, being partly permeable and capable of giving insignificant yield, is classified as

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

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    • A. A E/l 2
    • B. A E/2 1
    • C. A E/l
    • D. 2 A E/l
    • Discuss
    • 8. The flow of water (mass density = 1000 kg/m3 and kinematic viscosity = 10-6 m2/s) in a commercial pipe, having equivalent roughness ks as 0.12 mm, yields an average shear stress at the pipe boundary = 600 N/m2. The value of ks/?' (?' being the thickness of laminar sub-layer) for this pipe is

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    • A. 0.25
    • B. 0.50
    • C. 6.0
    • D. 8.0
    • Discuss
    • 9. Coagulation-flocculation with alum is performed :

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    • A. immediately before chlorination
    • B. immediately after chlorination
    • C. after rapid sand filtration
    • D. before rapid sand filtration
    • Discuss
    • 10. Pipingin soil occurs when

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    • A. the soil is highly porous
    • B. sudden change in permeability occurs
    • C. effective pressure becomes zero
    • D. the soil is highly stratified
    • Discuss


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