Civil Engineering :: UPSC Civil Service Exam Questions
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Consider the following statements :
Bearing stiffness, in plate girders, are :
1. provided at supports.
2. provided under concentrated loads.
3. provided alternately on the web.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ? -
Which one of the following statements is correct ?
As the depth of immersion of a vertical plane surface increases, the location of centre of pressure. -
A highly sensitive undisturbed clay sample was brought to the laboratory and UU test was performed. The curve of deviator stress versus strain % plot will be (among the four curves shown in the given figure) the one labelled
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The sequent depth ratio in a hydraulic jump formed in a horizontal rectangular channel is 16.48. The flow is supercritical. What is the value of the Froude number of flow ?
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Consider the following operations in a spire test :
1. Depress telescope and sight a point on the ground nearer to the instrument
2. Clamp horizontal plates
3. Sight a well defined high point on a high building
4. Change face and repeat the procedure.
The correct sequence of these operations is -
Probability of a lO-year flood to occur at least once in the next 4 years is
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Weigh-batching proceeds on
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A cantilever beam of span l carries a uniformly varying load of zero intensity at the free end and w per metre length at the fixed end. What does the integration of the ordinate of the load diagram between the limits of free and fixed ends of the beam give ?
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A shaft PQRS is subjected to torques at P, Q, R, S as shown in the given figure.
The maximum torque for the shaft section occurs between -
When the recirculation ratio in a high rate trickling filter is unity, then what is the value of the recirculation factor ?