Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering problems
- 1. In active state of plastic equilibrium in a non cohesive soil with horizontal ground surface
Options- A. major principal stress is horizontal
- B. minor principal stress is vertical
- C. major principal stress is vertical
- D. minor and major principal stresses are equally inclined to horizontal. Discuss
Correct Answer: major principal stress is vertical
- 2. If drainage is permitted throughout the test, during the application of both normal, and shear stresses so that full consolidation occurs and no excess pore pressure is set up at any stage of the test, is known as
Options- A. quick test
- B. drained test
- C. consolidated undrained test
- D. none of these. Discuss
Correct Answer: drained test
- 3. A saturated soil sample has water content of 40% and specific gravity of soil particles 2.7. The void ratio of the soil, is
Options- A. 0.4
- B. 0.52
- C. 1.08
- D. none of these. Discuss
Correct Answer: 1.08
- 4. The inventor of the term soil mechanics, was
Options- A. Kray
- B. Dr. Karl Terzaghi
- C. Leygue
- D. Fellenius. Discuss
Correct Answer: Dr. Karl Terzaghi
- 5. The phreatic line in an earth dam may be
Options- A. circular
- B. elliptical
- C. parabolic
- D. a straight line
- E. all the above. Discuss
Correct Answer: parabolic
- 6. The total weight of a pycnometer with water and oven dried soil 20 (g) is 1600 g. The pycnometer filled with water alone weighs 1500 g. The specific gravity of the soil, is
Options- A. 1.0
- B. 1.5
- C. 2.0
- D. 2.5 Discuss
Correct Answer: 2.0
- 7. In a purely cohesive soil, the critical centre lies at the intersection of
Options- A. perpendicular bisector of slope and the locus of the centre
- B. perpendicular drawn at l/3rd slope from toe and the locus of the centre
- C. perpendicular drawn at 2/3rd slope from toe and the locus of the centre
- D. directional angles
- E. none of these. Discuss
Correct Answer: directional angles
- 8. The ratio of the volume of water present in a given soil mass to the total volume of its voids, is known
Options- A. porosity
- B. void ratio
- C. percentage voids
- D. degree of saturation. Discuss
Correct Answer: degree of saturation.
- 9. The angle of internal friction, is least for
Options- A. angular-grained loose sand
- B. angular -grained dense sand
- C. round-grained loose sand
- D. round-grained loose sand
- E. clays. Discuss
Correct Answer: clays.
- 10. The reduction in volume of soil due to squeezing out of water from the voids, is termed
Options- A. primary consolidation
- B. primary compression
- C. primary time effect
- D. all the above. Discuss
Correct Answer: all the above.
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