Civil Engineering :: UPSC Civil Service Exam Questions
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The depreciation charges for a machine are thirty paise per working hour. The machine has a scrap value of Rs 2, 000 and a working hour average life of 24000 hours. What is the purchase price of the machine ?
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Denehy's groyne is a special type of groyne which is :
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As a natural material, timber is which one of the following ?
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Consider the implicit details between, before and after successive steps in/within the order while doing time computations on a CPM network. (FP => Forward Pass; BP => Backward Pass; LET => Late Event Time; EET => Early Event Time; TF => Total Float; PD => Project Duration; AD => Activity Duration)
The correct sequence of computation would be -
A retaining wall 8 m high with a smooth vertical back retains a clay back fill with C' = 15 kN/m2, φ = 15° and γ = 18 kN/ m3. (Given sin 15° ≅ 0.25). The pressure at the top will, nearly, be equal to
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In a compression member, plate element may buckle locally before the entire member fails. To avoid this, which of the following recommendations are made ?
1. Thickness of members is taken in terms of lengths of compression members
2. Length of element is increased
3. Length of member is increased
4. Outstand is decreased
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The deflection at the free end of a cantilever of rectangular cross-section due to certain loading of 0.8 cm. If the depth of the section is doubled keeping the width the same, then the deflection at the free end due to the same loading will be
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Self-purification of running streams may be due to
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At a point in a strained material, if two mutually perpendicular tensile stresses of 2000 kg/cm2 and 1000 kg/cm2 are acting, then the intensity of tangential stress on a plane inclined at 15° to the axis of the minor stress will be :
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A particle is moving on a plane curve with velocity v. 's' is the arc length of the particle from a fixed point on the curve and (r, θ) its position coordinates at time 't'. The transverse component of the acceleration of the particle is given by
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