Civil Engineering - CE 2017 GATE Paper MCQ Quiz - GATE MCQ

Group I lists the type of gain or loss of strength in soils. Group II lists the property or process responsible for the loss or gain of strength in soils. 

The correct match between Group I and Group II is 

A runway is being constructed in a new airport as per the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recommendations. The elevation and the airport reference temperature of this airport are 535 m above the mean sea level and 22.65°C, respectively. Consider the effective gradient of runway as 1%. The length of runway required for a design-aircraft under the standard conditions is 2000 m. Within the framework of applying sequential corrections as per the ICAO recommendations, the length of runway corrected for the temperature is  

A soil sample is subjected to a hydrostatic pressure, σ. The Mohr circle for any point in the soil sample would be

The figure shows a two-hinged parabolic arch of span L subjected to a uniformly distributed load of intensity q per unit length.

The maximum bending moment in the arch is equal to 

For a steady incompressible laminar flow between two infinite parallel stationary plates, the shear stress variation is  

An elastic bar of length L, uniform cross sectional area A, coefficient of thermal expansion α, and Young’s modulus E is fixed at the two ends. The temperature of the bar is increased by T, resulting in an axial stress σ. Keeping all other parameters unchanged, if the length of the bar is doubled, the axial stress would be  

The number of parameters in the univariate exponential and Gaussian distributions, respectively, are  

The wastewater form a city, containing a high concentration of biodegradable organics, is being steadily discharged into a flowing river at a location S. If the rate of aeration of the river water is lower than the rate of degradation of the organics, then the dissolved oxygen of the river water  

The reaction rate involving reactants A and B is given by −k [A]^α [ B]^β. Which one of the following statements is valid for the reaction to be first –order reaction? 

A strip footing is resting on the ground surface of a pure clay bed having an undrained cohesion C_u. The ultimate bearing capacity of the footing is equal to

A simply supported beam is subjected to a uniformly distributed load. Which one following statements is true?

A triangular pipe network is shown in the figure.

The head loss in each pipe is given by h_f = rQ^1.8, with the variables expressed in a consistent set of units. The value of r for the pipe AB is 1 and for the pipe BC is 2. If the discharge supplied at the point A (i.e., 100) is equally divided between the pipes AB and AC, the value of r (up to two decimal places) for the pipe AC should be_______

A super-elevation e is provided on a circular horizontal curve such that a vehicle can be stopped on the curve without sliding. Assuming a design speed v and maximum coefficient of side friction f_max, which one of the following criteria should be satisfied? 

Which one of the following is NOT present in the acid rain?  

The accuracy of an Electronic Distance Measuring Instrument (EDMI) is specified as  ± (a mm + b ppm). Which one of the following statements is correct?  

Consider the following partial differential equation: 

For this equation to be classified as parabolic, the value of B² must be_______ 

The matrix P is the inverse of a matrix Q. If I denotes the identity matrix, which one of the following options is correct?  

Vehicles arriving at an intersection from one of the approach road follow the Poisson distribution. The mean rate of arrival is 900 vehicles per hour. If a gap is defined as the time difference between two successive vehicle arrivals (with vehicles assumed to be points), the probability (up to four decimal places) that the gap is greater than 8 seconds is__

Let x be a continuous variable defined over the interval 

The integral g(x) = ∫ f (x) dx is equal to

The number of spectral bands in the Enhanced Thematic Mapper sensor on the remote sensing satellite Landsat-7 is 

A 3 m thick clay layer is subjected to an initial uniform pore pressure of 145 kPa as shown in the figure. 

For the given ground conditions, the time (in days, rounded to the nearest integer) required for 90% consolidation would be ________

A planar truss tower structure is shown in the figure.

Consider the following statements about the external and internal determinacies of the truss.

(P) Externally Determinate
(Q) External Static Indeterminacy = 1
(R) External Static Indeterminacy = 2
(S) Internally Determinate
 (T) Internal Static Indeterminacy = 1
(U) Internal Static Indeterminacy = 2

Q. Which one of the following options is correct?

Consider the stepped bar made with a linear elastic material and subjected to an axial load of 1 kN, as shown in the figure.

Segments 1 and 2 have cross-sectional are of 100 mm² and 60 mm², Young’s modulus of 2 × 10⁵ MPa and 3 × 10⁵ MPa, and length of 400 mm and 900 mm, respectively. The strain energy (in N-mm, up to one decimal place) in the bar due to the axial load is_____ 

Consider the beam ABCD shown in the figure.

For a moving concentrated load of 50 kN on the beam, the magnitude of the maximum bending moment (in kN-m) obtained at the support C will be equal to______

A column is subjected to a load through a bracket as shown in the figure.

The resultant force (in kN, up to one decimal place) in the bolt 1 is_____

The activity details of a project are given below:

The estimated minimum time (in days) for the completion of the project will be________