civil engineering MCQs – Page 97

Practise multiple-choice questions from civil engineering for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

civil engineering Mcqs
1921. The capacity of parallel runway pattern depends upon______________?
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A. weather conditions and navigational aids available

B. lateral spacing between two runways and weather conditions

C. lateral spacing between two runways, weather conditions and navigational aids available

D. lateral spacing between two runways and navigational aids available

1922. Which of the following does not represent an activity?
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A. the invitations are being sent

B. site located

C. the office area is being cleaned

D. foundation is being dug

1923. If N is the number of shafts used, then the total number of feces available for attacking the excavation and construction in tunnels are_________________________?
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A. 2 N + 2

B. 2 N + 1

C. N + 2

D. 2N

1924. When a uniformly distributed load, shorter than the span of the girder, moves from left to right, then the conditions for maximum bending moment at a section is that___________________?
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A. the head of the load reaches the section

B. the tail of the load reaches the section

C. the load position should be such that the section divides it equally on both sides

D. the load position should be such that the section divides the load in the same ratio as it divides the
1925. The object of providing a point lock is_________________?
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A. to detect any obstruction between and tongue rail

B. to ensure that the point may not be operated while the train is on it

C. none of the above

D. to ensure that each switch is correctly set
1926. Sleeper density in India is normally kept as___________________?
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A. M + 5toM+10

B. MtoM+2

C. M + 2 to M + 7

D. M

1927. American method of tunneling________________?
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A. ) requires heavy timbers </strong>

B. ect the correct answer?

C. is no, suitable for railway or highway tunnels

D. is suitable for large sized tunnels
1928. For which of the following materials, the output of power shovels for a fixed shovel size will be maximum_______________?
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A. Good common earth

B. Moist loam

C. Wet sticky clay

D. We|l blasted rock

1929. Tensile strength of steel used in rails should not be less than____________________?
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A. 450 MPa

B. 700 MPa

C. 850 MPa

D. 500 MPa

1930. Due to battering action of wheels over the end of the rails, the rails get bent down and are deflected at ends. These rails are called_________________?
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A. buckled rails

B. roaring rails

C. hogged rails

D. corrugated rails

1931. Vertical curves are provided where algebraic difference between grades is equal to or_________________?
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A. less than 2 mm/m

B. more than 2 mm/m

C. more than 4mm/m

D. less than 4 mm/m

1932. Muller Breslaus principle for obtaining influence lines is applicable to___________________?
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A. trusses

B. statically determinate beams and frames

C. ) statically indeterminate structures, the material of which is elastic and follows Hookes law

D. any statically indeterminate structure</strong>

1933. The anchorage value of standard U-type hook of a reinforcing bar of diameter d in tension, is______________?
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A. 4 d

B. 16 d

C. 12 d

D. 8d

1934. If in a rigid-jointed space frame, (6m + r) < 6j, then the frame is_______________?
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A. stable and statically determinate

B. unstable

C. stable and statically indeterminate

D. none of the above

1935. If the output of a dragline for 90 angle of swing at optimum depth of cut is X, then the output for 120 angle of swing at 120 % of optimum depth of cut will be_________________?
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A. less than X

B. more than X

C. equal to X

D. any of the above

1936. PERT is preferred for planning because of________________?
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A. sider the following features/factors

1937. An earth moving equipment costs Rs. 5,00,000/- and has an estimated life of 10 years and a salvage value of Rs. 50,000/-.What uniform annual amount must be set aside at the end of each of the 10 years for replacement if the interest rate is 8% per annum and if the sinking fund factor at 8% per annum interest rate for 10 years is 0.069 ?
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A. Rs. 34500

B. Rs. 50000

C. Rs. 37950

D. Rs. 31050
1938. Pick up the correct statement for the web stiffeners?
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A. all the above

B. for horizontal stiffeners, d is the clear distance between the horizontal stiffener and the tension flange

C. vertical stiffeners are spaced at a distance not greater than 1.5 d and not less than 0.33 d

D. d is the distance between flange angles or the clear distance between flanges

1939. The mortars used for masonry construction are classified based on strength in IS 2250 and IS 1905 according to their designations L1,L2, H1, H2, M, M2.
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A. correct sequence of increasing order of their strengths is?

1940. The item of steel work which is measured in sq.m, is_________________?
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A. All the above

B. Collapsible gates

C. Ventilators and glazing

D. Rolling shutters