🚧 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

According to the recommendations of Nagpur Conference, the width formation of an ideal National Highway in hard rock cutting, isAnswer: 7.9 m The absolute minimum radius of horizontal curve for a design speed 60 km ph isAnswer: none of these. Volume of traffic which would immediately use a new road or an improved one when opened to traffic, is knownAnswer: current traffic Pick up the correct statement from the following:Answer: All the above. In India the modes of transportation, in the order of their importance, areAnswer: railways, roads, shipping, air transport On the recommendations of Indian Road Congress, the ruling gradient in plains, isAnswer: 1 in 30 The head light of vehicles should be such that its lower beam illuminates objects atAnswer: 30 m The length of the side of warning sign boards of roads isAnswer: 45 cm A single lane carriage way whenever changes to two-lane carriage way, is affected through a taper ofAnswer: 1 in 15 to 1 in 20 The wall constructed for the stability of an excavated portion of a road on the hill side, is known asAnswer: breast wall Maximum number of passenger cars that can pass a given point on a road during one hour under the most ideal road way and traffic conditions, is known asAnswer: basic capacity of traffic lane Borrow pits should preferably be located inAnswer: central half width of the section of the canal. Irrigation canals are generally aligned alongAnswer: ridge line The length of a meander is the distance along the river between the tangent point of one curve to the tangent point ofAnswer: next curve of the same order Pick up the incorrect statement from the followingAnswer: None of these. The difference in level between the top of a bank and supply level in a canal, is calledAnswer: free board F.S.L. of a canal at its head with respect to parent channel is keptAnswer: 15 cm lower The measure to remove water logging of land, isAnswer: both (a) and (b) Attracting groynes are builtAnswer: inclined down stream Retrogression of the bed level of a river downstream a weir, occurs due toAnswer: less percentage of silt According to G.W. Pickles the effect of confining the flood water of a river between levee, is to increaseAnswer: surface slope of streams above the leveed portion. In a canal syphon, the flow isAnswer: pipe flow A water-logged land is found suitable for cultivation due toAnswer: none of these. When a canal and a drainage approach each other at the same level, the structure so provided, isAnswer: a level crossing For smooth entry of water in a canal, the angle between head regulator and water is generally keptAnswer: 110° If L is total length of a canal in kilometres, P is total perimeter of its lining in metres and C is the cost of lining per square metre, the additional expenditure involved on lining, isAnswer: 1000 PLC Pick up the incorrect statement from the following:Answer: None of these. In a Sarda type fall, the rectangular crest, may be used for discharge uptoAnswer: 14 cumecs When a canal is carried over a natural drainage, the structure provided, is known asAnswer: aqueduct For the stability of a structure against seepage pressure according to Khosla's creep theory, the critical gradient isAnswer: 1.00