List of top Civil Engineering Questions

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 ............
If the ground water table is exactly at the base of the foundation, the maximum water table reduction factor may be ............
In the pile load estimation in very soft clay, the adhesion factor considered is ............
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 ............
A soil has coefficient of uniformity of 6, particle size corresponding to 60% finer and 30% finer are respectively 0.85 and 0.35. Then the coefficient of curvature of soil is ..........
A layer of clay soil has saturated unit weight of 20 kN/m$^3$. Ground water table is located at ground surface and unit weight of water is 10 kN/m$^3$. If the over consolidation ratio of soil at 5 m below ground level is 2, what would be the maximum effective stress to which the soil has been subjected in its stress history?
A cohesionless soil sample has showed an angle of internal friction 30$^\circ$ at failure corresponding to a cell pressure of 100 kPa. The deviator stress at failure is..........
A point load of 400 kN is acting on the surface of the ground. The vertical stress directly below the load at 2 m depth as per the Boussinesq’s theory is .........
Due to capillary rise in soil, the effective stress ...........
A fully saturated soil has water content of 20% and specific gravity 2.5, then its porosity 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 .........
How much percentage of average bond stress is increased for reinforced bars subjected to compression?
For a symmetrical I-section beam, the shear stress is maximum at ...........
For a long slender column, failure is most likely to occur due to .........
According to IS: 800-2007, the lacing bars in a steel column should resist a transverse shear equal to .........
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?
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 .........
Bearing stiffness are provided in a plate girder to ........
If the length of a simply supported beam carrying a concentrated load at the center is doubled, the deflection at the center will become .......
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 ............
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 ............