MCQ
21. The walls which are necessary on the hill side of roadway where earth has to retained from slipping is knows as:
Retaining wall
Breast wall
Parapet wall
None of these
22. The arrangement made to support an unsafe structure temporarily as:
Shoring
Scaffolding
Underpinning
Jacking
23. The main ingredients of Portland Cement are:
Lime and Silica
Lime and alumina
Lime and iron
Silica and alumina
24. A pipe conveying sewage from plumbing system of a single building to common sewer is called:
house sewer
lateral sewer
main sewer
submain sewer
25. Water content of soil can:
never be greater than 100%
be less than 50%
from 0 to 100%
be greater than 100%
26. A simply supported beam of span 'L' carries a uniformly distributed load 'w'. The maximum moment 'M' is:
WL/2
WL/8
WL/4
WL/16
27. Disinfection of water results in-
Removal of turbidity
Removal of hardness
Killing of disease bacteria
Removal of taste
28. Plane and geodetic surveying are classification of surveying based on:
Methodology
Earth's curvature
Ojbect of survey
Instrument
29. The moment at a hinge will be:
Infinity
Zero
Depends upon acting force
None of these
30. The bending moment of cantilever beam shown below figure at 'A' is:
Zero
8 T-m
16 T-m
14 T-m
31. Uniformity coefficieny of a soil is:
equal to or greater than 1
equal to 1
equal to or less than 1
none of these
32. The piece of a brick cut with its one corner equivalent to half the length and half the width of a full brick is known as:
Queen closer
Bevelled closer
King closer
Half-king closer
33. Which one of the following is used for preparing porcelain?
Clay
Quartz
Feldspar
All of these
34. The ratio of specific weight of a liquid to the specific weight of pure water at a standard temperature is called-
Density of liquid
Specific gravity of liquid
Compressibility of liquid
Surface tension of liquid
35. Penetration test on bitumen is used to determine its:
Grade
Viscosity
Ductility
All of these
36. Dead load comprise of:
Permanently attached loads
Temporarily attached loads
Permanent as well as temporary loads
All the above
37. The ultimate tensile strength of 400 grade structural mild steel is about:
160 N/mm²
260 N/mm²
420 N/mm²
520 N/mm²
38. Vertical construction joints are provided where the shearing forces are minimum in the case of the-
Slabs
Girder
Beams
All of these
39. The proportion of lime and sand in the mortar normally used in brick constructions are:
1:2
1:6
1:4
1:8
40. In a pre-stressed member, it is advisable to use:
Low strength concrete only.
High strength concrete only.
Low strength concrete but high tensile steel.
High strength concrete and high tensile steel.