Which of the following is a defect due to seasoning in timber

Percentage by weight of particles in aggregate whose least dimension is less than three-fifth of their mean dimension is known as

Rock used in roofing is

A wall designed to carry horizontal forces acting in its plane with or without imposed loads

The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear site boundaries is termed as

According to National Building Code of India, Assembly Buildings come under

The portion of brick with size 9 cm x 4.5 cm x 9 cm is called

Mixture of cement, lime, sand and water is called

Minimum period before striking vertical form work to columns

If the field temperature is lower than that at which the tape was calibrated, it results in

The surface of a still lake is a

The staff readings taken at stations A, B, C, D from a single set up of the level are 0.635, 2.105, 2.005, 1.985. Choose the correct statement from the following

The FS is 1.450 taken on a station of RL 405.205. If RL of BM is 400.000, BS is

The operation of keeping the plane table at each of the successive station parallel to the position which it occupied at the first station is

The horizontal angle between the true meridian and meridian is known as

For a tacheometer provided with an analytic lens, additive constant and multiplying constants are.

The chord of a curve less than peg interval is known as

The angle between the observer's meridian and the vertical circle passing through a heavenly body is

The relation connecting the air base (B), flying height (H), focal length (f) and photographic base (b) of a vertical photograph is

Subsidiary station established as near the true triangulation station as possible is known as

A 100 kg weight is suspended, by two strings of lengths 6 cm and 8cm, from points in the same horizontal level 10 cm apart. Tension in the shorter string is

The centre of gravity of a right circular solid cone of diameter d and height h lies at a vertical distance of ............ from the base.

Materials obey Hook's law within

The Poison's ratio of a material having Young's modulus 200 GPa and Rigidity Modulus 80 GPa is

Bending moment M and torque Tare applied on a solid circular shaft. If the maximum bending stress is equal to maximum shear stress developed, M is equal to

The height of water column corresponding to a pressure equivalent of 75 cm of mercury columns is

A ship is seen to enter sea from a river. Its depth of submergence will

The centroid of the displaced fluid volume is called

A pressure reading below the atmospheric pressure is known as

The continuity equation represents conservation of

In flow through pipe, the efficiency of transmission under condition of maximum power transmission is

Discharge in an open channel can be measured with

A Pelton wheel is ideally suited for

Precipitation caused by lifting of an air mass due to the pressure difference is

The salt concentration in irrigation water is generally measured by

The base period of a crop is 120 days. When its duty is 864 hectares / cumec on the field, its delta is

The water which can be utilised by the crops from the soil is called

The geological formation which contains and readily yields water to tubewells

Type of cross-drainage work where canal is passed over the drainage is

A plot of rain fall intensity versus time is called

The population forecasting method suitable for new younger cities expanding at faster rates

The standard unit of color of water is that which is produced by 1 mg

Water can be considered as soft, if hardness is less than

Cleaning of slow sand filters is done by

Water distribution system suitable for towns which have developed in a haphazard without properly planned roads

Alum is a

Which of the following will result in appearance of residual chlorine water ?

Ratio of volume of air voids to total volume of voids is

Degree of saturation of soil 75%, water content 0.188, Specific gravity 2.68, then void ratio is

The plasticity index is the numerical difference between

The decrease ; in void ratio of soil per unit increase of pressure is defined as

The equation t=C+σ tan ϕ is given by

The length/diameter ratio of cylindrical specimens used in triaxial test of soil is

Cube strength is found to be approximately ........... times the cylinder strength.

In the idealised stress-strain curve of concrete, the ultimate strain is

If Ø is the nominal diameter of the bar, σs the stress in bar, τbd is the design bond stress, development length L, is given by

The minimum number of longitudinal bars to be provided in a circular columns

A rectangular beam of cross sectional area A and section modulus 7 is pre-stressed concentrically by force P. The minimum stress on the beam subjected to a maximum bending moment M, is

Which of the following is a limit state of serviceability ?

The distance between the two consecutive bolts of adjacent rows, measured at right angles to the direction of load

For a compression member, ratio of the allowable load for a given slenderness ratio to that for slenderness ratio equal to zero is called

As per Indian Standards, the maximum bearing pressure at the column base should not exceed the bearing strength equal to

Steel beams of light sections

In a plate girder, the distance between centre of gravity of compression flange and centre of gravity of tension flange is

As the angle of incidence of an aircraft wing increases

Aileron

Which airport has the longest runway length ?

IRC recommended camber C recommended camber for bituminous pavement in light rain

Width of land acquired for the road, along its alignment

If coefficient of longitudinal friction on the road surface is 0.37, reaction time 2.5 sec, speed of the vehicle 50 kmph, then stopping sight distance on a single lane road with 2-way traffic is

If the cross slope of a terrain is 20 %, according to IRC classification, it is a

'STOP' sign comes under

The arrangement which is made to divert a train from one track to another parallel track is called

Equilibrium cant for a curve of radius 400 m in a Broad Gauge track if the permitted speed is 50 kmph, is

A rising gradient along which trains climb only with the help of additional locomotive is called

The critical activity has

If to,tp and tm, are respectively the optimistic, pessimistic and most likely time estimates of an activity, the expected time t of the activity is

'The Garden City' principle for town planning was introduced by

The city which grows to its full stature, with high population density and large potentialities with all facilities like water supply transport etc is a

Built-up covered area of a building measured at floor level of any storey

The damp proof course is measured in

Which of the following is measured in cubic metres and payment is made per 100 cubic metres

The value of a property at the end of the utility period without being dismantled

Mangalore tiles to be used for roofing shall not absorb water more than........... of their weight.

A low wall built out into the sea, perpendicular to the coast line, to resist the travel of sand and shingle along beach

Marble is a

In the manufacture of cement, gypsum is added to

The pH of water used for mixing and curing of concrete shall not be

Suggested range of workability of concrete to be used in heavily reinforced sections in slabs, measured in slump (mm), as per Indian Standard is

The constituent of good brick earth, which imparts plasticity is