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41601. The proposed dam shown in the below figure is 90 m long and coefficient of permeability of the soil is 0.0013 mm/second. The quantity of water (m3) that will be lost per day, by seepage is (rounded to the nearest number):





41602. A 1 : 30 model of an ogee spillway crest records an acceleration of 1.3 m/s2 at a certain location. The homologous value of the acceleration in the prototype in m/s2 , is





41603. The value of the camber recommended for cement concrete roads in areas of heavy rainfall is :





41604. A waste water sample diluted to 100 times with aeration water had an initial dissolved oxygen (DO) of 7.0 mg/l and after 5 days of incubation at 20°C, the DO was zero. The BOD of waste water is :





41605. For the strip footing on a saturated clay, for the given failure surface as shown in the below figure, the bearing capacity equation takes the form : (where Cu - undrained shear strength φu - angle of internal friction B - width of strip footing qc - ultimate bearing capacity of soil)





41606. A soil mass has coefficients of horizontal and vertical permeability as 9 x 10-7 cm/s and 4 x 10-7 cm/s, respectively. The transformed coefficient of permeability of an equivalent isotropic soil mass is





41607. A reinforced concrete wall carrying vertical loads is generally designed as per recommendations given for columns. The ratio of minimum reinforcements in the vertical and horizontal directions is





41608. The total active thrust on a vertical wall 3m high retaining a horizontal sand backfill (unit weight γt = 20 kN/m3, angle of shearing resistance φ' = 30°) when the water table is at the bottom of the wall, will be:





41609. Reaction at support b of the structure is



41610. A vertical rod PQ of length L is fixed at its top end P and has a flange fixed to the bottom end Q. A weight W is dropped vertically from a height h(< L) on to the flange. The axial stress in the rod can be reduced by





41611. Compaction by vibratory roller is the best method of compaction in case of





41612. Design rate of super elevation for horizontal highway curve of radius 450 m for a mixed traffic condition, having a speed of 125 km/hour is





41613. A mild steel specimen is under uni-axial tensile stress. Young's modulus and yield stress for mild steel are 2 x 105 MPa and 250 MPa respectively. The maximum amount of strain energy per unit volume that can be stored in this speciment without permanent set, is





41614. Rivets and bolts subjected to both shear stress (τvf , cal) and axial tensile stress (σtf , cal) shall be so proportioned that the stresses do not exceed the respective allowable stresses τvf and σtf and the value of exceed does not exceed





41615. Standard 5-day BOD of a waste water sample is nearly x% of the ultimate BOD, where x is





41616. A two lane single carriage-way is to be designed for a design life period of 15 years. Total two-way traffic intensity in the year of completion of construction is expected to be 2000 commercial vehicles per day. Vehicle damage factor = 3.0, Lane distribution factor = 0.75. Assuming an annual rate of traffic growth as 7.5%, the design traffic expressed as cumulative number of standard axles, is





41617. At the same mean velocity, the ratio of head loss per unit length for a sewer pipe flowing full to that for the same pipe flowing half full would be :





41618. As per IS : 800-1984 the minimum pitch of rivets in a row is recommended as the diameter of the rivet times





41619. The ordinate of the Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph (IUH) of a catchment at any time t, is





41620. Water emerges from an ogee spillway with velocity 13.72 m/s and depth = 3.0 m at its toe. The tail water depth required to form a hydraulic jump at the toe is





41621. In a BOD test, 5 ml of waste is added to 295 ml of aerated pure water. Initial dissolved oxygen (D.O) content of the diluted sample is 7.8 mg/l. After 5 days of incubation at 20°C, the D.O. content of the sample is reduced to 4.4 mg/l. The BOD of the waste water is :





41622. The lateral ties in a reinforced concrete rectangular column uncle: axial compression are used to :





41623. The specific gravity of paving bitumen as per IS:73-1992 lies between





41624. A linear relationship is observed between speed and density on a certain section of a highway. The free flow speed is observed to be 80 km per hour and the jam density is estimated as 100 vehicles per km length. Based on the above relationship, the maximum flow expected on this section and the speed at the maximum flow will respectively be





41625. The ratio of unconfined compressive strength of an undisturbed sample of soil to that of a remoulded sample, at the same water content, is known as :





41626. The modulus of rupture of concrete gives





41627. The total length (in km) of the existing National Highways in India is in the range of





41628. A direct runoff hydrograph due to an isolated storm with an effective rainfall of 2 cm was trapezoidal in shape as shown in the below figure. The hydrograph corresponds to a catchment area (in sq. km) of





41629. A simply supported beam with an overhang is traversed by a unit concentrated moment from the left to the right as shown below The influence line for reaction at B is given by


41630. The parameters in Horton's infiltration equation are given as, fo = 7.62 cm/hour, fc = 1.34 cm/hour and k = 4.182/hour. For assumed continuous ponding the cumulative infiltration at the end of 2 hours is





41631. The temporary hardness of water, is caused by:





41632. Rotational stiffness-coefficient, K11 for the frame having two members of equal EI/l is given by :





41633. The plan of a survey plotted to a scale of 10 m to 1 cm is reduced in such a way that a line originally 10 cm long now measures 9 cm. The area of the reduced plan is measured as 81 cm2. The actual (m2) of the survey is





41634. Width of carriage way for a single lane is recommended to be





41635. The shape of the cross-section, which has the largest shape factor, is





41636. The unit of dynamic viscosity of a fluid is





41637. A point load of 700 kN is applied on the surface of thick layer of clay. Using Boussinesq's elastic analysis, the estimated vertical stress (σv) at a depth of 2 m and a radial distance of 1.0 m from the point of application of the load, is :





41638. The liquid limit (LL), plastic limit (PL) and shrinkage limit (SL) of a cohesive soil satisfy the relation





41639. The sequent depth ratio of a hydraulic jump in a rectangular horizontal channel is 10.30. The Froude Number at the beginning of the jump is :





41640. Shear centre for an angle-purlin as shown in the below figure is located at,





41641. Alligator or map cracking is the common type of failure in





41642. A steel beam supporting loads from the floor slab as well as from wall is termed as





41643. For an anisotropic soil, permeabilities in x and y directions are kx and ky respectively in a two dimensional flow. The effective permeability keq for the soil is given by





41644. Chemical oxygen Demand (COD) of a sample is always greater than Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) since it represents :





41645. For the determination of earth pressure, Coulomb's wedge theory assumes that:





41646. The degree of kinematic indeterminacy of the rigid frame with clamped ends at A and D shown in the below figure is,





41647. The dimensions for the flexural rigidity of a beam element in mass (M), length (L) and time (T) is given by





41648. The centre of pressure of a liquid on a plane surface immersed vertically in a static body of liquid, always lies below the centroid of the surface area, because





41649. The most commonly used sampler for obtaining a disturbed sample of the soil is





41650. The two criteria for the determination of allowable bearing capacity of a foundation are





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