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Civil Engineering Practice Test: Building Materials
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Building material is material used for construction. Many naturally occurring substances, such as clay, rocks, sand, wood, and even twigs and leaves, have been used to construct buildings. Apart from naturally occurring materials, many man-made products are in use, some more and some less synthetic.

Wood, cement, aggregates, metals, bricks, concrete, clay are the most common type of building material used in construction.

Civil Engineering Practice Test: Building Materials
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25 Questions

1. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
2. Smith's test of stones is performed to find out
3. The plywood
4. The main constituent of cement which is responsible for initial setting of cement is
5. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
6. During pudding
7. Bulking of sand is caused due to
8. Plastic
9. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
10. Asbestos
11. Lime stones are generally known as
12. First class timber has an average life of
13. For melting one tonne of cast iron
14. The pressure acting on the stones in stone masonry construction should be
15. A heavy stone is suitable for
16. Pick up the incorrect statement from the following:
17. The slump recommended for mass concrete is about
18. The type of steel used for precision levelling staff, is
19. A first class brick when immersed in cold water for 24 hours should not absorb water more than
20. The stones obtained by blasting are used as
21. For filling cracks in masonry structures, the type of bitumen used, is
22. Quartzite is a
23. Sand stone is
24. Sea sand used in structures causes
25. The normal consistency of ordinary Portland cement is about

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