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Consider the statements and P: Client's Preliminary Estimate is used for budgeting costs toward the end of planning and design phase. Q: Client's Detailed Estimate is used for controlling costs during
The table shows the activities and their durations and dependencies in a project. The total duration (in days) of the project is ____(in integer)
Consider teh following data for a project of 300 days duration. Budgeted cost of work scheduled Rs. 200 Budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP) Rs. 150 Actual cost of work performed (ACWP) Rs. 190 The
The initial cost of an equipment is Rs. 1,00,000. Its salvage value at the end of accounting life of 5 years is Rs. 10,000. The difference in depreciation (in Rs.) computed using 'double-declining bal
Consider the statements and . : In a Pure project organization, the project manager maintains complete authroity and has maximum control over the project. Q: A matrix organization structure facilitate
A critical activity in a project is estimated to take 15 days to complete at a cost of Rs. 30,000. The activity can be expedited to complete in 12 days by spending a total amount of Rs. 54,000. Consid
The ordinates of a 1-hour unit hydrograph are given below. These ordinates are used to derive a 3-hour UH. The peak discharge (in ) for the derived 3-hour UH is ______(rounded off to the nearest integ
A storm with a recorded precipitation of , as shown in the table, produced a direct run-off of The -index of this storm is ____ (rounded off to 2 decimal places)
The return period of a large earthquake for a given region is 200 years. Assuming that earthquake occurrence follows Poisson's distribution, the probability that it will be exceeded at least once in 5
A tank of height has inflow, outflow and stirring mechanisms. Initially, the tank was half filled with fresh water. At , an inflow of salt a solution of concentration at the rate of 2 litre/s and an o
The primary air pollutant(s) is/are
Which one of the following products is NOT obtained in anaerobic decomposition of glucose?
A diameter well fully penetrates an unconfined aquifer of saturated thickness 20 with hydraulic conductivity of day. Under the steady pumping rate for a long time, the drawdowns in two observation wel
A water treatment plant treats water with a natural alkalinity of (as ). It is estimated that during coagulation of this water, day of calcium bicarbonates is required based on alum dosage. Consider t
What is the CORRECT match between the air pollutants and treatment techniques given in the table?
A circular settling tank is to be designed for primary treatment of sewage of a flow rate of 10 million liters/day. Assume a detention period of 2.0 hours and surface loading rate of 40000 liters day.
Activated carbon is used to remove a pollution from wastewater in a mixed batch reactor, which follows first-order reaction kinetics. At a reaction rate of 0.38 /day, the time (in days) required to re
A hypothetical multimedia filter, consisting of anthracite particles (specific gravity: 1.50), silica sand (specific gravity: 2.60), and ilmenite sand (specific gravity: 4.20), is to be designed for t
The following table gives various components of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and a list of treatment/separation techniques. The CORRECT match is
For assessing the compliance with the emissions standards of incineration plants, correction needs to be applied to the measured concentrations of air pollutants. The emission standard (based on Oxyge
An organic waste is represented as (Atomic weights: S-32, H-1, C-12, O-16, N-14) Assume complete conversion of to while burning. generated (in grams) per of this waste is _____ (rounded off to 1 decim
A tank of height is provided with a diameter orifice at the center of its base. The orifice is plugged and the tank is filled up to height. Consider the average value of discharge coefficient as 0.6 a
A wide rectangular channel is carrying a discharge of at a bed slope of 1 in 300. Assuming the energy correction factor as 1.1 and acceleration due to gravity as , the critical depth of flow (in meter
A spillway has unit discharge of . The flow depth at the downstream horizontal apron is . The tail water depth (in meters) required to form a hydraulic jump is _____ (rounded off to 2 decimal places).
The following figure shows a plot between shear stress and velocity gradient for materials/fluids P, Q, R, S, and T. Which one of the following options is CORRECT?
A flow velocity field for a fluid is represented by In the context of the fluid and the flow, which one of the following statements is CORRECT?
A long water distribution pipeline with diameter , is used to convey of flow. A new pipeline , with the same length and flow rate, is to replace . The friction factors for and are 0.04 and 0.01 , resp
A rectangular channel is wide and carries a discharge of with a depth of . The channel transitions to a maximum width contraction at a downstream location, without influencing the upstream flow condti
The number of degrees of freedom for a natural open channel flow with a mobile bed is
A closed tank of height contains water and oil, is connected to an overhead water reservoir as shown in the figure. Use and specific gravity of oil . The total force (in ) due to pressure on the side
To finalize the direction of a survey, four surveyors set up a theodolite at a station and performed all the temporary adjustments. From the station P, each of the surveyors observed the bearing to a
If the number of sides resulting in a closed traverse is increased from three to four, the sum of the interior angles increases by
Differential levelling is carried out from point ( N ) to point . The reading taken are given in the table. Reduced level (in meters) of the point is ______(rounded off to 3 decimal places)
Among the following statements relating the fundamental lines of a transit theodolite, which one is CORRECT
A surveyor observes a zenith angle of during a theodolite survey The corresponding vertical angle is
A map is prepared with a scale of 1: 1000 and a contour interval of . If the distance between two adjacent contours on the map is , the slope of the ground between the adjacent contours is
A child walks on a level surface from point to point at a bearing of , from point to point at a bearing of and then directly returns to the starting point at a bearing of . The straightline paths and
What is the CORRECT match between the survey instruments/parts of instruements shown in the table and the operations carried out with them?
A bird is resting on a point at a height of above the Mean Sea Level (MSL). Upon hearing a loud noise, the bird flies parallel to the ground surface and reaches a point which is located at a height of
For a reconnaissance survey, it is necessary to obtain vertical aerial photographs of a terrain at an average scale of 1:13000 using a camera. If the permissible flying height is assumed as 3000m abov
An embankment is constructed with soil by maintaining the degree of saturation as during compaction. The specific gravity of soil is 2.68 and the moisture content is during compaction. Consider the un
Consider the statements P and Q. P : Soil particles formed by mechanical weathering, and close to their origin are generally subrounded. Q: Activity of the clay physically signifies its swell potentia
Which one of the following saturated fine-grained soils can attain a negative Skempton's pore pressure coefficient ?
Consider the statements and . P: Compacted fine-grained soils with flocculated structure have isotropic permeability. Q: Phreatic surface/line is the line along which the pore water pressure is always
Consider the statements and related to the analysis/design of retaining walls. P: When a rough retaining wall moves toward the backfill, the wall friction force/resistance mobilizes in upward directio
Which of the following statement(s) is/are CORRECT?
The contact presure distribution shown in the figure belongs to a
A reinforced concrete pile of length and diameter is embedded in a saturated pure clay with unit cohesion of . If the adhesion factor is 0.5 , the net ultimate uplift pullout capacity (in kN) of the p
A homogeneous earth dam has a maximum water head difference of between the upstream and downstream sides. A flownet was drawn with the number of potential drops as 10 and the average length of the ele
A vertical smooth rigid retaining wall is supporting horizontal ground with dry cohesionless backfill having a friction angle of . The inclinations of failure planes with respect to the major principa
A wide strip footing is founded at a depth of below the ground level in a homey, pure clay bed. The clay bed has unit cohesion . Due to seasonal fluctuations of water table from peak summer to peak mo
The total primary consolidation settlement of a building constructed on a thick saturated clay layer is estimated to be . After 300 days of the construction of the building. primary consolidation sett
A drained triaxial test was conducted on a saturated sand specimen using a stress-path triaxial testing system. The specimen failed when the axial stress reached a value of from an initial confining p
The in-situ percentage of voids of a sand deposit is . The maximum and minimum densities of sand determined from the laboratory tests are and , respectively. Assume the specific gravity of sand as 2.7
An infinite slope is made up of cohesionless soil with seepage parallel to and upto the sloping surface. The angle of slope is with respect to horizontal ground surface. The unit weight of the saturat
A soil sample was consolidated at a cell pressure of and a back pressure of for 24 hours during a consolidated undrained (CU) triaxial test. The cell pressure was increased to on the next day and it r
A round-bottom trianglular lined canal is to be liad at a slope of in 1500 , to carry a discharge of . The side slopes of the canal cross-section are to be kept at . If Manning's roughtness coefficien
A standard round bottom triangular canal section as shown in the figure has a bed slope of 1 in 200. Consider the Chezy's coefficient as 150 1/2/s. The normal depth of flow, is ____ (rounded off to 2
A concrete column section of size as shown in the figure is subjected to both axial compression and bending along the major axis. The depth of the neutral axis is 1.1 times the depth of the column, as
An inverted T-shaped concrete beam (B1) in the figure, with centroidal axis is subjected to an effective prestressing force of acting at the bottom kern point of the beam cross-section. Also consider
The following figure shows the arrangement of formwork for casting a cantilever RC beam. The correct sequence of removing the Shores/Props is
Consider a balanced doubly reinforced concrete section. If the material and other sectional properties remain unchanged, for which of the following cases will the section becomes under-reinforced?
Concrete of characteristic strength is required. If 40 specimens of concrete cubes are to be tested, the minimum number of specimens having at least strength should be
A slab panel with an effective depth of is reinforced with main reinforcement using diameter steel bars. The uniform center-to-center spacing (in ) at which the diameter bars are placed in the slab pa
A simply supported, uniformly loaded, two-way slab panel is torsionally unrestrained. The effective span lengths along the short span ( ) and long span (y) directions of the panel are and respectively
The structural design method that DOES NOT take into account the safety factors on the design load is
Various stresses in jointed plain concrete pavement with slab size of are denoted as follows: Wheel load stress at interior Wheel load stress at edge Wheel load stress at corner Warping stress at inte
For the long horizontal cantilever beam shown in the figure. is the mid-point. Segment of the beam has flexural rigidity whereas the segment has infinite flexural rigidity. Segment QR is subjected to
A homogeneous, prismatic, linearly elastic steel bar fixed at both the ends has a slenderness ratio of 105 , where is the bar length and is the radius of gyration. The coefficient of thermal expansion
For a thin-walled section shown in the figure, points and are located on the major bending axis of the section. Point is located on the web whereas point is located at the intersection of the web and
A homogeneous shaft PQR with fixed supports at both ends is subjected to a torsional moment at point , as shown in the figure. The polar moments of inertia of the portions and of the shaft with circul
The three-dimensional state of stress at a point is given by . The maximum shear stress at the point is
The beam shown in the figure is subjected to a uniformly distributed downward load of intensity between supports and . Considering the upward reactions as positive, the support reactions are
A long, horizontal, rigid, uniform beam has negligible mass. The beam is subjected to a concentrated vertically downward force at from , as shown in the figure. The beam is resting on vertical linear
Find the correct match between the plane stress states and the Mohr's circles.
The elements that DO NOT increase the strength of structural steel are
The steel angle section shown in the figure has elastic section modulus of about the horizontal X-X axis, which passes through the centroid of the section. The shape factor of the section is_______ (r
The horizontal beam shown in the figure has a fixed support at point , an internal hinge at point , and a pin support at point . A concentrated vertically downward load of can act at any point over th
The plane truss shown in the figure has 13 joints and 22 members. The truss is made of a homogeneous, prismatic, linearly elastic material. All members have identical axial rigidity. to indicate the j
The plane frame shown in the figure has fixed support at joint A, hinge support at joint , and roller support at joint 1 . In the figure, to I indicate joints of the frame. If the axial deformations a
The following data is obtained from an axle load survey at a site: Average rear axle load . Number of commercial vehicles per day The pavement at this site would be reconstructed over a period of 5 ye
A horizontal curve of radius (with transition curves on either side) in a Broad Gauge railway track is designed and constructed for an equilibrium speed of . However, a few years after construction, t
A vertical summit curve on a freight corridor is formed at the intersection of two gradients, and . Assume the following: Only large-sized trucks are allowed on this corridor. Design speed Eye height
The figure presents the trajectories of six vehicles within a time-space domain. The number in the parentheses represents unique identification of each vehicle The mean speed (in ) of the vehicles in
The free mean speed is on a given road. The average space headway at jam density on the road is . For a linear speed density relationship the maximum flow (in veh/hr/lane) expected on the road is
A car is travelling at a speed of on a section of a National Highway having a downward gradient of . The driver of the car suddenly observes a stopped vehicle on the car path at a distance ahead, and
The longitudinal sections of a runway have gradients as shown in the table. Consider the reduced level at the starting point of the runway as . The effective gradient of the runway is
As per the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the basic runway length is increased for every y raise in elevation from the Mean Sea Level (MSL) The values of and respectively, are
Which one of the following statements related to bitumen is FALSE?
The consolidated data of a spot study for a certain stretch of a highway is given in the table. The "upper speed limit" (in kmph) for the traffic sign is
In general, the outer edge is raised above the inner edge in horizontal curves for
In the context of pavement material characterization, the CORRECT statement(s) is/are
The number of trains and their corresponding speeds for a curved Broad Gauge section with radius are 20 trains at a speed of 40 kmph 15 trains at a speed of 50 kmph 12 trains at a speed of 60 kmph 8 t