- (A) to provide adequate bond stress
- (B) to resist tensile stresses
- (C) to impart initial compressive stress in concrete
- (D) all of the above
Civil Engineering Mcqs
- (A) Long line method
- (B) Freyssinet system
- (C) Magnel-Blaton system
- (D) Lee-Macall system
- (A) only in post-tensioned beams
- (B) only in pretensioned beams
- (C) in both post-tensioned and preten-sioned beams
- (D) none of the above
- (A) decrease in tensile strength but increase in ductility
- (B) increase in tensile strength but decrease in ductility
- (C) decrease in both tensile strength and ductility
- (D) increase in both tensile strength and ductility
- (A) only (1)
- (B) only (2)
- (C) both (1) and (4)
- (D) both (2)and (3)
- (A) (1) and (3)
- (B) (1)and(4)
- (C) (2)and (3)
- (D) (2)and (4)
- (A) loess
- (B) talus
- (C) drift
- (D) dune sand
- (A) never be greater than unity
- (B) be zero
- (C) take any value greater than zero
- (D) take values between 0 and 1 only
- (A) air entrained soil
- (B) partially saturated soil
- (C) dry soil
- (D) dehydrated soil
- (A) silt
- (B) clay
- (C) coarse sand
- (D) fine sand

