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is equal to ____________

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A sheet pile has an embedment depth of 12 m in a homogeneous soil stratum. The coefficient of permeability of soil is

m/s. Difference in the water levels between the two sides of the sheet pile is 4 m. The flow net is constructed with five number of flow lines and eleven number of equipotential lines. The quantity of seepage (in cm

/s per m, up to one decimal place) under the sheet pile is ________.

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A 3 m thick clay layer is subjected to an initial uniform pore pressure of 145 kPa as shown in the figure.

Diagram for Civil Engineering question 22

For the given ground conditions, the time (in days, rounded to the nearest integer) required for 90% consolidation would be ____________

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The VPI (vertical point of intersection) is 100 m away (when measured along the horizontal) from the VPC (vertical point of curvature). If the vertical curve is parabolic, the length of the curve (in meters and measured along the horizontal) is ________.

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A triangular pipe network is shown in the figure.

Diagram for Civil Engineering question 23

The head loss in each pipe is given by

, with the variables expressed in a consistent set of units. The value of

for the pipe

is 1 and for the pipe

is 2. If the discharge supplied at the point

(i.e., 100) is equally divided between the pipes

and

, the value of

(up to two decimal places) for the pipe

should be ____________

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During a storm event in a certain period, the rainfall intensity is 3.5 cm/hour and the

-index is 1.5 cm/hour. The intensity of effective rainfall (in cm/hour, up to one decimal place) for this period is ________.

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The ordinates of a 2-hour unit hydrograph for a catchment are given as:

Time (h)	0	1	2	3	4
Ordinate (m³/s)	0	5	12	25	41

The ordinate (in m³/s) of a 4-hour unit hydrograph for this catchment at the time of 3 h would be ________.

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The infiltration capacity of a soil follows the Horton’s exponential model,

. During an experiment, the initial infiltration capacity was observed to be 200 mm/h. After a long time, the infiltration capacity was reduced to 25 mm/h. If the infiltration capacity after 1 hour was 90 mm/h, the value of the decay rate constant,

(in h

, up to two decimal places) is ________.

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Vehicles arriving at an intersection from one of the approach roads follow the Poisson distribution. The mean rate of arrival is 900 vehicles per hour. If a gap is defined as the time difference between two successive vehicle arrivals (with vehicles assumed to be points), the probability (up to four decimal places) that the gap is greater than 8 seconds is ________.

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While aligning a hill road with a ruling gradient of 6%, a horizontal curve of radius 50 m is encountered. The grade compensation (in percentage, up to two decimal places) to be provided for this case would be ________.

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