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Civil Engineering Practice Test: Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
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Soil mechanics is the theory of mechanical properties of soils. Foundation engineering - the theory of stability of foundations and construction methods used for their production. This also includes predicting the deformation of the substrate.

The objectives of soil mechanics are (1) to study the physical and mechanical properties of soil, (2) to apply this knowledge for the solution of practical engineering problems, and (3) to replace by scientific methods the empirical ones of design used in foundation and soil engineering in the past.

Civil Engineering Practice Test: Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
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25 Questions

1. Failure of the stability of slopes, generally occurs along
2. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
3. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
4. A soil mass coated with a thin layer of paraffin weighs 460 g. When immersed, it displaces 299 cc of water. The weight of paraffin is 10 g. If specific gravity of solids is 2.5 and that of paraffin 0.9, the void ratio of soil, is
5. The compression index of a soil
6. A plane inclined at an angle to the horizontal at which the soil is expected to stay in the absence of any lateral support, is known as
7. Compressibility of sandy soils is
8. Voids ratio of a soil mass can
9. An unsaturated 100 cm3 sample of soil weighs 190 g. If its dried weight is 160 g, water content of the soil, is
10. Cohesionless soil is
11. A decrease in water content results in a reduction of the volume of a soil in
12. At liquid limit, all soils possess
13. Contact pressure beneath a rigid footing resting on cohesive soil is
14. On wetting, cohesive soils,
15. The admixture of coarser particles like sand or silt to clay causes
16. If the shearing stress is zero on two planes, then the angle between the two planes is
17. For shear strength, triaxial shear test is suitable because
18. The total and effective stresses at a depth of 5 m below the top level of water in a swimming pool are respectively
19. The maximum dry density upto which any soil can be compacted depends upon
20. Hydrometer readings are corrected for:
21. Which of the following methods is best suited for determination of permeability of coarse-grained soils?
22. The ratio of emax and emin of silty sand, is
23. Pick up the in-correct statement from the following: The soils which contain montmorillonite minerals
24. The consolidation time for soils
25. Which one of the following statements is true for Mohr-Coulomb envelope?

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