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1. In column analogy method , the area of an analogous column for a fixed beam of span L and flexural rigidity EI is taken as

A) L/EI
B) L/2EI
C) L/3EI
D) L/4EI

... Answer is A
 

 

2. The degree of static indeterminacy up to which column analogy method can be used is

A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) unrestricted

... Answer is B

 

3. the deflection at any point of a perfect frame can be obtained by applying a unit load at the joint in

A) vertical direction 
B) horizontal direction
C) inclined direction
D) the direction in which the deflection is required

... Answer is D

 

4. In the slope deflection equations, the deformations are considered to be caused by

        (i)     bending moment

        (ii)    shear force

        (iii)   axial force

        the correct answer is

A) only (i)
B) (i) and (ii)
C) (ii) and (iii)
D) (i), (ii),and (iii)

... Answer is A

 

5. The three moment equation is applicable only when 

A) the beam is prismatic
B) there is no settlement of supports
C) there is no discontinuity such as hinges within the span
D) the spans are equal

... Answer is C

 

6. while using three moment equation, a fixed end of a continuous beam is replaced by an additional span of

A) zero length
B) infinite length
C) zero moment of inertia
D) none of the above

... Answer is A

 

7. the castigliano's second theorem can be used to compute deflections

A) in statically determinate structures only
B) for any type of structures
C) at the point under the load only
D) for beams and frames only

... Answer is B

 

8. bending moment at any section in a conjugate beam gives in the actual beam

A) slope
B) curvature
C) deflection
D) bending moment

... Answer is C

 

9. which of the following is not the displacement method?

A) equilibrium method
B) column analogy method
C) moment distribution method
D) kani's method

... Answer is B

 

10. In the displacement method of structural analysis, the basic unknowns are

A) displacements
B) force
C) displacements and force
D) none of the above

... Answer is A

 

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Highway Engineering Introduction 4

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1. City roads meant for through traffic usually on continious routes

A) Carriage way
B) Expressway
C) Arterial roads
D) Sub arterial roads

... Answer is C


 

2. Centeral portion of roads for high speed vehicular traffic

A) Carriage Way
B) Expressway
C) Motorway
D) Both B & C

... Answer is D

 

3. Portion of road surface used for vehicular traffic

A) Carriageway
B) Creatway
C) Roadway
D) None of the above

... Answer is A

 

4. In which of the following surveys of road soil profile, sampling done upto a depth of 1m to 3m below the existing ground level?

A) Preliminary Survey
B) Primary Survey
C) Reconisance Survey
D) Location Survey

... Answer is A

 

5. In Water Bound Mecadam roads

A) Voids between stones are filled by stone dust
B) Small brocken stones laid in 2 layers
C) Camber for drainage is given at formation level
D) All of the above

... Answer is D

 

6. Department of Public Works  was formed to look after  the work of road construction during the period of

A) Lord Dalhousie
B) Lord Ripon
C) Lord William Bentincic
D) Loed Mayo

... Answer is A

 

7. Motor Vehicle  Act was enacted in

A) 1930
B) 1935
C) 1936
D) 1939

... Answer is D

 

8. Unit cost of transportation Au on a section of highway may be calculated as____________ where L= length of highway in Km, N=Total number of vehicles on road per year, A= Total annual cost of highway transpotation.

A) Au=AL/N
B) Au=A/NL
C) Au=A+NL
D) aU=A-NL

... Answer is B

 

9. State Highways should have_____m wide carriage and ____m wide shoulders on each aide.

A) 4.5 & 3.50
B) 3.5 & 2.56
C) 6 & 4
D) 8 & 2

... Answer is D

 

10. Total Annual cost of highway transportation , A can be calculated as_________, where B=Annula cost of highway, C=Annula cost of single vehicle operation, N=Total number of vehicles on road per year.

A) A=B-NC
B) A=B/CN
C) A=B+CN
D) A=BxCN

... Answer is B

 

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1. Longest road constructed during the time of ShershaSuri was from

A) Lahore to Calcutta
B) Delhi to Calcutta
C) Lahore to Delhi
D) Delhi to Agra

... Answer is B


 

2. The Central Road Research Institute is controlled by 

A) Shipping and Transport
B) Planning Committee
C) Science and Technology
D) Road Finance Commission 

... Answer is C

 

3. Recommended Camber for Water Bound Mecadam is

A) 1 in 26 to 1 in 45
B) 1 in 60 to 1 in 70
C) 1 in 30 to 1 in 48
D) 1 in 70 to 1 in 80

... Answer is C
Camber=1 in 36
 

4. In which of the following was cross drainage first introduced?

A) Tresaguet
B) Metcalf
C) Telford
D) Macadam

... Answer is C

 

5. In Telford construction, side portions were made up of only one layer of brocken stones and levelled off to give a cambe of

A) 1 in 60
B) 1 in 50
C) 1 in 48
D) 1 in 36

... Answer is D

 

6. A road within a city or town is called

A) City road
B) Urban Road
C) Both
D) None of rhe above

... Answer is B

 

7. As per recommendations of IRC, NH having 2 lanes must be atleast____ wide 

A) 7.5m
B) 8.0m
C) 8.5m
D) 9.0m

... Answer is B

 

8. Road connecting Capital cities of States is called

A) National Highway
B) Capital Highway
C) Expressway
D) State Highway

... Answer is D

 

9. In Nagpur Confrence, minimum width of Village Road was recommended as

A) 3.60m
B) 2.65m
C) 3.20m
D) 2.45m

... Answer is D 

 

10. Indian Roads and Transport Development Association, IRTDA was set up on

A) 1934
B) 1927
C) 1947
D) 1951

... Answer is B
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1. The principle of construction of diagonal scale is based on

A) Pythagoras theorem
B) Similar triangle
C) Parallelogram law
D) None of these

... Answer is B


 

2. Methods of surveying considering shape of earth is called

A) Astronomical survey
B) Geodetic survey
C) Aerial survey
D) All of the above

... Answer is B

 

3. The top of map on a paper should point to

A) South direction
B) North west direction
C) North direction
D) North east direction

... Answer is C

 

4. Survey which is carried out to depict mountains, rivers, waterbodies, wooded areas and other cultural details are known as

A) Cadastral survey
B) City survey
C) Topographical survey
D) Plane survey

... Answer is C

 

5. 10 square chain is equal to

A) 10 acre
B) 5 acre
C) 3 acre
D) 1 acre

... Answer is D

 

6. 484 square yard is equal to

A) 1 square chain
B) 3 square chain
C) 5 square chain
D) 7 square chain

... Answer is A

 

7. The part of surveying which deals with measurement in vertical plane is known as

A) Levelling
B) Contouring
C) Mapping
D) Chaining

... Answer is A

 

8. The least count of the vernier used in Abney level is

A) 20 second
B) 30 seconds
C) 10 seconds
D) 5 seconds

... Answer is C

 

9. In surveying the relative position of points are located by measurements from atleast

A) Two points
B) Three points
C) Four points
D) None of these

... Answer is A

 

10. Which survey is used to collect the details of boundaries of field, houses and other properties

A) City survey
B) Location survey
C) Cadastral survey
D) None of these

... Answer is C

 

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1. __________ is an arterial facility designed for high speed and high volume traffic in non urban areas

A) Highway
B) Expressway
C) Both 
D) None of the above

... Answer is A


 

2. For hilly regions Border Road Organisation was formed in which year

A) 1980
B) 1960
C) 1950
D) 1940

... Answer is B
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3. The foundation for Modern Highway construction was laid by

A) Tresguet
B) Telford and Mecadam Simultaneously
C) Tresguet and Mecadam Simultaneously
D) Mecadam

... Answer is B

 

4. First operation during the detailed survey of Hill road is________

A) Adjustment of alignment along curves
B) Derivaton of longitudnal and cross-section
C) Fixing Benchmarks
D) Hydrological and Soil surveys

... Answer is C

 

5. The duration of Long term plan for the Development of Roads in India was___years

A) 5
B) 10
C) 15
D) 20

... Answer is D
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6. According to recommendations of Nagpur Confrence, width of formation of an ideal National highway in hard rock cutting is  

A) 7.9m
B) 8.9m
C) 6.9m
D) 5.9m

... Answer is A

 

7. The Grand Trunk Road was constructed during

A) 2000 to 2500BC
B) 1540 to 1545AD
C) 1440 to 1445AD
D) 2500 to 3000BC

... Answer is B

 

8. Seperate class of highway with superior facilities and design standards, meant for route having very high volume of traffic is called_________

A) Arterior road
B) Expressway
C) Sub-arterior streets
D) both A and B

... Answer is B

 

9. Road Connecting two towns is called___________

A) Country road
B) Urban road
C) Highway
D) Expressway

... Answer is A

 

10. The Central Road Road Research Institute CRRI was formed in which year? 

A) 1960
B) 1955
C) 1950
D) 1945

... Answer is C

 

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1. The principle of survey is to work

A) From part to whole
B) From whole to part
C) From higher level to lower level
D) From lower level to higher level

... Answer is B


 

2. In case of location map , the scale is usually

A) 1:1000 to 1:2000
B) 1:50 to 1:200
C) 1:2500 to 1:500
D) 1:2500 to 1:100

... Answer is C

 

3. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

A) Large water bodies
B) Rain fall data
C) Wave movement
D) None of these

... Answer is A

 

4. The smallest length that can be drawn on a map is

A) 0.20mm
B) 0.60mm
C) 1.00cm
D) 1.20cm

... Answer is A

 

5. Surveyor which are carried out to provide a national grid of control for preparation of accurate maps of large areas are known as

A) Plane survey
B) Geodetic survey
C) Geographic survey
D) Topographic survey

... Answer is B

 

6. The survey conducted for unearthing relies of antiquity

A) Geological survey
B) Mine survey
C) Military survey
D) Archeological survey

... Answer is D

 

7. 1 yard =

A) 5 feet
B) 10 feet
C) 3 feet
D) 2 feet

... Answer is C

 

8. When 1cm on a map 10m on the ground, the representative fraction of the scale is

A) 1/10
B) 1/100
C) 1/1000
D) 1/10000

... Answer is C

 

9. If the smallest division of a vernier is shorter than the smallest division of it's primary scale the vernier is known as

A) Direct vernier
B) Double vernier
C) Retrograde vernier
D) Simple vernier

... Answer is A

 

10. The degree of precision required in survey work mainly depends upon

A) Layout of survey
B) Extend of land
C) Purpose of survey
D) Topography of area

... Answer is C

 

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1. The principle of virtual work can be applied to elastic system by considering the virtual work of

A) internal forces only
B) external forces only
C) internal as well as external forces
D) none of the above

... Answer is C


 

2. castigliano's first theorem is applicable

A) for statically determinate structures only
B) when the system behaves elastically
C) only when principle of super position is valid
D) none of the above

... Answer is C

 

3. principle of superposition is applicable when

A) deflections are linear functions of applied forces
B) material obeys Hooke's law
C) the action of applied forces will be affected by small deformations of the structure
D) none of the above

... Answer is A

 

4. in moment distribution method,the sum of distribution factors of all the members meeting at any joint is always

A) zero
B) less than 1
C) 1
D) greater than 1

... Answer is C

 

5. the carryover factor in a prismatic member whose far end is fixed is

A) 0
B) 1/2
C) 3/4
D) 1

... Answer is B

 

6. the carryover factor in a prismatic member whose far end is hinged is

A) 0
B) 1/2
C) 3/4
D) 1

... Answer is A
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7. the moment required to rotate the near end of a prismatic beam through a unit angle without translation , the far end being simply supported, is given by

A) 3EI/L
B) 4EI/L
C) 2EI/L
D) EI/L

... Answer is A
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8. the moment required to rotate the near end of a prismatic beam through unit angle, without translation ( the far eng being fixed), is given by

A) EI/L
B) 2EI/L
C) 3EI/L
D) 4EI/L

... Answer is D
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9. if M is the external moment which rotates the near end of a prismatic beam without translation ( the far end being fixed), then the moment induced at the far end is

A) M/2 in same direction as M
B) M/2 in opposite direction as M
C) M in opposite direction
D) 0

... Answer is A

 

10. the principle of superposition is not applicable when

        (i)     the material does not obey Hooke's law

        (ii)    the effects of temperature changes are taken into consideration

        (iii)   the structure is being analysed for the effect of support settlement

     the correct answer is    

A) only (i)
B) both (i) and (ii)
C) both (ii) and (iii)
D) (i),(ii), and (iii)

... Answer is A

 

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