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Question 1 of 335
1. Question
Rise of water table above the ground surface causes
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Question 2 of 335
2. Question
Terzaghi’s theory of one dimensional consolidation assumes
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Question 3 of 335
3. Question
If the material of the base of the Casagrande liquid limit device on which the cup containing soil paste drops is softer than the standard hard rubber, then
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Question 4 of 335
4. Question
A triaxial shear test is preferred to direct shear test, because
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Question 5 of 335
5. Question
The average coefficient of permeability of natural deposits
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Question 6 of 335
6. Question
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Question 7 of 335
7. Question
The shear strength of a soil
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Question 8 of 335
8. Question
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Question 9 of 335
9. Question
The major principal stress in an element of cohesion-less soil within the backfill of a retaining wall is
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Question 10 of 335
10. Question
A grillage foundation
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Question 11 of 335
11. Question
Effective stress on soil
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Question 12 of 335
12. Question
Hydrometer readings are corrected for:
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Question 13 of 335
13. Question
The ultimate consolidation settlement of a structure resting on a soil
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Question 14 of 335
14. Question
Select the incorrect statement.
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Question 15 of 335
15. Question
Factor of safety against sliding of a slope, is the ratio of
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Question 16 of 335
16. Question
The angle of internal friction, is least for
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Question 17 of 335
17. Question
Dispersed type of soil structure is an arrangement comprising particles having
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Question 18 of 335
18. Question
The neutral stress in a soil mass is
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Question 19 of 335
19. Question
The coefficient of compressibility of soil, is the ratio of
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Question 20 of 335
20. Question
A clay subjected to pressure in excess to its present over-burden, is said to be
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Question 21 of 335
21. Question
Physical properties of a permeant which influence permeability are
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Question 22 of 335
22. Question
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Question 23 of 335
23. Question
Rankine’s theory of active earth pressure assumes
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Question 24 of 335
24. Question
For testing a saturated clay for shear strength, the test recommended, is
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Question 25 of 335
25. Question
Coefficient of permeability of soil
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Question 26 of 335
26. Question
The ratio of volume of air voids to the volume of total voids, is known as
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Question 27 of 335
27. Question
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Question 28 of 335
28. Question
The triaxial apparatus is usually used for
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Question 29 of 335
29. Question
Which one of the following clays behaves like a dense sand?
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Question 30 of 335
30. Question
During seepage through a soil, direction of seepage is always
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Question 31 of 335
31. Question
The seepage force in a soil, is
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Question 32 of 335
32. Question
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Question 33 of 335
33. Question
Direct measurement of permeability of the specimen at any stage of loading can be made
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Question 34 of 335
34. Question
The property of a soil which allows it to be deformed rapidly without rupture, elastic rebound and also a volume change, is known
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Question 35 of 335
35. Question
Failure of the stability of slopes, generally occurs along
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Question 36 of 335
36. Question
The shearing force acting along the slice of a curved surface of slippage, causes the soil to slide
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Question 37 of 335
37. Question
With the increase in the amount of compaction energy
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Question 38 of 335
38. Question
Soils containing organic matters
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Question 39 of 335
39. Question
Buoyant unit weight equals the saturated density
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Question 40 of 335
40. Question
The change of moisture content of soils, changes the
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Question 41 of 335
41. Question
Skempton’s pore pressure coefficient B for saturated soil is
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Question 42 of 335
42. Question
The density of soil can be increased
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Question 43 of 335
43. Question
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Question 44 of 335
44. Question
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Question 45 of 335
45. Question
Shear strength of a soil is a unique function of
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Question 46 of 335
46. Question
260 g of wet soil was taken in a pycnometer jar of weight 400 g in order to find the moisture content in the soil, with specific gravity of soil particles 2.75. The weight of soil and remaining water filled in pycnometer without air bubbles was 1415 g and the weight of pycnometer filled with water alone was 1275 g. The moisture content in the soil is
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Question 47 of 335
47. Question
The method of the slices is applicable to
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Question 48 of 335
48. Question
The angle that Coulomb’s failure envelope makes with the horizontal is called
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Question 49 of 335
49. Question
A flow net may be utilised for the determination of
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Question 50 of 335
50. Question
The compression index of a soil
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Question 51 of 335
51. Question
If the coefficient of the active pressure K0 is 1/3, the coefficient of passive pressure Kp, is
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Question 52 of 335
52. Question
Sensitivity of a soil can be defined as
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Question 53 of 335
53. Question
The soil moisture driven off by heat, is called
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Question 54 of 335
54. Question
Plasticity index is defined as the range of water content between
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Question 55 of 335
55. Question
Bishop’s method of stability analysis
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Question 56 of 335
56. Question
You are given a sample of soil containing coarse grains to determine its water content, you will use
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Question 57 of 335
57. Question
Pick up the incorrect definition from the following:
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Question 58 of 335
58. Question
A 600 mm square bearing plate settles by 15 mm in plate load test on a cohesion-less soil under an intensity of loading of 0.2 N/ramz. The settlement of a prototype shallow footing 1 m square under the same intensity of loading is
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Question 59 of 335
59. Question
In active state of plastic equilibrium in a non cohesive soil with horizontal ground surface
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Question 60 of 335
60. Question
Residual soils are formed by
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Question 61 of 335
61. Question
A soil not fully consolidated under the existing over-burden pressure, is called
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Question 62 of 335
62. Question
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Question 63 of 335
63. Question
Select the correct statement.
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Question 64 of 335
64. Question
The bearing capacity of a soil depends upon
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Question 65 of 335
65. Question
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Question 66 of 335
66. Question
If the water content of a fully saturated soil mass is 100%, then the voids ratio of the sample is
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Question 67 of 335
67. Question
If water content of a soil is 40%, G is 2.70 and void ratio is 1.35, the degree of saturation is
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Question 68 of 335
68. Question
The angle of internal friction of clays, is usually
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Question 69 of 335
69. Question
Stoke’s law is valid only if the size of particle is
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Question 70 of 335
70. Question
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Question 71 of 335
71. Question
Pick up the correct statement applicable to plate load test
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Question 72 of 335
72. Question
Failure of a slope occurs only when total shear force is
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Question 73 of 335
73. Question
If the natural water content of soil mass lies between its liquid limit and plastic limit, the soil mass is said to be in
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Question 74 of 335
74. Question
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Question 75 of 335
75. Question
Negative skin friction on piles
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Question 76 of 335
76. Question
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Question 77 of 335
77. Question
The slip at critical angle, is generally known
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Question 78 of 335
78. Question
If a soil undergoes a change in shape and volume by application of external loads over it, but recovers its shape and volume immediately after removal of the load, the property of the soil is said to be
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Question 79 of 335
79. Question
The water content in a soil sample when it continues to loose weight without loosing the volume, is called
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Question 80 of 335
80. Question
Effective stress is
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Question 81 of 335
81. Question
The angle of internal friction is maximum for
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Question 82 of 335
82. Question
If the coefficients of volume change and compressibility of a soil sample are 6.75 x 10-2 and 3 x 10-2 respectively, the void ratio of the soil sample, is
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Question 83 of 335
83. Question
When a cohesionless soil attains quick condition, it looses
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Question 84 of 335
84. Question
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Question 85 of 335
85. Question
A direct shear test possesses the following disadvantage:
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Question 86 of 335
86. Question
A stratum of clay 2 m thick will get consolidated 80% in 10 years. For the 80% consolidation of 8 m thick stratum of the same clay, the time required is
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Question 87 of 335
87. Question
When the seepage pressure becomes equal to the pressure due to submerged weight of a soil, the effective pressure is reduced to zero and the soil particles have a tendency to move up in the direction of flow. This phenomenon is generally known
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Question 88 of 335
88. Question
The most suitable method for drainage of fine grained cohesive soils is
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Question 89 of 335
89. Question
Which one of the following statements is true for Mohr-Coulomb envelope?
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Question 90 of 335
90. Question
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
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Question 91 of 335
91. Question
Degree of consolidation is
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Question 92 of 335
92. Question
Terzaghi’s theory of one dimensional consolidation assumes
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Question 93 of 335
93. Question
The shear resistance of a soil is constituted basically of the following component.
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Question 94 of 335
94. Question
The consolidation time for soils
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Question 95 of 335
95. Question
Coefficient of compressibility is
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Question 96 of 335
96. Question
The ratio of the weight of water to the weight of solids in a given mass of soil, is known
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Question 97 of 335
97. Question
In a liquid limit test, the moisture content at 10 blows was 70% and that at 100 blows was 20%. The liquid limit of the soil, is
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Question 98 of 335
98. Question
In a purely cohesive soil, the critical centre lies at the intersection of
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Question 99 of 335
99. Question
Select the incorrect statement.
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Question 100 of 335
100. Question
The quantity of seepage of water through soils is proportional to
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Question 101 of 335
101. Question
A cylindrical specimen of saturated soil failed under an axial vertical stress of 100kN/mz when it was laterally unconfmed. The failure plane was inclined to the horizontal plane at an angle of 45°. The values of cohesion and angle of internal friction for the soil are respectively
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Question 102 of 335
102. Question
The pressure that builds up in pore water due to load increment on the soil, is termed
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Question 103 of 335
103. Question
The critical exist gradient of seepage water in soils, increases with
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Question 104 of 335
104. Question
Rankine’s theory of earth pressure assumes that the back of the wall is
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Question 105 of 335
105. Question
The Mohr’s straight theory is based on the following fact:
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Question 106 of 335
106. Question
According to Coulomb’s wedge theory, the active earth pressure slides the wedge
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Question 107 of 335
107. Question
Pile foundations are generally preferred to for
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Question 108 of 335
108. Question
The rise of water table below the foundation influences the bearing capacity of soil mainly by reducing
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Question 109 of 335
109. Question
A soil mass is said to be in plastic equilibrium if
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Question 110 of 335
110. Question
Stoke’s law states that the velocity at which a grain settles out of suspension, the other factors remaining constant, is dependent upon
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Question 111 of 335
111. Question
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Question 112 of 335
112. Question
Contact pressure beneath a rigid footing resting on cohesive soil is
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Question 113 of 335
113. Question
The plasticity of fine soils may be assessed by means of
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Question 114 of 335
114. Question
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Question 115 of 335
115. Question
For general engineering purposes, soils are classified by
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Question 116 of 335
116. Question
Water content of soil can
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Question 117 of 335
117. Question
Through a point in a loaded soil mass, there exists V typical planes mutually orthogonal on which the stress is wholly normal and no shear stress acts, if V is
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Question 118 of 335
118. Question
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Question 119 of 335
119. Question
The phreatic line in an earth dam may be
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Question 120 of 335
120. Question
If the voids of a soil mass are full of air only, the soil is termed as
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Question 121 of 335
121. Question
On wetting, cohesive soils,
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Question 122 of 335
122. Question
Pick up the correct statement from the following:
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Question 123 of 335
123. Question
A soil sample of mass specific gravity 1.92 has moisture content 30%. If the specific gravity of solids is 2.75, the degree of saturation, is
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Question 124 of 335
124. Question
A soil sample of mass specific gravity 1.92 has moisture content 30%. If the specific gravity of solids is 2.75, the void ratio, is
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Question 125 of 335
125. Question
In a flow net
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Question 126 of 335
126. Question
Which of the following methods is most accurate for the determination of the water content of soil?
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Question 127 of 335
127. Question
The reduction in volume of soil due to squeezing out of water from the voids, is termed
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Question 128 of 335
128. Question
Which of the following statements is correct?
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Question 129 of 335
129. Question
Talus’ is the soil transported by
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Question 130 of 335
130. Question
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Question 131 of 335
131. Question
The water content of soil, which represents the boundary between plastic state and liquid state, is known as
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Question 132 of 335
132. Question
The specific gravity of Calcite is
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Question 133 of 335
133. Question
The direct shear test suffers from the following disadvantage:
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Question 134 of 335
134. Question
The clay mineral with the largest swelling and shrinkage characteristics is
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Question 135 of 335
135. Question
The length/diameter ratio of cylindrical specimens used in triaxial test, is generally
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Question 136 of 335
136. Question
The maximum load carried by a pile, when it continues to sink without further increase of load, is known as
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Question 137 of 335
137. Question
The seepage exit gradient in a soil is the ratio of
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Question 138 of 335
138. Question
Which of the following methods is more suitable for the determination of permeability of clayey soil?
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Question 139 of 335
139. Question
The ratio of the difference between the void ratio of the soil in its loosest state and its natural void ratio (e) to the difference between the void ratios in the loosest and fully dense state, is generally termed as
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Question 140 of 335
140. Question
For determining the ultimate bearing capacity of soil, the recommended size of a square bearing plate to be used in load plate test should be 30 to 75 cm square with a minimum thickness of
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Question 141 of 335
141. Question
Within the consolidation process of a saturated clay
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Question 142 of 335
142. Question
An unsaturated 100 cm3 sample of soil weighs 190 g. If its dried weight is 160 g, water content of the soil, is
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Question 143 of 335
143. Question
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Question 144 of 335
144. Question
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Question 145 of 335
145. Question
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Question 146 of 335
146. Question
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Question 147 of 335
147. Question
Compression of soil occurs rapidly if voids are filled with
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Question 148 of 335
148. Question
For better strength and stability, the fine grained soils and coarse grained soils are compacted respectively as
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Question 149 of 335
149. Question
Chemical weathering of soil is caused due to
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Question 150 of 335
150. Question
Terzaghi’s analysis assumes:
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Question 151 of 335
151. Question
According to IS : 2720 – 1965, the composition of a dispersing solution used in pipette analysis for determining the size of particles, is
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Question 152 of 335
152. Question
If the shearing stress is zero on two planes, then the angle between the two planes is
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Question 153 of 335
153. Question
The ultimate bearing capacity of a soil, is
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Question 154 of 335
154. Question
The minimum depth of building foundations on
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Question 155 of 335
155. Question
The effect of cohesion on a soil is to
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Question 156 of 335
156. Question
If voids ratio is 0.67, water content is 0.188 and specific gravity is 2.68, the degree of saturation of the soil, is
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Question 157 of 335
157. Question
Pick up the incorrect statement from the following:
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Question 158 of 335
158. Question
A soil mass coated with a thin layer of paraffin weighs 460 g. When immersed, it displaces 299 cc of water. The weight of paraffin is 10 g. If specific gravity of solids is 2.5 and that of paraffin 0.9, the void ratio of soil, is
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Question 159 of 335
159. Question
Select the incorrect statement.
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Question 160 of 335
160. Question
The ratio of emax and emin of silty sand, is
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Question 161 of 335
161. Question
Over-consolidation of soils is caused due to
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Question 162 of 335
162. Question
The consistency index of a soil is defined as the ratio of
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Question 163 of 335
163. Question
Which of the following types of soil is transported by gravitational forces?
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Question 164 of 335
164. Question
Soil classification of composite soils, exclusively based on the particle size distribution, is known
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Question 165 of 335
165. Question
When the degree of saturation is zero, the soil mass under consideration represents
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Question 166 of 335
166. Question
Pick up the cohesive soil from the following:
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Question 167 of 335
167. Question
For proper field control, which of the following methods is best suited for quick determination of water content of a soil mass?
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Question 168 of 335
168. Question
The internal molecular attraction of a soil, the cohesion
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Question 169 of 335
169. Question
Which of the following is a measure of particle size range?