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  1. The design of heel slab of a retaining wall is based on the maximum bending moment due to:

  2. A.

     Its own weight

    B.

     Weight of the soil above it

    C.

     Load of the surcharge, if any

    D.

     All the above


  3. A pile of length ‘L’ carrying a uniformly distributed load ‘W’ per metre length is suspended at the centre and from other two points 0.15 L from either end ; the maximum hogging moment will be

  4. A.

     WL²/15

    B.

     WL²/30

    C.

     WL²/60

    D.

     WL²/90


  5. Steel bars are generally connected together to get greater length than the standard length by providing

  6. A.

     Straight bar splice

    B.

     Hooked splice

    C.

     Dowel splice

    D.

     All the above


  7. If Ac, Asc and A are areas of concrete, longitudinal steel and section of a R.C.C. column and m and σc are the modular ratio and maximum stress in the configuration of concrete, the strength of column is

  8. A.

     σcAc + m σcAsc

    B.

     σc(A - Asc) + m σcAsc

    C.

     σc[A + (m - 1)Asc]

    D.

     All the above


  9. If the permissible compressive and tensile stresses in a singly reinforced beam are 50 kg/cm² and 1400 kg/cm² respectively and the modular ratio is 18, the percentage area At of the steel required for an economic section, is

  10. A.

     0.496 %

    B.

     0.596 %

    C.

     0.696 %

    D.

     0.796 %


  11. The maximum ratio of span to depth of a cantilever slab, is

  12. A.

     8

    B.

     10

    C.

     12

    D.

     16


  13. An R.C.C. column is treated as long if its slenderness ratio is greater than

  14. A.

     30

    B.

     35

    C.

     40

    D.

     50


  15. The ratio of the breadth to effective depth of a beam is kept

  16. A.

     0.25

    B.

     0.50

    C.

     0.70

    D.

     0.75


  17. If the length of a combined footing for two columns l meters apart is L and the projection on the left side of the exterior column is x, then the projection y on the right side of the exterior column, in order to have a uniformly distributed load, is (where x̅ is the distance of centre of gravity of column loads).

  18. A.

     y = L - (l - x̅)

    B.

     y = L/2 + (l - x̅)

    C.

     y = L/2 - (l + x̅)

    D.

     y = L/2 - (l - x̅)


  19. If p1 is the vertical intensity of pressure at a depth h on a block of earth weighing w per unit volume and the angle of repose φ, the lateral intensity of pressure p2 is

  20. A.

     wh (1 - cos φ)/(1 + sin φ)

    B.

     wh (1 - sin φ)/(1 + sin φ)

    C.

     wh (1 - tan φ)/(1 + tan φ)

    D.

     w (1 - cos φ)/h (1 + sin φ)