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MCQs: During the first stage of triaxial test when the cell pressure is increased from 0.10 N/mm2 to 0.26 N/mm2, the pore water pressure increases from 0.07 N/mm2 to 0.15 “N/mm2. Skempton’s pore pressure parameter B is___________________?
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MCQs: In the triaxial compression test, the application of additional axial stress (i.e. deviator stress) on the soil specimen produces shear stress on__________________?
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MCQs: The angle that Coulomb’s failure envelope makes with the horizontal is called________________?
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MCQs: Rankine’s theory of earth pressure assumes that the back of the wall is_______________?
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MCQs: The major principal stress in an element of cohesionless soil within the backfill of a retaining wall is________________?
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MCQs: A retaining wall 6m high supports a backfill with a surcharge angle of 10°. The back of the wall is inclined to the vertical at a positive batter angle of 5°. If the angle of wall friction is 7°, then the resultant active earth pressure will act at a distance of 2 m above the base and inclined to the horizontal at an angle of_________________?
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MCQs: Bishop’s method of stability analysis_______________?
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MCQs: The effect of cohesion on a soil is to______________?
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MCQs: Coefficient of earth pressure at rest is__________________?
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MCQs: Allowable bearing pressure for a foundation depends upon_______________?
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MCQs: Terzaghi’s general bearing capacity formula for a strip footing (C Nc + y D Nq + 0.5 Y NTB. gives______________?
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MCQs: In the plate loading test for determining the bearing capacity of soil, the size of square bearing plate should be_________________?
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MCQs: A 600 mm square bearing plate settles by 15 mm in plate load test on a cohesionless soil under an intensity of loading of 0.2 N/ram2. The settlement of a prototype shallow footing 1 m square under the same intensity of loading is_______________?
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MCQs: Terzaghi’s bearing capacity factors Nc, Nq and Nr are functions of______________?
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MCQs: The rise of water table below the foundation influences the bearing capacity of soil mainly by reducing_______________?
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MCQs: A 300 mm square bearing plate settles by 15 mm in a plate load test on a cohesive soil when the intensity of loading is 0.2 N/mm2. The settlement of a prototype shallow footing 1 m square under the same intensity of loading is___________________?
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MCQs: Contact pressure beneath a rigid footing resting on cohesive soil is_________________?
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MCQs: Rise of water table in cohesionless soils upto ground surface reduces the net ultimate bearing capacity approximately by________________?
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MCQs: Select the incorrect statement ___?
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MCQs: Select the incorrect statement ____?
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