Sand particles are made of illite rock minerals montmorillonite kaolinite TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
According to Atterberg, the soil is said to be of medium plasticity if the plasticity index PI is 7 0 < PI < 7 17 PI>27 TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Which one of the following clays behaves like a dense sand ? normally consolidated clay over-consolidated clay with a low over-consolidation ratio over-consolidated ciay with a high over-consolidation ratio under-consolidated clay TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Coarse grained soils are best compacted by a drum roller sheep’s foot roller vibratory roller rubber tyred roller TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
If the natural water content of soil mass lies between its liquid limit and plastic limit, the soil mass is said to be in plastic state semi-solid state solid state liquid state TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
A grillage foundation All of these Consists of two sets of perpendicularly placed steel beams Is provided for heavily loaded isolated columns Is treated as spread foundation TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
With the increase in the amount of compaction energy both optimum water content and maximum dry density increase optimum water content decreases but maximum dry density increases optimum water content increases but maximum dry density decreases both optimum water content and maximum dry density decrease[ES 93] TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
A normally consolidated clay settled 10 mm when effective stress was increased from 100 kN/m2 to 200 kN/ m2. If the effective stress is further increased from 200 kN/ m2 to 400 kN/ m2, then the settlement of the same clay is 20 mm None of these 10 mm 40 mm TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
In a consolidated drained test on a normally consolidated clay, the volume of the soil sample during shear increases remains unchanged decreases first increases and then decreases TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
For a loose sand sample and a dense sand sample consolidated to the same effective stress ultimate strength is same and also peak strength is same ultimate strength is different but peak strength is same ultimate strength is same but peak ultimate strength is same but peak strength of dense sand is greater than that of loose sand TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?