🚧 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

Groynes are generally builtAnswer: inclined up stream up to 30° The top of the capillary zoneAnswer: lies above the water table at every point Pick up the incorrect statement from the following. Culturable commanded area is the gross area of an irrigation canal system lessAnswer: fallow land. Pick up the correct statement from the followingAnswer: All the above. For the design of major hydraulic structures on the canals, the method generally preferred to, is based onAnswer: Khosla's method of independent variables. For designing the venturi head,Answer: all the above. The sinuosity of a meander is the ratio ofAnswer: curved length and the straight distance The top soil of a water logged field becomes more alkaline and infertile if its pH value isAnswer: 11 The main function of a diversion head works of a canal from a river, isAnswer: to raise water level When a canal flowing under pressure is carried below a natural drainage such that its F.S.L. does not touch the underside of the supporting structure, the structure so provided, is calledAnswer: super passage For the conditions enumerated to provide a crossing at C1 You will probably provideAnswer: a super-passage If the straight sides of a triangular section of a lined canal with circular bottom of radius R, make an angle θ with horizontal, the perimeter of the canal isAnswer: 2R(θ + cos θ) The crest level of a canal diversion head work, depends uponAnswer: all the above The depth of rice root zone, isAnswer: 90 cm The intensity of irrigation meansAnswer: percentage of culturable commanded area to be irrigated annually The saturation line is the line up to which banks get saturated after the canal runs for some time. The saturation gradient in ordinary loam soil, is generallyAnswer: 4 : 1 The depth of the crest of a scouring sluice below the crest of a head regulator, is generally keptAnswer: 1.20 m A river training work is generally required when the river isAnswer: meandering Pick up the correct statement from the following:Answer: All the above. Pick up the correct statement from the following:Answer: All the above. Water-shed line is abondened for aligning an irrigation canal ifAnswer: all the above. Pick up the incorrect statement from the followingAnswer: A bank in the cross-section of a canal is provided on the left For a given discharge in a channel, Blench curves give the relationship between the loss of head (HL) andAnswer: specific energy down-stream The effective length of a compression member of length L held in position and restrained in direction at one end and effectively restrained in direction but not held in position at the other end, isAnswer: L The ratio of shearing stress to shearing strain within elastic limit, is known asAnswer: shear modulus of elasticity For determination of allowable stress in axial compression, Indian Standard Institution has adoptedAnswer: Secant formula The method of design of steel framework for greatest rigidity and economy in weight, is known asAnswer: fully rigid design If the pitch is 6 cm and rivet value is 4 tonnes, the number of rivets required for a riveted connection carrying an eccentric load of 15 tonnes at a distance of 30 cm from the centre line, isAnswer: 8 In plastic analysis, the shape factor for circular sections, isAnswer: 1.697 A beam is defined as a structural member subjected toAnswer: transverse loading