101 Oral Viva Questions For Concrete Technology

Concrete Technology 2018
101 ORAL / VIVA QUESTIONS FOR CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY
1. How will you define concrete?

2. What are the ingredients of concrete?
3. What is cement?
4. History of modern cement
5. Effect of ingredients of cement on various properties of cement
6. How much percent lime is present in cement?
7. What is hydration of cement?
8. Explain chemical reaction of cement + water.
9. Theoretically what percentage of water actually required for hydration?
10. How cement manufacturing is done?
11. Various types of cement and their significance.
12. Field Tests carried out on cement, IS guidelines
13. What will you do if field tests are not satisfactory?
14. Laboratory tests carried out on cement, IS guidelines
15. What are the IS standards for test carried on cement?
16. What do you mean by artificial aggregates?
17. What is fine aggregate, coarse aggregate? [IS sieves]
18. Comment on use natural aggregates over natural aggregates
19. What do you mean by bulking?
20. How will you measure quantity of sand on site?
21. What effect bulking of aggregate does on hydration?
22. How bulking of sand is measured?
23. How silt content is calculated?
24. What do you mean by 10 mm aggregate?
25. How you will bifurcate aggregates according to their sizes?
26. Which tests are carried out on aggregate?
27. Why IS 383 is for?
28. What are the IS specifications for aggregates to be used on site?
29. How admixtures are added to concrete?
30. Being a site engineer how will you select suitable admixture?
31. What is fly ash?
32. Why it s essential now a days to use fly ash?
33. What is GGBS?
34. What are the other Pozolonic materials added in concrete?
35. What are the properties of fresh and hardened concrete?
36. What do you mean by segregation, bleeding and laitance?
37. Explain concrete chain process.
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38. Draw flow chart of concrete chain process.

39. Which batching techniques are adopted on site?
40. Tools used in concrete chain.
41. What do you mean by workability?
42. How will you maintain workability on site?
43. For normal RCC work enlist desired workability standards given by IS.
44. What is Water cement ratio? How it is determined?
45. How water cement ratio affects strength and workability of concrete?
46. Which tests are suitable for workability of high strength concrete?
47. Standard procedures, IS specifications and Sizes of apparatus for all workability tests.
48. How desired compaction is achieved on site?
49. How temperature affects setting of concrete?
50. What is maturity rule?
51. What do you mean by hardened concrete?
52. What is strength? Tell us about types of strengths you know.
53. State the nature of stress strain relationship of concrete, steel, aggregate and cement.
54. Step by step procedure of compressive strength of cement, concrete along with IS
Standards, Sizes of moulds and expected results.
55. Precautions to be taken while unbolting cubes.
56. Do the faces of concrete / cement mortar cubes affects strength calculation?
57. Do concrete have tensile strength? How will you find tensile strength of concrete?
58. How can we interpret split tensile strength of concrete? [formula]
59. What is Shrinkage?
60. What is creep?
61. How creep is measured in laboratories?
62. Step by step procedure of Flexural strength of concrete, IS standards and specimen
sizes. Result interpretation. [formula]
63. What is NDT?
64. What are the general NDTs carried on concrete?
65. Which NDTs are considered while structural audit?
66. What do you mean by structural audit?
67. Impact Echo, Rebound hammer, Pull out and pulse velocity tests are important.
68. What precautions are taken while conducting rebound hammer test?
69. What are the components of RMC plants?
70. How RMC plant works?
71. Do you know working radius of RMCs?
72. Mechanism and RPM of agitator trucks.
73. Current market rate of all ingredients like cement, sand, aggregate, admixtures etc.
74. What are the additives added in concrete?

75. How will you determine density of concrete?
76. What is high strength concrete and high performance concrete?
77. What is ferrocement? Ferrocrete?
78. What are the tests carried on self compacting concrete?
79. Which fibre has highest density and which fibre is considered as the strongest fibre?
80. What is mix design?
81. How proportions of ingredients of concrete are decided on site?
82. What do you mean by design mix, nominal mix and standard mix?
83. What is characteristics compressive strength?
84. What are the general proportions for M10, M15, M20 and M25 grade of concrete?
85. What is standard deviation, target mean strength, variance and design strength?
86. Is there any code of practice for concrete mix design?
87. What is the significance of IS 456:2000?
88. Which methods are used for proportioning concrete mixes?
89. What is DOE method?
90. How water content is calculated in mix design process?
91. How aggregate content is calculated?
92. How use of fly ash or plasticizer content affect the procedure of mix design?
93. Do you know any mix design software?
94. How mix design procedure is adopted?
95. What is permeability of concrete?
96. Tests for permeability of concrete.
97. How reinforcement corrosion be prevented on site?
98. What are the techniques adopted in coastal regions?
99. What is Shotcreting?
100. Where can we use Shotcreting techniques?
101. What is the expected life of concrete structures?

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101 ORAL / VIVA QUESTIONS FOR CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY

1. How will you define concrete?

38. Draw flow chart of concrete chain process.

74. What are the additives added in concrete?

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