ESE (CE) Paper II Mock Test - 1 - Civil Engineering (CE) MCQ

A fixed beam beam of span 4 m is loaded with uniformly distributed load of 1.5 kN/m throughout the span. If during the loading, left support rotates clockwise by 0.001 rad then fixed end moment of left end is [Take EI = 1 × 10¹⁰ N-cm²]

Zigzag deposition and movement of sand on a sea beach is called as

Consider the following statements regarding notches:

1. These are designed to maintain the normal water depth in the upstream channel at any two discharge values.
2. The depth discharge relation can be maintained with close approximation.

Which of the above statements are CORRECT?

During a laboratory consolidation test with double-drainage system, a 20 mm thick clay sample underwent 90% consolidation in 10 minutes. If another sample of the same soil is tested with single drainage with all other conditions remaining same, what would be the time required for it to undergo 90% consolidation?

Whenever an activity has zero total float, then

In chain surveying, perpendiculars to the chain line are set out by

Consider the following statements:

1. Most colloidal particles in water are negatively charged.

2. The surface charge on colloidal particles is the major contributor to their stability.

Which of these statement is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding tensile test diagram for carbon steel with varying carbon contents :

As the carbon content increases

1. The ultimate strength of steel decreases.
2. The elongation before fracture increases.
3. The ductility of the metal decreases.
4. The ultimate strength of steel increases.

Which of the above statements are CORRECT?

Two point loads 2X and X spaced 3 m apart cross a girder of 9 m span. If the maximum bending moment occurring on the girder is 48 kNm, then the value of X is

A simply supported beam (diamond cross-section) of span 6 m is subjected to a uniformly distributed load throughout its length. The length of plastic hinge (in m) is

The effective height of a masonry wall of height H restrained fully at its top and partially at its bottom is

A cantilever beam is subjected to total a uniformly distributed load W over its whole length L and a concentrated upward force W at the mid span. The deflection at free end is

Mohr’s stress circle helps in determining which of the following?

1. Normal stresses on one plane.
2. Normal and tangential stresses on two planes.
3. Principal stress in all three planes.
4. Inclination of principal planes.

Which of the above statements is(are) CORRECT?

Which of the following methods can be adopted while tunneling in soft soils?

1. Forepoling method
2. Compressed air method
3. Needle beam method
4. Pilot tunnel method
5. Heading and bench method

Rotation of joint B in the frame shown below is

For a pre–tensioned beam, Young’s modulus of steel and concrete are 200 GPa and 35 GPa, respectively. If the ultimate shrinkage strain and ultimate creep coefficient are 200 microns and 1.6, respectively, what is the level of sustained stress in concrete at the level of ‘steel’. If the loss due to creep is three times the loss due to shrinkage.

Consider the following statements:

1. Primary bonds-ionic, covalent, or metallic bonds, are all relatively strong.
2. Secondary bonds melt between 100 K and 500 K.
3. Primary bonds generally melt between 1000 K and 4000 K.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

For the same number of bolts, the maximum efficiency is achieved in

Consider the following statements:

1. Risk is the occurrence of events that have consequences like decreased cost and inability to meet specifications.
2. GERT technique would be used to find out the through put time of a product whose assembly network has stochastic nature.
3. Free float is the amount of time that the activity completion time can be delayed without affecting the earliest start time of the immediate successor activity in the network.

Which of the above statements are CORRECT?

Considers the following statement regarding Load Path Safety.

1. Loads moved with any material handling equipment must pass above any personnel.
2. A suspended load must never be left unattended but must be lowered to the working surface and the material-handling equipment secured before leaving the load unattended.
3. The load path must be selected and controlled to eliminate the possibility of injury to employees should the material handling equipment fail.
4. Equipment worked on while supported by material-handling equipment must have a redundant supporting system capable of supporting all loads that could be imposed by failure of the mechanical-handling equipment.

Which of the following statements are correct?

The cubes and cylinders are stored under water or placed in constant temperature at 100% relative humidity before testing

Consider the following statements

1. The double mass curve analysis is adopted to check the consistency of rainfall data.
2. Isohyetal method gives accurate estimate of average rainfall in a particular catchment area.
3. Depth-area-duration curves of precipitation are drawn as maximizing envelopes through the appropriate data points.

Which of the above statements are correct.

A beam with a cantilever arm BC supporting a freely supported end span CD is shown below. The shear force (in tonnes) at A due to a uniformly distributed dead load of intensity 2 t/m covering the entire span ABCD will be

A fillet-welded joint of 8 mm size weld is shown in the figure. The permissible stress in the fillet weld is 120 MPa. The safe load that can be transmitted by the joint is

While designing a combined footing, the resultant of the column loads passes through the centre of gravity of the footing so that the net soil pressure obtained is:

For a linear elastic structure, minimization of potential energy yields

The consistency of saturated soil is mainly affected by