List of top Questions asked in Andhra Pradesh Post Graduate Engineering Common Entrance Test

In a plate load test, the minimum ratio of widths of pit to plate to be maintained is .........
If the actual observed value of standard penetration resistance, N is 21 in a fine sand layer below the water table, then the corrected N value for dilatancy is ............
In prestressed concrete, the primary purpose of prestressing is to ........
The slope at the end of a simply supported beam with a central point load is .........
A fully saturated soil has water content of 20% and specific gravity 2.5, then its porosity is ..........
How much percentage of average bond stress is increased for reinforced bars subjected to compression?
For a long slender column, failure is most likely to occur due to .........
For a symmetrical I-section beam, the shear stress is maximum at ...........
According to IS: 800-2007, the lacing bars in a steel column should resist a transverse shear equal to .........
Bearing stiffness are provided in a plate girder to ........
M60 structural steel tube has a radius of gyration 20mm. The unbraced length up to which the tube can be used as a compression member is .........
The moment required to rotate the near end of a prismatic beam through unit angle, without translation, the far end being fixed, is given by ........
Most common method of prestressing used for factory production is ........
As per IS: 456-1978, if \( L \) is the short span of slab, what would be the minimum total thickness of slab in order to meet the slab stiffness criteria?
The law in which, the system of forces acting on a moving body is in dynamic equilibrium with the inertia force of the body is known as ............
A simply supported beam is subjected to a linearly varying load from one end to the other end. The nature of variation of shear force in the beam is ............
The ratio of elongation of a prismatic bar due to its own weight and that of a conical bar of the same length is ............
A propped cantilever beam of span 4 m is fixed at end A and simply supported at end B. The beam is subjected to a uniformly distributed load of 5 kN/m. Then the reactions at A and B respectively are ............
A section of a shaft of diameter 100 mm is subjected to a moment of 4 kN-m and a torque of 3 kN-m. The ratio of maximum principal stress to minimum principal stress numerically is ............
If the length of a simply supported beam carrying a concentrated load at the center is doubled, the deflection at the center will become .......
For a circular column having its ends hinged, the slenderness ratio is 160. The \( l/d \) ratio of the column is ............
A simply supported beam with rectangular cross-section section is subjected to central concentrated load. If width and depth of the beam are doubled, then the deflection at the centre of the beam will be reduced to ............
A fixed beam AB is subjected to a triangular load varying from zero at end A to \( w \) per unit length at end B. The ratio of fixed end moment at B to that at A will be ............
Number of unknowns to be determined in the stiffness method is equal to ............
If deflection at the free end of a uniformly loaded cantilever beam of length 1 m is equal to 7.5 mm, then slope at the free end is ............