A vertical wall is subjected to a pressure due to one kind of liquid, on one of its sides. The total pressure on the wall acts at a distance from the liquid surface.

A vertical wall is subjected to a pressure due to one kind of liquid, on one of its sides. Which of the following statement is correct?

A very comfortable type of stairs is

A vessel of 4 m3 contains oil which weighs 30 kN. The specific weight of the oil is

A volatile substance added to a paint to make its application easy and smooth, is known as

A wall constructed to resist the pressure of an earth filling, is called

A wall constructed with stones to protect slopes of cuttings in natural ground from the action of weathering agents, is called

A water channel supported above the ground over trestles, is generally called

A water tank contains 1.3 m deep water. The pressure exerted by the water per metre length of the tank is

A water-logged land is found suitable for cultivation due to

A web plate is called unstiffened if the ratio of clear depth to thickness is less than

A weir is said to be broad crested weir, if the width of the crest of the weir is half the height of water above the weir crest.

A weir is said to be narrow-crested weir, if the width of the crest of the weir is half the height of water above the weir crest.

A weir, generally, used as a spillway of a dam is

A welded rail joint is generally

A well conditioned triangle has no angle less than

A well is considered to be good if it is sunk into

A well oxidized sewage contains nitrogen mainly as

A well seasoned timber may contain moisture up to

A wheeled tractor hauling unit is working on firm earth. The total loaded weight distribution of this unit is:
Drive wheels: 25000 kg Scraper wheels: 10000 kg
If the coefficient of traction for wheeled tractor on firm earth is 0.5, the rimpull which this tractor can exert without slipping is

A wing rail is renewed or reconditioned if its maximum vertical wear is

A wooden block fixed on back side of a door frame on its post, is known as

A wooden block hinged on post outside a door, is known

ABCD is a rectangular plot of land. If the bearing of the side AB is 75°, the bearing of DC is

Abyssinian tube well is a special type of

Accidental errors

According to Bernoulli’s equation for steady ideal fluid flow

According to Bligh’s creep theory, percolating water flows along

According to Coulomb’s wedge theory, the active earth pressure slides the wedge

According to G.W. Pickles the effect of confining the flood water of a river between levee, is to increase

According to Godrich the ratio of peak demand rate to mean demand is

According to Highway Research Board of U.S.A. practical land width, is

According to I.C.A.O. all markings on the runways are painted white and on taxiways

According to I.C.A.O. the recommended length of air ports is decided on

According to I.C.A.O. the slope of transitional surface at right angles to the centre line of runway,
is kept

According to I.S. : 456 specifications, the safe diagonal tensile stress for M 150 grade concrete, is

According to I.S. : 456, slabs which span in two directions with corners held down, are assumed to
be divided in each direction into middle strips and edge strips such that the width of the middle
strip, is

According to I.S. : 456, the number of grades of concrete mixes, is

According to I.S.: 456, 1978 the thickness of reinforced concrete footing on piles at its edges, is kept less than

According to I.S.: 456, 1978 the thickness of reinforced concrete footing on piles at its edges, is
kept less than

According to I.S.: 800 – 1871, lacing bars resist transverse shear equal to

According to ICAO, all markings on the runways are

According to Indian Railway Board, no diamond crossing should be flatter than

According to Indian Road Congress, the width of carriageway, is

According to IRC : 52-1973, for a single lane National Highway in hilly region,

According to IS : 1172-1963, a minimum of 135 litres of water capita per day, is required for

According to IS : 2720 – 1965, the composition of a dispersing solution used in pipette analysis for determining the size of particles, is

According to IS : 382-1963, a good aggregate should be

According to IS : 800 – 71, the minimum thickness of a vertically stiffened web plate, shall not be less than

According to IS : 800-1962 the permissible bending stress in steel slab plates, is

According to IS 399-1963, the weight of the timber is specified at

According to IS classification, the range of silt size particles is

According to IS specifications, the compressive strength of ordinary Portland cement after three
days should not be less than

According to IS Specifications, the effective length of a column effectively held in position at both ends and restrained in direction at one end is taken as

According to IS Specifications, the maximum pitch of rivets in compression is
Where t is thickness of thinnest outside plate or angle

According to IS: 4561978, minimum slenderness ratio for a short column is

According to IS: 4561978, the column or the strut is the member whose effective length is greater
than

According to IS: 4561978, the flexural strength of concrete is

According to IS: 4561978, the maximum reinforcement in a column is

According to IS: 800, in the Merchant Rankine formula the value of imperfection index (n) is

According to IS: 800-1962, the coefficient of expansion of steel per degree centigrade per unit length, is taken as

According to ISI method of measurement, the order of the sequence is

According to ISI recommendations, the maximum depth of stress block for balanced section of a
beam of effective depth d is

According to ISI, bitumen is classified into

According to Kennedy, the critical velocity (V0) in metres in a channel is the mean velocity which keeps the channel free from silting or scouring. Its value is given by (where m is critical velocity ratio and D is the depth of the channel).

According to Kennedy’s theorem, if three bodies have plane motions, their instantaneous centres lie on

According to Khosla, the exits gradient of surface flow

According to Lacey, depth of scour in a river depends upon the straightness of the reach. If D is the depth of scour in regime flow in a right angled bend, it is

According to Lacey, in regime conditions

According to Law of Triangle of Forces

According to load tactor method, the permissible load ‘W’ on a short reinforved with longitudinal bars and lateral stirrups, is

According to Napier’s Rules of circular parts for a right angled triangle, sine of middle part equals the product of

According to National Building Code, the hydrants in water mains is provided at minimum interval of

According to Newton’s law of viscosity, the shear stress on a layer of a fluid is rate of shear strain.

According to Rankine’s formula, minimum depth of foundations, is

According to the Indian Standards the specific gravity is the ratio of the unit weight of soil solids to that of water at a temperature of

According to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (I.C.A.O.) the strength of runway pavements, have been coded by

According to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (I.C.A.O.), the runway lengths of aerodromes, have been coded by

According to the principle of buoyancy a body totally or partially immersed in a fluid will be lifted up by a force equal to

According to the recommendations of International Navigational Congress in 1912, the ratio of length to width at the entrance for cargo vessels is

According to the recommendations of International Navigational Congress in 1912, the ratio of length to width at the entrance for passenger vessels is:

According to the recommendations of IS : 456-1978, the expansion joints

According to the recommendations of Nagpur Conference, the width formation of an ideal National Highway in hard rock cutting, is

According to the Snell’s law if an electromagnetic wave is incident in a medium (refractive index n1) on another medium (refractive index m2);

According to the steel beam theory of doubly reinforced beams

According to the Unwin’s formula, if V is thickness of the plate in mm, the nominal diameter of the rivet, is

According to Water-Cement Ratio Law, the strength of workable plastic concrete

According to Whitney’s theory, depth of stress block for a balanced section of a concrete beam is
limited to Where d is effective depth of beam

According to Whitney’s theory, ultimate strain of concrete is assumed to be

Accuracy of ‘fix’ by two point problem, is

Accurate determination of water content, is made by

Accurate measurement of deflection angles with a transit not properly adjusted may be made by

Acid regression stage of sludge digestion at a temperature 21°C extends over a period of

Acidity in water is caused due to

Acrylic is the name of

Acrylic sheets

Activated carbon is used for

Addition of pozzolana to cement

Addition of pozzolana to cement causes

Addition of pozzolana to ordinary port land cement, causes