Soil Mechanics and Foundation Rankine’s theory of earth pressure assumes that the back of the wall is plane and smooth plane and rough vertical and smooth vertical and rough plane and smooth plane and rough vertical and smooth vertical and rough ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP
Soil Mechanics and Foundation The clay mineral with the largest swelling and shrinkage characteristics is illite None of these montmorillonite kaolinite illite None of these montmorillonite kaolinite ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP
Soil Mechanics and Foundation Sensitivity of a soil can be defined as percentage of volume change of soil under saturated condition None of these ratio of compressive strength of unconfined undisturbed soil to that of soil in a remoulded state ratio of volume of voids to volume of solids percentage of volume change of soil under saturated condition None of these ratio of compressive strength of unconfined undisturbed soil to that of soil in a remoulded state ratio of volume of voids to volume of solids ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP
Soil Mechanics and Foundation The hydraulic head that would produce a quick condition in a sand stratum of thickness 1.5 m, specific gravity 2.67 and voids ratio 0.67 is equal to 2.0m 1.0m 3m 1.5m 2.0m 1.0m 3m 1.5m ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP
Soil Mechanics and Foundation The angle that Coulomb’s failure envelope makes with the horizontal is called angle of repose angle of internal friction cohesion None of these angle of repose angle of internal friction cohesion None of these ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP
Soil Mechanics and Foundation If the natural water content of soil mass lies between its liquid limit and plastic limit, the soil mass is said to be in semi-solid state plastic state liquid state solid state semi-solid state plastic state liquid state solid state ANSWER DOWNLOAD EXAMIANS APP