🚧 Civil Engineering Solved MCQs with Answers

Practice 1228 approved 🚧 Civil Engineering questions with verified answers from the 🛠️ Engineering Essentials subject for Pakistan exams.

1228 solved MCQs

For the taxiways, the following statement is trueAnswer: All the above. Pick up the correct statement from the following:Answer: All the above. The maximum length and pavement strength of the runway is that ofAnswer: A 1 According to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (I.C.A.O.), the runway lengths of aerodromes, have been coded byAnswer: First Seven English alphabets Pick up the incorrect statement from the following:Answer: Glide slope antenna is installed at the centre of the runway about 150 m on one side According to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (I.C.A.O.) the strength of runway pavements, have been coded byAnswer: First seven numbers The strength of winds is measured with the help ofAnswer: Benfort scale The landing and take off of the air craft is made against the direction of wind. In no case the centre line of the runway should make an angle with the wind direction exceedingAnswer: 30° According to I.C.A.O. all markings on the runways are painted white and on taxiwaysAnswer: yellow If the width of the approach area near the runway end is 150 m, the width of the approach area at a distance of 3 kilometres from runway end will beAnswer: 1200 m Mr. W. Simms, the consulting Engineer to the Government of India recommended the gauge for Indian railwaysAnswer: 1.676 m as a compromise gauge If absolute levels of rails at the consecutive axles A, B, and C separated by 1.8 metres are 100.505 m, 100.530 m, and 100.525 m respectively, the unevenness of rails, isAnswer: 0.065 m A CST-9 sleeper consists ofAnswer: all the above. Charles Vignoles invented the flat footed rails inAnswer: 1836 The first Indian railway was laid inAnswer: 1853 The weight of the rails depends uponAnswer: all the above. Pick up the correct statement from the following :Answer: All the above. Pick up the incorrect statement from the following:Answer: Fish plates fit the web of the rail section Pick up the incorrect statement from the following:Answer: Fish plates fit the web of the rail section Minimum depth of ballast prescribed of B.G. trunk lines of Indian Railways, isAnswer: 25 cm Boxing of ballast is doneAnswer: at the rails Best ballast contains stones varying in size fromAnswer: 2.0 cm to 5 cm For holding a rail in position, no chairs are used forAnswer: flat footed rails Distance between the inner rail and check rail provided on sharp curve, isAnswer: 44 mm Coal ash (or cinder) is used in initial stages of a new construction of railway forAnswer: wooden sleepers Pot sleepers are in the form ofAnswer: two bowls placed under each rail and connected together with a tie bar In railways a triangle is mainly provided forAnswer: changing direction of engines through 180° A kink is made in stock rails, ahead of the toe of switch at a distance ofAnswer: 15 cm Rails are bent to correct curvature if the degree of curve, is more thanAnswer: 4° In India the rails are manufactured byAnswer: both (a) and (b)