Civil Engineering Exam Questions

Collected

Sunil Kumar Roy

B.Sc. in (Civil)

1. If the soil has liquid limit 67 and the plastic limit 45. Then what is the plasticity index. If
he void ratio=.265 then what will be the shrinkage limit. Here the void ratio is in oven
dry condition.
2. A seepage flow net has 50 m height and 2 m free board. The number of head drop is 24
m. Find out the discharge. The co-efficient of permeability=300m/day.
3. W its short on
i. Aquifer and auricled.
ii. Polluted water and contaminated water.
iii. Aeration tank and sedimentation tank.
4. What is BOD and COD. Why COD is always greater then BOD of sewage.
5. If the radius of curvature is 400 m and the speed is 80 km/hr . Calculation the rate of
super elevation.
6. Find out the left side support attached bar force. And the stress of (I) shown below.
7. Design a beam which is carried service dead load 300 KN and service live load 260 KN
including self weight has 900 mm and 200 mm cross section and the steel is up to 40 mm
from bottom. Given Fy=240 Mpa and f’c=16 Mpa.
8. Draw the SFD and BMD.
9. A pile group has 9 nos circular piles 300 mm dia in cross section and have center to
center spacing of piles is 900 mm . The pile group is rectangular in shape and to carry
load by end bearing. Find out the allowable load for the pile. If the factor of sefty=3.00.
Assume piles are embedded in a saturated homogeneous clay having Cu=95.8KN/ m2.
1. What is the relation between poison ratio, Modulus of elasticity ?
2. What should be the shape of shear stress diagram for Rectangular section?
Straight line
3. What is the type of loss angels test?
Abrasion
4. What is the type of deflection for shrinkage in beam?
Downward
5. Bolt is very suitable to take
Shear
6. A group of closely section contour shows
Steep
7. What is the shape of stop sing?
8. What is the stopping sight distance for grading descending?
More
9. What is the function of fish plate in railway?
To join the railway.
10. A drained remolded soil cohesion 10 KN/m2 then the remolded compression stress is
what when the sensitivity of soil is 2.

20 KN/m2

Civil Engineering Exam Questions

11. What is the allowable differential settlement for sandy soil?

12. What is the effect of negative skin friction?
13. In a direct shear test the shear stress =100KN/m2 and normal stress y =100KN/m2. What will be
the internal angle of friction?
14. The normal stress for a soil under axial load 100 KN/m2. Is given. What will be the value of shear
stress ?
15. What is the ratio between regular BOD to ultimate BOD.
16. What is the result of Aeration?
17. How we can achieve zero hardness?
18. What is CMP?
19. A Wide rectangular channel has bottom width 6m and discharge=50 m3/s. What is the type of
slope if normal depth is 2 m.
20. Field irrigation requirement of a irrigation system is 7mm/day. If the commanded area is
7mm/day and los is 50% than what will be the discharge value?
21. Sketch the plan fore bar in river.
22. If the sequent depth is 05m and 3.7 m respectively then what will be the length of the hydraulic
jump.
23. I over at the components of cannel head diversion head work.
24. What types of brick should be used for lining purpose?
25. What is source of water for maximum turbidity?
26. Where is the maximum depth for meandering river?
27. If the direct runoff of a 9 h unit hydrograph is 6.2 cm and ᴓ index is 0.5 cm/hr , what is the
rainfall excess?
28. What is the …. For a rectangular channel?
29. What is the shape of meandering river ?
30. From which Shields diagram can be drawn?
31. Why available moisture remain for?
32. The flow duration is a plot of which ?
33. Which types of water is used for well drain?
34. If discharge increase 10% , what will the effects in friction?
35. Which types of materials influence the depth of river?
36. Where is the maximum seepage for dam?
37. What is the overtaking distance of a vehicle if the design speed is 100Km/hr, assume all
reasonable value.
38. List the different types of interchanges with diagram.
39. List the different types of Bridges. What are the factors of pre-stress loss?
40. Draw the typical stress-strain diagram for mild steel showing all the components.
41. What is the distance between pit latrine and hand pump tube well. What is the reason of this/
42. What are the conditions for pile foundation?
43. In a tri-axial test a sample self confining pressure is 100 KN/m2 and the deviator stress is 200
KN/m2. If in the same sample the self confining pressure is KN/m2 , than what will be the
deviator stress.
44. It is seen that in a tube well the earlier drawn water is well. But after some times the drawn water
is radish. What is the reason and what is the treatment for that?
45. Name the non-recording gauges.
46. Write the conditions for best hydraulic section.
47. Write the suction for centrifugal pump.
48. What is the value of exit gradient?
49. How we can control the depth of river?
50. How we can do high water marks?
51. In which location pre-stress steel is placed?
52. Name the properties of sandy soil.
53. Which is used in flow net?
54. The square root of the ratio of moment of inertia to the cross section area is defined which terms?
55. Dowel bar placed in which place ?
56. Which is the topmost layer of flexible pavement?
57. Name the properties the bituminous materials. Bonding & water proofing.
58. If BODs is x% of ultimate, then the value of x is?
59. Which types of steel is used in ordinary railway line?
60. Which types of chemical used in coagulation?
61. A cylindrical diameter 0.5 mm and 0.25 mm thickness under load 700 KPa. Find out the hoop
stress.
62. If shear stress is 50 KN then find the principal stress for pure bending.
63. Name of the properties cohesive soil.
64. Which device is used for measuring strength?
65. If the diameter of nozzle is 50 mm and velocity of flow is 5000 mm/sec. Find out the power of
flow.
66. Name the foundation /base of Bernoulli equation.
67. Name the practical applications of hydraulic jump.
68. If the depth and slope is 5 m, and 1:2 respectively, find out the critical shear velocity.
69. If the vertex angle of a triangular is 90 ˚ and critical depth 2.36 m, find out the discharge in l/s.
70. If the diameter= D and friction is f then express the muddy diagram relation.
71. Write the unit weight of mercury.
72. Which is the unit of Darcy’s law co-efficient?
73. Draw a typical; shield diagram. What are the practical applications?
74. What are the components of river bank protection?
75. Define groen, scour and local scour. If width of a river is 100 m and discharge is 1000 m3/sec.
Bed material =0.20. then what will be the scour depth.
76. Draw the influence line for shear at point E.
77. List the design factor of flexible pavement.
78. What are components of water supply system. What are the functions of water treatment?
79. What are BOD and COD? Why BODs is taken instead of ultimate BOD in the laboratory.
80. Convert whole circle bearing to fore sight bearing.
81. Ultimate load carrying capacity of a 10 m long concrete pile having gross cross sectional area 400
X 400 mm driven into a homogeneous clay layer having un-drained cohesion value of 400 KPa is
700 KN. If the cross section of the pile is reduced to 250 mm X 250 mm and the length of the pile
is increased to 20 m. What would be the ultimate bearing capacity?
82. If square footing size 4 m X 4 m is resulting in the surface of deposit clay. Calculate the ultimate
bearing of footing by tarzaghis formula.
83. A rain force concrete column contains longitudinal steel equal to 1% of net cross sectional area
of the column, assume modular ratio. The load carried ( using elastic theory) by longitudinal steel
and net are of concrete P1 and P2 respectively. Calculate the ratio of P1/ P2 express as percent.
84. A retaining wall 8’ height supporting cohesion less soil of angle of internal friction 30. If the
water table rises above the ground level. Calculate the total thrust of soil in case of on retaining
wall and .
85. Draw shear force and bending moment diagram. Given support condition is simply supported,
UDL= 10 KN/m, span length is 4 m, a point load = 20 KN is applied in the center.
86. Math of active and passive pressure.
87. Draw a section of pile cap of group pile showing the typical reinforcement details of pile cap. (
pile and column )
88. Environmental consideration for the long highway bridge of river .
89. What is tied and spiral column? Why dose a spiral improve the beam slandered reinforcement
column/
90. Show the properties of bitumen mixture. Explain the steps/ elements the beam bituminous
pavement.
91. Describe properties of water. If the pH of A = 4.4 and the pH of B= 0.4 . then how much times A
is acidic than B.
92. What is unit hydrograph? What is the application of unit hydrograph ?
93. Sketch the energy line and hydraulic grade line in figure.
94. Which type routing is Murking ham flod routing ?
95. When uniform flow will remain in balance condition?
96. In a 1 m wide channel if discharge 1 sec m3/sec then what will be the critical depth?
97. What is the popular unit of absolute viscosity?
98. Which are the conditions of stability of dam?
99. Which device is used to measure the channel discharge?
100. The soil mass has total density = 22 KN/m3. Moisture content is 10 %. What is the bulk
density and dry density ?
101. When most car park is possible?
102. Which if function of CPM?
103. Which solid Waste disposal ecological most effective?
104. Which is the function of disinfection of water ?
105. What types of brick required for lining of channel?
106. Which is the main fact in which bearing capacity depends?
107. Which is mostly used retarder in cement?
108. What the maining of setting out of bridge ?
109. When capillarity pressure occurs?
110. The sewer which receives number of house sewer is called what?
111. Which are the factors increasing the strength of concrete ?
112. Sketch the guide banks which are given in the use of river training structure ?
113. The maximum annual floods for a river were statistically analysis for a period of 93
years. The mean annual flood and the standard deviation are 14210 and 9700 cumec,
respectively. Estimate the flood discharge with a retention period of 100 years.
114. Name the different types of scour. If the discharge is 6000 m3/sec and
water depth= 4.2m. then find the scour depth using lacys formular.
115. When uniform flow is in balance condition?
116. The water pressure at bottom is 1 KN/m,. What is the equivalent pressure at column of
water ?
117. Which bitumen shows mostly ductile?
118. Find the member forces of a truss?
119. The void ratio of dense , loose and compacted is 0.3, 0.7 and 0.6. what is the relative
density?
120. Length of a tape is 20 m. During measuring a road it increase 20 cm and the measured
length found 1200 m. What is the actual length of the road?
DHAKA WASA

Collected

Sunil Kumar Roy

B.Sc. in (Civil)

121. In one square meter brick flat soling how much no of brick is required?
122. What is the measurement of free board in septic tank?
123. What is SR cement?
124. In one cubic meter concrete work how many bags of cement is required ?
125. What is ductility?
126. What is turbidity?
127. How filtration work is used to purify water?
128. In a jet A = 20 square cm, v= 5 cm/s, Q=?
129. What is coagulation ?
130. What is anchored length? If As= 4 # 20 mm, Fs=60 ksi.
131. Why super elevation is provided?
132. What are the types of pump used in WASA?
133. What are the types of joint in RCC sewer?
134. Name the main stages in water treatment plant.
135. What is full meaning of PERT?
136. What is the percentage of silica in 1st class brick ?
137. Name the value which stops reverse flow?
138. Draw shear force diagram for a simply supported beam of span length 5 m. UDL is 400 is
a applied in the free end.
139. What are the components of unit hydrograph?
140. What is the relation between the specific energy and critical depth for a rectangular
channel.
141. Where is the maximum depth in a meandering river?
142. What is the meaning of aggregating river?
143. A culvert is design for a peak flow Qp in the basin of the rational formula . If a storm of
the same intensity as used in the design but of duration twice large occurs, find out the resulting
peak discharge.
144. If the discharge increase by 15% then what will the friction loss?
145. What is the range of pH value of drinking water?
146. What is BOD of drinking water?
147. What is line of collimation?
148. Why spiral column take more load?
149. What is the maximum spacing of main reinforcement in floor slab?
150. What is the maximum clear spacing of two piles in a pile group ?
151. What is the function of alum and chlorine in water treatment plant?
152. What is the maximum allowable arsenic concentration in ppm?
153. What is the maximum water required for a person in Dhaka city?
154. What is the relation between test load of pile and working load?
155. What is name of device used for measuring setting time of cement ?
156. What is meant by 95% concentration?
157. What are the basic requirements of sewer pipe material?
158. What is hydraulic jump? Where it is occure?
159. What is the meaning of
i. FBCCI
ii. VOIP
iii. WASA
iv. ATM
v. GMT
vi. CARE
vii. SPARSO
viii. SIM
ix. MLSS
160. Translation
a) পরিশ্রম স ৌভাগ াি প্রস্রুরি
b) সে সেশগে ভাগ াবাগ স সেশগপ্ররমে
c) ো সেগে বৃরি হগে
d) বাাং াগেশ ১৯৭১ াগ স্বাধীন হগেগে
e) আ ামীোগ ি জনয রেেু সেগ সিগ ানা
161. েোে প্রোশ
১. অগেি ডাে
২. ো ব া হেরন
৩. সে নও রশড়্গা গ্রহন েগিগে
৪. সে নািীি ম্প্ররি রবগে হগেগে
৫. আোশ ও পৃরেবী
৬. ড়্গমাি সেয য
৭. োি উপরিি বুরি আগে
৮.ো েগি াভ েিা োে