Practice Test: Gate Civil Engineering(CE) 2018 Paper: (Session I) - GATE MCQ

“It is no surprise that every society has had codes of behaviour; however; the nature of these codes is often ________.” The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is​

Hema’s age is 5 years more than twice Hari’s age. Suresh’s age is 13 years less than 10 times Hari’s age. If Suresh is 3 times as old as Hema. How old is Hema?

Consider a sequence of number a₁,a₂,a₃ ..., a_n where  for  each integer n > 0. What is the sum of the first 50 terms?

A fruit seller sold a basket of fruits at 12.5% loss. Had he sold it for Rs. 108 more, he would have made a 10% gain. What is the loss in Rupees incurred by the fruit seller? 

Each of the letters arranged as below represents a unique from 1 to 9. The letters are positioned in the figure such that (A x B x C),(B x G x E) and (D x Ex F ) are equal. Which integer among the following choices cannot be represented by the letters A, B, C, D, E, F or G?

The price of a wire made of a superalloy material is proportional to the square of its length. The price of 10 m length of the wire is Rs. 1600. What would be the total price (in Rs.) of two wires of lengths 4 m and 6 m?

What of the following function(s) in an accurate description of the graph for the range(s) indicated?

A solid circular beam with radius of 0.25 m and length of 2 m is subjected to a twisting moment of 20 kNm about the z-axis at the free end, which is the only load acting as shown in the figure. the stress component  t_xy at Point ‘M’ in the cross-section of the beam at a distance of 1 m from the fixed end is​

In a fillet weld, the direct shear stress and bending tensile stress are 50 MPa and 150 MPa, respectively. As per IS 800 : 2007, the equivalent stress (in MPa, up to two decimal places) will be ____________.

The percent reduction in the bearing capacity of a strip footing resting on sand under flooding condition (water level at the base of the footing) when compared to the situation where the water level is at a depth much greater than the width of footing, is approximately

The deformation in concrete due to sustained loading is

The speed-density relationship for a road section is shown in the figure.
 

​The shape of the flow-density relationship is

A steel column of ISHB 350 @ 72.4 kg/m is subjected to a factored axial compressive load of 2000 kN. The load is transferred to a concrete pedestal of grade M20 through a square base plate. Consider bearing of concrete as 0.45 f_ck , where f_ck is the characteristic strength of concrete. Using limit state method and neglecting the self weight of base plate and steel column, the length of a side of the base plate to be provided is

For routing of flood in a given channel using the Muskingum method, two of the routing coefficients are estimated as 
C₀ =−0.25 and C₁ = 0.55. The value of the third coefficient C₂ would be _________.

A column of height h with a rectangular cross-section of size a x 2a has a buckling load of P. If the cross-section is changed to 0.5a x 3a and its height changed to 1.5 h, the buckling load of the redesigned column will be 

Bernoulli’s equation is applicable for

The frequency distribution of the compressive strength of 20 concrete cube specimen is given in the table.

If μ is the mean strength of the specimens and σ is the standard deviation, the number of specimens (out of 20) with compressive strength less than m μ − 3σ is _________.

The width of a square footing and the diameter of a circular footing are equal. If both the footings are placed on the surface of sandy soil, the ratio of the ultimate bearing capacity of circular footing to that of square footing will be

In a shrinkage limit test, the volume and mass of a dry soil pat are found to be  50 cm³ and 88 g. respectively. The specific gravity of the soil solids is 2.71 and the density of water is 1 g/cc. The shrinkage limit (in % up to two decimal places) is___________.

A core cutter of 130 mm height has inner and outer diameters of 100 mm and 106 mm respectively. The area ratio of the core cutter (in %, up to two decimal places) is ______________.

Two rectangular under-reinforced concrete beam sections X and Y are similar in all aspects except that the longitudinal compression reinforcement in section Y is 10% more. Which one of the following is the correct statement?

At the point x = 0, the function f ( x ) = x³ has

A well-designed signalized intersection is one in which the

A flow field is given by Value of the zcomponent of the angular velocity (in radians per unit time, up to two decimal places) at the point (0, -1, 1) is ________.

A bitumen sample has been graded as VG30 as per IS : 73-2013. The ‘30’ in the grade means that​

The Le Chatelier apparatus is used to determine

A city generates 40 ´ 10⁶ kg of municipal solid waste (MSW) per year, out of which only 10% is recovered/recycled and the rest goes to landfill. The landfill has a single lift of 3 m height and is compacted to a density of 550 kg/m³. If 80% of the landfill is assumed to be MSW, the landfill area (in m², up to one decimal place) required would be __________.