Civil Engineering Mcqs

The angle of repose of a soil is the maximum angle which the outer face of the soil mass makes_______________?

(A) With the horizontal
(B) With the vertical
(C) With the perpendicular to the inclined plane of the soil
(D) None of these

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The system in which high tensile alloy steel bars (silica manganese steel) are used as prestressing tendons, is known as________________?

(A) Freyssinet system
(B) Magnel-Blaton system
(C) C.C.L. standard system
(D) Lee-McCall system

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In a doubly-reinforced beam if and the effective depth and is depth of critical neutral axis, the following relationship holds good______________?

(A) mc/t = n/(d – n)
(B) (m + c)/t = n/(d + n)
(C) (t + c)/n = (d + n)/n
(D) mc/t = (d – n)/t

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The length of the lap in a compression member is kept greater than bar diameter x (Permissible stress in bar / Five times the bond stress) or____________________?

(A) 12 bar diameters
(B) 18 bar diameters
(C) 24 bar diameters
(D) 30 bar diameters

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An under-reinforced section means_________________?

(A) Steel is provided at the underside only
(B) Steel provided is insufficient
(C) Steel provided on one face only
(D) Steel will yield first

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The section of a reinforced beam where most distant concrete fibre in compression and tension in steel attains permissible stresses simultaneously, is called_________________?

(A) Balanced section
(B) Economic section
(C) Critical section
(D) All the above

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If the length of a wall on either side of a lintel opening is at least half of its effective span L, the load W carried by the lintel is equivalent to the weight of brickwork contained in an equilateral triangle, producing a maximum bending moment____________________?

(A) WL/2
(B) WL/4
(C) WL/6
(D) WL/8

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The percentage of minimum reinforcement of the gross sectional area in slabs, is________________?

(A) 0.10 %
(B) 0.12 %
(C) 0.15 %
(D) 0.18 %

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For a circular slab carrying a uniformly distributed load, the ratio of the maximum negative to maximum positive radial moment, is___________________?

(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 5

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The width of the flange of a T-beam should be less than_________________?

(A) One- third of the effective span of the T -beam
(B) Distance between the centres of T-beam
(C) Breadth of the rib plus twelve times the thickness of the slab
(D) Least of the above

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