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CIVIL ENGINEERING FACTS

1. John Smeaton is known as the Father of CI VIL Engineering.
2. Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya is the first INDI A N CI VIL Engineer.
3. India celebrates Engineer's Day on 15 September every year as a tribute to the
greatest Indian Engineer Bharat Ratna Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya.
4. Shakuntala A. Bhagat is the first INDIAN Woman CIVIL Engineer.
5. Elattuvalapil Sreedharan is known as "Metro Man" of India.
6. George Stephenson, an English Civil engineer and mechanical engineer, is
known as Father of Railway Engineering.
7. Elmina Wilson was the first woman to receive a Bachelor of civil engineering
degree at Iowa State College, and the first one to complete her master's degree in
the field. She was known as the "first lady of structural engineering", she
collaborated with Marston to build the 168-foot-tall A mes, Iowa, water tower,
the first raised steel tower west of the Mississippi.
8. Karl Von Terzaghi, Austrian Civil Engineer,Geotechnical Engineer and Geologist
known as "Father of Soil Mechanics"
9. Ludwig Prandtl changed the field of the fluid mechanics and is called the modern
father of fluid mechanics because
10. Stepan Prokopovych Timoshenko is consider to be the father of modern
engineering mechanics.
11. The survey of India is central engineering agency in-charge of mapping and
surveying, set up in 1767.
12. George Everest was surveyor-general of India, under whom great Trigonometrical
survey (1802-1852) was completed and Mount Everest was named in his honour
by Andrew Scott Waugh.
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and was completed in 2012. It consists of 5,846 km (3,633 mile) four/six lane
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CHA PTER 1
ORIGIN OF SOIL AND SOIL WATER RELATIONSHIP
LEVEL - 1
1. Loess deposits are formed by entered the solid phase
(a) Physical disintegration of rock (a) When loss in water is not
accompanied by a corres-ponding
(b) Constant blowing of wind from
reduction in the volume of soil
the same direction
mass
(c) Vertical deposition of glacial till (b) When reduction in the volume of
(d) Chemical weathering residual the soil mass is nearly equal to
deposit the volume of water lost
2. The engineering behaviour of clay is (c) When the soil mass becomes
essentially different from that of a brittle
sand at the same void ratio. Which (d) When the soil mass shown a small
one of the following is not responsible shearing resistance as the water
for this behaviour content is reduced
(a) Particle size and shape 6. Which one of the following is the
(b) Specific surface area most active clay material
(c) Soluble salt (a) Na-illite
(d) Cation exchange capacity (b) Na-kaolinite
3. Between which state of soil is (c) Na-montmorillonite

shrinkage limit conceptualized (d) Ca-montmorillonite
(a) Liquid state and soild state 7. Which of the following statements is
false ?
(b) Plastic state and semi-solid state
(a) Clay deposits are more porous
(c) Liquid state and plastic state than sand beds
(d) Semi-solid state and solid state (b) Presence of organic matter in soil
4. If a saturated soil sample is decreases the bearing capacity of
consolidated, the degree of saturation the soil
will (c) The change of moisture content
changes the value of angle of
(a) Reduce
repose
(b) Increase (d) None of the above
(c) Remain constant 8. A mong the following types of water,
(d) Become zero which one is chemically combined in
5. When a soil mass said to have the crystal structure of the soil
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mineral and can be removed only by (d) All of these
breaking the crystal structure 14. For a sandy soil with soil grains
spherical in shape and uniform in
(a) Capillary water
size. What is the theoretical void ratio
(b) Adsorbed water
?
(c) Hygroscopic water (a) 0.61 (b) 0.71
(d) Structural water (c) 0.91 (d) 0.81
9. Bentonite is a material obtained due 15. If the voids of a soil mass are full of
to the weathering of air only, the soil is termed as
(a) Limestone (b) Quartzite (a) Air entrained soil

(b) Partially saturated soil
(c) Volcanic ash (d) Shales
(c) Dry soil
10. The best indication of the behaviour
(d) None of the above
of a deposit sand under load can be
16. Which of the following soils has the
obtained from its
uniformity coefficient of more than
(a) Bulk density 10 ?
(b) Dry density (a) Well graded soil
(c) Relative density (b) Coarse soil
(d) Grading (c) Uniform soil
11. For distinguishing clays from silts in (d) Poor soil
the field, a moist soil is rolled into a 17. Which of the following is responsible
thread of 3 mm diameter. This test for the formation of residual soil?
will indicate the (a) Glaciers
(a) Dilatancy (b) Water
(b) Dry strength (c) Wind
(c) Wet and manipulated strength (d) None of these
(d) Toughness 18. A negative value of the group index
of a soil is reported as
12. Liquefaction of foundation soil during
an earthquake shall not be the reason (a) A positive value of the same
for cracking of magnitude dropping the nega-tive
sign
(a) Only floors in the building
(b) Zero
(b) Walls and roof in the building
(c) Neagtive value, as GI may be
(c) Beams and column in the
negative
building
(d) GI is reported as non-exist
(d) Only balcony in the building
19. When the plastic limit of a soil is
13. The moisture content of soil below
greater than the liquid limit, then the
which the soil volume become
plasticity index is reported as
constant is called the
(a) Negative
(a) Liquid limit
(b) Zero
(b) Plastic limit
(c) Non-plastic (NP)
(c) Shrinkage limit
(d) None of the above
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LEVEL - 2
20. Consider the following statement 3. Made up of 50% or more size
1. Loess is of volcanic origin particles
2. Loess soil are uniformly graded 4. Made up of more than 50% of silt
silt size particle particles
3. Climatic changes cause vertical Which of the above statement are

swelling and shrinkage of loess correct
4. Permeability of loess in horizontal (a) 1 and 3 (b) 1 and 4

direction is less than that in the (c) 2 and 3 (d) 2 and 4
vertical direction 23. Consider the following statement
Which of the statement given above 1. Porosity is zero in fully saturated
are correct soil
(a) 1 and 4 (b) 2 and 4 2. The dry density of soil is less than
(c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 3 the density of soil solids
21. Consider the following statement 3. The moisture content of a soil can
1. Partially saturated soil sample is be more than 100%
an example of three-phase system 4. Drying of soil results in increasing
2. Submerged density of a soil the voids ratio
sample is equal to the saturated Which of the above statement is/are
density divided by (1 + water correct
content) expressed as a fraction (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2
3. Void ratio of a soil sample is (c) 2 and 3 (d) 3 and 4
defined as the ratio of volume of 24. While computing the values of limits
voids to volume of soil grains of consistency and consistency
Which of the statement given above indices. It is found that liquidity index
are correct has a negative value
Consider the following comments on
(a) 1 and 2 only
this value
(b) 1 and 3 only
1. Liquidity index cannot have a
(c) 2 and 3 only negative value and should be
(d) 1, 2 and 3 taken as zero
2. Liquidity index can have a
22. The term 'Loess' indicate those soil
negative value
which are
3. The soil tested is in semisoilid
1. Uniformly graded state and stiff
2. Poorly graded 4. The soil tested is in medium soft
state
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Which of these statements are upto a certain depth below the
correct ? ground level. Below that level,
(a) 1 and 4 (b) 1 and 3 There is neither shrinking nor
swelling
(c) 2 and 4 (d) 2 and 3
Which of the these statement is/are
25. Consider the following clay minerals
correct
1. Kaolinite
(a) 1, 2 and 3
2. Montmorillonite
(b) 3 only
3. Illite
(c) 2 and 3 only
What is the correct sequance in an
(d) 1 and 3 only
increaseing order of the plasticity
28. Consider the following statements
index
1. Mica is a clay mineral
(a) 1- 2 - 3 (b) 3 - 2 - 1
2. Rock dust particles, even of clay
(c) 1- 3 - 2 (d) 3 - 1 - 2
size are non-plastic
26. By placing a soil sample at 105°C for 3. A particle of kaolinite is
24 hours in an oven electrically charged
1. Hygroscopic moisture is lost Which of these statement are correct
2. Capillary water is lost (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) Only 1 and 2
(c) Only 2 and 3 (d) Only 1 and 3
3. Free water is lost
29. Consider the following statement?
4. Structural water is lost
Lime stabilisation of soil leads to
Which of the above statement are
1. Decrease in shrinkage limit
correct
2. Increase in plastic limit
(a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 3 and 4 3. Decrease in liquid limit
(c) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2 and 3 4. Flocculation of clay particle
27. Consider the following statement Which of the statement given above
1. Each year black cotton soil are correct
appereciably shrinks during dry (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 1, 2 and 3
season and swells during rainy
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4
season .This alternate cycle of
30. consider the following statements:
shrinking and swelling causes
server stresses in structure 1. I ll ite is the mineral largely
supported directly by such soil responsible for the swelling and
shrinkage behaviour of clayey
2. Black cotton soil contains
soils.
predominantly a clay mineral
called kaolinite, which is 2. A differential free swell value of
responsible for causing 55% indicates a soil with low
appreciable shrinking and degree of expansiveness.
swelling 3. Higher the plasticity index of a
3. Shrinking and swelling of black soil, greater its swelling potential.
cotton soils are observed only 4. A low shrinkage limit of a soil
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indicates possibility of swelling at 32. Consider the following statements:
low water content. 1. When a soil sample is dried
Which of the above statements are beyond its shrinkage limt, the
correct ? volume of the soil slowly
decreases
(a) 1 and 2 only
2. Plastic limit is always lower than
(b) 2 and 3 only the liquid limit for any type of soil
(c) 1 and 4 only 3. At the liquid limit, the soil behaves
(d) 3 and 4 only like a liquid and possesses no shear
31. Consider the following ef fects as strength at all
indicative of complete saturation of 4. When subjected to drying, the
a soil sample: volume of the soil remains
unchanged once the water content
1. Pore water pressure is positive.
of the soil goes below its shrinkage
2. Volume of water to volume of limit
voids is equal to 1. Which of the above statements are
3. Relative density is equal to 1. correct
Which of the above statements are (a) 1 and 3 only
correct ? (b) 1 and 4 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(a) 1 and 2 only (b) 1 and 3 only
(d) 2 and 4 only
(c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3
LEVEL - 3
33. The atterberg limits of a clay are 38%, (a) 0.40 (b) 0.60
27% and 24.5%. Its natural water (c) 0.70 (d) 0.75
content is 30%. The clay is
36. A saturated soil mass has a total
in.............state
density 22 kN/m3 and a water content
(a) Plastic State
of 30%. The bulk density and dry
(b) Semi-fluid State density of this soil are
(c) Liquid State (a) 26 kN/m 3 and 20 kN/m 3
(d) None of these respectively
34. A soil deposit has a void ratio of 1.0. (b) 22 kN/m 3 and 17 kN/m 3
If the void ratio is reduced to 0.60 by respectively
compaction, the percentage volume (c) 17 kN/m 3 and 17 kN/n 3
loss is respectively
(a) 10% (b) 20% (d) 20 kN/m 3 and 20.6 kN/m 3
(c) 30% (d) 40% respectively
35. The difference between maximum void 37. On analysis of particle size
ratio and minimum void ratio of a sand distribution of a soil. It is found that
sample is 0.30. If the ralative density D10 = 0.3 mm and D60 = 0.8 mm. The
of this sample is 66.6% at a void ratio uniformity coefficient and co-efficient
of 0.40. Then the void ratio of this of curvature as given by the partical
size distribution curve are
sample at its loosest state will be
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respectively sample are 65% and 29% respectively.
(a) 3 and 3 The percentage of the soil fraction
(b) 2.67 and 1.125 with grain size finer than 0.002 mm
is 24.The activity ratio of the soil
(c) 2.67 and 3
sample is
(d) 8 and 1.125
(a) 0.50 (b) 1.00
38. The following data were obtained from
(c) 1.50 (d) 2.00
a liquid limit test conducted on a soil
43. If an unconfined compressive
sample.
strength of 12 kg/cm2 in the natural
Number 17 22 25 28 34
state of clay reduces by three times
of blows in the remoulded state, then its
Wa t e r 63.8 63.1 61.0 60.6 60.5 sensitivity will be
Con te n t (a) 1 (b) 2
(%) (c) 4 (d) 3
The liquid limit of the soil is: 44. Soil sample A and B have void ratios
(a) 63.1% (b) 62.8% of 0.5 and 0.7 respectively. If 1.5 m3
(c) 61.0% (d) 60.6% of soil sample A and 1.7 m3 of soil
39. A fine grained soil has 60% (by weight) sample B are mixed to form sample
silt content. The soil behaves as semi- C having a volume of 3.2 m3, which
one of the following correctly
solid when water content is between
represents the porosity of sample C
15% and 28%. The soil behaves fluid-
like when the water content is more (a) 0.375 (b) 0.60
than 40%. The 'Activity' of the soil is (c) 1.66 (d) 2.66
(a) 3.33 (b) 0.42 45. The saturated and dry densities of a
(c) 0.30 (d) 0.20 soil are respectively 1800 kg/m3 and
1500 kg/m3. The water content (in
40. Which one of the following is the
percentage ) of the soil in the
water content of the mixed soil made saturated state would be
from 2 kg of soil (say A) with water (a) 33.33 (b) 20
content of 100% and 3 kg of soil (say (c) 50 (d) 66.66
B) with water content of 50% 46. If the specific gravity of a suspended
(a) 67% (b) 71% particle is increased from 4 to 7, the
(c) 75% (d) 82% settling velocity will
(a) Not change
41. A saturated sand sample has a dry unit
weight of 18 kN/m 3 and a specific (b) Get doubled
gravity of 2.65. The water content of (c) Get increased by 1.75 times
the soil is (d) Get increased by 2.25 times
(a) 0.25 47. In a wet soil mass, air occupies one-
(b) 0.36 sixth of its volume and water
(c) 0.45 occupies 1/4 of its volume. The void
ratio of the soil is
(d) None of these
(a) 0.7 (b) 0.5
42. The liquid limit and plastic limit of
(c) 1.00 (d) 1.50
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48. A dry soil has mass specific gravity in the mix should be
of 1.35. If the specific gravity of solids (a) 60 (b) 76
is 2.7, then the void ratio will be
(c) 40 (d) 24
(a) 0.5 (b) 1.0
55. The plasticity index and the
(c) 1.5 (d) 2.0 percentage of grain size finer than 2
49. A clay soil has a void ratio of 0.43 in microns of a clay sample are 5 and
dry state and specific gravity of solids 15, respectively. Its active ratio is
= 2.70. Its shrinkage limit will be (a) 2.5 (b) 1.67
(a) 15.9% (b) 13.5% (c) 0.67 (d) 0.33
(c) 18.5% (d) 22% 56. If a soil sample of weight 0.18 kg
50. In a 200 gm wet soil sample, 100 gm having a volume of 10-4 m3 and dry
constitution soil particle. What is the unit weight of 1600 kg/m3 is mixed
water content of the soil with 0.04 kg of water. Then the water
content in the sample will be
(a) 300% (b) 50%
(a) 30% (b) 38%
(c) 100% (d) 150%
(c) 20% (d) 25%
51. The dry density of a soil is 1.5 g/cc. If
the saturation water content were 57. A sample of saturated sand has a dry
30%. Then its saturated density and unit weight of 18 kN/m3 and a specific
gravity of 2.7. If density of water is
submerged density would be
respectively 10 kN/m3, the void ratio of the soil
sample will be
(a) 1.5 g/cc and 1.0 g/cc
(a) 0.5 (b) 0.6
(b) 2.25 g/cc and 1.25 g/cc
(c) 0.4 (d) 0.9
(c) 2.0 g/cc and 1.0 g/cc
58. If the soil sample is having porosity
(d) 2.50 g/cc and 1.50 g/cc
50% and degree of saturation is 90%.
52. Two soil sample A and B have Then its percentage air voids is
porosities n A = 30% and n B = 60%
(a) 5% (b) 50%
respectively.What is the ratio of void
ratios e A : e B (c) 45% (d) 4.5%
(a) 4:9 (b) 7:2 59. Embankment fill is to be compacted

at a density of 18 kN/m3.The soil of
(c) 2:7 (d) 9:4
the borrow area is at a density of 15
53. A fill having a volume of 1,50,000 cum kN/m3. What is the estimated number
is to be constructed at a void ratio of of trips of 6 m 3 capacity truck for
0.6. The borrow pit soil has a void hauling the soil required for
ratio of 1.4. The volume of soil compacting 150 m 3 fill of the
required (in cube meters) to be embankment ?
excavated from the borrow pit will be
(Assume that the soil in the borrow
(a) 1,87,500 (b) 2,25,000 area and that in the embankment are
(c) 2,00,000 (d) 2,50,000 at the same moisture content)
54. Given that Plastic Index (PI) of local (a) 10 (b) 18
soil = 25 and PI of sand = zero. For a (c) 30 (d) 20
desired PI of 6, the percentage of sand
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60. A speciman of clayey silt contains following composition will be
70% silt size partical. Its liquid limit
= 40 and plastic limit = 20.In liquid
limit test at moisture content of 30%
required number of below was 50.Its
plasticity index, activity and
consistency index will respectively be
(a) 100% (b) 63%
(a) 20,0.67 and 0.5
(c) 37% (d) 13%
(b) 20,1.05 and 2.0
66. A sample of dry soil is coated with a
(c) 30,1.5 and 0.72
thin layer of paraffin and has a mass
(d) 20, 0.286 and 0.38 of 460 g. It displaced 300 cc of water
61. In a shrinkage limit test, the volume when immersed in it. The paraffin is
and mass of a dry soil pit are found peeled off and its mass was found to
to be 50 cm3 and 88g, respectively. The be 9 g. If the specific gravity of soil
specifc gravity of the soil solids is 2.71 solids and paraffin are 2.65 and 0.9
and the density of water is 1g/cc. The respectively. The voids ratio of soil is
shrinkage limit (in % ) is _____ nearly
(a) 19.91 (b) 18.71 (a) 0.92 (b) 0.71
(c) 17.51 (d) 6.62 (c) 0.59 (d) 0.48
62. The maximum dry density and 67. The liquid limit of a soil mass is 30%
optimum moisture content of a soil and its plastic limit is 45%. Then the
is given by 1.65 gm/cc and 20.5% plasticity index of this soil is_______
respectively. What is the percentage (a) 15
of air content of soil at OMC, if the
(b) –15
specific gravity of particles is given
by 2.65 ? (c) 0
(a) 10.4 (b) 15.5 (d) None of these
(c) 26.8 (d) 35.7 68. Find the quantity of soil, if dry
density of given soil is 1.75 gm/cm3
63. The dry density of soil specimen is
for an embankment of volume of 5 ×
1.818 g/cm3. Find the shrinkage ratio
104 m3
(a) 1 (b) 0.55
(a) 875 ton (b) 8750 ton
(c) 1.82 (d) 0.82 (c) 87500 ton (d) 8.75 ton
64. The mass specific gravity of a fully 69. What is the bulk unit weight of a clay
saturated specimen of clay having a soil when the void ratio of a sample
water content of 36% is 1.86. On oven is 0.05, the degree of saturation is
drying, the mass specific gravity 70% and the specific gravity of the
drops to 1.72. Then the specific soil grains is 2.2. Take the value of
gravity of clay is Yw to be 9.81 kN/m3?
(a) 3.12 (b) 2.69 (a) 13.65 kN/m2
(c) 3.21 (d) 2.96 (b) None of this
65. The moisture content of a certain (c) 19.65 kN/m2
Municipal solid waste with the (d) 29.95 kN/m2
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70. A given cohesionless soil has emax = 74. Consider the following properties for
0.85, emin = 0.5. In the field, the soil is clays X and Y
compacted to a mass density of 1800 SI. Clay X
Properties Clay Y
kg/m3 at w/c of 8%. Take the mass NO. (%) (%)
density of water as 1000 kg/m3 and 1. Liquid limit 42 56
Gs = 2.7. The relative density (in %) 2. Plastic limit 20 34
of the soil is Natural water
3. 30 50
(a) 56.43 (b) 60.25 content
(c) 62.87 (d) 65.71 Which of the clays X or Y experiences
71. A soil is composed of solid spherical larger settlement under identical
grains of identical specific gravity and loads is more plastic and is softer in
diameter between 0.075 mm and consistency
0.0075 mm. If the terminal velocity (a) X, Y and X (b) Y, X and X
of the largest particle falling through (c) Y, X and Y (d) X, Y and Y
water without flocculation is 0.5
75. A soil sample has 28 g of soil soilds,
mm/s, that for the smallest particle
would be 10 cm 3 of voids, 9g of water and
(a) 0.005 mm/s (b) 0.05 mm/s specific gravity of soil grains of 2.7.
(c) 5 mm/s (d) 50 mm/s Consider the following statement in
72. A borrow pit soil has a dry density of this regard

17 kN/m3. How many cubic meters of 1. The water content is 9/28  100%
this soil will be required to construct 10  2 . 7
an embankment of 100 m 3 volume 2. The void ratio is
28
with a dry density of 16 kN/m3. 3. Degree of saturation is
(a) 94 m3 (b) 106 m3 9
 100
(c) 100 m3 (d) 90 m3 10  2 . 7
73. The porosity (n) and the degree of 10  2 . 7
4. The porosity is 28
saturation (S) of a soil sample are 0.7  10  2 . 7 
and 40%, respectively. In a 100m 3 Of these statements
volume of the soil, the volume
(a) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(expressed in m3) of air is.......
(b) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(a) 42 (b) 62
(c) 32 (d) 52 (c) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
(d) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
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LEVEL - 4
76. Match List-I with List-II and select 3. A n organic soil formed of
the correct answer using the codes vegetational matter
given below the list 4. A soil which is deposit in lakes
Lis t-I List-II Code s:
(Property of soil) A B C D
A. Grain size 1. Pycnometer (a) 4 3 2 1
B. Specific gravity 2. Permeameter
(b) 2 1 4 3
C. Coefficient of 3. Vane shear
(c) 4 1 2 3
permeability apparatus
(d) 2 3 4 1
D. Cohesion 4. Pipette
78. Match List-I (Deposit) with List-II
5. Sand (Soil structure) and select the correct
pouring answer using the codes given below
the lists
cylinder
Lis t-I List-II
Code s:
A. Coarse grained 1. Flocculated
A B C D
soil
(a) 4 1 2 3
B. Silt deposit 2. C o h e s i v e
(b) 4 5 2 3 matrix
(c) 5 4 2 4 C. Clay deposit 3. Honeycomb
(d) 1 5 3 2 D. Composite soil 4. S i n g l e -
77. Match Lis t-I (Soil) with Lis t -I I grained
(Discription) and select the correct Code s:
answer using the codes given below A B C D

(a) 2 3 1 4
the lists
(b) 4 3 1 2
Lis t-I
(c) 2 1 3 4
A. Lacustrine
(d) 4 1 3 2
B. Peat 79. Match List I with List II and select
C. Till the correct answer using the codes
D. Varved clay given below the lists
List-1 Lis t-2
List-II
(Name of person) (Field of
1. A glacial clay characterized by
contribution)
distinctly marked annual deposit
(a) Stockes 1. Flow through
of sediments
capillary
2. Part of glacial drift which is (b) Darcy 2. Classification of
directly deposit by ice soils
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(c) Poiseuille 3. Consistency limits C. Aeolian 3. Deposit at
(d) Atterberg 4. Flow of water the bot-tom
through a soil of lakes
mass
D. Marine 4. Deposit in
5. Velocity of settling
Partcle sea water
A B C D Code s:
(a) 5 4 1 3 A B C D
(b) 5 3 2 1
(a) 1 4 3 2
(c) 3 4 2 1
(b) 3 2 1 4
(d) 3 2 1 4
80. Group I lists the type of gain or loss (c) 3 4 1 2
of strength in soils, Group II lists (d) 1 2 3 4
the property or process responsible
82. A soil sample is fully saturated at
for the loss or gain of strength in
water content of 15%. The saturated
soils.
unit weight of soil and the unit weight
Group I Group II
P. Regain of strength 1. Boiling of water are 15.70 kN/m3 and 9.81
with time kN/m3 respectively
Q. Loss of strength due 2. Liquefa Lis t-I List-II
to cyclic loading -ction A. Dry unit weight 1. 5.89 kN/m3
R. Loss of strength due 3. Thixotropy
B. Submerged unit 2. 13.34 kN
to upward seepage
Weight m3
S. Loss of strength due 4. Sensitivity
to remoulding 3. 13.65 kN/m3
The correct match is 4. 25.51 kN/m3
(a) P-4, Q-1, R-2, S-3 Code s:
(b) P-3, Q-1, R-2, S-4
A B
(c) P-3, Q-2, R-1, S-4
(d) P-4, Q-2, R-1, S-3 (a) 1 2
81. Match List-I (Type of soil) with List- (b) 2 3

II (Feature) and select the correct (c) 3 1
answer using the codes given below (d) 3 4
the list 83. Match List-I (Cause) with List-II
Lis t-I List-II (Effect) and select the correct answer
A. Lacustrine 1. Transported by using the codes given below the lists
wind Lis t-I
B. A lluvial 2. Transported by A. Brownian movement
running B. Soil grading
water C. Consistency
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D. Stratification analysis
List-II Code s:
1. Soil structure A B C D
(a) 2 4 1 3
2. Flow index
(b) 3 1 4 2
3. Coefficient of curvature
(c) 2 1 4 3
4. Particle settlement (d) 3 4 1 2
Code s: 86. List I List II
A B C D A. Plasticity index 1. N o n - p l a s t i c
material
(a) 4 1 2 3
B. Clean sand 2. Shows no shear
(b) 2 3 4 1 stress
(c) 4 3 2 1 C. Liquid state 3. Dif ference of
water contents at
(d) 2 1 4 3 liquid limit and
84. Match List-I (Soil) with List-II (Type) plastic limit
and select the correct answer using D. For zero plasticity 4. Plastic limit
the codes given below the lists index and liquid limit
are equal
Lis t-I List-II
Codes:
A. Fine sand 1. Expansive soil
A B C D
B. Silt 2. Coarse grai-ned
A. 1 2 3 4
soil
B. 3 2 4 1
C. Peat 3. Fine grained
C. 3 1 2 4
Soil
D. 4 1 2 3
4. Organic soil
87. List I List II
Code s:
A. Stoke's law 1. Very plastic soil
A B C
B. Clay 2. Least plastic soil
(a) 3 2 1
C. Sand 3. Determina-tion of
(b) 4 3 1 plas-ticity of soils
(c) 3 1 2 D. Atterberg's 4. Setting of soil
(d) 2 3 4 experiments particles in a soil
85. Match List-I (Measuring device) with suspen-sion
List-II (Soil parameter) and select the Codes:
correct answer using the codes given A B C D
below the lists A. 1 2 4 3
Lis t-I List-II B. 4 2 3 1
A. Pycnometer 1. Compress C. 1 4 3 2
-ibility D. 4 1 2 3
B. Hydrometer 2. P e r m e a b i - 88. List I List II
lity A. Black cotton soil 1. Field vane shear
C. Oedometer 3. S p e c i f i c test
gravity B. Fat clays 2. High compre-
D. Permeameter 4. Particle size ssibility
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C. Fine saturated 3. Swelling A. Oven drying 1. Most accurate
sands phenomenon method laboratory method
B. Sand bath 2. For rough value
D. Sensitive soft 4. Spontaneous
method of the water content
clays liquefaction C. Calcium 3. For embankment
Codes: carbide soil
A B C D D. Pycnometer 4. For soil whose
method specific gravity is
A. 3 2 1 4
accurately known
B. 1 3 2 4 Codes:
C. 2 4 3 1 A B C D
D. 3 2 4 1 A. 1 4 3 2
B. 4 3 2 1
89. List I List II
C. 1 2 3 4
(Determination (Suitability)
D. 2 3 1 4
of water content)
A nswer Sheet
1. (B) 2. (A) 3. (D) 4. (C) 5. (A) 6. (C) 7. (A) 8. (D) 9. (C) 10. (C)
11. (D) 12. (D) 13. (C) 14. (C) 15. (C) 16. (A) 17. (D) 18. (B) 19. (B) 20. (B)
21. (B) 22. (B) 23. (C) 24. (D) 25. (C) 26. (D) 27. (D) 28. (C) 29. (D) 30. (D)
31. (A) 32. (D) 33. (A) 34. (B) 35. (B) 36. (B) 37. (D) 38. (C) 39. (C) 40. (A)
41. (D) 42. (C) 43. (D) 44. (A) 45. (B) 46. (B) 47. (A) 48. (B) 49. (A) 50. (C)
51. (C) 52. (C) 53. (B) 54. (B) 55. (D) 56. (B) 57. (A) 58. (A) 59. (C) 60. (A)
61. (A) 62. (A) 63. (C) 64. (B) 65. (C) 66. (B) 67. (C) 68. (C) 69. (B) 70. (D)
71. (A) 72. (A) 73. (A) 74. (C) 75. (D) 76. (A) 77. (A) 78. (B) 79. (A) 80. (C)
81. (B) 82. (C) 83. (C) 84. (D) 85. (D) 86. (C) 87. (D) 88. (D) 89. (C)
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(d) Cation exchange capacity (b) Na-kaolinite

3. Between which state of soil is (c) Na-montmorillonite

(a) Limestone (b) Quartzite (a) Air entrained soil

3. Climatic changes cause vertical Which of the above statement are

4. Permeability of loess in horizontal (a) 1 and 3 (b) 1 and 4

(a) 4:9 (b) 7:2 59. Embankment fill is to be compacted

(a) 10.4 (b) 15.5 (d) None of these

(c) 5 mm/s (d) 50 mm/s Consider the following statement in

72. A borrow pit soil has a dry density of this regard

answer using the codes given below A B C D