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Age of a tree may be ascertained by
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A pug mill is used for
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The foundation in which a cantilever beam is provided to join two footings is called
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A covering of concrete placed on the exposed top of an external wall is known as
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The vertical members fixed between steps and handrail in a staircase is known as
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The under surface of an arch is called
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The vertical sides of a door and window openings provided in a wall are known as
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The least count of a vernier scale is
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The bearing of line XY is $$195^\circ$$and that of line ZY is $$255^\circ 45’$$. The included angle XYZ is
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An imaginary line joining the points of equal elevation on the surface of the earth represents
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If the whole circle bearing of a line is $$145^\circ,$$ its reduced bearing is
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The representative fraction 1/1800 means that the scale is
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The true meridian of a place is the line in which earth’s surface is intersected by a plane through
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Removal of parallax in a Theodolite can be achieved by focusing
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The proportion of second moment of area about the centroidal axis to second moment of area about the base of a rectangle will be
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Centre of gravity of a thin hollow cone lies on the axis of symmetry at a height of
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The angle of friction is
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The path traced by a projectile in the sky is
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Periodic time of a particle moving with simple harmonic motion is the time taken by the particle for
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When a body moves around a fixed axis it has
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If $$g_1$$ and $$g_2$$ are the gravitational acceleration on two mountains A and B respectively, then the weight of body when transported from A to B will be multiplied by
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The two forces of 9 Newtons and 12 Newtons which are acting at right angles to each other will have a resultant of
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The distance between the centres of adjacent rivets in the same row is called
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Along the principal plane subjected to maximum principal stresses
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The bending moment is maximum on a section of a beam where shearing force
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The shear force on a simply supported beam is proportional to
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Struts are the load carrying members of a frame which are subjected to
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When a body is elastically stretched, the value of Poisson’s ratio always remains
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Fluids undergo volume change under external pressure due to
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A trapezoidal channel has a bottom width of 6m and side slope of 1:1. The depth of flow is 1.5 m at a discharge of 15 cum/sec. The hydraulic radius and hydraulic average depth of flow respectively are
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The unit of kinematic viscosity is
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A floating body attains stable equilibrium if its metacentre is
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The equation of continuity of flow is based on the principle of conservation of
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Weber number is the ratio of inertia force to
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Water contains
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If 2% solution of a sewage sample is incubated for 5 days at 20 degrees and depletion of oxygen was found to be 5 ppm, BOD of the sewage is
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In a sludge digestion tank, the gas that mainly evolves is
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The per capita demand of water is calculated in litres
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Zero hardness of water can be achieved by
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Surge tanks are provided
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The ratio of volume of water present in a given soil mass to the total volume of its voids is known as
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The consistency index of soil is defined as the ratio of
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The angle of internal friction is least for
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Failure of slopes occurs only when total shear force is
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The compression resulting from a long term static load and consequent escape of pore water is known as
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A partially saturated soil is classified as
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Uniformity coefficient of a well graded soil is
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The water content of a soil at which the soil volume becomes constant is called
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As per BIS 456-2000 (reaffirmed 2005), the minimum grade of concrete, with normal weight aggregate of 20 mm nominal maximum size, specified for a severe exposure condition is
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Which one of the following is employed to determine the strength of hardened concrete of an existing concrete structure?
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Tricalcium aluminates (C3A)
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The Vicat’s apparatus is used for testing cement for its
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If 1000 gms of sand is sieved through 4.75 mm, 2.36 mm, 1.18 mm, 600 micron, 300 micron and 150 micron standard sieves and the weights retained are 0 gms, 100 gms, 150 gms, 200 gms, 350 gms and 200 gms respectively, then the fineness modulus of the sand is
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Workability of a concrete mix with low water cement ratio is determined by
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In a singly reinforced beam, the effective depth is measured from its compression edge to
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The maximum shear stress in a rectangular beam is
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A soil sample is partially saturated. Its natural moisture content was found to be 22% and bulk density 2 gms/c.c. If the specific gravity of the solid particles is 2.65 and the density of water is 1 gms/c.c, the void ratio of the sample is
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The horizontal distance between parallel main reinforcement bars shall not be more than ------------ the effective depth of solid slab.
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If the span to effective depth ratio of a simply supported beam, for span upto 10 m, does not exceed ------------, the vertical deflection limits may generally be satisfied.
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Tension failure occurs in a singly reinforced beam in
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Net sectional area of a tension member is equal to its gross sectional area
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A cantilever beam ‘A’ with rectangular cross section is subjected to a concentrated load at its free end. If the width and depth of another cantilever beam ‘B’ are twice those of beam ‘A’ and subjected to the same load, then the deflection at the free end of beam ‘B’ as compared to that of ‘A’ will be
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The difference in level between the top of a bank and supply level in a canal, is called
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The river training work is generally required when the river is
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In water bound macadam roads, the binding material is
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A gradient along which the vehicle does not require any tractive effort to maintain a specified speed is known as
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To prevent creep in rails, the steel sleepers are fixed with rails by
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What is the volume of a 6m deep tank having rectangular shaped top $$6 m \times 4 m$$ and bottom $$4 m \times 2 m$$ computed through the use of Prismoidal formula?
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The area to be measured for painting distemper for an internal surface of a plastered 230 mm thick brick wall having dimension of 3000 mm length and 3200 mm height and having a glazed louvered ventilator of size 600 mm $$\times$$ 400 mm in the wall is
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The value of

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A rectangular sheet of metal of length 6m and width 2 m is given. Four equal squares are removed from the corners. The sides of this sheet are now turned up to form an open rectangular box. The height of box such that the volume of the box is maximum will be
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The complete solution of the linear differential equation
$$\frac{\text{d}^2z}{\text{d}t^2} + (p + q) \frac{\text{d}z}{\text{d}t} + pqz = 0$$
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The sequence $$\lim_{a \rightarrow \infty} \left[ 3 + (-1)^n\right]$$ is
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Then the product of determinant P and Q ( PQ ) has the value
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The differential equation $$y = x \frac{\text{d}y}{\text{d}x} + \frac{x}{\frac{dy}{dx}}$$ is
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In a square matrix $$A = [ a_ij ],$$ if $$a_ij = − a_ji$$ for all i and j so that all the leading diagonal elements are zero, then the matrix is called
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The difference of two complex numbers $$(x_1 + iy_1)$$ and $$(x_2 + iy_2)$$ is
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The value of $$\lim_{x \rightarrow 0} \frac {\log x}{\cot x}$$ is
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A box contains 5 red and 10 green balls. Eight (8) of them are placed in another box. The chances that the latter box contains 2 red and 6 green balls are
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