List of top Civil Structural and Transport Engineering Questions asked in CUET (PG)

Sequentially arrange the steps involved in laying a sewer line:

A. Transferring the center line of the sewer to the bottom of the trench.
B. Setting sight rails over the trench.
C. Driving pegs to the level of the invert line of the sewer.
D. Placing the sewer in the trench.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Match LIST-I with LIST-II:\[\begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \textbf{LIST-I (Method)} & \textbf{LIST-II (Used relations)} \\ \hline \text{A. Group Index Method} & \text{III. Empirical method using soil classification test} \\ \hline \text{B. CBR Method} & \text{IV. Empirical method using soil strength test} \\ \hline \text{C. US Navy Method} & \text{II. Quasi-rational} \\ \hline \text{D. Asphalt Institute Method} & \text{I. Semi-theoretical} \\ \hline \end{array}\] Choose the most appropriate match from the options given below:

Bitumen grade 80/100 indicates that under the standard test conditions, the penetration value of bitumen would vary from:

A sample of waste-water has 4 day 20$^\circ$C B.O.D. value of 75% of the final B.O.D. The rate constant K (to the base 10) per day will be:

Match LIST-I with LIST-II:\[\begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \textbf{LIST-I (Treatment method)} & \textbf{LIST-II (Principle / process involved)} \\ \hline \text{A. Trickling filter} & \text{IV. Attached growth} \\ \hline \text{B. Activated sludge process} & \text{III. Suspended growth} \\ \hline \text{C. Aerated lagoon} & \text{II. Mechanical aeration} \\ \hline \text{D. Oxidation pond} & \text{I. Symbiotic} \\ \hline \end{array}\] Choose the most appropriate match from the options given below:

Sequentially arrange the stepwise process of wastewater treatment:

A. Primary sedimentation
B. Screening and Grit removal
C. Disinfection
D. Secondary treatment unit and Secondary Sedimentation
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Match LIST-I with LIST-II:\[\begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \textbf{LIST-I (Air pollutants)} & \textbf{LIST-II (Impact on human health)} \\ \hline \text{A. Particulates} & \text{III. Cause of coughing, shortness of breath, headache etc.} \\ \hline \text{B. Carbon mono-oxides} & \text{I. Impairs transport of O$_2$ in the bloodstream} \\ \hline \text{C. Sulfur oxides} & \text{IV. Cause respiratory illness} \\ \hline \text{D. Photochemical oxidants} & \text{II. Irritation of mucous membranes of the respiratory tract} \\ \hline \end{array}\] Choose the most appropriate match from the options given below:

A rapid sand filter for a town with a water requirement of 2 MLD is to be provided with a rate of filtration at 4000 liter/hr/m$^2$ with a backwash system. The size of the filter will be:

The plan of an area has shrunk such that a line originally 10 cm, now measures 9.5 cm. If the original scale of the plan was 1 cm = 10 m (R.F. = 1:1000), the shrinkage factor is given as:

If the declination is $5^\circ 40'W$, which of the following magnetic bearings would represent the true bearing of $S25^\circ 20'E$?

The quadrantal bearing of a line is directly observed by:

Which of the following statements (with respect to compass traversing) are correct?

A. True meridian at a station is constant.
B. True meridian passing through different points on the earth surface converges towards the pole.
C. The angle between the true meridian and the line is known as declination.
D. The angle between the magnetic meridian and the line is known as azimuth.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

The relationship between air-base (B), photographic base (b), flying height (H), and focal length of lens (f) for an aerial photograph is given by:

A tape (30 m long) when suspended, has a sag (dip) 'd' of 30.15 cm at the mid-span under a tension of 100 N. The total weight of the tape is given by:

Match LIST-I with LIST-II (Seismic Waves):\[\begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \textbf{LIST-I (Type of seismic wave)} & \textbf{LIST-II (Characteristic of particle motion)} \\ \hline \text{A. Primary Wave} & \text{III. in longitudinal direction} \\ \hline \text{B. Shear Wave} & \text{IV. is perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation} \\ \hline \text{C. Love Wave} & \text{I. in horizontal plane and transverse to the direction of wave propagation} \\ \hline \text{D. Rayleigh Wave} & \text{II. in vertical plane and retrograde} \\ \hline \end{array}\]

If the velocity of the shear wave through a soil deposit is determined as $V_s$, the shear modulus 'G' is given as: (where, $\rho =$ mass density of soil)

Which of the following computer programs is based on the one-dimensional wave propagation method and used to compute the responses for a design motion?

Which of the following factors does not affect strong ground motion?

Which of the following statements (with regard to earth pressure) are correct?

A. Any movement of the retaining wall away from the fill corresponds to active earth pressure.
B. Under earthquake loading, the pore pressure decreases in saturated silty soil.
C. Coulomb's earth pressure theory does not take the roughness of wall into consideration.
D. Rankine's earth pressure theory considers that the retaining wall has a vertical backfill.

Sequentially arrange the reactions of observers and type of damage during an earthquake in the increasing order of earthquake intensity measured at Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) Scale.

A. Earthquake is felt quite noticeably indoors, especially on upper floors of buildings. Damage: No damage. Standing motor cars may rock slightly.
B. Everyone runs outdoors. Noticed by persons driving motor cars. Damage: Considerable damage in poorly built or badly designed structures.
C. Earthquake is not felt except by a few people under especially favorable circumstances. Damage: No damage.
D. Earthquake is felt by nearly everyone, many awakened. Damage: Some dishes, windows broken, few cracks in plaster, unstable objects overturned.

Match LIST-I with LIST-II:\[\begin{array}{|c|l|l|} \hline \textbf{LIST-I (Parameter)} & & \textbf{LIST-II (Equipment / method)} \\ \hline \text{A. Stream flow velocity} & & \text{IV. Current meter} \\ \hline \text{B. Evapo-transpiration rate} & & \text{II. Penman's method} \\ \hline \text{C. Infiltration rate} & & \text{III. Norton's method} \\ \hline \text{D. Wind velocity} & & \text{I. Anemometer} \\ \hline \end{array}\] Choose the most appropriate match from the options given below:

The discharge capacity required at the outlet to irrigate 2600 ha of sugarcane, having a kor depth of 17 cm and a kor period of 30 days, is:

Water logging is caused due to:

A. Inadequate drainage facilities
B. Over irrigation
C. Presence of permeable strata
D. Seepage of water through the canals
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Match LIST-I with LIST-II:\[\begin{array}{|c|l|l|} \hline \textbf{LIST-I (Flow parameter of a channel flow)} & & \textbf{LIST-II (Proportional to)} \\ \hline \text{A. Mean velocity in a Lacey regime channel} & & \text{IV. $Q^{2/3}$} \\ \hline \text{B. Mean velocity in a lined channel} & & \text{II. $S^{1/3}$} \\ \hline \text{C. Normal scour depth in an alluvial channel} & & \text{III. $Q^{1/2}$} \\ \hline \text{D. Wetted perimeter of a Lacey regime channel} & & \text{I. $S^{1/2}$} \\ \hline \end{array}\] where $S$ is slope of channel and $Q$ is discharge. Choose the most appropriate match from the options given below: