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

The biochemical treatment of sewage effluents is essentially a process of ............
Fresh sludge has moisture content of 99%, after thickening its moisture content is reduced to 96%. The reduction in volume of sludge is ........
In an irrigated plot the net irrigation requirement of crop is found to be 14.9 cm, the application efficiency is 80% and water conveyance efficiency is 70%. What is the gross irrigation requirement (GIR)?
If sensitivity of an irrigation module is 0.5, then what percent variation in outlet discharge will be caused by 50 percent variation in canal water depth?
As compared to fresh river water, sea water contains .........
Which of the following is a method for estimating evaporation from a water surface?
A city supply of 15000 cubic meters of water per day is treated with a chlorine dosage of 0.5 ppm. For the purpose, the requirement of 25% bleaching powder per day would be .......
A flat plate of 0.15 m\(^2\) is pulled at 20 cm/s relative to another plate, fixed at a distance of 0.02 cm from it with a fluid having \( \mu = 0.0014 \, \text{Ns/m}^2 \) separating them. The power required to maintain the motion is ...........
What is the discharge capacity required at the outlet to irrigate 2200 hectares of sugarcane having a kor depth of 17 cm and kor period of 30 days?
For medium silt whose average grain size is 0.16 mm, Lacey’s silt factor is likely to be
What should be the diameter of an open well to give a safe yield of 4.8 l/s? Assume working head as 3.75 m and sub soil consists of fine sand of \( C = 0.5\ \text{h}^{-1} \).
A drainage basin has an area of 210 km$^2$. The average depth of rainfall received by it during a monsoon period is computed as 65 cm, while the runoff measured at its outlet during the same period is estimated to be $5.68 \times 10^7$ m$^3$. What percentage of rainfall has become runoff?
The flow of a liquid at constant rate in a conically tapered pipe is classified as ...........
The maximum diameter that a capillary tube can have to ensure that a capillary rise of at least 6 mm is achieved when the tube is dipped into a body of liquid with surface tension \( = 0.08 \, \text{N/m} \) and density \( = 900 \, \text{kg/m}^3 \) is ...........
A sphere of 150 mm diameter is held in equilibrium by a vertical air stream of velocity 15 m/s. If the density of air is \( 1.225 \, \text{kg/m}^3 \) and the coefficient of drag is 0.43, the weight of the sphere is ...........
A 75 mm diameter pipe of 500 m length operates under a head of 60 m at its inlet. If a nozzle is fitted at its outlet, then for most efficient conditions, the velocity of flow from the nozzle (with \( C_v = 1 \)) is .........
If atmospheric pressure head is 9 m, vapour pressure head (maximum) is 1 m, failure head is 40 m and cavitation coefficient \( \sigma \) is 0.15, then height at which the turbine can be set above the tailrace level is ...........
In a 1:100 scale model of a harbour, the time which will correspond to the prototype tidal period of 12 hours will be ............
Magnitude of the component of velocity at point (1,1) for a stream function \( \Psi = x^2 - y^2 \) is equal to ............
A wide channel is 1 m deep and has a velocity of flow \( V = 2.13 \, \text{m/s} \). If a disturbance is caused, an elementary wave can travel upstream with a velocity of ............
If the ground water table is exactly at the base of the foundation, the maximum water table reduction factor may be ............
If \( \gamma \) is the unit weight of soil, \( D_f \) is the depth of foundation, and \( F \) is the factor of safety, the difference in gross safe bearing capacity and net safe bearing capacity is expressed as ............
In the pile load estimation in very soft clay, the adhesion factor considered is ............
If an infinite slope of clay at a depth 5 m has cohesion of 10 kPa and unit weight of 20 kN/m\(^3\), then the stability number corresponding to a critical condition will be ............
A retaining wall has a backfill of pure clay whose unconfined compressive strength is 40 kPa and unit weight 20 kN/m\(^3\). The depth of tension crack developed in the backfill is ............