List of top Civil Engineering Questions

The flow rate of a liquid through a pipe is 0.5 m³/s. What is the velocity of the fluid if the pipe has a diameter of 0.1 m?
The ultimate tensile strength of a material is 400 MPa. If the diameter of the wire is 10 mm, what is the maximum force that can be applied to the wire before it breaks?
Determine the moment of inertia of a rectangular beam section with a width of 300 mm and height of 500 mm about its neutral axis.
The probability of a 10-year flood to occur at least once in the next 4 years is.........

The ratio of effective stress to total stress at point ‘A’ given in the figure is ............ 

The ratio of weight of water to weight of dry soil is called .......
The effective length of a column of length \(L\), held in position and restrained in direction at one end, and the other end effectively restrained in direction but not held in position, is equal to
In the design of a steel tension member, which mode is NOT typically considered?
Which of the following agent does not enhance the workability of concrete?
The minimum cover in any pretensioned - prestressed concrete member located in an aggressive environment is ........
The modulus of resilience is the .......
A structure has two degrees of indeterminacy. The number of plastic hinges that would be formed at complete collapse is .......
In the slope deflection equations, the deformations generated are due to:
i. axial force
ii. shear force
iii. bending moment
Two simply supported beams \( B_1 \) and \( B_2 \) have spans \( l \) and \( 2l \) respectively. Beam \( B_1 \) has a cross-section of \( 1 \times 1 \) units and \( B_2 \) has a cross-section of \( 2 \times 2 \) units. These beams are subjected to concentrated loads \( W \) each at the centre of their spans. The ratio of the maximum flexural stress in these beams is ............
Which of the following parameters most significantly influences the development length in a reinforced concrete beam?
Which method is used for structural analysis of indeterminate structures?
Negative skin friction occurs when ...........
A thin-walled circular pressure vessel has an internal pressure ‘\( p \)’, radius ‘\( r \)’, and wall thickness ‘\( t \)’. What is the hoop stress?
Capillary rise is most prominent in which soil?
A solid circular shaft is subjected to a constant torque. Which statement is correct about shear stress?
Which of the following statements best explains why shear reinforcement (stirrups) is provided in reinforced concrete beams?
An imaginary line joining the point of intersection of the cross-hairs of the diaphragm and the optical center of the object glass is called as .......
If ‘L’ is the length of chain, the compensating errors that occur in chaining are proportional to .......
Deflection at the free end of a cantilever beam of length 2 m with 5 kN point load at the end is .......
If the bearing of a line AB is N 60° 30′ and that of BC is 122° of a closed traverse ABCDE, then the measure of the interior angle B is .......