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Bearing capacity should be calculated from the criteria of
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C. both settlement and shear
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Floating foundation is a type of
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D. Raft foundation
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A shallow foundation is a foundation that
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B. has a depth of embedment less than its width
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Diameter of a circular footing is 3m and side of a square footing is 3m.Both the footings are in the same soil(c-Ø) at same depth. The ultimate bearing capacity of circular footing is
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A. less than square footing
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The energy stored in a material within elastic limit when it is under strain is called
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C. resilience
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The property of a material enabling it to resist deformation under stress is called
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B. stiffness
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The rate of change of bending moment is equal to
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A. shear force
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The point in a beam where the shear force changes sign is called the point of
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A. maximum BM
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For a simply supported beam ,carrying a uniformly distributed load ,the shape of the bending moment diagram will be,
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B. parabolic
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A cantilever beam of length L,cross-section A is subjected to a total uniformly distributed Load of W and a concentrated load W1 at a distance L1 from free end will have maximum moment of
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D. (WL/2)+ W1 (L-L1 )
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Out of the following mild steel section ,the most economical section is
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A. I section
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The shear stress on the principal plane is
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C. zero
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If the number of members provided is more than the requirement,then the frame will be classified as
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B. redundant frame
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The most suitable reason to adopt hollow circular section in place of solid circular shaft Is
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B. more strength for same weight per unit length
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The back sight reading on a BM(200m) was 2.650m.If the inverted staff reading to the bottom of a cantilever porch slab is 0.350m,the RL of the bottom of the slab is
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B. 203.000
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A survey in which horizontal and vertical locations are fixed by linear and angular measurements is known as
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D. Topographical survey
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The survey in which the curvature of earth is ignored is called
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A. Plane survey
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As per Indian Standard ,the length of one link in 30m chain should be
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A. 0.20m
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The error in measured length due to sag of chain or tape is known as
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A. positive error
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The base line is measured with
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D. Chain
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If the fore bearing of a line AB is observed to be 12°24’ ,the back bearing of line AB should be
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D. 192°24’
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At magnetic poles, the dip of magnetic needle is
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C. 90 degree
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In levelling the error due to refraction is
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C. compensating
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Closed contours with higher values inside represents
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B. Hill
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When the bubble of the level tube of a level is central
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A. line of sight is horizontal
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