Civil Engineering :: Docks and Harbours
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According to the recommendations of International Navigational Congress in 1912, the ratio of length to width at the entrance for cargo vessels is
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Pick up the correct statement from the following:
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Buoys which support the cables to which vessels are attached are of
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The beach is built:
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Flow of air from one place to the other is caused due to
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Pick up the correct statement from the following:
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Pick up the correct statement from the following:
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A low wall built out into the sea more or less perpendicular to the coast line, to resist the travel of sand and shingle along a beach, is calledbreak water
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At a place the shore line is along North West-South East. The wind is blowing from the north. The littoral drift will be along
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If F is the fetch, the straight line distance of open water available in kilometres, the height of the wave in metres is
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A.
An artificial barrier which makes the enclosed area safe for anchorage of ships, is known as break water |
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B.
The break water whose inside is used as a plateform for loading and unloading is called a mole |
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C.
The length of the quay wall is governed by the length of the largest vessel likely to be berthed |
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D.
All the above. |
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The direction of the littoral drift depends upon the direction of the wave with respect to the coastline |
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B.
The direction of a river opening to the sea determines the direction of no littoral drift |
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C.
Harbour in the path of littoral drift is not constructed to avoid a build up of sand on one side and erosion on the other |
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D.
all of the above. |